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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., center, speaks about the Congress Equality Act, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, with from left, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sen. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Pelosi, Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Politics & Policy

House votes to expand legal safeguards for LGBTQ people

The Equality Act amends existing civil rights law to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identification as protected characteristics.

1 week ago

Mr. Potato Head Celebrates a Birthday in Lima, Peru. (Wikimedia Commons)
Community

A mister no more: Mr. Potato Head goes gender neutral

Hasbro, the company that makes the potato-shaped plastic toy, is giving the spud a gender neutral new name: Potato Head. The change will appear on boxes this year.

1 week ago

A bartender pours a drink at the Toasted Walnut
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Philly’s only lesbian bar is shutting down, adding to a somber nationwide trend

Bars catering to queer women, like the Gayborhood’s Toasted Walnut, are disappearing across the U.S.

2 weeks ago

The exterior of the Gloria Casarez Residence
Politics & Policy

Philly advocates praise HUD investigations into LGBTQ discrimination

The new rule is a reaction to former HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s move to withdraw certain protections.

3 weeks ago

Anne Ishii, executive director of the Asian Arts Initiative, holds a poster designed by Philadelphia poet and musician, Moor Mother, for the Unity at the Initiative exhibit
Arts & Entertainment

Skate park installation and printmaking exhibition bring queer and trans artists together

The Asian Arts Initiative now has a ‘skate room,’ wheat-pasted with original posters by Philadelphia artists of color who identify as queer and/or trans.

3 weeks ago

Gilbert Lewis portrait painting of model Anthony Rullo
Arts & Entertainment

Gilbert Lewis remembered as artist, mentor to Philly’s gay ’80s

“Only Tony” features 25 portraits that Gilbert Lewis painted of a single model during the height of the AIDS epidemic.

4 weeks ago

President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater
NPR
Politics & Policy

Biden repeals Trump-era ban on transgender troops

Former President Donald Trump had first ordered a ban on transgender troops in 2017, and President Biden had long promised to repeal the order.

1 month ago

Pennsylvania state Rep. Jeff Pyle, R-Armstrong, speaks at an annual gun rights rally in the state Capitol Rotunda on Monday, April 30, 2018 in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy)
Politics & Policy

Pa. legislator mocks Dr. Rachel Levine on Facebook, apologizes

“I owe an apology and I offer it humbly," Pyle said, not specifically apologizing to Levine or other transgender people, but later repeating an apology “to all affected."

1 month ago

Artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Arts & Entertainment

Queer and Black at the laundromat: Jonathan Lyndon Chase at the Fabric Workshop and Museum

Big Wash explores the laundromat as a site of queer domestic life where the private meets the public, and the idea of cleaning as both ritual and meditation.

1 month ago

Pa. Health Secretary Rachel Levine gained renown as the face of the commonwealth's COVID response. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health
Billy Penn

Philly trans leaders burst with pride over Biden’s historic pick of Pa.’s Rachel Levine

The Pa. health secretary would be the first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

2 months ago

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine addresses the press in Harrisburg.
Politics & Policy

Biden picks Pa.’s Dr. Levine to be assistant health secretary

Levine would the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

2 months ago

Artist Tish Urquhart put up her Casarez tribute Wednesday morning. Thursday evening, it was gone. LEFT: KIMBERLY PAYNTER / WHYY; RIGHT: TISH URQUHART
Community
Billy Penn

Someone tore down the new tribute to LGBTQ activist Gloria Casarez within 48 hours

The building owner said they expected the artwork to remain up until at least the end of the month.

2 months ago

Tiff Urquhart and her new wheatpaste of late LGBTQ activist Gloria Casarez
Community
Billy Penn

Down the block from the whitewashed mural, a colorful new Gloria Casarez tribute

Queer artist Tiff Urquhart eased her pain by installing a wheatpaste of the LGBTQ icon.

2 months ago

Antentor Hinton Jr. inside a science lab
Science

`We have been here, we have always been here’: Town hall event to celebrate Black, queer scientists

In panels running Tuesday through Friday, Black queer scientists will talk about their experiences, research, and advice for those coming after them.

2 months ago

The Gloria Casarez mural as it was being erased on Dec.  (23TWITTER / @ITSONLYZACH)
Community
Billy Penn

The unexpectedly short history of the Gloria Casarez mural, whitewashed from the Gayborhood

Developers have apologized for painting over the image of the groundbreaking LGBTQ activist.

2 months ago

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