Dancing For Those Who Can’t

Two weeks after the Orlando shooting, activist group GALAEI celebrates an especially poignant alternative prom for LGBTQ Latinos

By Melanie Bavaria

The City of B Corp Love

In reaction to the bathroom law, Wayne-based B Lab has relocated its annual retreat of socially conscious companies from North Carolina to … here. Pssst, Philly: This is an opportunity!

By Larry Platt
Problem Solving Must-Read

A New Way to Measure Gun Violence

Plus: City planning with women in mind, and giving glasses to LGBT individuals experiencing homeless

By Stephen St. Vincent

Jay’s On The Case

Jay Coen Gilbert of Wayne-based B Lab is in North Carolina with a team of socially conscious CEOs, trying to repeal the bathroom law

By Larry Platt

Springsteen, Barkley, B Lab to NC—No Way!

The Wayne nonprofit behind the B Corp movement moves its 1,700-company retreat from North Carolina in opposition to discriminatory law HB2…Let’s host ‘em in Philly!

By Larry Platt

The Dawn of The Kenney Era

Three days before his inauguration, Jim Kenney’s Philadelphia announced itself in the aftermath of a controversial Mummers parade. Can the new mayor be Nixon going to China?

By Larry Platt

A New Kind of Recovery

West Philly houses the first residential drug & alcohol treatment program in the country for transgender people—and seeks to set an example

By Emma Copley Eisenberg
Ideas We Should Steal

Gay and Lesbian Liaison Police Unit

When he was in D.C., Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey formed a unit specializing in LGBTQ issues that has made the community safer, and won national plaudits. Why not in Philly?

By Emma Copley Eisenberg