Nikki López returns to GALAEI as executive director
Nikki López, a former youth coordinator with GALAEI: A Queer [email protected] Social Justice Organization, will take the reins as the group’s executive director starting...
Black Pride back with new offerings
While Philadelphia Black Gay Pride is about to enter its 12th year, the weeklong event will celebrate a number of firsts this year. ...
News Briefing
Judge postpones decision on Tobits case A federal judge considering the case of Jennifer Tobits — a lesbian who’s seeking the death benefits...
Trans woman challenges GID exclusion
Trans woman Kate L. Blatt this week filed a legal challenge of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s exclusion of gender-identity disorder as a protected...
Howard Deck, pioneering and beloved union leader, 70
Howard Deck, a pioneering labor-union leader, died Feb. 15 of a heart attack. He was 70. Deck, a native of Reading, began...
Josephs off ballot for 182nd race against Sims
Babette Josephs' attempt to unseat Rep. Brian Sims, who ousted her two years ago, ended this week. A Commonwealth Court judge...
Voices of Pride celebrates milestone with new music, venue
Kirsten Schaney grew up in a tiny town in Western Pennsylvania where she felt it wasn’t OK to be gay. About a decade ago,...
Anniversary: John Schultz and Gary Hill
Last Sunday, Philly Pride Presents celebrated its 25th anniversary — and the following day, a local couple marked their own silver celebration. ...
Out lawyer announces race for city controller
An openly gay lawyer will run for the office of Philadelphia city controller next year. Michael Williams announced Dec. 5 at...
Looking back at trans progress one year after the murder of...
June 9 marks one year since Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, a beloved Philadelphia trans woman of color, was murdered. One year later, society has gone...
Family conference comes to the Gayborhood
LGBT family group Philadelphia Family Pride will host its fourth annual Family Matters Conference next weekend, this time right in the heart of the...
LGBT+ International News
Turkish government targets women, LGBT People
The Turkish government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is dismantling human rights protections and democratic norms in Turkey...
PA Bar Association backs marriage equality
Days before Pennsylvania adopted marriage equality, the leadership of the Pennsylvania Bar Association approved its first-ever resolution backing marriage equality. The...
Washington killer sentenced; new evidence in Fells case
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office (DAO) announced updates on the murders of trans women Michelle “Tameka” Washington and Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells at a July...
Pa. borough councilman blasted for transphobic Facebook post
LGBT advocates are blasting a borough councilmember in Trafford, Pa. for posting a transphobic Facebook comment about Pennsylvania Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine. Trafford...
Archdiocese puts 21 more priests on leave
Following a wide-ranging grand-jury report released last month on sexual abuse of children by priests, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia this week placed 21 additional...
Rapist of lesbian continues to seek freedom
Jeffrey J. Marsalis, a former Center City resident who raped a lesbian in 2005, continues his quest to be released from prison. ...
News Analysis: Biden and Buttigieg top donor lists for PA
In a primary that is increasingly being decided by donors, former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg...
HRC rates national, local companies on ‘equality’
National LGBT organization Human Rights Campaign released the results of its annual Corporate Equality Index last month, and several local organizations received top marks....
N.J. mayor resigns after gay-sex allegations
The mayor of Medford, N. J., who has been plagued by rumors that he hired a male prostitute, stepped down from his post...
TRENDING
RECENT ARTICLES
Allen Ginsberg was a political poet
Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated poet, counterculture icon, and out gay man, died 25 years ago, on April 5, 1997.
In a recent interview, the musician...
