After a search that lasted several months, the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown has named a new executive director. 

June is Pride month for the LGBTQ+ community, and support for Pride month is definitely growing in corporate America. 

Adrian Shanker, the founding executive director of the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, has announced that he has decided to step down at the end of March.  

Several companies headquartered in the Lehigh Valley, or which have a large presence in the Lehigh Valley have ranked on the Best Place to Work for LGBTQ+ equality on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's 2022 Corporate Equality Index .

LGBTQ employees in Pennsylvania now have the protection of the state behind them.

On March 9th, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued an interpretive rule clarifying that the prohibition against sex discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act means that lenders cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

A letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, signed by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and 19 other state attorneys general, asks the agency to lift its ban preventing gay and bi-sexual men from giving blood.

Two Lehigh Valley-based companies have scored 100 percent on the 2020 Corporate Equality Index released today by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation of Washington, D.C.

Mental health concerns among the LGBTQ population are a pressing issue in the state, according to Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine. Levine testified at the state’s Mental Health Caucus on Jan. 15, sharing that LGBT adults are more than twice as likely to experience a mental health condition as heterosexual adults.

Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown has joined a coalition of activists in a lawsuit challenging a proposed federal rule that would allow doctors, nurses, emergency workers and other medical providers to deny treatment and services to patients if it conflicts with their religious or moral beliefs.