News Briefing
School bans gay book A school board in New Jersey this week voted unanimously to ban a book that offers a collection of...
Prop. 8 attorney looks to case resolution
Last week, the judge in the Proposition 8 trial, “Perry vs. Schwarzenegger,” announced closing arguments would begin on June 16. In...
Pentagon, Obama urge inaction on ‘Don’t Ask’
Defense Secretary Robert Gates last week urged members of Congress to halt any possible repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay servicemembers until...
Media Trail
Teens charged in murder of gay principal The Washington Examiner reports Maryland county police have charged three teenagers in the murder of gay...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between April 17-24. ...
PGN survey reveals reader demographics, satisfaction levels
Throughout the month of March, PGN conducted a readership survey in the interest of allowing the paper to meet the needs of its diverse...
CBLSL gives city $30K for ball fields
The City of Brotherly Love Softball League recently ended two years of negotiations with the city about improvements to the softball fields the league...
D.C. Blade returns
The Washington Blade will return to newsstands in D. C. April 30 after a several-month hiatus under a new title. D.C. Agenda...
‘Family’ to celebrate in New Hope
Families of all sizes and shapes are expected to converge in New Hope next month for the seventh-annual New Hope Celebrates, which will feature...
News Briefing
Emerge remerges Local LGBT grantmaking agency Sapphire Fund will host a series of events over the next few weeks to unite local women...
Panel to discuss Supreme Court future
Earlier this month, U. S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens announced he would retire, and the departure of the court’s leading liberal...
California Assembly votes to modify law seeking to ‘cure’ gays
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A vote in the California Assembly on Monday to modify a 60-year-old law that classified gays as sexual deviants...
Media Trail
Wash. tax initiative to include gay couples The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports supporters of an initiative campaign to tax the earnings...
Local publisher launches LGBT tween series
Mason Crest, an educational publishing company headquartered in Broomall, will this fall launch a pioneering series of books that seeks to empower LGBT students...
Texas court hears state’s appeal in gay divorce
DALLAS — A lawyer for a Dallas man trying to divorce the man he married in Massachusetts told a Texas appeals court last Wednesday...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between April 15-18. ...
30 Years Ago in PGN
Kennedy comes out for gay rights In an interview with PGN, then-presidential nominee Sen. Ted Kennedy made several pledges to advance...
International News
2nd Puerto Rican LGBT killing Puerto Rican police are investigating after a trans woman was found murdered in her home last week. ...
AN INSPIRING PORTRAIT
The Attic Youth Center executive director Carrie Jacobs (right) and the agency’s other supporters surprise Jim Bryson, founder and namesake of the organization’s education...
FAMILY OUTING
Wendy Forbes and son Dylan and Josh Young and daughter Alex were among the visitors at the second-annual Gay Day at the Philadelphia Zoo...
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