Pa. native named Obama’s first gay ambassador
President Obama nominated the first openly gay U. S. ambassador of his administration last week, and the nominee is a Pennsylvania native. ...
Media Trail
Lesbians disproportionately discharged under DADT The San Francisco Chronicle reports Pentagon officials won’t speculate why women in uniform are more likely to be...
Tens of thousands come out for OutFest
It was a beautiful day in the Gayborhood last weekend for the 19th annual OutFest. Rainbows abounded on clothes, pets and...
Gay History Month: The love of Walt Whitman’s life
Walt Whitman, best known as the father of modern poetry and American poetry, was also the longtime lover of Peter Doyle, son of a...
LGBT recovery house opens in No. Philly
LGBT Philadelphians who are struggling with drug or alcohol abuse and are looking to get their lives back on the right path now have...
International News
Turkey blocks gay Web sites Turkey has blocked two of its largest LGBT Web sites. Users of hadigayri.com and gabile.com...
UA BALL OF A TIME
Guests at the opening reception for Ballroom History Weekend gathered Oct. 1 at the William Way LGBT Center to celebrate the kick-off...
Equality Advocates Pa. announces new agency, board
Local LGBT legal group Equality Advocates Pennsylvania announced two major organizational changes this week, including the launch of a new advocacy agency that will...
Researchers: Gays excluded from clinical trials
A group of researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center is working on an academic paper that analyzes the exclusion of LGBT individuals and same-sex...
Bread & Roses honors 2009 Lax scholars
Local social-justice agency Bread & Roses Community Fund awarded scholarships to five young men for their contributions to the LGBT community. ...
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Film series by queer women’s group A series of short films created by queer women of color will be featured in special screening...
Online arts calendar reaches out to disabled
While finding a concert, play or other cultural event that fits into price and time constraints may be a tedious task for most, those...
Giovanni’s Room kicks up fundraising efforts
This year’s OutFest street festival includes an extended block on 12th Street between Spruce and Pine to support the fundraising efforts at Giovanni’s Room...
Media Trail
Gay exec to run Disney films Advocate. com reports Rich Ross, the out president of Disney Channels Worldwide, has been appointed to...
Council hopeful heads West to train for campaign
Chris Hayes, an openly gay state legislative assistant, will take a few days off from work in December to head to San Francisco. ...
Conference to focus on cancer among lesbians, bisexuals
Although research is still emerging about the health of the LGBT community, many in the medical community assert that lesbians and bisexual women are...
The Word: A breast-cancer blog
Part one of a series In March, Gloria Casarez, director of LGBT affairs for the Mayor’s Office, was diagnosed with breast cancer. ...
Gay History Month: Cronkite defended civil — including gay — rights
In December 1973, a 19-year-old Mark Segal disrupted the live broadcast of “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite,” running on the set and sitting...
International News
Arrest made in British consul death A 23-year-old Jamaican man has been arrested over the death of a British honorary consul. ...
Goldenburg to leave William Way
The executive director of the William Way LGBT Community Center announced this week that he will step down next month. ’Dolph...
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