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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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LGBTQ

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.

6 years ago

Anne Ishii holds up a poster at an 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.

6 years 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.

6 years 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.

6 years 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."

6 years 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.

6 years 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.

6 years 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.

6 years 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.

6 years 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.

6 years 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.

6 years ago

The Gloria Casarez mural as it was being erased
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.

6 years ago

The Gloria Casarez mural by Michelle Angela Ortiz at 12th and Locust streets was painted over on Wednesday, December 23, 2020. (Photo by Steve Weinik/Mural Arts)
Community

Iconic mural of Latina LGBTQ activist painted over

In Philly’s Gayborhood, the face of Latina LGBTQ activist Gloria Casarez has been painted over with white.

6 years ago

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In this Oct. 8, 2019, file photo, protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington where the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the first case of LGBT rights since the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.  (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & Policy

Biden plans swift moves to protect and advance LGBTQ rights

In many cases, the measures would reverse executive actions by President Donald Trump, whose administration took numerous steps to weaken protections for transgender people.

6 years ago

Democrat Sarah McBride is the first transgender person to be elected to Delaware's General Assembly. (Courtesy of Friends of Sarah McBride)
The Why
Politics & Policy

Delaware’s new class of LGBTQ representatives

The DE legislature will swear in 3 members of the LGBTQ community. Queer Delawareans say that representation is important for protecting increasingly-threatened rights.

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