ADL figure visits Philly, talks hate-crimes progress
The Anti-Defamation League hosted a special guest last week in its Philadelphia office. Michael Lieberman serves as ADL’s Washington Counsel and...
Supreme Court denies final COPA appeal
The U. S. Supreme Court decided Jan. 21 that it would not hear arguments against a lower-court ruling that found the Child Online...
LGBT sports bar alleges bias by city officials
Boxers PHL, an LGBT sports bar in the Gayborhood, recently filed a civil-rights lawsuit alleging bias by city officials when handling the bar's requests...
Sims scrutinized for travel expenses and speaking fees
State Rep. Brian Sims, Pennsylvania’s first elected openly gay lawmaker, will make a “routine amendment” to his Statement of Financial Interests regarding an...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the 6th Police District between July 10-17. ...
The Black Panthers and the Gay Liberation Front: Did Black Lives...
Few instances in the modern movement for gay and lesbian equality (what we now call the LGBT movement) produced as much controversy —...
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Smithson pleads no contest to child porn William F. Smithson, the Delaware County gay man convicted of killing a coworker, has...
New Hope’s The Raven to reopen
The Raven, longtime staple of New Hope’s LGBT community, will reopen this month. The establishment shut down last year, but a...
Eight men in Delaware sting operation get probation
Eight of the 12 men arrested during a recent sting operation near Rehoboth Beach were given brief periods of probation, in return for an...
Philly LGBTQ realtors provide safe spaces for their queer clients
The real estate industry, like many other professions, has not been as diverse in the past as it is today, and it still has...
Lutherans split over gay pastors, Bible beliefs
GROVE CITY, Ohio — Critics of the country’s largest Lutheran denomination and its more-open stance toward gay clergy formed a new Lutheran church last...
With extremism resurgent, will Pa. finally pass a tougher hate crimes...
by John L. Micek
In October 2019, a year after a madman went on a murderous, hate-fueled spree at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, the...
Media Trail
Antigay Md. lawmaker indicted on theft charges Baltimore’s WBAL-TV reports a Maryland state delegate was charged Sept. 23 with using campaign...
Family alleges HIV discrimination at PA practice
A local HIV/AIDS agency filed suit on World AIDS Day against a private Lancaster County medical practice for its refusal to treat an HIV-positive...
PGN renews appeal for D.A.’s Morris 911 recordings
PGN last week appealed a denial by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office for all 911 recordings pertaining to the Nizah Morris incident in the...
New judge assigned to Penn antibias case
A new federal judge has been assigned to the case of “Jane Doe,” a transgender woman who’s suing the University of Pennsylvania for alleged...
Cosby again asks to have case dismissed
Comedian Bill Cosby was back in a Norristown court this week as his lawyers argued for the sexual-assault case against him to be dismissed....
Philly trans community speaks on intimate partner violence
When considering how to help mitigate the violence, discrimination and stigma that trans people face on a regular basis, education is paramount, along with...
International News
Doc says gay sex causes swine flu A prominent doctor in Malaysia is claiming that gay sex and masturbation make the body more...
Guilty verdict for Black Madam
A jury on Monday found Padge Victoria Windslowe, a transgender hip-hop artist who calls herself the Black Madam, guilty of giving a fatal buttocks injection....
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