This week read about Philadelphia creating an LGBT crime tracker, and the Grand Rapids Pride Center selecting a new leader in Michigan.

With the upcoming elections, Philadelphia may have its first council member, and a school district in Maine might ban its second LGBT book in the past month.

“I’m standing across the street from Stonewall in Sheridan Square. Here I was, an 18-year-old kid living at the YMCA in a $6-a-night room with no job, no prospects for the future, no real place to live and no money in my pocket. I’m thinking, What am I going to do? And it came to me: This is exactly what I want to do. I’m going to be a gay activist.”

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The suburban Philadelphia Catholic school teacher fired over her same-sex marriage was shut out after attempting to bring a box of petitions asking for her reinstatement to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gay marriage advocates plan to visit Philadelphia's City Hall on Tuesday to seek marriage licenses or have their out-of-state marriages recognized.

A freelance journalist's story about an old high school bully hitting him up on the gay dating app Scruff is going viral this week.

Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter signed legislation requiring restaurants, bars and other private establishments to designate all single-occupancy restrooms as gender neutral.

(PGN) A five-year study aimed at developing a cure for HIV is about to get underway in Philadelphia.

(CNN) -- After nearly 13 years of marriage, rockers Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale are splitting up.

The preliminary hearing for a man accused of killing a psychiatrist in a Gayborhood hotel was continued until February.

Every year, the Human Rights Campaign releases its corporate equality index, ranking the best companies in the United States based on their treatment of LGBT employees.

An ordinance that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity has been approved by the Carmel City Council.

Jurors in the trial of Kathryn Knott clearly weren't buying what the convicted Philadelphia gay basher was trying to sell on the witness stand last week.

The jury charged with deciding the fate of accused gay basher Kathryn Knott will return for a third day of deliberations Friday.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Anti-gay tweets from a young woman charged in an attack on a gay couple show the homophobic views that fueled her actions, a Philadelphia prosecutor argued Tuesday in a case that led the city to expand its hate crime law.

(CNN) -- Ever since becoming world heavyweight champion, British boxer Tyson Fury has been fighting for his reputation after allegedly making homophobic and sexist comments.

(CNN) -- Lawyers for Kim Davis -- the Kentucky county clerk who spent six days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples -- have filed an appeal to the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals asking to reverse rulings they claimed trampled her religious rights.

Kathryn Knott, dressed in a light-blue sweater and black pants, wept silently last Friday as the “guilty” verdicts started coming.

Amy Schneider. Matt Bomer. Lawrence of Arabia. What do those three individuals all have in common? They’re being celebrated in Equality Forum’s annual queer icons list during LGBT History Month, which takes place each October.

HOUSTON -- Amid the defeat by voters of an ordinance that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in Houston, Mayor Annise Parker rallied supporters of the measure, telling them the fight was not over.

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors deadlocked in the case of a Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting an altar boy.

For the fifth time, the trial testimony of Officer Elizabeth Skala in a pending DUI case has been postponed.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The owner of the nation’s oldest gay bookstore appears to be writing its final chapter, confirming Tuesday that he plans to close the financially troubled shop next month.

A man charged in connection with the murder of a transgender woman in Logan had his preliminary hearing continued.

PARAMUS, N.J. (AP) — A Republican Assembly candidate who dropped out of the race after his book of rants about gays and others surfaced participated in a campaign debate anyway on Wednesday, saying he's not the same person he was when he wrote it.

There are no new leads in three recent incidents involving firearms in the Gayborhood.

Police have not taken any new suspects into custody in the October murder of a trans woman in Logan, police spokesperson Officer Christine O'Brien told PGN this week.

A trial date has yet to be set for the three people accused of attacking a gay couple in Center City this past fall. 

LGBT leaders gathered Monday evening in Fort Lauderdale to discuss strategy in what has been both a historic and difficult year for the movement.

In a 35-page petition filed last week, the city asked the state Supreme Court to review a lower-court ruling exempting SEPTA from adherence to the city’s LGBT-inclusive antibias rules.