Court orders D.A. to certify Morris records
Commonwealth Court last week ordered the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office to certify transactions that caused dispatch records relating to the Nizah Morris incident to...
Out photog earns humanitarian award for suicide prevention
HughE Dillon attempted suicide three times after he came out in the 1980s. He felt rejected by his parents, started drinking and became homeless....
International News: October 18, 2019
Polish election: Leader says gay rights are a threat to society
LGBT+ rights have become the single most significant cultural issue in Poland’s election campaign...
PGN’s top 5 stories of the year
1. “Pete speaks on LGBTQ history, historic campaign”
Democratic presidential candidate and out gay man Pete Buttigieg spoke exclusively with PGN in October about his...
Rodeo rides back into town
Cowboys and girls from around the country will stampede into the area this month for the second-annual LGBT rodeo. The Liberty...
N.J. trans man receives favorable jury verdict
A Hudson County jury last month ruled that trans man Shakeem M. Holmes was subjected to hostile treatment by Jersey City police while being...
Suspect IDed in Grindr case
Police last week identified a Philadelphia man accused of raping, assaulting and robbing a tourist he met on gay male dating app Grindr. ...
New Hope-Solebury adopts policy to protect transgender students
A Pennsylvania school district voted 6-1 to protect transgender students. The New Hope-Solebury School District officially adopted Policy 255, entitled “Gender Expansive and Transgender...
D.A. says Morris 911 recordings aren’t agency records
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office last week said it doesn’t recognize 911 recordings pertaining to the Nizah Morris incident as agency records, even if...
Lib City endorses 10 candidates
When two women, both doctors in their 40s, wanted to get married in Montgomery County in the summer of 2013, they contacted the register...
Pulse: One Year Later
On June 12, 2016, 49 people were killed at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Fla., marking the deadliest mass shooting in American history. The tragedy...
Lawsuit claims anti-LGBT bias at youth detention center
A federal lawsuit was filed last month on behalf of a Pennsylvania man who claims he was repeatedly raped while detained at the Delaware...
Area women’s softball team wins statewide tourney
After making it through a weekend of games undefeated, a group of local female softball players claimed a state title and won the chance...
1983 Reprint: Meet a local AIDS patient
*Editor’s Note: In reviewing the PGN archives in preparation for our 40th anniversary, we were struck by this account of what life was like...
International News: March 13, 2020
Hundreds of Guardian staff protest the paper’s ‘pattern of transphobic content’
Hundreds of staff and contractors at The Guardian have united in condemnation of the...
Lesbian couples challenge NJ insurance law
Four New Jersey women filed a federal lawsuit last week charging that a state insurance law regarding payments for fertility treatments is discriminatory against...
U.S. Supreme Court will hear Philly same-sex foster care dispute
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Feb. 24 that it will hear the case of Catholic Social Services of Philadelphia, an agency that no longer...
Safehouse injection site closed due to protests
Just 48 hours after the opening of the groundbreaking Safehouse injection site was announced Feb. 25, a spokesperson for Constitution Health Plaza announced that...
Council to consider bill on domestic-partner benefits for city contractors
City Council will soon consider expanding its city contracting rules to allow for equal benefits for LGBT workers and their partners. ...
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