Topic: LGBTQ
Growing the Prison-to-Business Pipeline
A financial advisor-turned-social work professor has launched a Penn course that teams up students with formerly incarcerated entrepreneurs to help them launch their businesses—and stay out of prison
By Christina GriffithThe TikTok Doc
Austin Chiang, self-professed “medical mythbuster,” is changing the way people get their (correct, research-based) health information … and absolutely killing it on social media.
By Christine Speer LejeuneGloria Casarez | Philadelphia Women’s History Month All-Star
All-Star #5: Gloria Casarez
“The Most Revolutionary” Exhibit
A new LGBTQ History Month show at William Way casts a thoughtful eye on three important American decades
By Nick FiorelliniDear Gentlemen, Your 60-year-old Wedding Pics are Ready
Decades after having photos from their same-sex Philly-area ceremony confiscated, a search is on for the owners of a historic set of prints. Can they be found before it’s too late?
By Nick FiorelliniDigitizing Days at William Way
Time to dig out those old photos, posters, and trinkets to help build Philly’s largest LGBT+ archive.
By Meerabelle JesuthasanQSPACES
Queer and trans people have worse health outcomes than the general public. A local couple is trying to change that with a Yelp-like doctors app for LGBTQ Philadelphians
By Emma Copley EisenbergCaravan of Hope
PhillyGayLawyer Angela Giampolo plans to take her legal services to LGBTQ people where they need it most—small town America
By Amanda LienDancing 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 BavariaSpringsteen, 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