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Philly Pride dominates NYC’s Penn Station
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Out Republican wants more progressive party
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Community-building, networking among aims of new Drexel LGBT alumni group
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International News – July 9, 2021
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LGBT+ people flooded the streets of Barcelona, Madrid and other Spanish cities on the night of July 5 to protest the hate crime killing...
International News – 5/17/19
New wave of Chechnya gay abuse Gay men are being detained and tortured in the Russian republic of Chechnya reported Human Rights Watch. ...
Gay basher gets reduced prison sentence
A federal judge has accepted a plea-bargained sentence for a brutal gay basher that’s three years less than federal guidelines recommend. ...
First openly gay MontCo judge inaugurated
Although active in politics since high school, Daniel J. Clifford used to think he would get relegated to the sidelines because he is gay....
Transwoman arrested for murdering boyfriend
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Brazil prosecutor orders indictments in Rio gay councilwoman murder case Brazil’s top public prosecutor ordered five people indicted over sabotaging efforts surrounding an investigation...
‘Radical hospitality’ in action at Broad Street Ministry
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University of Pennsylvania launches national initiative to document trans, nonbinary and...
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Student sues after using locker room with trans student
A high school student is suing a Pennsylvania school district after claiming his privacy was violated by a transgender male student using the boys'...
Free Hep-A vaccines now available at LGBT community center
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12th Air changes hands
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Civil suit against gay bashers settled
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Same-sex marriage dating to 1990 recognized by court
John D. Roberts will receive the Social Security benefits of his late husband Bernard O. Wilkerson, after a ruling last month by a Philadelphia...
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