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The United Methodist Church has proposed a split into more than one denomination. The proposal was made to resolve continuing conflict over LGBT clergy...

Chris Rowe, chairman of the New Castle County Republican Committee, was asked to resign after he used a homophobic slur on social media. According...

Two men wore blackface in the 2020 Mummers Parade, plaguing the nearly 120-year-old tradition with racism and bigotry, again. In 2016, a member of the...

 On Jan. 1 of this year, Frank McGehee and Dean Dafis were sworn in as Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Maplewood, New Jersey, replacing...

The Mayor’s Office of LGBT Affairs in Philadelphia is currently without both a director and deputy director.  Upon Amber Hikes’ resignation as director of the...

A Dunkin’ Donuts shop in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania has asked a federal judge to dismiss the antibias lawsuit of a trans woman of color who...

Zach Wilcha, executive director of Independence Business Alliance (IBA), had a good year. He read 74 books, which he reviewed in a beautiful and...

For years Philadelphians have known Tiffany Palmer as a visible member of the LGBTQ community, frequently at events with her wife and daughter. A...

Chris Bartlett has been the executive director at William Way LGBT Community Center (WWCC) for a decade — a fraught and complicated decade that...

A poem for Tara Lessard by her friend, activist Susan DiPrinio: Death is so long Death is so longThe red fox runsNo night setsAs heavy as...

After high school, Kendall Stephens had the world ahead of her. She had several college acceptance letters under her belt, alongside a diploma with...

Mary Groce is a writer, illustrator, activist and the 2019 Verville Fellow at the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. She...

A Philadelphia gay man has filed an antibias complaint against the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, claiming he was illegally fired from his job as...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." Charles Dickens was a straight, cisgender white man, and the year was...

Every year, PGN selects a group of people to be honored as our "People of the Year." This year held no shortage of folks...

A Dauphin County trans man has filed suit against the state of Pennsylvania, claiming a lengthy delay before the state’s health-insurance provider would cover...

Garden State Equality is partnering with The RAIN Foundation, New Jersey Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (D-Camden, Burlington) and New Jersey Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt...

1. “TransWork,  Philadelphia airport team up for job fair aimed at increasing trans employment”  TransWork, an employment program developed by the Independence Business Alliance for trans,...

"If you want to talk about the capacity to win, try putting together a coalition to bring you back to office with 80 percent...

1. “Pete speaks on LGBTQ history, historic campaign” Democratic presidential candidate and out gay man Pete Buttigieg spoke exclusively with PGN in October about his...