GOAL president, police LGBT liaison help celebrate Trans Day of Visibility
Jo Mason ticked off the reasons why Time Magazine declared a “transgender tipping point”: a transgender woman got to play a transgender woman on...
Road to Stonewall: Tommi Avicolli Mecca
For 20 years, Tommi Avicolli Mecca was the face of gay-activist journalism in Philadelphia and a fixture in Philly’s nascent LGBTQ community. “I wanted...
HIV-testing van rolls through Philly
A new mobile-testing van is letting Philadelphians take advantage of free HIV testing. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is making testing and treatment options more...
Road to Stonewall: Joe Beam
Joseph “Joe” Beam was the editor of the 1986 collection “In the Life: a Black Gay Anthology” — the first compendia of black gay...
Lower Merion schools unanimously pass transgender policy
The Lower Merion School Board unanimously passed a policy May 16 that outlines how officials will respond to the needs of transgender students. It...
High turnout and enthusiasm for Lehigh Valley Pride
In the early afternoon of August 15, a line of over a thousand people stretched around the block outside the Jewish Community Center in...
Equality Forum to close Philly office
Equality Forum has decided to give up its office space in Philadelphia. The LGBTQ civil-rights organization, which was founded in Philadelphia in 1993, is...
Ten years later: Robert Drake
On Jan. 31, 1999, Robert Drake lounged on the porch of his newly purchased apartment in Sligo, Ireland, sipping a hot port...
Suicide-prevention workshop stresses need for LGBT data
Mazzoni Center hosted a “More Than Sad” workshop to address the increasingly urgent need for LGBTQ-specific data to be collected and included in suicide-prevention...
Remember Them
Since this time last year, too many trans and nonbinary people in the U.S. have lost their lives due to hatred and ignorance. The...
Out dog handler showing three breeds at National Dog Show
Joe Buchanan had a house full of dogs on Halloween. It was one of the few times he wasn’t traveling on business as the...
Out lesbian is one of two African-American women candidates for Chicago...
One of America’s largest cities is about to elect its first African-American female mayor. The question in Chicago is which one of the two...
Judge issues pro-LGBT ruling in citizenship dispute
A federal judge in Atlanta last month ordered the U.S. State Department to recognize the U.S. citizenship by birth of Simone Mize-Gregg, the two-year-old...
Alfred Kinsey ‘was our Stonewall.’
There was a time when one out of every two Americans Gallup polled knew Alfred Kinsey's name, and to gay men, lesbians and bisexuals,...
Rainbow Buddhist Meditation Group celebrates 15 years
Tommy Dorsey was a drug addict and drag queen in San Francisco in the 1960s when Zen Buddhist masters from Japan started arriving in...
Prominent lesbian journalist murdered in terrorist killing
Internationally known independent journalist and LGBTQ-activist Lyra McKee, 29, was shot to death on April 19 in Northern Ireland. The Belfast lesbian was reportedly...
Suspect in slaying of transwoman and activist to stand trial
The North Philadelphia man charged with murdering transwoman and activist Tameka Michelle Washington last month signed a statement saying he shot her during an...
Trump appointee denies HIV-positive litigant’s anonymity request
A federal appellate judge appointed by former President Donald Trump recently denied the anonymity request of an HIV-positive litigant, even though the lower court...
Over protests, out artist’s sculpture could get new home:
Openly gay artist Raymond Sandoval’s rendering of Chief Tamanend, who famously signed the peace treaty with William Penn, has stood sentinel over Front and...
Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center named coolest space in Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley Business listed Allentown’s Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center as one of 30 coolest spaces throughout Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties. Located in the...
TRENDING
RECENT ARTICLES
Allen Ginsberg was a political poet
Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated poet, counterculture icon, and out gay man, died 25 years ago, on April 5, 1997.
In a recent interview, the musician...
