Tag: COVID-19
LGBTQ health orgs continue providing care as COVID-19 cases rise
Both Philadelphia FIGHT and Mazzoni Center continue to provide health services to existing patients with some modifications, as confirmed cases of the new coronavirus...
LGBTQ folks, COVID-19 and PGN
What a time to be in the business of news. When COVID-19 is researched years from now, it is the stories published today that...
Dr. Rachel Levine: ‘Stay calm, stay home, stay well’
Pennsylvanians have been looking to one local trans woman for support and comfort over the last month: Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine.
Throughout the...
GALAEI holds virtual sex-ed workshops during COVID-19 quarantine
As part of online initiatives to continue connecting with and educating the community during COVID-19 protocols, Philly’s LGBTQ+ Latinx social justice organization GALAEI is...
Gayborhood bars do their best in wake of COVID-19
Within just 30 hours, Tavern on Camac (TOC) and Ubar’s GoFundMe campaign to raise money for out-of-work staff met their goal of $5,000. This...
Local LGBTQ Democratic club hosts virtual COVID-19 info session with Penn...
In lieu of its March 25 endorsement meeting, the members of Liberty City LGBTQ Democratic Club held a virtual meeting in which a local...
COVID-19’s impact on LGBTQ participation in the 2020 U.S. Census
Continued measures to slow the spread of COVID-19 have altered life as we know it, including data collection measures and marketing initiatives surrounding the...
Leaders in trans community share guidelines and resources during pandemic
In continued efforts to combat the spread of the new coronavirus, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf mandated temporary closures of all non life-sustaining businesses, and...
Terrence McNally dies of COVID-19 complications
Terrence McNally, a prolific and successful playwright with a longstanding connection to Philadelphia, died on March 24, at 81. The cause was complications arising...
Mutual aid at an organizational level helps those most at-risk during...
Since early last week, Executive Director of SisTers PGH Ciora Thomas and her fellow board members have diligently combed through hundreds of applications for...
The emotional impact of social distancing
In my time as an artist and therapist, I’ve found that community is truly remarkable. There’s nothing more remarkable than the outpour of support...
Despite hardships, we will deliver your news
As you read this, I will have passed my 14th day in self-quarantine. Oh, I’m fine. But I am a senior and have asthma,...
FIGHT and Mazzoni provide services amid larger shutdowns
As the City of Philadelphia continues to impose restrictions to limit the spread of the new coronavirus, including Monday’s Stay at Home Order, public...
Lessons from COVID-19
More than anything, COVID-19 is exposing societal problems that legislators have not solved. In 2020, we still have a large homeless population that is...
LGBTQ community responds to COVID-19 with mutual aid
Since the beginning of COVID-19-induced quarantine and social distancing, Philadelphia’s LGBTQ community has organized via underground and online channels to meet the most basic...
Keeping sane in our new reality
I had originally written this column as a cutesy ode to all of the affordable ways Ashlee and I have found to occupy Jackson—the...
AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania offers remote services during COVID-19 shutdowns
Like many other integral businesses in Philadelphia and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the nonprofit public interest law firm AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania (ALPP)...
Six productive ways to spend your time during coronavirus isolation
As we all hunker down to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, here are a few ways you can cope and stay productive...
Coronavirus’ impact on qFLIX, queer filmmakers
The postponement of qFLIX because of COVID-19 is disappointing for the organizers and moviegoers but also for the talent that was planning to attend....
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