Attic Youth Center seeks new executive director
The Attic Youth Center has begun a search for a new executive director, the organization announced via email Wednesday. Carrie Jacobs, the founding executive...
Paycheck Protection Program money given to anti-LGBT organizations
The Small Business Administration (SBA) has released a list of 650,000 recipients of loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Organizations listed as known...
Trump’s new asylum rules could end access for LGBT+ asylum seekers
While the country and world is focused on the surging coronavirus pandemic, the Department of Justice and the U.S. State Department are working quietly...
Anti-PrEP ads still on social media, despite efforts for removal
Damon L. Jacobs started using Truvada for PrEP in 2011 and continues to take it daily. Personal-injury lawyers have been targeting the HIV-prevention drug...
Groundbreaking trans surgery program welcomes first fellow
The Delaware County Memorial Hospital’s Transgender Surgery Fellowship, headed by Dr. Sherman Leis, recently welcomed its first fellow, Dr. Jude Opoku-Agyeman. This fellowship is...
City cancels large public events through Feb. 2021
The city of Philadelphia announced on Tuesday a moratorium on all large city-permitted public events through February of next year. Mayor Jim Kenney shared...
15 state senators back Catholic agency in foster dispute
Fifteen Pennsylvania state senators have submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to compel the City of Philadelphia to...
Gayborhood coffee shop to close permanently
Square One Coffee, the cafe on 13th street in the heart of the Gayborhood, has decided to close its doors for good. The shop...
Philly’s Pride flag makes waves around the world
The first Pride parades took place in America in 1970, and the concept quickly went international. But one LGBTQ export is uniquely Philadelphia’s, and...
What’s next for LGBT nonprofits?
For our community’s nonprofit organizations, the past few months have been challenging financially, from the inability to host in-person gatherings and fundraisers to the...
Gay murder convict maintains his innocence
William F. Smithson, a gay man convicted of strangling to death coworker Jason K. Shephard in 2006, continues to proclaim his innocence in court...
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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...
Black queer entertainers address discrimination
On Sunday, June 28, drag performers VinChelle and Icon Ebony-Fierce teamed up with Amber Hikes, former city director of LGBT Affairs, to host a...
Pennsylvania’s State Legislature: A House Divided
Amid a tumultuous year that has seen an ongoing pandemic and a nationwide fight for racial justice, the Pennsylvania legislature seems, if not out...
Pa. borough councilman blasted for transphobic Facebook post
LGBT advocates are blasting a borough councilmember in Trafford, Pa. for posting a transphobic Facebook comment about Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine. Trafford...
Gay inmate’s death questioned
Kenneth J. Houck Jr., an openly-gay inmate, died in May while in federal custody. Houck, 44, was being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center...
LGBTQ sports teams adjust to pandemic playing field
In 1976, the year PGN began publishing, we reported on an all-gay baseball team formed by a group of Gay Activists Alliance members. The...
Global Pride embraces, educates LGBTQ communities worldwide
It wasn’t long into the COVID-19 pandemic that cities and countries around the world began cancelling their pride celebrations. This past Sunday, June 28,...
Remembering Fr Ron Hoskins, “a force of nature”
On June 19, 2020, Philadelphia lost a dear member of the LGBTQ+ community, Fr. Ron Hoskins. Hoskins devoted his life’s work to helping LGBTQ...
Trump administration urges Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare
On June 25, as the U.S. passed the grim milestone of 125,000 deaths from the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration urged the Supreme Court...
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