Guest Commentary

This Pride, Read Queer Fiction

The organizer of Philly Queer Book Club argues we’d all be better off if we spent some of June with a good LGBTQ+ book

By Danny Maloney

15+ LGBTQ+ Organizations in Philadelphia to Support

Want to support LGBTQ+ people living in Philadelphia? Check out these worthy organizations that could use your help.

By Isabelle Eisenberg

Your Guide to Philadelphia Pride 2025

Your guide to Philly's lineup of LGBTQIA+ events this month. Things to do for families, partiers, sports fans and arts aficionados

By Lauren McCutcheon and Christina Griffith

LGBTQ-Owned Shops, Restaurants, More in Philadelphia

Brick-and-mortar LGBTQ-owned businesses span all of Philly. Here, some that strive not just to sell, but also to do good in and beyond our city

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff
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Ali Velshi Banned Book Club Reads The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks with an award-winning journalist about her coverage of teenagers, a hate crime and gender that became a book

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi on Burying Ukrainian Manuscripts to Keep them from Russian Hands

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with author and Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov to discuss how Ukrainian literature is preserving the nation's history — and its future

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi Banned Book Club ReadsSimon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with Becky Albertalli, author of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, to discuss her coming-of-age-novel and the targeting of LGBTQ+ stories

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi Banned Book Club The Miseducation of Cameron Post

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks with Emily M. Danforth, author of the award-winning coming-of-age novel about LGBTQ+ teens having a place in literary canon

By Ali Velshi
Art for Change

John Jarboe, the Artist Who Ate Her Twin

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret founder has a new interactive installation at the Fabric Workshop and Museum that is an earnest, absurd and macabre expiration of queer selfhood

By Logan Cryer
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Ali Velshi Banned Book Club on Gay Penguins and Book Bans

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with authors Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, authors of And Tango Makes Three, to talk about the contemporary children's classic about non traditional families and the efforts to ban it

By Ali Velshi