40 Years Ago in PGN: May 6-12, 2016
Pa. ‘sodomy’ repeal to be introduced Adapted from reporting by Harry Langhorne Democratic state Sen. Louis Hill announced his intention in April 1976 to...
GALAEI to move to North Philly
GALAEI: A Queer [email protected] Social Justice Organization announced this week that it is moving its headquarters to North Philadelphia next month. ...
International News
Anti-gay texts in British schools Thousands of Muslim children in the United Kingdom are being taught the Saudi national curriculum with textbooks that...
News Briefing
Panel to discuss LGBT finances Lambda Legal, the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund and Merrill Lynch will host a free symposium on life- and...
Gay History Month: Cronkite defended civil — including gay — rights
In December 1973, a 19-year-old Mark Segal disrupted the live broadcast of “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite,” running on the set and sitting...
Community rallies to help displaced residents during Gayborhood fire
A local LGBT bar and an LGBT-owned nonprofit provided relief services to residents displaced during an apartment-building fire in the Gayborhood this week. ...
DVLF announces HEROES honorees
An LGBT community foundation this week announced the honorees for its annual awards ceremony. During its 11th-annual HEROES brunch April 9, DVLF will honor three individuals...
The candidate trying to unseat Metcalfe
Daniel Smith Jr. is looking to unseat incumbent Daryl Metcalfe in the 12th Legislative District in the general election Nov. 6. Metcalfe has held...
Cosby retrial scheduled
Actor Bill Cosby will again stand trial for the alleged sexual assault of a lesbian, after jurors this summer failed to render a verdict...
News Briefing
Complaint against state police dismissed The citizen’s complaint filed by William M. Granatt against a Pennsylvania State Police officer wrongful arrest...
Philly reports no LGBT hate crimes in 2013
According to statistics released by the FBI Tuesday, there were no hate crimes motivated by a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity committed in...
News Briefing
Milano’s killer appeals to state Supreme Court Richard R. Laird, who murdered gay artist Anthony Milano in 1987, has appealed to...
William Way elects board at first meeting of 2016
The William Way LGBT Community Center elected several members to its board of directors Jan. 8 at its first board meeting of the year....
Eddie Coogan, former New Hope bartender, 55
Eddie Coogan, a former bartender at a number of venues in New Hope, died May 11. The cause of death was...
Will PPD ever implement commission’s recommendations?
Five years after the city’s Police Advisory Commission issued a series of recommendations to the Philadelphia Police Department arising from the Nizah Morris homicide,...
Supreme Court denies bid to overturn PA marriage equality
A U. S. Supreme Court justice this week denied a Pennsylvania clerk's effort to stop marriage equality in the Keystone State. Justice...
A COMMUNITY CONVENTION:
A COMMUNITY CONVENTION: About 1,500 people attended last week's Philadelphia Trans-Health Conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, including Ken Oakes, president of the board...
Defendants in prostitution-ring case plead guilty
Last fall, PGN reported that two Ventnor City, N.J., men had been indicted on charges of operating an all-male prostitution ring out of one...
The Hidden Survivors: Why people living and aging with HIV will...
Long-term survivors of HIV face unique challenges – they are the “hidden” survivors of the epidemic. When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1989,...
Women of color hold grassroots gathering
More than 100 women from across the country will gather in Philadelphia next weekend for a conference that seeks to engage and empower sexual-minority...
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