Texas abortion ban has implications for Pennsylvania — and 2022
On May 19, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed a law that bans abortions after six weeks, before most people even know they are pregnant....
Sex education and social justice through fashion
Many sex education and social justice organizations exist in Philadelphia, but Prevention Meets Fashion (PMF) seems to be the only one that offers educational...
Human Rights Campaign fires President Alphonso David for “significant untruths”
Alphonso David has been fired as president of Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy group. The action came late Labor Day...
Get Out! LGBTQ travelers show how to travel safely this fall
Just when we thought it was safe to hit the road, we were walloped by the Delta variant, the latest plot twist in the...
HIV cases remain high among queer and trans people of color
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LGBTQ Paralympians win in Tokyo
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games are drawing to a close, but not before joining the Olympics as having the largest number of out LGBTQ...
New online tool aims to identify and address health inequities across...
by Cassie Miller
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Remember Them
Since this time last year, too many trans and nonbinary people in the U.S. have lost their lives due to hatred and ignorance. The...
International News: August 27, 2021
Desperate LGBT+ Afghans can't access money raised for them “due to Taliban control”
Queer Afghans living in the U.S. created a GoFundMe account to aid...
High turnout and enthusiasm for Lehigh Valley Pride
In the early afternoon of August 15, a line of over a thousand people stretched around the block outside the Jewish Community Center in...
Court allows lawsuit over Trump-era ACA rule
A federal court has permitted LGBTQ+ plaintiffs to continue pursuing claims in a lawsuit, Boston Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth (BAGLY) et al v. HHS...
Tax forms show Philly Pride Presents exhausted funds, had no assets
Tax forms for Philly Pride Presents, which PGN received from sources close to the organization, reveal an organization with exhausted funds and no assets...
Taliban takeover could mean more deaths of women and LGBTQ people...
The scenes out of Kabul are brutal and harrowing. They of course evoke the fall of Saigon. But also the fall of Srebrenica.
The Taliban...
New data shows LGBTQ adults face twice as much hunger as...
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HRC president, LGBTQ civil rights attorney implicated in Cuomo probe
Amid apologies, defense of his actions and even tears, New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned from office on Aug. 10, effective in two weeks....
NJ launches LGBTQ-centric education program for social and homeless service providers
New Jersey’s Department of Human Services (DHS) instituted a new LGBTQ-centric training program, ICARE, for state-funded social service agencies, homeless shelter providers and government...
LGBTQ athletes win record medal haul at Tokyo Olympics
It was an historic Olympics. And despite the ongoing threat of the coronavirus, the Tokyo games — postponed from 2020 — were an overwhelming...
The LGBTQ+ Generational Wealth Gap Is a Serious Issue. This Is...
It’s no secret that LGBTQ+ people face a range of financial challenges that heterosexual people simply don’t need to contend with. Less discussed are...
International News: Russian state TV derides and mocks openly LGBT athletes
Russia is known for virulent state-sponsored homophobia and transphobia. Russian officials and state-controlled media have depicted LGBT+ rights as a “Western attempt to subvert...
Robert A. Schoenberg, 1944-2021
Robert A. Schoenberg, 76, passed away on August 2, 2021 at KeystoneCare, a residential hospice in Wyndmoor, PA, after a courageous battle with cancer....
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