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Members of the Eastern Lancaster County school board voted on a new student privacy policy on April 15, 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Keystone Crossroads
Education
PA Post

Transgender bathroom, locker room use: The Pa. debate, explained

More than 200 people showed up to the latest school board meeting on Monday night as the board passed a “biological sex” policy for bathrooms and locker room use.

6 years ago

More than 200 people showed up for an Eastern Lancaster County school board meeting on April 15, 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Education
PA Post

Central Pa. school board passes ‘biological sex’ policy for bathrooms, locker rooms

'The minute we vote on this, we open ourselves up to a lawsuit,' one school board member said.

6 years ago

The 2014 S.12th Street site of the former Camac Bath. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Should a former Philly bathhouse gain landmark status because of its place in LGBTQ history?

Back when homosexuality was illegal in Philadelphia, the Camac Baths offered a safe place for queer subculture to exist.

6 years ago

An entrance to Garden Spot High School is seen on March 14, 2019. (Ed Mahon/PA Post)
Education
PA Post

Pa. school may remodel locker rooms over transgender student access

The moves come after protests over how the Eastern Lancaster County School District is providing locker room and bathroom access for a transgender student.

6 years ago

The Rev. Dr. Karyn Wiseman, a former United Methodist pastor (right), and her wife, Cindy Clawson. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Community

A House of God divided: Why this lesbian minister left the United Methodist Church

Rev. Karyn Wiseman has been at the center of the United Methodist Church's conflict over same sex-marriage and LGBTQ clergy her entire life. Why is the church so fractured?

Air Date: March 12, 2019

Listen 15:52
Jussie Smollett leaves George N Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Chicago last month. A grand jury has indicted the
Courts & Law

Actor Smollett indicted on 16 counts stemming from reported attack

The actor, who is black and gay, told police in late January that he was attacked because of his sexuality by two men in downtown Chicago who wrapped a rope around his neck.

6 years ago

Ariel Versace fans Andie Boberick (left) and Nicole Smyth (right) celebrate their idol's debut on the 11th season of RuPaul's Drag Race during a watch party at Vera Bar & Grill in Cherry Hill.
Arts & Entertainment

South Jersey fans turn out for ‘hometown hero’ Ariel Versace’s debut in ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’

RuPaul’s Drag Race is in its 11th season and for the first time a drag queen from South Jersey has made the program.

6 years ago

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Ed Rowe, (left), Rebecca Wilson, Robin Hager and Jill Zundel, react to the defeat of a proposal that would allow LGBT clergy and same-sex marriage within the United Methodist Church at the denomination’s 2019 Special Session of the General Conference in St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. (Sid Hastings/AP Photo)
Community

United Methodist Church delegates reject recognizing same-sex marriage

Delegates at a crucial conference voted Tuesday to strengthen the faith's divisive bans on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.

6 years ago

In this 2014 photo, people march in the annual Pride Day Parade in Philadelphia.
(Joseph Kaczmarek/AP Photo)
Courts & Law
PA Post

Is 2019 the year Pa. gives LGBTQ+ people discrimination protection?

Pennsylvania's Human Relations Act grants certain groups of people extra legal protection against discrimination. One group it misses? LGBTQ+ people.

6 years ago

The Why
Arts & Entertainment

Staying power: What a photographer’s retrospective says about the AIDS crisis

At 70, photographer David Lebe is having his first retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He didn't think he'd live to see it.

Air Date: February 18, 2019

Listen 11:56
David Lebe's
Arts & Entertainment

Life, then death. Then life again. 50 years of pictures by David Lebe

The Philadelphia Museum of Art has the first major retrospective of David Lebe’s experimental photography, tracing his life as a gay man for a half-century.

6 years ago

Listen 2:16
A supporter of LGBT rights holds up an 'equality flag' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, during an event held by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass. in response to President Donald Trump's declaration that he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military 'in any capacity,' citing 'tremendous medical costs and disruption.' (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

LGBTQ rights group calls transgender troop ban ‘distressing,’ but still holds out hope

A Supreme Court ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration's restrictions on transgender troops to go forward. But equality activists say the case is far from over.

6 years ago

A supporter of LGBT rights holds up an 'equality flag' on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017, during an event held by Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass. in response to President Donald Trump's declaration that he wants transgender people barred from serving in the U.S. military 'in any capacity,' citing 'tremendous medical costs and disruption.' (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

High court lets military implement transgender restrictions

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender people while court challenges continue.

6 years ago

Feminista Jones and Brittney Cooper (courtesy of the authors)
Radio Times
Community

Black feminism

Guests: Brittney Cooper, Feminista Jones We talk about black feminism and what makes it distinct from white femin ...

Air Date: January 16, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Paul Frame (left) and his husband Jose
Courts & Law

For Chesco man arrested in immigration interview, an uncertain future remains

Jose "Ivan" Noe Nuñez Martinez and his husband have been savoring what can feel like borrowed time, after he was arrested in Philadelphia last year.

6 years ago

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