LGBTQ

Hyatt Centric Pride Month

Hyatt Centric Hotel to celebrate Pride Month with artist reception, craft market

Runner treks 370 miles across Pennsylvania to raise money for LGBTQ+ youth mental health

Trevor Project Runner

New Jersey will seek changes to transgender inmate policy

Sofitel in Rittenhouse to host drag tea series benefiting LGBTQ community center

Sofitel Pride

This year's 'reimagined' Pride March to mark 50th anniversary of first Philly Pride day

PHL Pride

Pennsylvania House approves bill that would ban transgender athletes from playing women's sports

Pennsylvania transgender bill

Gov. Murphy's comments reignite controversy over New Jersey's sex education standards

NJ Education

Addiction recovery program that serves trans and gender non-conforming people opens center in West Philly

Morris Home

Pennsylvania schools have banned books more often than every state but Texas since last summer

Pennsylvania Book Bans

Pennsylvania bill would ban transgender athletes from playing women's sports, but Gov. Wolf vows to veto it

PA Transgender Sports Ban

Dr. Rachel Levine named as one of USA Today's Women of the Year

Conversion therapy increases LGBTQ people's risk of depression, suicide, study finds

Conversion Therapy LGBTQ

Transgender athletes deserve 'same respect,' Penn swimmer Lia Thomas tells Sports Illustrated

LGBTQ youth with eating disorders have increased risk of suicide, study finds

LGBTQ Study Trevor Project

Disney's first openly LGBTQ lead characters based on book by West Chester author

Brian Zepka Novel

Penn swimmer Lia Thomas sets six records at Ivy League Championships

Transgender Penn swimmer Lia Thomas cleared by NCAA ruling to compete in next month's championships

Lia Thomas Penn swimmer

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has unfair advantage, 16 Penn teammates write in unsigned letter

Penn Transgender Swimmer

Pennslvania lawmakers seek to modernize 'antiquated' system for name-changes

LGBTQ Equality Caucus Name Change

LGBTQ-owned, ice cream shop embraces Philly roots, rebrands

igloo ice cream south street

New Jersey lawmakers vote to codify right to same-sex marriage

New Jersey Same-sex Marriage

Hormone therapy linked to lower suicide risk for transgender youth, study finds

Philly school district will allow students to identify as nonbinary on school forms

School District of Philadelphia nonbinary students

Franky Bradley's to host Holiday Cabaret Fundraiser to benefit LGBTQ youth

Franky Bradley's Cabaret Show

New activist organization aims to reimagine Philly pride, plans march for June

Philly Pride Collective

'Love and Grit' campaign to celebrate local artists, minority-owned businesses in Philly

Love and Grit Storefronts Project Philly

Indiana congressman doubles down on transphobic tweet about Rachel Levine

Rachel Levine sworn in as nation's first openly transgender four-star admiral

Mural Arts Philadelphia dedicates first mural celebrating transgender community

Mural Arts Month Philadelphia

Manayunk's 'Out & About' pride event honors National Coming Out Day

Manayunk Pride

Penn Medicine to offer childbirth class geared toward LGBTQ+ families

Penn Medicine LGBTQ+ birthing class

Pride festival to take place outdoors this weekend in Lehigh Valley

Lehigh Valley Pride

New Jersey man charged in fatal shooting of transgender woman, LGBTQ advocate

Shai Vanderpump

DaBaby claims not to know who Questlove is after drummer slams rapper for homophobic remarks

Philly man sentenced to at least 25 years in prison for 2019 murder of transgender woman

Michelle Tameka Washington murder

New Jersey's trans inmates to be housed by gender identity, not assigned sex

NJ prisons trans lawsuit

Eastern Regional High School valedictorian's mic cut during graduation speech about queer identity

Bryce Dershem Speech

Supreme Court sides with Catholic agency barred by Philly for denying same-sex foster couples

Scotus Philly Catholic

Family-Friendly

Franklin Institute hosting family-friendly Pride Day later this month

Franklin Institute family-friendly Pride Day

Local activists demand vice principal be fired after transphobic incident at N.J. restaurant

Transphobic incident N.J.

Revamped Philly Pride moved to Labor Day weekend

Philly Pride

Transphobic incident at N.J. restaurant results in school district's investigation of vice principal's involvement

Transphobic Incident Galloway

At Dr. Rachel Levine's Senate hearing, Rand Paul equates gender reassignment surgery to 'genital mutilation'

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