Suicide rates up among youth, LGBTQs
Mental-health professionals are advocating for suicide-prevention education to begin as early as elementary schools. The rate of suicide for LGBTQ youth has risen by...
Clerk seeks to appeal PA marriage ruling
A clerk of courts in Northeastern Pennsylvania is looking to overturn last month’s federal court ruling that granted marriage equality in the Keystone State....
Mutual aid at an organizational level helps those most at-risk during...
Since early last week, Executive Director of SisTers PGH Ciora Thomas and her fellow board members have diligently combed through hundreds of applications for...
‘Gay porn twin’ talks life post-prison
This is the second in a two-part series. “Money injects you with stupidity. I felt like it was never gonna end.”...
Q Christian Fellowship: Celebrating “The Good Fruit”
If you are one of many LGBTQ+ Christians who have felt excluded or not fully embraced by the denomination you were raised in or...
Another openly gay man nabs top position at Welcome America
Philadelphia nonprofit Welcome America, Inc., loses one openly gay CEO but gains another with the naming of Michael DelBene as its new president...
Feminist author to speak in Bucks County
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, one of the founding editors of the feminist Ms. Magazine, has a new novel out that deals with learning to love...
Landau to leave Phila. Commission on Human Relations
Praise is pouring in for Rue Landau, the outgoing executive director of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. Landau is leaving her position, effective...
Gay couple awarded $31K in assault case
A New Jersey judge last week said a South Jersey bar is responsible for $31,000 in damages to a gay couple who claim the...
AIDS agency sued for sexual harassment
AIDS Care Group, a major HIV/AIDS services agency in the region, has been slapped with a federal sexual-harassment lawsuit. Dr. Emmanuella...
Youth program launches LGBT fundraising initiative
A local youth-homeless agency this week announced a new fundraising and awareness-raising initiative focused on its LGBT youth program. Valley Youth...
Police LGBT liaison stepping down
After 29 years on the force, Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel is leaving the department, Philadelphia Police announced Wednesday. He plans to take a new...
Montco man banned from Craigslist
A Montgomery County judge has banned a sex offender from Craigslist until 2022 because the man allegedly used Craiglist to meet underage boys for...
Gay couple renews donation campaign
Donations are trickling in once again for a gay couple struggling to maintain their home in New Garden, Chester County, despite alleged harassment from...
Philly LGBT tourism efforts spotlighted at conference
A contingent of local tourism officials traveled to San Juan, Puerto Rico last week to bring Philly’s vast experiences with the LGBT tourism market...
Engagement: Terri Bradley and Terri Jones
Terri Bradley and Terri Jones have known each other for the better part of 20 years. In a relationship for the past three, their...
CBLSL players headed to Gay Games
Thanks to a donation from a longtime member of the City of Brotherly Love Softball League, the local LGBT softball association is in the...
Fraternities disband over homophobia, other allegations
In an unprecedented action, two Swarthmore College fraternities have announced they are disbanding in response to campus protests by women’s, LGBTQ and other student...
News Briefing: Nov. 4-10, 2016
Gay inmate lodges complaint On Oct. 27, openly gay federal inmate Kenneth J. Houck Jr. lodged a complaint with federal-court officials in Colorado, stating...
DADT lifted, reinstated
Former Lt. Dan Choi, one of the most visible faces in the fight to repeal the military’s ban on openly gay servicemembers,...
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