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JEN COLLETTA (LEFT) AND ASHLEE TURTURRO
Engagement: Jen Colletta and Ashlee Turturro
PGN editor Jen Colletta has covered stories on marriage equality since her start at the paper more than five years ago. Now, she’ll have the chance to experience her stories firsthand. Colletta, 27...
May 09, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sentencing scheduled for detention-center assault Justin O’Brien, an inmate who allegedly assaulted Kenneth J. Houck Jr. at the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia, is scheduled to be sente...
Apr 11, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Judge denies Schneller’s petition in Haverford case A Delaware County judge has denied the request of anti-LGBT activist James D. Schneller to be named as a plaintiff in a lawsuit that challenge...
Mar 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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SEPTA to hold hearings on transpasses Next month, SEPTA will host public hearings on its proposed 2014 budget, which includes a plan to eliminate gender markers from its transpasses. The local ...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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DEANNA STOWE (RIGHT) PROPOSED TO NOEL KOENKE MARCH 9 IN CANCUN
Engagement: Noel Koenke and Deanna Stowe
Noel Koenke and Deanna Stowe headed to Cancun, Mexico, expecting sun and sand earlier this month and, unexpectedly, came back engaged. Stowe proposed to Koenke March 9. The Philadelphia residents...
Mar 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Court maintains legal challenge to Conshy ordinance The state Commonwealth Court last month denied a request by Conshohocken borough officials to dismiss a legal challenge of the borough’s LGBT...
Mar 07, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Church gets another reprieve The old Church of the Assumption, formerly owned by the AIDS agency Siloam, received another stay of demolition from a city review board last week. On Feb. 22, the ...
Anniversary: Ryan Goldner and Scott Reikofski
by Angela Thomas
Feb 28, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
In 2011, New York became the sixth state in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriage. And nearly one year after marriage-equality legislation was passed in the Empire State, two Philly men tied the k...
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Feb 21, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
AIDS whistleblower compensated Dr. Daniel J. Feldman, who accused Weill Cornell Medical College and one of its faculty members of filing false claims when seeking funding for AIDS research, has ...
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Feb 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
Suspects enter not-guilty pleas in prison assault Justin O’Brien and Kevin Hannig have entered not-guilty pleas on charges that they assaulted an openly gay inmate at the Federal Detention Cente...
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Jan 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
PAC gets new director Kelvyn Anderson, interim director of the city’s Police Advisory Commission, has been promoted to the position of executive director, PAC members announced this week. Ander...
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Jan 24, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
Transwoman seeks judge’s intervention Attorneys for transwoman Bobbie E. Burnett have asked a federal judge to order city officials to turn over records pertaining to Burnett’s employment-discri...