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WEB4 days ago · Philadelphia Marathon makes changes for nonbinary inclusion — but activists aren’t celebrating yet. Lauren Rowello - August 28, 2024 12:15 pm. The Philadelphia Marathon will now award winners across three gender categories — men’s, women’s and nonbinary races — in the 2024 open division.
FDA warns against using poppers - Philadelphia Gay News
WEBJuly 14, 2021 12:07 pm. “Poppers” have been a fixture for LGBTQ people on the club and sex party circuit for years. Poppers are a liquid drug used for recreation that can give an instant high when inhaled. Other names for it are amyl nitrate, butyl nitrite and liquid gold. The effects of poppers are immediate and include euphoria, warm ...
PGN personals through the decades - Philadelphia Gay News
WEBApr 22, 2020 · In 2009, as expected, the personals section of PGN was virtually dead. The number of ads dwindled from several hundred in the 1970s to six — yes, six — in the 2000s. The ads for escorts, sex shops and massage workers were down. Even the listings for community groups and resources were slim.
Police violence is LGBTQ history, past and present
WEBApr 14, 2021 · The modern LGBTQ civil rights movement was born out of police harassment and brutality against a group of gay men, butch lesbians and trans women of color. Most queer and trans people know about the Stonewall Uprising in June 1969; it’s why we celebrate Pride Month. We know that some leaders of that event were regular targets of police violence.
Why are so many lesbian, bi and trans women in prison?
WEBDec 15, 2021 · The study found LGBT individuals or those who reported a same-sex sexual experience before arrival at the jail or prison represented 9.3 percent of all men in prison, 6.2 percent of men in jail, 42.1 percent of women in prison and 35.7 percent of women in jail. The disproportionality of lesbian, bisexual and queer women in prisons is stunning.
Obituaries Archives - Philadelphia Gay News
WEBApr 14, 2023 · Katherine “Kay” Lahusen, the first openly gay photojournalist, dies at 91. PGN Staff -. May 26, 2021 3:10 pm. 0. Obituaries.
Tenika Watson: Living beyond Pendergrass’ tragedy
WEBApr 21, 2011 · In 1982, R&B star Teddy Pendergrass was severely injured in an auto accident, which left him paralyzed from the waist down. In the car with him that night was a woman, Tenika Watson, who for several years now has kept a low profile. Her own career as a model and entertainer was knocked off track …
LGBTQ films galore at the qFlix Film Festival
WEBSeptember 7, 2021 10:32 pm. “Postcards Over the Skin,” written and directed by Pablo Oliverio. qFLIX is hosting its fall film festival both online and at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad Street, September 26 to October 3. The program includes dozens of features, documentaries, and shorts by, for, and about LGBTQ+ folks.
David Marshall Grant on his life, work, and “Spoiler Alert”
WEBDecember 6, 2022 7:31 pm. Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge star in “Spoiler Alert”. David Marshall Grant began his career as an actor back in the late 1970s in films such as “French Postcards” and “Happy Birthday, Gemini,” (the latter set and shot in Philadelphia). He also memorably played a gay character in the Philadelphia-set TV ...
CBS Philly news anchor speaks on alleged network homophobia
WEBFeb 2, 2021 · Last week, a story broke which detailed alleged racist, sexist and homophobic comments made by CBS executives about employees at the network’s Philadelphia station. One of the alleged comments was that an employee was “too gay for Philadelphia.” PGN reached out to CBS Philly news anchor Jim Donovan, who is openly gay and has been with the station since 2003, to ask about the alleged ...
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