Analysis: Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate Race
The Pennsylvania Senate race is one of the most critical in the country. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell thinks so. And so do the...
Three new members join the board of William Way
William Way LGBT Community Center welcomes three new members of its board, in addition to retaining three previous board members and electing its Executive...
International News: German church officials; Guatemalan legislation; Netflix’s first Arabic original...
German chuch officials comes out as LGBTQ
More than 100 Catholic Church officials in Germany came out as LGBT, queer or non-binary on January 24,...
Admiral Rachel Levine: “You have to do the policy work.”
From her time as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health to her recent swearing in as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned...
AIDS Healthcare Foundation continues to provide cutting edge care
The national organization AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a fixture in the HIV care community. Dating back to the 1980s, the organization provides an...
Several news orgs, including PGN, unite as part of a new...
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...
Nonprofit with international reach helps gay men have biological families
Men Having Babies (MHB) is an organization created for same-gender male couples, single men and trans women who want to start a family via...
A look at the LGBTQ+ elected officials in the Philadelphia region
In recent years, more and more members of the LGBTQ+ community have been running for public office, and many have been elected. In 2022,...
Member names released for DA’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee
On Jan. 21, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office released the names and brief biographies of the members of its new LGBTQ+ Advisory Committee.
The committee...
State Senate bills seek to aid name changes for trans Pennsylvanians
A cadre of Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate are seeking their colleagues’ support for a package of bills aimed at lifting the legal...
Love + Solidarity event to emphasize the diversity of love at...
In the spirit of togetherness and love in all forms, William Way LGBT Community Center will host its annual Love + Solidarity festival on...
Restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men persist despite...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has yet to lift its three-month celibacy requirement for donations from men who have sex with men (MSM),...
Community leaders raise funds for trans focused LGBTQ+ Safe Haven
The leaders of Ark of Safety LGBTQ+ Safe Haven, a faith-based nonprofit that runs out of Next Level Revival Church, are working towards getting...
Trans woman sues Temple Health
A Philadelphia Trans woman has filed suit in federal court, alleging that Temple University Health System dismissed her as a dietary aide because she...
New poll shows LGBTQ youth mental health negatively impacted by anti-trans...
A poll released January 10 by the Trevor Project shows that over two-thirds of LGBTQ+ youth say their mental health has been negatively impacted...
AIDS Activities Coordinating Office seeks proposals for TelePrEP program
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...
2022 starts with Anti-LGBT+ bills proposed
The new year has barely started, and 2022 is already a bad year for LGBTQ people. Republican legislators in Arizona, Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma,...
Community Briefs: January 12, 2022
Stephen Kulp elected to Philadelphia Bar Association Board of Governors
Stephen Kulp, a gay, Asian American lawyer who practices insurance defense, was elected to the...
Bebashi offering new support group to trans people of color
The team at Bebashi Transition to Hope continues to provide a safe spaces for transgender and gender nonbinary people of color through the support...
Patricia Colleen O’Connell, 74
Patricia Colleen O’Connell, 74, died at home on December 28th. Known by everyone as Colleen, she was the spouse of Connie Youkon for 42...



































