Leeway LGBT grantees focus on intersectionality
The Leeway Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting women and trans artists, awarded 26 Art and Change Grants to individuals promoting social change through...
Colours director Robert Burns dead at 36
Local LGBT leader Robert Burns, executive director of The Colours Organization Inc. , died last week. He was 36. The cause of...
30 years ago in PGN
Suburban trans teacher reinstated A judge reinstated a transgender art teacher from Media, Delaware County, who had been fired after undergoing a sex-change...
FUN, FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP
A cookout June 6 in Fairmount Park, organized by Philadelphia FIGHT to recognize the start of the group’s AIDS Education Month, drew supporters such...
Ain’t she a woman: Laverne Cox on intersectional feminism
Transgender actress Laverne Cox remembered sitting in a therapist’s office in Alabama when she was around 8 years old. The therapist asked if she...
N.J. college hosts free series on sex
A New Jersey community college will host a lecture series later this month exploring gender, sexuality and biological sex. “Sex, Gender...
Out bar owners purchase Uncles
The co-owners of Tavern on Camac recently purchased another longtime Gayborhood locale. Stephen Carlino and Dennis Fee signed a sale agreement...
DA Krasner challenges subpoena in Morris case
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner is challenging PGN’s subpoena to appear at an upcoming court hearing regarding the paper’s request for additional records in...
Gayborhood Crime Watch
The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Feb. 28...
Binational couple wants Obama’s help in returning to U.S.
President Barack Obama’s message of hope resonates strongly with Kindall Goble and Phil Healing. The two men recently had to move...
CURTAINS UP
Brittany Lynn (second from left) and her Drag Mafia, along with the Liberty City Kings Drag and Burlesque, got the crowd revved up at...
National LGBT group holds Philly event
The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force will be in town next week to deliver an overview of federal, state and local LGBT progress....
Activist Kay Lahusen celebrates 90th Birthday
If you’ve seen photographs of the 1965-69 Independence Hall Demonstrations, where gay men and lesbians marched demanding equality, chances are that picture was taken...
Lib City endorses 10 candidates
When two women, both doctors in their 40s, wanted to get married in Montgomery County in the summer of 2013, they contacted the register...
Philly’s first out trans police officer buried as a man
Maria Gonzalez spent the last 15 years of her life as a woman. Her dying wish was to be buried in a pretty dress...
Judge: Security fence for LGBT household can remain
David Ruth and Keith Davis have renewed hope they’ll be able to stay in their Chester County home after a judge ruled this week...
CHOP cares for trans and nonbinary children through gender and sexuality...
Even just a decade ago, parents of trans or nonbinary children did not have many options in terms of finding gender affirming care, whether...
Musical makeover on tap at New Hope’s The Raven
The Raven, the iconic LGBT club and restaurant in New Hope, was recently bought by a new owner — who plans to ramp up...
PGN subpoenas DA Krasner in Nizah Morris case
Last week, attorneys for PGN subpoenaed District Attorney Larry Krasner to testify at an upcoming court hearing regarding the paper’s request for additional records...
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