New GALAEI campaign gets city recognition
A new HIV-education campaign targeting the Latino community was honored by the city this week. POSITIVO, which launched last month from...
News Briefing
Cradle moves out As the Boy Scouts of America Cradle of Liberty Council moved out of a city-owned building this week, LGBT advocates had...
CDC takes over couples HIV testing initiative
Earlier this month, Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health announced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would take over its innovative HIV-testing...
Center announces new top position at annual meeting
Last Saturday the William Way LGBT Community Center held its annual meeting to discuss the organization’s future and goals heading into 2015. ...
City, community hit by Sandy
The city came to a halt Monday, as city agencies, schools and public transportation shut down in preparation for a direct hit from Hurricane...
MAKING IT LEGAL
About 150 people took part in the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s first-ever Lambda Symposium Feb. 1. Staged by Penn LGBT group...
Councilmembers call for prosecutors’ termination
All five female members of Philadelphia City Council have joined forces with the local chapter of the National Organization for Women in urging the...
ON THE FRONT LINES
The Oct. 20 Philly AIDS Walk/Run kicked off Oct. 20 with 337 runners setting off in the run, which was up 10...
News Briefing
Memorial for Westbury icon Friends of longtime Westbury employee Billy Carlin, who passed away in June, are invited to a celebration of his...
New Jersey votes against marriage equality
Legislators in New Jersey voted this week to reject a same-sex marriage bill, stifling hopes for marriage equality in the Garden State for at...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Aug. 25-Sept....
ONWARD AND UPWARD
Drexel University students, faculty and staff gathered at 32nd and Market streets Nov. 20 to mark the raising of the transgender flag...
Out lawyer announces race for city controller
An openly gay lawyer will run for the office of Philadelphia city controller next year. Michael Williams announced Dec. 5 at...
Hearing delayed for murder suspect
A hearing for a man accused of murdering a local transgender woman was postponed this week. Charles Sargent, 43, was scheduled to...
Broadway with a cause comes to Doylestown
Michael Moeller always knew he wanted to perform, but directing and producing his own musical was an entirely different story. “I...
News Briefing
Transwoman’s bank-robbery sentencing scheduled Sabrina Jackson, a transgender woman who pleaded guilty to an unarmed bank robbery in 2010, is scheduled to be sentenced...
ActionAIDS awarded large national grant
Just a week after announcing it had been awarded a $25,000 grant for its work with current and formerly incarcerated populations, ActionAIDS has been...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Nov. 22-28....
Bethlehem advances rights bill
Bethlehem took a decisive step last week toward becoming the next municipality in Pennsylvania to ban LGBT discrimination. A three-member committee...
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