Pennsylvania Diversity Network directly serves the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community of the Greater Lehigh Valley and Berks County, including Lehigh and Northampton Counties and the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and Reading and other areas of Eastern Pennsylvania, and serves the rest of the Pennsylvania through email, Facebook, phone, info-line and web site.
Pennsylvania Diversity Networks’s Mission is to: To foster strength and vitality in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Community by providing news, information, advocacy, presentations, programs, events and other services. This strongly includes working for equal rights and justice for GLBT people.
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PA Diversity Network is the parent organization of the Valley Gay Press Newspaper, the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Community Opinion and Newspaper of the Greater Lehigh Valley and Berks County, The GLBT Infoline - a call-in help line for GLBT people seeking information and referrals in the Greater Lehigh Valley and Berks County, Rainbow Families - an activities group for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Allied parents with children, The PDN Photo Project - 800 Same-sex Couples: Facing Inequality - a traveling photo show of local same-sex couples to educate the mainstream community about the lack of same-sex civil marriage and civil union rights in the United States and Pennsylvania, the PDN Library Project that supports libraries with GLBT resources, the PDN Resource Web Site that has hundreds of local GLBT-Friendly resources and PDN Speakers on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Issues bringing groups, organizations, educational institutions and business corporations presentations on GLBT issues and topics. PDN Youth Initiative, which offers grants to GLBT youth groups for civil rights and activism efforts. This web site also contains reference information on Pennsylvania gay resources, Pennsylvania GLBT resources, LGBT, gay marriage, same-sex marriage, gay rights, gay and lesbian rights, civil unions, Lehigh Valley gay support groups, Lehigh Valley LGBT support groups, GLBT Artists, GLBT Writers, Lehigh Valley lesbians support groups, bisexual and transgender support groups, queer community support groups, groups for queer youth, Pennsylvania lesbian resources, resources for (LGBT) gay Allentown, (GLBT) gay Bethlehem PA, (GLBT) gay Reading PA, (GLBT) gay Easton PA, (GLBT) gay Lehigh Valley PA, gay Berks County PA communities. (GLBT) Lehigh Valley gay organizations, gay & lesbian book reviews, Lehigh Valley gay social groups, Allentown gay social groups, Lehigh Valley lesbian social groups, bisexual and transgender social groups, Pennsylvania gay newspaper, Lehigh Valley gay newspaper, Berks County gay organizations and gay civil rights, transgender civil rights, queer civil rights, (GLBT) gay events, queer events, (GLBT) gay social events, referrals to (GLBT) gay-friendly businesses and services, referrals for (GLBT) gay legal help, (GLBT) gay-friendly doctors, gay resources, lesbian resources, bisexual and transgender resources, gay health issues, lesbian health issues, transgender health issues, transsexual health and information on how to meet gay, meet lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the community and become involved in local gay activist, LGBT support, (GLBT) gay religious and gay social organizations.
PA Diversity Network Contact Information:
Liz Bradbury, Executive Director -- Office: 610-432-5449, -- INFOLINE: 610-432-5449 -- Postal address: P.O. Box 22902, Lehigh Valley PA 18002-2902 -- E-mail: info@padiversity.org The PA Diversity Network Organization in Allentown is staffed 9 am to 5 pm -- Monday through Friday The GLBT Infoline is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
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Recent - June 13, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
6th Annual GLBT Community Awards Celebration! June 13th, 2013 Stratus Restaurant and Nightclub, 1179 Airport Road, Allentown
Doors opened at 5:30pm, Ceremony began at 7:30. Dessert were served at 8:30pm.
Admission included: Hors d’oeuvres including chicken satay, tomato mozzarella skewers, toasted pita with tapanade trio, soft drinks, extensive cooked to order pasta bar with sauces including chicken and Italian sausage, dessert and coffee & tea, cash bar, live entertainment with Jazz singer Roberta Meek, the PDN Photo Project, 10 free tickets for basket raffle, silent auction, and time to meet and greet friends.
Special thanks to Event Top Sponsors: Les Bahr - Miller Searles Bahr & Wills LLC - Certified Public Accountants & Consultants; and PPL Corporation’s Gay & Lesbian Organization in the Workplace (GLOW) Business Resource Group!
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At the Stratus Restaurant and Nightclub 1179 Airport Road, Allentown
2013 AWARD WINNERS
Activist Barb Baus and Activist Cathy Burgi (posthumous)
long time, committed GLBT activists of the Lehigh Valley LGBT Community.
