Project HOME fundraiser seeks support for LGBT youth residence
Project HOME will host a fundraiser for the last piece of private funding to build the Gloria Casarez Residence, one of the commonwealth’s only...
International News: November 27, 2019
LGBT travel index puts Sweden on top
Sweden has been named the most LGBT-friendly country in the world for travelers according to new research into...
Day in the Life of: a cryobank lab director, Michelle Ottey
While most of Michelle Ottey’s day is spent sitting behind a computer in her office, hers is about as far from the average desk...
City Council committee unanimously advances ‘inclusivity package’ of 3 LGBTQ bills
Philadelphia City Council’s Law and Government Committee held a public hearing Wednesday morning about “an inclusivity package” of three proposed bills that would expand protections...
Community mourns Edie Windsor, pioneer behind marriage equality
"If you're going to quote anything, quote this: There is no such thing as same-sex marriage. There is marriage in this country." ...
High court upholds Dawn Segal’s removal as a judge
In a 5-1 decision issued Nov. 22, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld a lower court's ruling that permanently bars Dawn A. Segal from holding...
Lost trans memoir discovered
Author Earl Lind, whose works shed light on the transgender experience in early 20th-century America, kept his true identity so deeply concealed that his...
International News – 7/12/19
Japan grants refugee status due to homophobia for first time The Japanese government granted refugee status to a foreigner in 2018 over fears of...
Queer-focused midwifery expands in West Philly
Ray Rachlin, certified professional midwife and owner of Refuge Midwifery, is celebrating the one year anniversary of her home-birth practice and its expansion. Refuge’s...
LGBT center to open at Community College of Philadelphia
At a two-day conference on LGBT issues this week at Community College of Philadelphia, school officials announced another forthcoming LGBT initiative: its first LGBT...
Philly welcomes annual Trans Wellness Conference
Understanding the legal rights of trans people who are traveling internationally. Strategies for healing from top surgery or binding. Effective communication and self-care skills...
Local org documents Presbyterian LGBTQ history
When David Smith was a kid, his pastor asked him to read Psalm 139 in front of his congregation, inspiring Smith to become ordained...
Researchers: Trans men and women must be included in HIV studies
When Shante Miller began as a regional resource coordinator with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, she wanted to know how groups...
Out health commissioner steps down
After more than six years at the helm of the city’s health department, openly gay health commissioner Donald Schwarz is stepping down. ...
Philly hospital launches gender-surgery program
A local hospital recently became the first academic medical center in the Philadelphia region to launch a program dedicated to gender-affirmation surgeries. ...
‘The Big lie is just that, a big lie’: In Philly,...
By Nick Field, Stephen Caruso, and Marley Parish
Returning to the state that handed him the White House, President Joe Biden made a passionate plea Tuesday...
Obituary: Robert John “Bob” Burrowes, Jr., chef, square dancer and leather...
Robert J. “Bob” Burrowes, local chef, leather man and founding member of the Independence Squares, died Oct. 23 of kidney failure. He was 52....
Primary-winner Palmer wins national award, readies for November elections
The LGBT Bar Association announced that it will grant Tiffany Palmer the national Leading Practitioners Award at the Lavender Law Conference in Philadelphia. The conference,...
International News – 8/9/19
France ponders giving lesbians, single women access to IVF Single women and lesbians in France won’t have to go abroad to have children anymore...
DA increasing outreach to LGBT community
Kathryn Knott became something of a tipping point for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office and the city’s LGBT residents. The community...
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