
LGBTQ
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
`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 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