Basilio Bonilla - College student who successfully ran
for Bethlehem School Board and then led the effort to
extend benefits to the legal spouses of all employees,
including legally married same-sex spouses.
State Senator Pat Browne - Prime Sponsor of the
PA Senate bill that would add sexual orientation
and gender identity to Pennsylvania’s Civil Rights
law, and other supportive votes and actions. 
Roberta Meek - Long time volunteer for many
GLBT organizations, served on the PDN Board,
helped lead the passage of inclusive civil rights
legislation in Allentown, as well as extensive
civil rights work, youth outreach, and peace
efforts in the Lehigh Valley.
Dan Miller - Openly Gay member of City Council and
elected City Controller of Harrisburg, openly
Gay candidate for Harrisburg Mayor, and the
prime sponsor of Harrisburg model pro-GLBT legislation.
The Spectrum - LGBTQIA group alliance supported by
Planned Parenthood, that has met weekly in Reading
and supported youth for 7 years.
Sponsors
PPL Corporation’s Gay & Lesbian Organization in the Workplace (GLOW)
Business Resource Group
Stratus Restaurant & Nightlife
Les Bahr, CPA - Miller, Searles, Bahr & Wills, LLC
Certified Public Accountants & Consultants
Law Offices of Mike P. Albright
Boudica Publishing Inc.
Express Business Center
Binae Karpo, O.D.
Novus Adult Care Services
Planned Parenthood Keystone Eastern Pennsylvania PFLAG
Dr. Gwen Greenberg
James Funeral Home & Cremation Service
The LGBT Business Council of the
Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce
Pride of the Greater Lehigh Valley
The Honorable Peter Schweyer, Allentown City Council
The Honorable Michael Schlossberg, Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Kathleen Nagle
Many Thanks To Our Host Committee!
Host Committee
Organizer:
Bolton Winpenny & Jamie Booth
Kevin Sprague & Ted Rosenberger
Dr. Elizabeth Goff
Educator:
Charles Versaggi
Activist:
David and Leon Angelino
Adrian Shanker and Brandon Pariser
Contributor:
Gloria Hamm and Allyson Diane Hamm
Don and Melinda Kohn
Tom Cormier
Michael Bürgi
Michelle Heffner
William Sanders and Jason Sizemore
Gail Uhl and Vicky Lindquist
Brian Marks
James Harbst
Anne Huey and Laura Gutierrez
Steven Weiss
Donnie and Earl Snyder
Judy Arendt
Donor:
Jean Rubin
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Recent May 18, 2013
PDN Attended the Catie Curtis Concert
Presented by Listen Live Music
at the Mucungie Institute
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May 2013
May - June Valley Gay Press
Published and mailed and distributed to 1000 people
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OF THE VALLEY GAY PRESS CLICK HERE 
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CURRENT and On-Going
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Photo Project 
The Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Photo Project - 800 Same-Sex Couples: Facing Inequality
Is in a new format that can be shown in any space as long as it’s big enough.
Contact PDN Executive Director Liz Bradbury if you organization is interesting in exhibiting the Project.
Click here to see more about it.
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Recent
April 23, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Executive Director Liz Bradbury
Speaks with Students and Staff at
Lehigh Carbon Community College’s GSA
About GLBT Community Outreach
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Recent
April 19, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Boardmember Liz Fear Joined
Allen High School GSA Students for the
National Day of Silence Observance.
Pennsylvania Diversity Network gave the
Allentown High School GSA a Youth Initiative Grant
To Support the Event.
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Recent
April 18, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Board Members Liz Bradbury, Patricia Sullivan, Adrian Shanker and Liz Fear
and Other PDN members joined Bethlehem City Council Member Willie Reynolds for his announcement that he would extend domestic partner benefit if elected as Mayor, and he announced that he would not preform any marriages if elected Mayor, until marriage equality was available for all. 
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Recent
April 17, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Executive Director Liz Bradbury
Speaks on GLBT Issues to a Class of
Social Work Students at Alvernia University. 
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Recent
April 15, 2013
PDN Attended a Presentation by Transgender
Activist Janet Mock at Cedar Crest College
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Recent
April 12, 2013
Proud Bookstore in Rehoboth, DE
PDN Executive Director Liz Bradbury
addresses a group of women interested in Lesbian fiction
at the Proud Bookstore for Women’s Week.
