After a 5-month search, the Mazzoni Center has a new CEO: Lydia Gonzalez Sciarrino, a former healthcare exec

The Mazzoni Center’s Trans Week of Visibility kicks off Monday 3/26, and runs through Saturday 3/31 with dinners, panels, workshops and dance parties

The city is temporarily stopping foster placements with the two agencies accused of discriminating against same sex couples

Diamond Williams, murdered in 2013, was a transgender woman from Philadelphia

After Williams was killed, her body was dismembered and dumped in a North Philly field.

Tweet from @phillygaynews

Activists: Amazon shouldn’t pick PA for HQ2 because it lacks statewide LGBT anti-discrimination laws

Philly deals and events

Watch Rufus Wainwright perform with the Philly POPS and support the LGBTQ community

The performance and reception support with William Way LGBT Community Center.

LGBTQ businesses seek share of the millions in contracts Philly gives to minorities

Gay couple assaulted in Center City in 2014 reach settlement with attackers

A Philly real estate investor just donated $16 million to support the LGBT community

Mel Heifetz calls the donation his ‘lifetime of work.’

Temple LGBTQ law students are being paired with out alumni for a new mentorship program

Philly native Dr. Nancy Brisbon is announced as new medical director for the Mazzoni Center

College life in Philly

Philly campus resources: What to do if you’re new

Peer mentorships, commuter assistance, ESL classes and other programs local colleges offer first-time students

More than a year after Philly’s gender-neutral bathroom bill, no one’s been cited

The city’s fielded just three complaints about public bathrooms that are supposed to be labeled gender-neutral

Tips for how to respond to Philly street harassment

And what to do when you witness it.

Philly is Charlottesville

(Updated) Thousands of people marched down Broad Street tonight rejecting racism, fascism, Donald Trump and the Frank Rizzo statue. 📷: @kjbethel #phillyischarlottesville

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Here’s ICandy’s plan to bring people of color back to the bar after the owner’s racist remarks

There’s been an influx of LGBTQ professionals moving into Callowhill

Following big shake-up at the top, has anything actually changed at the Mazzoni Center?

Street harassment in Philly: Unsafe, uncomfortable and untracked

There’s no way to quantify what may not even be illegal: “Sometimes it’s just annoying, and sometimes it’s terrifying.”

ICandy’s plans to diversify after its owner repeatedly said the N-word have created a controversy of their own