Pride float honoring Stonewall activists commemorates 50 years
A 34-foot-long float outfitted in a rainbow of thousands of flowers and more than a million golden fabric eyelashes will carry five Stonewall-era LGBTQ...
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...
Local orgs present at second-annual LGBTQ State of the Union
Philadelphia’s second-annual LGBTQ State of the Union drew hundreds of activists, nonprofit leaders, community members and allies to the Kimmel Center this week. ...
State reps host Fairness Act Forum
Showing up to work late, regularly taking hour-long lunches or not completing your daily tasks could get you fired. So could...
Media Trail – 5/31/19
University ends United Methodist affiliation over LGBT bans A university in Ohio has ended its affiliation with the United Methodist Church over the denomination’s...
International News – 5/31/19
Kenyan author, LGBT activist Binyavanga Wainaina dies at 48 A colleague and friend of Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina says he has died at age...
Road to Stonewall: Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Few figures in the Philadelphia LGBTQ community are more evocative of the words “road to Stonewall” than Kiyoshi Kuromiya. Born in the Heart...
Trump administration attacks transgender healthcare
The Trump Administration has announced that it is planning to roll back an important regulation in the Health Care Rights Law (HCRL), the critical...
Education conference to inform public on HIV, AIDS
At 114 cases per 100,000, Philadelphians are living with HIV at five times the national average rate. Currently, 19,199 residents are living with...
Casey consults LGBTQ seniors in Philly
Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) attended a roundtable discussion this week with a group of LGBTQ seniors at the John C. Anderson Apartments. The...
Mazzoni Center affirms commitment to transgender, gender nonconforming and nonbinary folks
Healthcare for transgender, gender nonconforming and nonbinary people is increasingly under threat from the Trump Administration. Philadelphia’s Mazzoni Center wants TGNCNB folks to...
Evidence of first LGBTQ activist found in Queen Village
Jonathan Katz’s participation in a gay liberation organization during the 1970s spurred his passion for researching LGBTQ history. A native of New York...
Supreme Court declines to hear Boyertown case
The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to hear an appeal filed by students at Boyertown Area Senior High School who object to transgender...
Local LGBTQ organizations join national lawsuit to protect medical rights
A national smattering of LGBTQ health centers and other medical organizations are taking the Trump administration’s “Denial of Care Rule” to bat in district...
Vigil commemorates Michelle ‘Tamika’ Washington, transwoman and activist
When Michelle “Tamika” Washington’s younger sister, Crystal Davis, was sad she couldn’t visit the aquarium as a kid, Washington brought her a stuffed white...
Media Trail – 5/24/19
Court: Adoption agency can’t reject same-sex couples A federal court says New York officials weren’t infringing on a Christian adoption agency’s religious freedom by...
International News – 5/24/19
Mexican Consulates to perform same-sex marriages Mexico’s foreign affairs secretary has instructed the country’s consulates throughout the world to allow all citizens — regardless...
Nun speaks out for Equality Act
Sr. Simone Campbell, a Catholic nun, says she disagrees with three high-ranking Catholic leaders who recently sent a letter to Congress in opposition...
Sims apologizes, ignites new outrage
After hundreds of anti-abortion activists held a rally against him outside the Planned Parenthood clinic at 11th and Locust Street on May 10, pressure...
Equality Act vote makes history
“I now commend the bill to the House and the House to history.” So ended the four-hour debate on the House floor on...
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