School superintendent apologizes for privacy breach
Last week, Dr. Joseph J. Roy, superintendent of the Bethlehem Area School District, issued a public apology after the district’s solicitor inadvertently breached the...
Blind gay man on dialysis denied Meals on Wheels
A Lancaster County gay man who’s blind and on kidney dialysis has been denied low-cost meals through his local Meals on Wheels agency since...
Gay university student sues U.S. Department of Education
Declan A. Galli, an LGBT university student, has filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education challenging its new rule, created during the last...
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Affordable Care Act
Those who sat through the Senate hearings for Amy Coney Barrett will recall the sometimes mind-numbingly technical discussion of “severance.” The import of that...
International News: August 27, 2021
Desperate LGBT+ Afghans can't access money raised for them “due to Taliban control”
Queer Afghans living in the U.S. created a GoFundMe account to aid...
How LGBTQ Philadelphians are casting their votes this year
With Election Day less than three weeks away and COVID-19 infections rising again, Philadelphians are faced with not only with choosing which candidates to...
Judge clears the way for jury trial in antibias case
A federal judge has cleared the way for a jury trial in the case of Tyler Bonson, who claims he was fired from his...
Transgender competency training for Jersey police under consideration
The Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court recently remanded to a lower-court judge for further consideration the issue of whether the Jersey...
Camac Baths building makes Philadelphia Register of Historic Places
In a reversal of its decision, the Philadelphia Historical Commission voted to list a former bathhouse on the city’s Register of Historic Places. This...
LGBTQ World News
Russian voters back referendum banning same-sex marriage
Two-thirds of Russian voters have backed a national referendum to ban same-sex marriage. The referendum, which has the...
Bradbury-Sullivan Center provides comfort via pop-up vaccine clinics
More and more LGBT community centers are holding vaccine clinics to get shots into the arms of people in marginalized communities. Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community...
LGBTQ police officers call out D.A.’s office for covering remembrance wall
The Greater Philadelphia chapter of Gay Officers Action League has sent a letter to District Attorney Larry Krasner expressing concern over a display of...
Celebrating a Diverse Spectrum
Peyton Udell came out five-years-ago. Coming out is challenging for many, but for Udell, a 29-year-old cosmetologist who makes her home in Wynnewood, coming...
Terrence McNally dies of COVID-19 complications
Terrence McNally, a prolific and successful playwright with a longstanding connection to Philadelphia, died on March 24, at 81. The cause was complications arising...
Local Transgender lawyer is fighting for trans rights
Julie Chovanes is a transgender woman, lawyer and trans rights activist living in Philadelphia. After working as a partner at DLA Piper, she started...
Pennsylvania comes together to discuss Pride celebrations in wake of COVID-19
Jason Landau Goodman, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Youth Congress, began working in LGBTQ advocacy when he was a teenager. After 10 years...
3 LGBTQ candidates elected to Upper Darby school board
Three out LGBTQ Democrats were elected last week to the Upper Darby School Board of Directors in what is being recognized as the first...
Barrett questioned on healthcare, LGBTQ rights during hearings
Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and a staunch Constitutional originalist like her mentor, the late Justice Antonin...
Brazil, Mexico, USA saw most trans murders in 2020
Every year on Trans Day of Remembrance, Transrespect versus Transphobia Worldwide (TvT) research project publishes data collected via the Trans Murder Monitoring (TMM) research...
Center launches sports org
A new LGBT sports presence is coming to town. The board of the William Way LGBT Community Center last week voted...
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