Music festival to raise funds for Morris Home, other LGBT charities
Get Better Fest 5 hits Chestnut Street’s First Unitarian Church this Saturday for an all-ages show featuring Empath, Mannequin Pussy, Big Nothing and more...
Philly Black Pride wraps up after raising fuller rainbow flag
Philly Black Pride celebration inspired a fresh sense of empowerment, awareness and community participation during this year’s festivities with PBP’s first parade and rally...
Michael Petty, a 42-year love story
Mike Petty, husband of Philadelphia Gay News longtime office manager Don Pignolet, died April 26 from complications due to open-heart surgery. He was 73...
CEO who managed $13.5 billion in assets for Milton Hershey School...
Eric Henry, who served as CEO for the Hershey Trust Company for the past six years, has resigned to pursue “other professional opportunities.” Henry...
Local drag performer assaulted
Aloe Vera, a local drag performer, sustained a broken jaw during an assault in South Philadelphia this week. Vera, whose legal...
Minority, LGBT media demand Inquirer sensitivity training
The city’s minority and multicultural publications, including PGN, united this week in calling for the Philadelphia Inquirer to have sensitivity training for their staff....
Ghosha D’Aguanno
On an early Sunday evening, with the sun still shining brightly outside her door, a small crowd gathers around mixologist Ashley Coleman’s bar at...
Stephen Wade Elkins, an LGBT pioneer in Rehoboth Beach
Stephen Wade Elkins, who spent a quarter-century working to make Rehoboth Beach, Del. a more open and positive place, died March 15 from lymphoma....
Meet 6 ‘heroes’ moving the LGBT community forward
The Delaware Valley Legacy Fund’s Heroes Awards is honoring seven individuals, organizations and companies for exceptional work on behalf of the Philadelphia-area LGBTQ community....
Philly Pride grand-marshal list includes first couple
Where there’s a parade, there’s usually a big float carrying a grand marshal. Philly Pride Presents names several grand marshals each year. In fact,...
Delaware police investigate alleged hate crime
Newark police this week are investigating a suspected hate crime against a gay man while he was leaving a fraternity party near the University...
Will PPD ever implement commission’s recommendations?
Five years after the city’s Police Advisory Commission issued a series of recommendations to the Philadelphia Police Department arising from the Nizah Morris homicide,...
Judge orders Social Security to recognize PA same-sex common-law marriages
In a sharply worded ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Berle M. Schiller ordered the Social Security Administration to recognize same-sex common-law marriages in...
Philadelphians join scientist in search for HIV cure
Dr. Luis Montaner did not set out to debunk the work of some top European HIV researchers who claimed they had found a way...
West Chester high-schooler wants to change sexual education
Coach Carr from the movie “Mean Girls” stands in front of a chalkboard with the word “Abstinence” bolded and circled at the top. He...
Seniors meet at speed-friending event
Nearly 50 seniors filled the banquet room of the William Way LGBT Community Center Sunday for a speed-friending event designed to expand the networks...
Advocate seeks support from city agency in Morris case
The city’s Police Advisory Commission this week agreed to consider passing a resolution urging the release of city records relating to the Nizah Morris...
Two more PA towns pass ordinances to ensure LGBT equality
Plymouth Township and Bridgeport Borough recently took steps to ensure civil-rights protections for their LGBT residents, visitors and workers. On April 9, the Democratic-controlled...
Philly Black Pride welcomes its 19th year
The 19th annual Philly Black Pride Celebration takes place April 25-29, kicking off with a march and rally from the Aloft Hotel and ending...
Republican gubernatorial candidate trashes trans community
Proposed legislation to extend antidiscrimination protections to LGBT people in Pennsylvania is becoming a campaign issue in the Republican primary for governor. ...
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