World AIDS Day 2016
To commemorate World AIDS Day, PGN partnered with a series of HIV/AIDS and LGBT organizations in the area for this first-ever community-produced World AIDS...
Miss’d America back with some big changes
If you’re looking for an escape from Popefest later this month, high-tail it to Atlantic City for the annual Miss’d America Pageant, which this...
LGBTQ teachers forced to balance schoolwork and staying safe
Philadelphia’s new school year begins on September 2, but it will be virtual, for now. In late July the school board voted 7-1 to...
International News
Haiti AIDS group members dead Fourteen men who worked for or were aided by SEROvie, Haiti’s largest organization serving gay and transgender people...
Black and Brown HIV+ led conference centers HIV/AIDS
The Community Control of Health, a local committee of Black and Brown LGBTQ and Poz folks are holding a symposium “focused on the liberation...
LGBTQ leaders in Pa. endorse Josh Shapiro and Austin Davis
A coalition of Pennsylvania LGBTQ+ leaders have signed on to endorse Attorney General Josh Shapiro for governor and State Rep. Austin Davis for lieutenant...
Obituary: Mary Louise Cervone, CFO and Dignity leader, 54
Former Philadelphia FIGHT chief financial officer and longtime Dignity Philadelphia member Mary Louise Cervone died Feb. 5 of cancer. She was 54....
Lib City endorses 10 candidates
When two women, both doctors in their 40s, wanted to get married in Montgomery County in the summer of 2013, they contacted the register...
N.J. youth agency looks to match LGBT adults, teens
Crossroads Programs was founded in 1978 to support and empower young people who have been abandoned, abused, homeless or at-risk and now the New...
New anti-LGBT federal rule challenged in court
A coalition of seven organizations is challenging a new federal rule that allegedly infringes upon the rights of LGBT individuals and others to access...
Bethlehem bans conversion therapy
The Lehigh Valley municipality of Bethlehem became the seventh in the state to ban conversion therapy in a unanimous City Council vote of 6-0....
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the 6th Police District between Jan. 20-26....
Court rejects challenge to military ban
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed with the Obama administration and upheld Pentagon policy barring gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military....
Iowa gay-marriage opponents hold soggy rally
DES MOINES, Iowa — Hundreds of gay-marriage opponents gathered Monday at the Statehouse for a soggy rally where speakers urged Gov. Chet...
PGN subpoenas DA Krasner in Nizah Morris case
Last week, attorneys for PGN subpoenaed District Attorney Larry Krasner to testify at an upcoming court hearing regarding the paper’s request for additional records...
Philly-born activist and author begins a movement to combat sexual abuse...
Dr. Paul Zeitz has forever fought for justice — be it patients’ rights, human rights or global rights — striving for equal opportunity and...
Known LGBT donor gives again
Last week, Mel Heifetz, a local gay businessperson and philanthropist, donated $20,000 to the Democratic National Committee in the name of Philadelphia’s LGBT...
Out attorney now heading Temple Law’s alumni association
For the first time, an openly gay man has been elected to head the Temple University Beasley School of Law Alumni Association. ...
LGBT issues to be addressed at eating-disorder conference
While every patient with an eating disorder is different, LGBT people may have added stresses related to coming out, anti-LGBT violence and bullying. More...
Major changes in the works at Calcutta House
The executive director of HIV/AIDS housing agency Calcutta House announced last week he is stepping down and that the organization’s operations could be taken...
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