June - 2021

International News: Vatican Expresses Deep Reservations Over Gay Rights Bill

June 23, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News The Vatican has issued statements for years about LGBTQ issues. But on June 22 it was revealed the...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 23, 20214 min read

The Case for Free Speech

June 23, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News As cries of “cancel culture” regularly resound from various quarters, the importance of free speech —...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 23, 20214 min read

DOJ and ACLU to Argue Anti-trans Laws are Unconstitutional

June 23, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News As the U.S. Supreme Court was releasing its questionable ruling in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia on...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 23, 20214 min read

U.S. Supreme Court rules against Philadelphia in foster parents case

June 17, 2021 Special to the Pennsylvania Capital-Star (First appeared in the Philadelphia Gay News June 17, 2021) The decision was...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 17, 20212 min read

Telling the Stories of Our Lives

June 16, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News On June 12, the ceremony for the Society of Professional Journalists 2020 Sigma Delta Chi Awards was...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 16, 20215 min read

Justice Department to defend religious schools’ exemption from anti-LGBTQ discrimination laws

June 16, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News The Biden administration’s Department of Justice has issued a series of controversial intentions in...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 16, 20214 min read

New report finds that corporations are rainbow-washing Pride

June 16, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News A new report from Popular Information, a publication dedicated to accountability journalism, has...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 16, 20214 min read

Pride Programs: The Lavender Tube on TV news, Chat Shows and Documentaries

June 15, 2021 Bay Area Reporter Ed Wolf in the 2011 documentary 'We Were Here,' which airs June 25 on Documentary Plus June is such an...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 15, 20215 min read

What Killed Mikayla Miller?

June 10, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News Mikayla Miller didn’t live to see Pride. The 16-year-old gender nonconforming Black lesbian was found...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 10, 20215 min read

A passionate history of AIDS activism offers lessons for today

June 9, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993,” by Sarah Schulman. (Farrar,...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 9, 20216 min read

Pride In Politics: How a Curve Columnist Carried Forward 30 Years of Herstory

June 6, 2021 Merryn Jones, Editor in Chief, Curve Updated Archive, Volume 27 #2 & 3 June & April/May 2017 For many women, lesbian...

Merryn Jones

Jun 6, 20214 min read

Sarah Schulman on ACT UP and AIDS activism

June 4, 2021 QueerForty.com Sarah Schulman’s new book Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 is an epic...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 4, 20217 min read

Stop the Assault on LGBTQ Kids

June 3, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News During Pride many of us post our coming out stories on social media. Mine is different than most. At...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 3, 20214 min read

Eyes on the Prides: The Lavender Tube on Pride Month shows

June 2, 2021 Bay Area Reporter Cast members of 'Married at First Sight: Unmatchables' It's Pride! Last week Demi Lovato came out as...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 2, 20215 min read

International News: History made at the state department; Spain’s botched stamps

June 3, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News Ambassador Rufus Gifford Openly gay state department nominee President Biden is making history again —...

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 2, 20214 min read

Obamacare, voting rights, LGBTQ rights mark Supreme Court’s final month

June 1, 2021 Philadelphia Gay News The Supreme Court. (Photo: Scott Drake) June marks the final month of the U.S. Supreme Court calendar....

Victoria A. Brownworth

Jun 1, 20215 min read

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