Senior center officially open
Rainbow confetti flew through the air Monday morning, marking the official opening of the John C. Anderson Apartments, an LGBT-friendly senior-living facility...
Former high-school coach sues archdiocese for $5 million
John P. Duffy, a former baseball coach at Pope John Paul II High School, is suing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for $5 million, claiming...
International News, March 8-14, 2019
China to remove LGBT scenes from “Bohemian Rhapsody” The Freddie Mercury and Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” will have all overt LGBT scenes removed for...
Guidebook analyzes transgender Greek life
Although college is generally a time when young people fortify their own identities and ideologies, transgender college students often face more challenges than their...
Media Trail
Activists push for antidiscrimination ban The Miami Herald reports that Jacksonville, Fla. , gay-rights activists are urging business leaders to support a...
COMHAR participants share healing power of art
Colondra Seals jumped from a second-story window to escape a house fire at 17th and York streets more than a decade ago. She has...
Gay Maryland couple sues State Department over immigration battle for daughter’s...
A new lawsuit out of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Southern Division argues the U.S. Department of State has...
Designer who won’t make same-sex wedding websites loses case
A U.S. appeals court has ruled against a web designer who didn’t want to create wedding websites for same-sex couples and sued to challenge...
Local Jewish leaders react to synagogue shooting
Philadelphia’s Jewish leaders are mourning the victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27 while planning how to protect...
Philly port increasing business with LGBT companies, city poised to follow
A state and a local agency in Philadelphia have both made moves in the last six months to add LGBT-owned business to their lists...
General election endorsements
PGN interviewed candidates for local and state office about LGBT issues, and our editorial board used those interviews as the basis for our endorsement decisions. Make sure to get...
Out City Council candidate in Scranton leads primary despite backlash
This May, physical therapist and longtime activist Jessica Rothchild was one of two Democratic candidates to excel in the Scranton City Council primary race....
News Briefing
Assault trial postponed A federal prosecutor has requested a postponement in the trial of Kevin V. Hannig, who allegedly assaulted Kenneth J. Houck Jr....
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...
HIV-poz man charged with endangerment
The Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office this week enhanced the charges against a gay man who allegedly had sex with a minor. ...
LGBT abuse detailed in gay officer’s deposition
More details about alleged anti-LGBT abuse at the Philadelphia Police Department were released last month in a deposition by openly gay police officer N....
Marriage equality comes to America
Marriage equality is now a nationwide reality. In a landmark vote June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the U.S....
News Briefing
Transwoman seeks judge’s intervention Attorneys for transwoman Bobbie E. Burnett have asked a federal judge to order city officials to turn over records pertaining to...
SPARKLING STAR
Actor Chad Allen holds his newly received Artistic Achievement Award at opening-night festivities of Philadelphia QFest on June 9. The openly gay...
Report: 9 million LGBTs in the country
An LGBT think tank at the University of California this week released a study that estimated the total number of LGBT Americans to be...
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