Neighbors oppose demolition
The city’s Department of License and Inspection Review Board ruled this week that a neighborhood group has legal standing to challenge the pending demolition...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Nov. 15-21....
Pentagon: No gays were discharged in past month: :
SAN FRANCISCO — No U. S. servicemembers have been discharged for being openly gay in the month since the Defense Department adopted new...
International News
Thousands march in Delhi Pride An estimated 2,000 people joined a Pride festival in Delhi, India, Nov. 27 and 28. ...
Power shift to impact Philly, LGBTs
Following the midterm election earlier this month, Pennsylvania legislators cast their own ballots for a series of leadership positions over the last few weeks,...
Settlement on hold in Scouts case
Last spring, when former city official Joyce Wilkerson was asked if she would support the Scouts’ eviction from a city-owned building even if it...
Lancaster disbands Human Relations Commission
Despite months of backlash by civil-rights activists, the Lancaster County Commission last week voted to disband the county’s panel that investigates discrimination complaints. ...
DVLF director departs, new board steps up
LGBT grantmaking agency Delaware Valley Legacy Fund will again come under new direction, as its executive director announced he will step down next month....
NJ legislature passes anti-bullying law
Lawmakers in both chambers of the New Jersey General Assembly voted Monday to approve a bill that would strengthen the state’s anti-bullying law and...
World AIDS Day events and testing sites
ACT UP D. C. demonstration ACT UP Philadelphia is organizing a trip to Washington, D.C., for a White House demonstration on World...
Health care act, national HIV strategy bold steps to end AIDS:
When future historians write their books on the AIDS crisis in America, this year may need its own chapter to tell how health reform...
Local activists press for cure
The AIDS Policy Project, headquartered in Philadelphia and San Francisco, is taking a rarely employed approach to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, pressing not for enhanced...
News Briefing
Joan Rivers benefit The Career Wardrobe, a nonprofit shop that works to provide professional attire for women seeking employment, is staging a benefit...
TOY to provide support to area youth
The 700 kids who passed through the doors of the Philadelphia Children’s Alliance last year came from all areas of the city, all family...
Jon Paul Hammond, Prevention Point co-founder, 50
Jon Paul Hammond, a longtime harm-reduction activist and the co-founder of the city’s needle-exchange program, died Nov. 5 of a drug overdose at age 50....
Senate to vote again on military gay ban
The U. S. Senate’s top Democrat said last week that he will call for a vote in the lame-duck session on legislation that...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Nov. 5-13....
Media Trail
Teacher’s suspension stands My Fox Detroit reports a Michigan school district won’t reverse a teacher’s one-day unpaid suspension for kicking a boy out...
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