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By Fenit Nirappil, Camille Beredjick and Nic Koppert Unity, an alliance of Hispanic, Asian American and Native American journalist associations, has formally asked the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association to join its ranks, reversing its previous opposition to the group’s inclusion. “The missions of Unity and the NLGJA are completely overlapping. We are...
By Layla Pena Donald Baxter of Iowa City, Iowa, was riding his bike one evening in 2007 when he got into an altercation with a minivan driver who swerved in and out of his lane and began taunting him. The fight escalated when Baxter...
By Layla Pena and Nadia Galindo Video by Nadia Galindo Slide show by David McAlpine NLGJA Student Project participants Shanna Wester and Jorge Salazar wandered the streets of downtown Philadelphia in search of the oldest LGBT bookstore in the United States. The Arizona State...
By Fenit Nirappil The Mazonni Center, Philadelphia’s LGBT health center, recently revamped Many Men, Many Voices, an HIV prevention program that takes young men of color on retreats. Walk...
By Camille Beredjick For the last year and a half, Fred Karger has been on a mission to inspire, to educate and to show young LGBT people they can...
By Sharyn Jackson When you think of the top places in the country for LGBT couples to live, towns like Pleasant Ridge, Mich., and Oakland Park, Fla., don’t usually...
By Jordan Mazza Controversial plans for an LGBT senior housing complex at Philadelphia’s William Way Community Center abruptly ended this month. But Executive Director Chris Bartlett insists that his...
By Yimou Lee As the newly elected “Mr. Gay Philadelphia of 2011,” Dashiell Sears, a political science junior and gymnast at Temple University, said the title means more than...
By David McAlpine Most people associate the beginning of the LGBT civil rights movement with the police raids at New York’s Stonewall Inn in 1969. But beginning in 1965,...
By Nadia Galindo There are many programs that offer services to people with HIV or AIDs. Action Aids, a Philadelphia-based organization that offers a range of services, has a...
By Nic Koppert “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” comes to an end next month. As someone who served in the U.S. Army, I cannot imagine ever serving openly in the...
By David McAlpine From the outside of the modest office, you wouldn’t guess that Equality Forum organizes the world’s largest annual national and international LGBT civil rights event. The...
By Fenit Nirappil When a new study suggesting bisexual arousal exists sparked a media frenzy, the Los Angeles Times summed up the popular reaction well: “Bisexuals exist. Duh! Or...
By Camille Beredjick In retrospect, Mitch Hortert considers himself lucky. He didn’t two months ago, when he was harassed at work for being gay. When a male colleague at...
By Laura Rena Murray Video by Jordan Mazza and Fenit Nirappil Franny Price, 58, remembers when it was dangerous to be seen walking into a gay establishment in Philadelphia’s...
By Nic Koppert As the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association kicks off its annual convention in Philadelphia this week, overall membership is down in recent years but convention...
By Sharyn Jackson When Sarah Blazucki was planning the speaking roster for this year’s National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention in Philadelphia, she set her sights high. “I...
By Camille Beredjick When Michael Lewis and Johnny Colombo opened a cupcake shop at 12th and Chestnut in Philadelphia in 2009, they made it their mission to advocate for...
By Shanna Wester In 1973, when gay bars were tucked into alleyways with blacked-out windows and no signs, an alternative LGBT bookstore opened on a busy Philadelphia street in...
By Jorge Salazar The video goes something like this: A Latino man lies in bed with his laptop. Hearing a knock on the door, he goes to open it....
By Yimou Lee From a couple who just moved to Philadelphia’s gay core to a local business owner who has been supported by the LGBT community to people who...