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WEB3 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 ...
Trans actors take the stage in “Oklahoma!” national tour
WEBMar 8, 2022 · Both Sis and Hennessy Winkler, who plays her love interest, Will Parker, are trans actors. The casting wasn’t initially intentional, but Winkler thinks that it brings a new level to the storytelling that complements the production’s aesthetic. Hennessy Winkler, Sis, and the company of the national tour of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s ...
Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus announces its Interim Artistic …
WEBJul 31, 2024 · Michael Semancik has joined the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus (PGMC) as its Interim Director and Conductor. He will be taking the reins from the organization’s long-time Artistic Director and Conductor, Joseph J. Buches, who is set to retire on July 31. Semancik’s introduction to PGMC actually came early on in …
Creep of the Week: Shane Vaughn - Philadelphia Gay News
WEBSeptember 15, 2021 6:52 pm. Shane Vaughn (YouTube screen grab from First Harvest Ministries channel) There are two things I need to say right up front. One, getting a COVID-19 vaccine is a safe and effective way to prevent yourself and others from getting really sick and possibly dying. Two, no good conversation ever starts with, “I’m going ...
The Hidden Epidemic - Philadelphia Gay News
WEBJan 6, 2021 · The Trevor Project reports that among self-identified LGBTQ people aged 10 to 24, suicide is the second leading cause of death. And new research released last year shows suicide is at a 30 year high. In a 2016-2017 survey from HRC, 28 percent of LGBTQ youth and 40 percent of transgender youth said they felt depressed most or all of the time ...
Kate Scott: The Voice of the Sixers - Philadelphia Gay News
WEBDecember 15, 2021 11:00 am. Kate Scott. Basketball Jones, I’ve got a Basketball Jones! Well, I don’t, but this week’s Portrait, Kate Scott certainly does. Scott is currently the play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers. She is the first full-time female broadcaster in the city of Philadelphia, and one of the first women to be the ...
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.
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 ...
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.