Also met with PDN members for lunch. 
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Recent
Marriage Equality Vigil
March 23 , 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network Organized
Lehigh Valley Candlelight Vigil for Marriage Equality
in Advance of the Supreme Court DOMA Decisions -- Saturday, March 23, 6:30pm to 7:30pm at the Federal Court House, 504 Hamilton Street (5th and Hamilton) in Allentown. Organized by Pennsylvania Diversity Network in partnership with Equality Pennsylvania and Eastern PA PFLAG.
Over 150 people braved freezing temperatures to show support for marriage equality at a vigil organized by Pennsylvania Diversity Network on March 23, in front of the federal courthouse in Allentown.
“Hundreds of vigils and marches in support of the Supreme Court overturning DOMA happened in all 50 states. Our vigil, with over 150 people representing diversity in age, race, gender, national origin, and orientation, along with a series of significant speakers, was hugely successful in showing the Lehigh Valley’s support of equality for gay and lesbian families,” said Liz Bradbury, Executive Director of PA Diversity Network.
“Poll after poll continues to show that more Americans support marriage equality,” said Adrian Shanker, President of Equality Pennsylvania, who also spoke at the vigil. “It’s time for marriage for all Americans, and for all Pennsylvanians.”
The vigil’s keynote speaker Barb Baus explained that one of the cases to heard by the SCOTUS, the United States v. Windsor, is about the unfair tax burden same-sex spouses must pay when their legally married spouse dies. Baus said this mirrors her own situation. She told the hushed crowd that her legally married wife Cathy Burgi died last year, and that, “the state of Pennsylvania is treating me as a total stranger to Cathy, my partner of 15 years, by requiring me to pay the 15% inheritance tax.” Baus went on to explain that heterosexual spouses pay no inheritance tax and added, “I sincerely hope the Supreme Court follows the President's suggestion and finds DOMA unconstitutional.”
The speakers at the event were:
Liz Bradbury, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Diversity Network,
Adrian Shanker, President, Equality Pennsylvania
Barb Baus, widow effected by the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act"
Rev. Peter Bredlau, Evangelical Lutheran Church Minister, Bethlehem
Kevin Deely, Representative of Lehigh Valley Labor Council
The Hon. Julio Guridy, President of Allentown City Council
Allyson Diane Hamm, Chair, Human Relations Commission of the City of Allentown
The Hon. J. William Reynolds, Bethlehem City Councilmember
Rev. Joy Wyler, Senior Minister, Unity of Lehigh Valley, PA
The A Cappella Chorus: Muhlenberg College’s Girls Next Door (pictured above)
For further information:
Email Pennsylvania Diversity Network Executive Director Liz Bradbury at: lbradbury@padiversity.org
or call the PDN Office at: 610-432-5449
Or see the Pennsylvania Diversity Network Facebook Event Page at: www.facebook.com/events/342960929158375/?ref=3
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Recent
March 3 , 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network Executive Director Liz Bradbury,
PDN Board Member and Equality PA President Adrian Shanker, and PDN President Patricia Sullivan
attended a GLBT Wedding Expo in Bucks County. PDN had a booth and gave out marriage equality information and information about how to get legally marriage in a marriage equality state. Adrian Shanker was the keynote speaker. Liz too the photos of 8 new Photo Project couples. 
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March 2013
March - April Valley Gay Press
Published and mailed and distributed to 1000 people
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OF THE VALLEY GAY PRESS CLICK HERE 
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Recent
February 24, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network Executive Director
Liz Bradbury and PDN President Patricia Sullivan
Attend Pride of the Greater Lehigh Valley
Oscar Party Fundraiser - Organized by Pride Board Member
and Valley Gay Press Columnist Steve Libby
Left Photo: Pride Pres. Shawn Bausher and Event Organizer Steve Libby, Right Photo: Bob Jacobs and Dave Artman Remember Alex Doty , local film historian, Pride volunteer, who died in an accident last year. 
