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Center hosts potluck dinner The William Way LGBT Community Center will host Holiday Potluck Dinner at 2 p. m. Dec. 25 at...
Media Trail
Feds axe healthcare for spouse again CBSNews. com reports the U.S. Office of Personnel Management still refuses to authorize healthcare for the...
SEASON FOR SONG
Traverse Arts Project hosted its first-annual Holiday Celebration and Carol Sing-Along Dec. 11 at Arch Street United Methodist Church. The event featured...
SANTA COMES TO THE GAYBORHOOD
Ed Hermance, owner of LGBT bookstore Giovanni’s Room, told Santa — also known as out author Samuel Delany — his Christmas wishes during a...
D.C. marriage bill moves forward
The District of Columbia City Council this week gave its final approval to a bill that seeks to extend full marriage rights to same-sex...
LGBT police liaison committee elects new leaders
The members of the Police Liaison Committee elected a new chair last week who is committed to developing and strengthening relations between police and...
Local pols tied to group associated with antigay Uganda efforts
The Anti-Homosexuality Bill moving through the Uganda Parliament seeks to expand the country’s laws against homosexuality, a crime already punishable by life imprisonment. ...
Officer arrested for soliciting teen boy
Philadelphia police arrested one of their own last week after a year-long investigation into solicitation charges leveled by a teenage boy. ...
News Briefing
Giovanni’s Room vandalized Two basement windows on the Pine Street side of LGBT bookstore Giovanni’s Room were smashed this week. ...
Ceremony winners announced
This summer, Provence Catering enlisted the help of PGN in finding two local committed LGBT couples deserving of free commitment ceremonies. PGN...
Spending bill lifts needle-exchange ban
Both chambers of Congress recently approved a measure that will allow federal funding for needle-exchange programs in a move considered a major boost to...
Media Trail
Houston elects out mayor 365gay. com reports Houston voters chose Annise Parker to become the city’s first openly gay mayor. At...
International News
Activists protest at Ugandan embassy Protesters gathered outside the Ugandan embassy in London Dec. 10 to call on the country’s government...
Obituary: Luis Varela, 44
Luis Varela, a former Philadelphian and computer programmer, died suddenly last month at age 44. Varela, who lived in Center City...
City asks judge to lift injunction barring Scouts’ eviction
City attorneys have asked a federal judge to lift an injunction preventing the eviction of a local Boy Scouts chapter from a city-owned building....
NJ Senate halts marriage-equality vote
A New Jersey Senate committee narrowly passed a bill this week that would legalize same-sex marriage in the Garden State, but legislators delayed a...
Sestak receives nods from gay legislator, activist
U. S. Rep. Joe Sestak (D-7th Dist.), who is hoping to unseat longtime incumbent U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D) in the spring primary,...
Westboro extremists back in Philly
Six members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a virulently antigay and anti-Semitic organization based in Kansas, visited Philadelphia and New Jersey this week, but...
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