State agency continuing to consider LGBT guidance
Civil-rights advocates continue to urge the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission to enact guidance that would allow anti-LGBT bias complaints to be investigated as sex-discrimination...
IBA launches diversity, inclusion series with Latinx event
Latinx business professionals will be brought to the forefront at the first in a series of diversity and inclusion events from the region’s LGBT...
Lehigh Valley partnership moving ahead
The merger between Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center and Pride of the Greater Lehigh Valley is now complete, the organizations announced last week. ...
Bebashi to host 32nd-annual gala
A local HIV/AIDS services organization next week will host its annual gala. Bebashi-Transition to Hope’s Dec. 8 event will celebrate the...
Woodbury officials to repeal anti-cross-dressing law
Woodbury, N.J., officials are vowing to repeal an obscure anti-cross-dressing law on the books that recently was brought to their attention. Although the law...
LGBT-friendly Trenton neighborhood to host Holiday House Tour
Gregory Rollins moved to Mill Hill, a neighborhood of Trenton, N.J., with his partner in August. The out community member noted the differences between...
State lawmakers pass clean CHIP bill but some are ‘raging’
In a unanimous vote this week, the state House of Representatives passed a funding-renewal bill for the state's Children's Health Insurance Program that doesn't...
Youth residences to be named for late local leader
Ground will be broken next month on a pioneering youth residence, which will be named for one of the community’s own pioneers. ...
District Attorney launches hotline to report hate crimes
Philadelphia citizens will be able to report hate crimes via a new hotline. District Attorney Kelley B. Hodge announced the launch of hotline at...
N.J. urges dismissal of trans birth-certificate case
New Jersey officials continue to urge a federal judge to dismiss the case of a trans woman who seeks a gender-accurate birth certificate without...
D.A.’s Office finds ‘destroyed’ Morris record
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office last month said it located a dispatch record associated with the Nizah Morris incident that the office previously...
PGN editor Jen Colletta to step down
“Fantastic.” “Delightful.” “A force of nature.” These are among the words the PGN staff used to describe editor Jen Colletta, who,...
Jason Collins to speak at AARP event
The Pennsylvania chapters of AARP and SAGE next week will host a community conversation on cultural competency and its impact on the LGBT community....
December hearing set in Amtrak case
A December hearing has been scheduled in the criminal case against Brandon W. Bostian, the Amtrak engineer involved in a fatal train derailment in...
HIV criminalization to be explored at community panel
According to Trevor Hoppe, assistant professor of sociology at the University at Albany, SUNY, “criminalization is never the appropriate response to infectious disease.” ...
Pet Issue 2017
Couldn't we all use some puppy and kitten pictures to help us get through this crazy world? Well, feast your eyes on our pawsitively purrfect...
Sen. Casey calls on feds to prioritize LGBT youth
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, along with 20 of his colleagues, last week urged two federal departments to ensure programs designed to serve homeless...
Civil suit against gay bashers settled
The victims of a high-profile 2014 gay-bashing incident this week settled their civil suit against the three defendants. Zachary Hesse and...
Several new Philly companies get top HRC rating
Four Philadelphia-headquartered companies received a perfect 100 score for the first time this week on Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. ...
Man seeks damages in Gayborhood assault
Samuel Sierra, a gay man assaulted in the Gayborhood almost three years ago, is seeking financial remuneration from his alleged assailants. ...
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