Trans Equity Project to host activities for Transgender Awareness Week
A local program for trans and gender-variant individuals will host a week of activities in honor of Transgender Awareness Week. The...
‘It’s hard to say goodbye,’ says departing DVLF director
After five years as executive director of LGBT grantmaking organization DVLF, Samantha Giusti will step down from her role. The 31-year-old...
Man sues Voyeur Nightclub
A Juniata Park man is suing Voyeur Nightclub, claiming he sustained serious injuries inside the popular LGBT venue due to unsafe conditions. ...
‘Substantial progress’ made in settling Aetna case
Litigants in a federal class-action suit against Aetna Inc. for allegedly violating the HIV-privacy rights of about 12,000 customers have made “substantial progress” in...
PHL Diversity celebrates anniversary, LGBT inclusion
People who visited Philadelphia in January for the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change Conference may have noticed a large amount of rainbow flags...
Bridging the health-care gaps for trans patients
Dr. Anne Koch has done a little of everything. She helped found the postdoctoral program in endodontics at Harvard University and...
Pitt student wins scholarship to lead LGBT-competency training
Amy Kelley recently attended the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner in Washington, D.C., where she was in the presence of leaders such as Hillary...
Co-defendant sentenced in murder of Maya Young
A co-defendant in the murder of a local trans woman was sentenced Wednesday. Tiffany Floyd will serve eight-20 years in prison, plus 10 years...
AIDS Memorial Quilt heads to Northeast Philly for first time
The lives of those lost to HIV/AIDS will be honored in Northeast Philadelphia for the first time next week. Fourteen panels...
Election 2017 brings major Democratic, LGBT wins
Election Night 2017 had a decidedly different outcome than last year’s election. Democrats swept all major races across the country in...
Trans woman files suit against Pittsburgh jail
Trans woman Jules M. Williams, a former inmate of the Allegheny County Jail, filed suit this week against various jail officials, alleging abuse due...
Endorsements 2017
District Attorney Larry Krasner Controller Rebecca Rhynhart Pennsylvania Supreme Court Dwayne Woodruff Pennsylvania Superior Court Debra Kunselman Maria McLaughlin Geoffrey Moulton,...
PA bakers and restauranteurs back LGBT equality in SCOTUS case
Twenty Pennsylvania-based culinary industry leaders announced their opposition to anti-LGBT discrimination this week. A Human Rights Campaign-led amicus brief included more than 200 bakeries...
Election 2017
In advance of last spring’s primary election, PGN sat down with a number of local candidates to explore their views on a variety of...
Judge halts trans-military ban
President Donald Trump’s Twitter-originated ban on transgender military members suffered a major setback this week. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled...
Toomey-led Chechnya resolution passes Senate
A resolution condemning antigay violence in Chechnya, which was led in part by U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R) of Pennsylvania, was unanimously approved this...
AIDS Library to celebrate 30th anniversary
Thirty years ago, it was intensely difficult for people with HIV/AIDS to access information about the disease, recalled John Cunningham. “At...
Trans man’s police-abuse case cleared for jury trial
The New Jersey Supreme Court last month cleared the way for a jury trial for a trans man seeking damages after he alleged being...
International roller-derby tournament takes off in Philly
Like fast women and body-rocking hits? Then check out the 2017 International Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships, Nov. 3-5 at Temple University’s Liacouras...
Anniversary: Vince Bresciano and Daniel Mobbs
Daniel Mobbs and Vince Bresciano made a commitment to each other in 2003 before same-sex marriage became legal. They legally married two months after...
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