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Attorneys for a New Jersey trans woman seeking a gender-accurate birth certificate hope a recent pro-trans ruling in a Pennsylvania case will give a...

SD police change policy after outing lesbian Fox News reports a South Dakota police department has changed its policy for releasing information to...

They were called female impersonators, character types, lovely creatures, drag queens, pansies, divas. They were straight, bi, gay and queer. For over a century,...

Armed with nothing but her notebook, pen and minimal background information, PGN staff writer Paige Cooperstein got to work last month to get the...

Philadelphia City Council held a public hearing last week about street harassment, which included testimony on the treatment the LGBT community experiences daily. ...

In Gov. Tom Wolf’s three-and-a-half years as governor, he has expanded Medicaid throughout the state, giving an additional 720,000 Pennsylvanians access to healthcare. He...

Jim Gallagher, a former science teacher at the Franklin Institute, died Nov. 15 of a respiratory attack. He was 72.  For years,...

The major Jewish holiday of Passover is coming up, and there will be an LGBTQ community seder on the festival’s third night. It’ll take...

SPEEDING FORWARD: Calcutta House’s April 24 “Night Train to Calcutta” fundraising event brought together about 170 supporters of the HIV/AIDS housing organization, including event...

The Philadelphia Police Department has confirmed to Philadelphia Gay News the death of trans woman of color Alicia Simmons in West Philadelphia.  The cause...

Community College of Philadelphia is unveiling its first LGBTQ center to provide a safe, affirming space for LGBTQ-identified students. The initiative...

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission recently proposed statewide regulations asserting that anti-LGBT discrimination is a form of sex discrimination. Since 2018, the PHRC has accepted...

OutFront!, an area organization dedicated to increasing the visibility and inclusion of the LGBT community in local government, closed down last month, but not...

Following a trend this spring that saw five suburban schools adopt transgender-affirming student policies, the School District of Philadelphia adopted its own policy at...

Former 12th Air Command bartender Julian Mendez died Nov. 10 after a short battle with liver disease. He was 33. Mendez worked...

Civil-rights activists are speaking out against a job-application form issued by the national Boy Scouts of America organization that excludes atheists and “known or...

 March 8 marks International Women’s Day (IWD). It’s a day to recognize the achievement of women and the ongoing struggle for equality around the...

Just before 7 p. m. on Memorial Day, Dr. Lauren Patricia Daly, a pediatrician at Nemours Alfred I. DuPont Hospital in Wilmington, Del.,...

Openly gay attorney Christopher Mallios has worn many hats throughout his professional career — prosecutor, defense attorney, LGBT liaison — and is now looking...

On March 8, the front pages of nearly a dozen national LGBTQ newspapers — including this one — will be lined up along the...