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Jane Shull, longtime CEO of FIGHT, is retiring but doesn’t intend to slow down

“I was raised in a family of Jewish liberals who were activists, right?” shrugged Jane Shull when asked what inspired her to pursue a...

Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference registration opens May 6

For the first time since 2019, a local free conference centered on health and wellness for transgender and gender-nonconforming people will return for in-person...

A look back at Philly’s Crown Jewel, Sapphira Cristál

Warning: This story contains spoilers for the season 16 finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” A day before the season 16 finale of “RuPaul’s Drag Race”...

UPenn hosts free online panel for LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion

The Eidos LGBTQ+ Health Initiative by University of Pennsylvania is hosting a free online panel on April 23 at 11a.m, on the integration of...

Palestinian performer previously barred from Tabu speaks about Gaza, performing and what’s next

Conversations about Gayborhood censorship and freedom of expression dominated the last few weeks of 2023 after Leila Delicious — a queer, Palestinian artist —...

Philly Black Pride: Honoring the past by uplifting future generations

Philly Black Pride will return to celebrate its 25th anniversary with four days of events to begin on April 25. This year, organizers will...

Arts & Culture

Eric Hatcher: Styling!

"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art." — Oscar Wilde. This week’s Portrait Eric Hatcher encompasses both those...

‘Boys on Film 24: Happy Endings’: Good things come in small packages

The latest edition of the gay short film series, “Boys on Film 24: Happy Endings,” is now available on demand. The program collects nearly...

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Regional

Author James T. Sears talks ‘Queering Rehoboth Beach’

“I think the assumption that people have is that Rehoboth is this outlying mecca of queer life and that Rehoboth, like the name suggests,...

National

Reporter’s Notebook: Police, Campus Protests and Questions of Free Speech

The scene in New York at Columbia University April 30 was hard to watch and harder to fathom. On April 29, Columbia University President...

Court rules transgender care policies as ‘obviously discriminatory’

A federal appeals court has ruled that state health care plans and any government-funded insurance programs may not exclude coverage for gender-affirming medical care....

Analysis: Biden and Trump win PA primary, but who’s best for PA?

There were no surprises at the top of the Pennsylvania ballot Tuesday. In the closed primary, President Joe Biden and Republican candidate Donald Trump...

LIFE DURING COVID-19

As Long Covid cases rise, so do costs

The U.S. continues to reassess Covid-19 and address it as a long-term problem rather than a public health crisis, even suspending the free testing...

Long COVID: The Other Pandemic — Part 3

In the summer of 2020, Tariq Scott was in the streets of Philadelphia protesting the killing of George Floyd. The winter and spring had...

Long COVID: The Other Pandemic – Part 2

This the second installment of a three part series. Since the end of 2019, when COVID-19 was first designated a pandemic by the World Health...

Long COVID: The Other Pandemic

This is part one of a three part series. Masks came off a few weeks ago: a harbinger of Spring. On February 25, the Centers...

CDC says vaccinated should wear masks indoors in areas with high infection rates

Federal health officials urged Americans in areas of the country with the highest surges in COVID-19 infections to once again wear masks when they...

Game Plan: Philly’s Queer Sports Teams Look Forward To Summer

Last year, PGN spoke with our local LGBTQ sports teams to see what their seasons would look like during the COVID shutdown. The answer...

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Sondheim, Streisand and more from ‘The Gilded Age’ star Claybourne Elder

Claybourne Elder has been called by some critics “the sexiest gay ex-Mormon daddy onstage.” While it’s objectively true that he is in fact gay,...

Editorial

Sapphira Cristál is OUR winner

Fans of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” — and even Philadelphians outside of the fandom — were shocked on April 19 when Philly’s Crown Jewel, Sapphira...

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Anita Cornwell, groundbreaking Black lesbian writer, dies at 99

Anita Cornwell passed away May 27 in Germantown “surrounded by the compassionate women who cared for her,” her literary executor, Briona Simone Jones, said....

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2019: LGBTQ YEAR IN REVIEW

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