Christian Fuscarino will be the new executive director of Garden State Equality, the statewide organization that advocates for LGBT equality. The organization announced his hiring April 18 at the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton.

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to issue executive orders that seek to close gaps created by the state legislature’s lack of action on LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination legislation. 

Creating Change, the nation’s largest LGBT conference, is looking for four people from the Philadelphia region to serve as co-chairs of the event that’s heading to the city in January. The deadline to apply is April 11.

In a move that appears to be motived by North Carolina's recently passed anti-LGBT bill, two New Jersey Democrats have proposed legislation to prohibit "state-sponsored travel to states adopting religious freedom statutes without protection against discrimination."

The two accused of murder and conspiracy in the fatal stabbing of transgender woman Maya Young will now have preliminary hearings in June.

New research out of Temple University points to the possibility of developing a cure for patients with HIV and other viral-based diseases.

The woman and man accused of murder in the fatal stabbing of transgender woman Maya Young will face preliminary hearings May 3, after a hearing slated for March 23 was continued.

The woman charged in last month’s fatal stabbing of transgender woman Maya Young had her preliminary hearing delayed by a week to take place on the same day as her male co-defendant.

DVLF on Friday announced the individuals and organizations it will honor at next month's 10th-annual HEROES event.