News Briefing: May 19-25, 2017
BBWC to fundraiser at WWCC The Black & Brown Workers Collective is organizing a bake sale next week to raise funds for its social-justice...
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Freedom Pages and Tabu organized a “Wear Purple Party” to memorialize at least six LGBT teen suicides from the past month and raise money...
LGBT-rights bill gets another shot
A new poll out this week found that a vast majority of Pennsylvania voters support extending the state’s nondiscrimination law to the LGBT community...
Mazzoni celebrates anniversary with AC concert
Philadelphia is invited to celebrate a legendary LGBT health facility along with a legendary gay icon later this month at the Jersey Shore. ...
Gay Temple web series now an Emmy nominee
What began as a junior-year film project for Temple University student Michael Busza has now become an Emmy-nominated hit. The student-produced web...
Judge blocks Tennessee restroom-sign law
On July 9, a federal judge blocked a Tennessee law that would require businesses and other public venues to post a warning sign if...
Philly companies rank high in LGBT equality index
14 Philadelphia-based companies scored a perfect rating in Human Rights Campaign’s annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI). The index rates companies on criteria including nondiscrimination...
Landmark progressive summit held
About 600 activists, community leaders, politicos and everyday residents converged in Harrisburg late last month for the first-ever Pennsylvania Progressive Summit — nearly triple...
Obama to sign exec. order
President Obama announced this week that he will sign an executive order banning LGBT workplace discrimination by federal contractors. An official...
EQPA gets new board prez, launches PAC
After two years at the helm of the board of Equality Pennsylvania, president Brian Sims has stepped down, and the agency has brought on...
Trans woman nominated to top PA post
Just a few days before his inauguration, Gov. Tom Wolf announced the nomination of a transgender woman to his top level of administrators. ...
Longtime couple turns adoption into marriage
A longtime local couple recently went from adopted father and son to legally wedded husband and husband. It may sound strange,...
Schwarzenegger: Let same-sex weddings resume now
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), who twice vetoed legislation that would have legalized same-sex marriage, has surprised gay-rights supporters by urging a...
NJ agency backs lesbian couple in discrimination case
A government agency in New Jersey determined last week that a religious group violated the state’s nondiscrimination law when it barred a lesbian couple...
HIV/AIDS funding remains level in city, state budgets
In his budget announcement last week, Mayor Nutter unveiled a $3. 45-billion proposal that included slight cuts for city health services but for...
Uber driver banned after ejecting lesbian couple from car
An Uber driver has been banned from the app after a lesbian couple videotaped the driver refusing to drive the couple to their destination....
Philly vet happy to have open trans military service
Nick Greiner, a Center City veteran, first enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in 1995. He served during “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the law...
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Milano’s killer presses quest for freedom Frank R. Chester, who participated in the grisly slashing death of gay artist Anthony Milano...
Free program trains LGBTQ people for nonprofit boards
The Office of LGBT affairs launched an inaugural leadership-training program aimed at developing the diversity of local LGBTQ nonprofit boards. Applications are now being...
Court issues unfavorable name-change ruling for trans litigants
Last month, Commonwealth Court rejected a petition from three trans women to strike down a Pennsylvania law prohibiting residents with serious felonies from changing...
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