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When Zeina Issa first became President of the University of the Sciences LGBTQ+ Alliance in September 2020, the virtual meetings drew around 10 participants....

Philadelphia bar associations to hold name change clinic To continue to provide resources for trans Philadelphians, the Philadelphia Bar Association’s LGBT Rights Committee and the...

A federal inmate in Texas is in the midst of contentious litigation, seeking gender-affirmation surgery and other services to treat her gender dysphoria. No...

Unless otherwise noted, names have been altered to protect the privacy of formerly incarcerated persons. Throughout the summer of 2020, Nadia Martinez watched the social...

News Is Out: National Queer Media Collaborative, a brand new a partnership of seven LGBTQ+ news outlets from around the U.S., will soon launch...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin has highlighted past and present actions by Putin against LGBT+ people in Russia and re-emphasized the...

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission recently proposed statewide regulations asserting that anti-LGBT discrimination is a form of sex discrimination. Since 2018, the PHRC has accepted...

A transcript of Pope Francis’s Sept. 12 meeting in Slovakia with 53 Jesuit priests at the nunciature in Bratislava was released on Sept. 21....

Both homelessness and unemployment were cited as two persistent problems for many Philadelphia trans people, according to panelists at a Nov. 10 forum called...

Canadians got a ban on conversion therapy. The U.S. didn’t.  The U.S. also didn’t get the Equality Act despite all the election rhetoric in 2020....

In the March 1977 issue of Philadelphia Gay News, Harry Langhorne wrote, in the boldly titled article “Temple Approves Gay Rights,” about how the...

In times when LGBTQ history is barely taught and discussions of the community are banned from many classrooms, free accessible resources become vital for...

About 20 people gathered October 6 in the East Wing of the State Capitol to unveil the “Living a Positive Life” mural commissioned by...

The Christian Legal Society, a conservative legal group based in Virginia, is urging a federal judge to nullify an LGBT-inclusive antibias rule for Pennsylvania...

Philadelphia’s Activities Coordinating Office (AACO), a department of the Department of Public Health, recently put out a request for proposals (RFP) to establish a...

Russian Justice Ministry seeks to “liquidate” LGBT organization As Russia encroaches on Ukraine and causes a furor at the Olympics over doping, at home, the...

By Cassie Miller Each year, March 31 marks International Transgender Day of Visibility, a day some celebrate with joy, while others observe with quiet reverence...

The statistics are bold and undeniable: In one term, Donald Trump secured 33 percent of the U.S. Supreme Court justices and 30 percent of...

In a major victory for sexual minority advocates, Canada has banned conversion therapy, a widely discredited practice that claims to change a person's sexual...

The national organization AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a fixture in the HIV care community. Dating back to the 1980s, the organization provides an...