Senate rejects Pride month resolution, Democratic politicians step up
The Pennsylvania Senate has rejected a Unanimous Consent Resolution recognizing June as LGBTQ Pride Month. Sen. Sharif Street (D-PA), who has put forward...
LGBTQ activist hopes attack, liaison committee can unite community
As thousands of festivalgoers made their way home from last weekend’s 31st-annual Pride festival, Rizzo Mertz’s day of celebration took a turn for the...
Largest-ever Pride celebration floods Philadelphia streets
Luanda Morris, of the city’s Frankford section, made the trek to last weekend’s Pride with her 14-year-old daughter, a lesbian. She wanted the event...
Out deputy sheriff, LGBTQ liaison and activist found dead
Out Deputy Sheriff Dante Austin, 27, was found dead at his desk in the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office last Friday morning. He died by suicide,...
Media Trail: June 7-13
R.I. bishop’s tweet outrages LGBTQ community A weekend tweet by Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin warning his congregants not to support or attend LGBTQ...
International News: June 7-13
Italy elects its first transgender mayor General allegiances may lie with Matteo Salvini’s right-wing League party, but voters in a small town south...
LGBTQ writers feted at The Lammy Awards
The 31st Annual Lambda Literary Awards, the world’s largest LGBTQ ceremony of its kind, was held June 3 at the NYU Skirball Center for...
Second trans woman dies in ICE custody
A transwoman from El Salvador who was being held by U.S. immigration authorities died June 1 — the first day of Pride month, and...
Trans woman settles federal job-discrimination lawsuit
A Northampton County trans woman of color who claimed she was wrongfully discharged from her nursing assistant job at an Alzheimer’s patient-care facility has...
Philadelphia landmarks light up for Pride
The “Philly Lights Up Rainbow” display will happen after sundown on two nights throughout the month: Sunday, June 9, on the evening of the...
Telling Our Stories: Gay Newspapers and Gay Liberation
In the decade before the Stonewall, queer underground newsletters and small ’zine-style publications began to proliferate across the country, especially in cities with large...
Gay men, McCarthy and the Mattachine Society
In the years before Stonewall and Pride, LGBT activism was criminalized and subversive. In the 1950s, Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-WI), leader of the House...
What else to do during Pride
Shades: A Celebration of Black, Queer Identities & Expression Thursday, June 6, 6 p.m.-midnight; $15-$50 New Voices for Reproductive Justice hosts this two-part event...
What to do during Pride
Pride shhhOUT! Pride Kick-Off Block Party Friday, June 7, 4 p.m. Toasted Walnut is hosting a two-day Pride kick-off party, including a block party...
Community organization brings LGBTQ-plus business growth to Woodbury, NJ
A 25-minute drive south on Interstate 676 — traffic-permitting — sits Woodbury, New Jersey, a suburb of 10,000, possibly on the brink of an...
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...
Out lawyer gears up for Common Pleas judgeship
In her 21-year legal career, Tiffany Palmer has dedicated herself to helping LGBTQ clients navigate assisted reproduction and maintain relationships with their children, biological...
HIV and Men of Color: “We could end HIV today.”
Dr. Marcus Sandling wants to save lives. As a young African-American physician with a specialty in infectious disease and working at Mazzoni...
Celebrating the body at the intersection of education and therapy
A four-day event packed with diverse presentations and workshops, the 2019 conference of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists offers...
Three trans women sue to obtain name changes
Three transgender women filed suit last week in Commonwealth Court, challenging a provision of the state’s name-change law that prevents Pennsylvanians convicted of certain...
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