DVLF to honor community ‘heroes’
LGBT grantmaking organization Delaware Valley Legacy Fund will host its annual Heroes celebration next month to pay tribute to the people and organizations that...
NJ launches LGBTQ-centric education program for social and homeless service providers
New Jersey’s Department of Human Services (DHS) instituted a new LGBTQ-centric training program, ICARE, for state-funded social service agencies, homeless shelter providers and government...
SafeGuards launches new HIV test at Pride
More than 50 people were tested for HIV at last weekend’s Pride festival with an innovative new rapid HIV test. Family Planning...
LGBT elders find community at the John C. Anderson Apartments
One is a renowned gay male activist who protested in front of Independence Hall in 1965, another is a trans woman actress who starred...
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NJ gay-rights group names award ally NBC Philadelphia reports New Jersey’s largest gay-rights organization is naming a new award after a politician who...
PA among states pressing SCOTUS for pro-marriage ruling
Top legal officials from more than half of the country’s states — including Pennsylvania — have joined in the chorus calling on the U.S....
News Briefing: May 19-25, 2017
BBWC to fundraiser at WWCC The Black & Brown Workers Collective is organizing a bake sale next week to raise funds for its social-justice...
Day in the Life of: a television newscaster, Jim Donovan
Jim Donovan, wracked with anxiety, vomited in the news-station bathroom just minutes before going on air to do a consumer-affairs report. He brushed his...
GOAL president, police LGBT liaison help celebrate Trans Day of Visibility
Jo Mason ticked off the reasons why Time Magazine declared a “transgender tipping point”: a transgender woman got to play a transgender woman on...
Wedding: Art and Stevie Martin-Chester
After 21 years together, two LGBT activists tied the knot for a second time Aug. 10 at the Metropolitan Community Church...
Prop. 8 heads to appeals court
A three-member panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California heard oral arguments from opponents and supporters of California’s ban on same-sex...
WOAR continues fight to support LGBTQ sexual assault survivors
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) is coming to an end, yet WOAR — the Philadelphia Center Against Sexual Assault — continues the fight...
Iowa Supreme Court considers same-sex marriage
The seven justices of the Iowa Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a challenge to the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. ...
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Cozen deposits money with court Death benefits totaling $43,822. 35 that a lesbian widow and her estranged in-laws are fighting over were...
Hate-crimes bill intro’d
State Rep. Kevin Boyle (D-172nd) re-introduced legislation this week that seeks to instate hate-crimes protections for LGBT Pennsylvanians. Boyle submitted HB...
People of the Year: Runners-up
National marriage equality was by far the biggest LGBT newsmaker of 2015 but, locally, a number of folks made tremendous strides toward advancing LGBT...
Philly readies for nation’s first LGBT jazz fest
Scores of jazz fans are expected to stream into Philadelphia later this month for the nation’s first LGBT jazz festival. The...
Lawmakers push for vote on antibias bill
A vote in the state House of Representatives may take place next week that could determine if the long-stalled Pennsylvania Fairness Act will move...
Solicitor defends Scouts deal
City Solicitor Shelley R. Smith appeared at a political event last week to promote a controversial proposal that would sell publicly owned...
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