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Last Updated: Aug. 09, 2016 · 4:15 p.m.

Just two days after being named host of the Oscars, Kevin Hart has stepped down due to outcry over his past homophobic tweets

Ritner University refuses to have a Chik-fil-A on campus. Temple has two.

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A remembrance of Shantee Tucker, the Philly trans woman murdered in September

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Amber Hikes, director of Philly’s Office of LGBT Affairs, lands on Out Magazine’s 100 most influential people list

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Event lineups for Trans Awareness Week in Philly

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Embattled Mazzoni Center CEO Lydia Gonzalez-Sciarrino has resigned after 7 months on the job

Philly’s first openly transgender woman police officer was buried as a man

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The Attic Youth Center is celebrating 25 years serving Philly’s LGBTQ teens

When the organization started, conventional wisdom held that gay youth did not exist.

Project HOME needs $3.1 million to finish its massive LGBTQ housing project in Yorktown

The LGBTQ flag flying alongside Pennsylvania's

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LGBTQ equality: Who calls the shots, from Philly to D.C.

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There’s a push to start a local chapter of the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network, which helps schools address LGBTQ students’ needs

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission now has a gay man on the board

Philly Mag’s Ernest Owens posted something ‘provocative’ about racism and homophobia on FB last December. His comment led to a counterterrorism investigation.

Yesterday Philly unveiled Edie Windsor Way — the new name of 13th Street between Walnut and Locust, honoring an icon of LGBTQ equality who died last year

Philly hasn’t had a single lesbian bar since Sisters closed in 2013

Wagner campaign finance director Jenise Harris (left), Wagner campaign consultant Ray Zaborney (center), and Wagner campaign manager Jason High (right)

Wagner campaign shares meme mocking trans people in leaked text

Billy Penn's political editor was accidentally included on the thread.

A transgender woman murdered in Philly this week is part of what experts are calling the ‘deadliest’ on record for that group

A Northeast Philly teen won a National Liberty Museum Young Heroes Award for his work advancing gay-straight alliances in city schools

Kay Martinez filed a complaint against the Mazzoni Center for ‘wrongful termination, intimidation, retaliation, restrictions in performing their job and discrimination’

Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Wagner said on Monday that he’d consider legislation to ban same-sex marriage. Less than 24 hours later, he said he would veto any such bill.