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Clashes at French anti-gay marriage protest Paris riot police fought back crowds who pushed their way onto Paris’ landmark Champs-Élysées Avenue as part...
From Stonewall to the White House, and activist to author
“I’m standing across the street from Stonewall in Sheridan Square. Here I was, an 18-year-old kid living at the YMCA in a $6-a-night room...
International News
Lawyers discuss LGBT rights Gay-rights activists and lawyers from 11 countries recently met in South Africa for a four-day workshop on legal strategies...
Revisiting a local love story
Two years after Tommy Berner proposed to Anthony Reto on vacation on the island of Mykonos, they vowed to spend the rest of their...
Out educator receives hero award
Freda Anderson created the first Queer-Straight alliance at the U School, a North Philadelphia high school where she teaches a community-organizing class. On...
Antigay stigma addressed in new AIDS guidelines
A few days before the world marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, a federal agency released new guidelines that...
William Way offers innovative spring courses
Get your bookbags ready and your pencils sharpened — the William Way LGBT Community Center is gearing up for its spring semester of WayGay...
Kyra Cordova remembered, one year later
While this Labor Day weekend will mark a symbolic end to the summer, it will also represent another more somber milestone for the local...
Site teaches support, acceptance for nonconforming kids
One local small-business owner is working to create a community for families with gender-nonconforming children. Mia Rincon of Phoenixville recently launched Pink...
Mummers participants wear blackface, a reminder of the parade’s racist and...
Two men wore blackface in the 2020 Mummers Parade, plaguing the nearly 120-year-old tradition with racism and bigotry, again.
In 2016, a member of the...
DADT repeal, training moving ahead
Military leaders last week briefed members of Congress on the lifting of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” reporting the transition to be progressing smoothly. ...
Campaign wants to stop corporate PACs funding anti-LGBT politicians
A newly-launched national initiative is calling on corporations that receive top equality ratings from the Human Rights Campaign to stop financially supporting anti-LGBTQ members...
International News
Budapest Pride banned over ‘traffic concerns’ Police have banned this year’s Budapest Pride festival in June, ostensibly because it will cause too much...
Penn athletics headed on right path
An LGBT and ally group on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania will stage a series of events next week that seek to...
City names inaugural LGBT Affairs deputy director
The city this week named Evan L. Thornburg as the first deputy director for the Office of LGBT Affairs. The Ursinus...
Lawyer who defeated DOMA to speak at Free Library of Philadelphia
Edie Windsor, charismatic, stylish and articulate, found herself widowed just shy of her 80th birthday. She hadn’t yet been married two years to her...
Trans candidate edged out for judgeship
First-time candidate Henry Sias came within 5,000 votes of becoming the nation’s first transgender male judge Tuesday. Sias placed 14th out...
Photos: Marriage equality comes to Pennsylvania
Hundreds of LGBTs and allies migrated to City Hall Tuesday evening for a Day of Decision rally, to celebrate the landmark Whitewood v. ...
Judge strikes down Pa. antibias rule, again
For the second time in two years, a federal judge has struck down an LGBT-inclusive antibias rule for Pennsylvania attorneys. On March 25, in...
Philly says goodbye to beloved Les Harrison
Les Harrison, Philly’s longest-performing drag queen of color, passed away on August 14, 2020. He would have been 78 this year. He left behind...
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