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Md. bill would shun gay marriages USA Today reports a Baltimore County delegate is urging state lawmakers to prohibit Maryland from...
Pa. court makes landmark custody ruling
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has overturned a 25-year-old legal precedent that presented gay parents with an added obstacle in child-custody cases. ...
Philadelphian spearheads national LGBT attorney group
The American Bar Association’s LGBT Litigator Committee launched nearly a year ago, and the national attorneys’ group is expecting continued growth and development as...
LGBT families head into year with new leadership, events
Even though the power went out for a time at the Please Touch Museum last Monday morning, courtesy of the day-long storm that blew...
Norman Baker, HIV/AIDS activist, 58
Norman Baker, a longtime HIV/AIDS activist who volunteered for several local HIV/AIDS organizations, died Jan. 6 at age 58. Baker was a...
International News
Mexico City to try to overturn gay marriage Federal prosecutors in Mexico City announced Jan. 27 they would seek to overturn...
Woody’s owner indicted for tax fraud
The U. S. Attorney’s Office this week indicted Michael Weiss, the co-owner of Woody’s and the president of the board of Voyeur, on...
PA courts to offer LGBT domestic-partner benefits
Employees of Pennsylvania’s court system who are in same-sex relationships will now be entitled to the same benefits as their heterosexual married counterparts. ...
Lawmaker introduces antigay-marriage bill
About eight months after he pledged to introduce a bill that would institute a ban on same-sex marriage in the state constitution, Pennsylvania Sen....
Local, national students debate marriage equality
Dozens of students from across the country converged — in person and via videoconference — at the National Constitution Center last week for a...
City, community groups reevaluate parade costs
Members of Philadelphia City Council met Monday with organizers of several local parades to analyze how to cut costs for the events. ...
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Q hosts Haiti fundraiser LGBT hot-spot Q will host “From City of Brotherly Love to Haiti,” a marathon fundraising party for the quake-ravaged...
Four elected to William Way board at annual meeting
The William Way LGBT Community Center’s board held elections at its annual meeting Jan. 26 at 1315 Spruce St. Board member...
Congressmembers urge Obama to ‘do more’ regarding Uganda
At a Congressional committee hearing last week on Uganda’s controversial Anti-Homosexuality Bill, several witnesses urged President Obama to speak out against the measure, a...
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Mich. candidate seeks fewer transgender rights 365gay.com reports a Michigan secretary-of-state candidate has included rolling back transgender rights on his agenda....
Gemencina Reed, founding Attic board member, 79
Gemencina Reed, one of The Attic Youth Center’s earliest supporters, died Jan. 9 of organ failure. She was 79. Reed, an LGBT...
Local club manager Michael Weiss indicted
Press Release from the U. S. Department of Justice, United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Full story in this week's PGN —...
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