PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's ban on gay marriage has been overturned by a federal judge in a decision that makes same-sex matrimony legal throughout the Northeast.

A disability rights historical exhibit in Berkeley, CA

Stonewall National Museum & Archives (SNMA), has a new Executive Director. After a national search by SNMA, Chris Rudisill has been named to the position following a vote of the Board of Directors of the Fort Lauderdale-based museum, library, archives and gallery. He assumes his role December 7, 2015.

(CNN) -- The legalization of same-sex marriage has given way to a new problem for a Pennsylvania couple, who technically are father and son.

The search to find the man responsible for killing a North Philadelphia lesbian woman in broad daylight last month has ended.

Members of the House Democratic Policy Committee today heard from law enforcement officials, a legal expert, community advocates and a friend of two victims of violence about the need to restore former protections for LGBT people to Pennsylvania's hate-crime law, said state Rep. Brian Sims, D-Phila.

In a post-DOMA world, you might think that with marriage equality come divorce equality -- not necessarily so.

State Sen. Jim Ferlo (D-38th Dist.), who came out as gay on September 23 at a rally and press conference at the Capitol Rotunda in Harrisburg, spoke with PGN this week about his history-making announcement.

Although active in politics since high school, Daniel J. Clifford used to think he would get relegated to the sidelines because he is gay. He didn’t think becoming a public official was in the cards for him after he graduated from law school in 1984.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Same-sex couples in Pennsylvania clamored for marriage licenses after a judge ruled to allow the state to join the rest of the Northeast in legalizing gay weddings, with Philadelphia offices staying open late to handle a rush of applications.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Hundreds of gay rights activists danced to drum beats and held colorful balloons as they marched in a parade in New Delhi, celebrating what they call the diversity of gender and sexuality.

(WB) Gay Pennsylvania State Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia) is under investigation by local police for making “veiled and direct threats” against a Republican lawmaker during a heated phone conversation on Monday night, Aug. 3, according to the alleged target of the threats.

HUNTINGDON, Pa. — The Republican incumbent in a central Pennsylvania House district says he'll run for re-election as a Democrat after he narrowly won the opposition party's primary in a write-in campaign.

HARRISBURG (AP) — A state judge has dismissed Gov. Tom Corbett and state Attorney General Kathleen Kane as defendants in a court challenge to Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Wolf wants to involve more small and diverse businesses in state government contracting and Pennsylvania's economy.

Legislators in Harrisburg have begun delivering on promises to introduce LGBT-inclusive legislation this session, including bills to combat hate crimes and conversion therapy and two to advance transgender rights.

The IRS is making it official: The tax agency says it will now recognize same-sex marriages regardless of where they were performed.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The federal judge who struck down Pennsylvania's law banning recognition of same-sex marriage says he saw no proof that same-sex marriage destroys the strength of families.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — When U.S. District Judge Mary McLaughlin decides this year whether Pennsylvania must recognize same-sex marriages from other states, she’ll do so from her perch above Independence Mall, where about 40 people staged an early gay rights protest in 1965.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia county that had been legally prevented from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples can now do so.

One Lehigh University student and two other individuals were charged this month with harassment and ethnic intimidation, considered a hate crime, in connection with uttering an antigay slur toward a student and pushing him to the ground.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) - Officials say a Lehigh University student and two other men are charged with a hate crime for saying an anti-gay slur and pushing another student to the ground.

LGBT advocates are blasting last week’s Commonwealth Court ruling that exempts SEPTA from Philadelphia’s antibias laws.

LGBT inclusive anti-cyberbullying legislation cleared the Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Monday.

A western Pennsylvania police officer says he spent much of December and January dressed as an Amish woman in hopes of scaring off a man suspected of exposing himself to Amish children.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - An ordained minister running for register of wills in eastern Pennsylvania says she won't sign-off on same-sex marriage certificates, but won't obstruct couples from getting the documents.

A pastor who presided over his son’s same-sex wedding ceremony and vowed to perform other gay marriages if asked can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him.

(CNN) -- The Pennsylvania minister who was defrocked for officiating his son's same-sex wedding was reinstated Tuesday by the United Methodist Church.

Mercy Suburban Hospital in East Norriton has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle the complaint of an HIV-positive woman who allegedly was denied medical treatment due to her serostatus.

The effort to pass an LGBT nondiscrimination law in Pennsylvania recently received new financial support.