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Coming out as a lesbian at age 14 was a “horrible” experience for Liz Brown. The Fishtown resident’s parents discovered her journal detailing her...

The HIV Integrated Planning Council held its general meeting last week to discuss budgeting and present the annual epidemiology report. The...

 The Pennsylvania Bar Association awarded Philadelphia lawyer Lawrence L. Felzer with the David M. Rosenblum GLBT Public Policy Award in recognition of Felzer’s advocacy...

A jury this week delivered guilty verdicts in the sex-abuse cases against an Archdiocesan priest and a former teacher. After four...

After months of secrecy and strategic leaks from his campaign, former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden revealed his running mate August...

FRANCONIA, N. H. — Jeffry Burr and Neil Blair are just hours from their wedding, but there are no typical prenuptial jitters. After...

Twenty-seven years since its first charitable fund drive, Dining Out for Life, Philly’s largest foodie fundraiser, returns April 19 to raise cash for the...

DMV employee in privacy case suspended The San Francisco Chronicle reports the California Department of Motor Vehicles suspended a clerk who allegedly used...

The LGBT Elder Initiative will host a forum to tackle problems within the long-term-care system for older adults. LGBTEI will present Staying...

Police arrested a man this week who they allege had been impersonating a Roman Catholic priest and visiting with families of slain and injured...

  More than two years after fatally shooting a man in the face during a home-invasion robbery of a trans woman in West Philadelphia,...

A Pennsylvania lawmaker plans to reintroduce a bill that would ban discrimination against LGBT people across the state. The bill’s list of...

Actress and former talk-show personality Sherri Shepherd is asking Pennsylvania's top court to overturn a lower-court ruling that validated gestational-surrogacy contracts, which was a boon for many same-sex...

Smithson hearing set for next year William F. Smithson, a gay man convicted of murdering a coworker six years ago, is scheduled to be back...

Jeffrey S. Downs, a gay attorney, says antigay workplace bias and retaliation cost him a lucrative job offer, and he’s suing in state and...

Religion and spirituality can be topics loaded higher than a twice-baked potato — discussions best avoided at the dinner table along with politics, exes...

The bill that would extend federal hate-crimes protections to LGBT individuals went through a series of ups and downs in the U. S....

Philadelphia FIGHT is looking to get its name and mission out to the state’s elected leaders, an undertaking that will be headed by a...

About 3,000 people turned out for the third annual Latino Pride Festival June 5 in North Philadelphia. The event, organized by Brenda...

A federal court this week upheld a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey organization that has been at the...