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Recent
February 14, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network Executive Director Liz Bradbury and
PDN Board Member and President of Equality PA Adrian Shanker
Appear on Alan Jennings’ Radio Show
Lehigh Valley Discourse on WDIY
to discuss Marriage Equality
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Recent
February 11, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network Executive Director
Liz Bradbury and PDN President Patricia Sullivan
Attend Reception for Openly Gay City Harrisburg Controller
and Candidate for Mayor, Dan Miller at Adrian Shanker
and Brandon Pariser’s House
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Recent
February 7, 2013
Pennsylvania Diversity Network Executive Director
Liz Bradbury - Spoke to the Women’s Group
At the LGBT Center in Harrisburg
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January 2013
January - February Valley Gay Press
Published and mailed and distributed to 1000 people
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OF THE VALLEY GAY PRESS CLICK HERE 
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Recent
December 12, 2012
PDN Executive Director Liz Bradbury was the Keynote Speaker on GLBT Issues to a Graduate School Social Work Seminar at Millersville University.
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Recent
November 13, 2012
PDN Executive Director Liz Bradbury introduced the New Allentown Human Relations Commission Booklet “How to File a Discrimination Compliant,” which she helped to design and took most of the photos for, to a group of 53 leaders and administrators of local Allentown not-for-profit organizations. 
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Recent
October 31, 2012
Pennsylvania Diversity Network’s President of the Board Patricia Sullivan and Executive Director Liz Bradbury visit intern emeritus Eric Stephen and do two presentations to students on LGBT rights and writing. 
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Recent
October 23, 2012
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Members of PDN Board Liz Bradbury, Patricia Sullivan, and Adrian Shanker attend and take part in the Allentown Human Relations Commission’s annual Awards Presentation where awardees Artistic Director of the Civic Theatre Bill Sanders and Main Street Improvement Director Peter Lewnes (both of the Lehigh Valley GLBT community, and both nominated for AHRC awards by Liz Bradbury) accept awards on stage. 
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Recent
October 17, 2012
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Annual event put on by PPL’s affinity group GLOW featured the new display version of the Pennsylvania Diversity Network’s Photo Project - 800 Same-sex Couples: Facing Inequality. The new easel display of the Project was my possible by a grant from PPL’s group GLOW.
See more about the PDN Photo Project by clicking here! 
See more about the PDN Photo Project by clicking here! 
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Recent
October 16, 2012
PDN Executive Director Liz Bradbury
was invited to joined a panel at Lafayette University of
legally married Gay Men and Lesbians speaking about
marriage equality to students and GSA members. 
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Recent
October 13, 2012
Pennsylvania Diversity Network Women’s 5k Race Team
To Fight Breast Cancer race and Team breakfast. And a toast to past team member Cathy Burgi, who died last year of Leukemia. 
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Recent
October 6, 2012
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Had advanced tickets to a Comedy Concert by Wanda Sykes (donated to PDN by the Sovereign Center in Reading, PA) and were able to raffle the tickets as a perk to those who contributed to the “Donate the Price of a Chicken Sandwich to a GLBT Rights Organization” fund drive. All reports indicated it was a terrific and hilarious event. 
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Recent
September 18, 2012
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
Executive Director Liz Bradbury
Led a presentation to Allentown small business
owners on the Allentown Human Relations Commission’s
new booklet that explains what the Commission can do to help
businesses follow the City’s non-discrimination law,
at the Cosmopolitan Restaurant. 
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Recent
August 19, 2012
Pride in the Park - Greater Lehigh Valley Pride
In Cedar Beech Park in Allentown
Volunteers at the Pennsylvania Diversity Network booth were able to encourage more than 500 people to sign cards to Senator Robert Casey to encourage him to support marriage equality. And PDN Executive Director took the photos of nearly 40 new Photo Project photos of committed same-sex couples. Click here to read more about the PDN Photo Project. 
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Recent
July, 2012
PDN Executive Director Liz Bradbury
Trains the Management Team on Diversity Issues at Blue Mt. Ski Resort
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Recent
Reading Pride Celebration
In Centre Park Reading - July 15th, 2012
Volunteers at the Pennsylvania Diversity Network booth were able to encourage more than 500 people to sign cards to Senator Robert Casey to encourage him to support marriage equality. And PDN Executive Director took the photos of nearly 40 new Photo Project photos of committed same-sex couples. Click here to read more about the PDN Photo Project. 
