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Just before 7 p. m. on Memorial Day, Dr. Lauren Patricia Daly, a pediatrician at Nemours Alfred I. DuPont Hospital in Wilmington, Del.,...

Hopes were dashed today for a bias-free foster-care system in Philadelphia after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia...

Community College of Philadelphia is unveiling its first LGBTQ center to provide a safe, affirming space for LGBTQ-identified students. The initiative...

A Philadelphia trans woman has filed suit against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, alleging she was mistreated during a medical procedure and...

The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations investigates complaints of discrimination in employment, public accommodations and housing. The agency is charged with enforcing the city’s...

A three-judge panel of Commonwealth Court heard arguments Feb. 13 on whether Pennsylvania residents convicted of serious felonies should be permanently barred from changing...

Philadelphia citizens will be able to report hate crimes via a new hotline. District Attorney Kelley B. Hodge announced the launch of hotline at...

Few topics in American politics under President Trump elicit more controversy than immigration. The same was true in early 20th-century America, when waves of...

Attorneys for a Philadelphia student who was raped inside a public elementary school urged a three-judge appellate panel this week to let the student’s...

New Jersey’s Department of Human Services (DHS) instituted a new LGBTQ-centric training program, ICARE, for state-funded social service agencies, homeless shelter providers and government...

Japanese same-sex couples sue for equal marital rights Thirteen same-sex couples on Feb. 14 in Japan filed the first lawsuits challenging the constitutionality...

Last week, Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Lillian H. Ransom agreed to the reinstatement of first-degree murder charges for Abdullah El-Amin, who allegedly shot to...

*This story has been updated to include a comment from J.J. Abbott, a spokesperson for Gov. Tom Wolf. An anti-LGBT state representative this week spoke...

The LGBTQ+ subset of the City of Philadelphia’s Complete Count Committee met last week at Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau to discuss methods of...

Ghana bans LGBT+ conference after Christian groups protest Ghana’s government has said it will not allow a major gathering of LGBT+ activists to go ahead...

Lifelong Doylestown resident Ron Strouse found out a little after 9 p. m. Nov. 5 that he would be his town’s new mayor....

Philadelphia City Council passed three bills Thursday fortifying protections for trans and nonbinary people by strengthening gender-neutral bathroom requirements, expanding anti-discrimination policies for those...

Norristown’s borough council passed an LGBT-inclusive civil-rights ordinance July 3, but not all its residents are pleased about it. The ordinance...

In its highest attendance to date, the Lavender Law Conference took place in Philadelphia for the first time since 2002. Orchestrated by the LGBT...

The Jewish Family and Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia wants to highlight trans acceptance in Jewish communities with the event Transgender and Jewish: Conversations...