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Recent
Pennsylvania Diversity Network
5th Annual Awards Celebration! was June 14th, 2012 At the Allentown Brew Works
PENNSYLVANIA DIVERSITY NETWORK ANNOUNCES 2012 HONOREES & KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR LEHIGH VALLEY LGBT COMMUNITY AWARDS CELEBRATION
Award recipients include:
Hon. Michael Fleck, Timothy Hahn, Corey Horvath, Hon. J. William Reynolds & Hon. Karen Dolan, Mr. Joe’s Chimney Sweep, United Friends School in Quakertown
Keynote Speaker: Brian Sims, who is poised to become the first openly Gay PA State legislator in Harrisburg
Entertainment by: Roberta Meek, jazz singer
Pennsylvania Diversity Network is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Lehigh Valley GLBT Community Awards.
The Awards Celebration will take place on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 5:30 pm at the Allentown Brew Works located at 812 W. Hamilton Street in Allentown. Tickets are available in advance for $20.00 per person or $25.00 at the door. Advance tickets may be ordered at by clicking here. This year’s celebration tickets will include a silent auction, basket raffle, hors d’oeuvres, pasta bar, soft drinks, cash bar, coffee and dessert. Free parking in lot across the street. Sponsorship opportunities are still available, please contact Liz Bradbury at 610-432-5449.
Award recipients:
Easton City Councilman, Honorable Mike Fleck - For sponsorship, leadership, and extensive work on the passage of Easton’s Domestic Partner benefits bill for same-sex domestic partners of city employees., Timothy Hahn - For mobilization of his college GSA at ESU, and extensive fundraising for the community.
Corey Horvath - For extensive volunteer work on the successful passage of Bethlehem’s fully inclusive anti-discrimination ordinance and for years of community service to the Lehigh Valley GLBT Community.
Hon. J. William Reynolds & Hon. Karen Dolan, Bethlehem City Councilmembers - For their active and supportive work in passing Bethlehem’s anti-discrimination, and their successful efforts in blocking amendments that would have lessened discrimination protections.
Mr. Joe’s Chimney Sweep - For generous long-time commitment to support and development for many GLBT service organizations and mainstream health organizations in the Lehigh Valley.
United Friends School - For serious and successful efforts to stop bullying before it happens. And for a curriculum that is not only fully inclusive of sexual orientation and gender identity but fully committed to teaching youth how to pass non-discrimination legislation that is fully inclusive of GLBT rights.
Brian Sims - keynote speaker at the 2012 Celebration. In 2011, Sims announced his intentions to run as an openly Gay candidate for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 182nd District of Philadelphia. He ran in the 2012 Democratic primary against long-time incumbent Democrat Babette Josephs and won. Since there is no Republican challenger in the November election, Sims will be the first openly-Gay state legislator in the history of the Pennsylvania General Assembly.
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Pennsylvania Diversity Network is the largest LGBT advocacy organization in the Commonwealth of PA. It is volunteer and membership driven, and based in the Lehigh Valley. www.PADiversity.org
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Recent
June 12th - 7am
PDN joined with Equality PA
for Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Training
on GLBT Issues
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Our Mission
Pennsylvania Diversity Network directly serves the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community of the Greater Lehigh Valley and Berks County, including Lehigh and Northampton Counties and the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton and Reading and other areas of Eastern Pennsylvania, and serves the rest of the Pennsylvania through email, Facebook, phone, info-line and web site.
Pennsylvania Diversity Networks’s Mission is to: To foster strength and vitality in the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) Community by providing news, information, advocacy, presentations, programs, events and other services. This strongly includes working for equal rights and justice for GLBT people.
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Pennsylvania Diversity Network is a mission driven organization. As such, PDN works to counteract disenfranchisement and inequality faced by the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community by offering specific opportunities to the GLBT community in a variety of circumstances. Beyond mission driven efforts, PDN does not discriminate with regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry or place of birth, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, age, handicap or disability, use of a guide animal, height or weight.
To see further information on PDN's mission, principles and guidelines click here.
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The inclusion of pictures or names of any person on this web site, does not infer sexual orientation or gender identity. Rather, PA Diversity Network's web site is an extension of the newspaper - The Valley Gay Press, reporting on news and events in the community at large, inclusive of all people in the news, at public, community, or current events.
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Pennsylvania Diversity Network is exempt from Federal Income Tax under section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions to Pennsylvania Diversity Network are deductible under section 170 of the Code. Pennsylvania Diversity Network also qualifies to receive tax deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under section 2055, 2106 or 2522 of the Code.
Pennsylvania Diversity Network is incorporated as a not-for -profit corporation by the Pennsylvania Department of State (15PaC.S ) ( section 5306).
Donations to Pennsylvania Diversity Network are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
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