"People think of big cities when they think about the LGBTQ community because it's just more visible there," said Barry Loveland, co-founder of the LGBT Center of Central PA History Project, explaining that it's often easier to find and document the stories of queer urban pasts. "The more rural areas, like Central PA - when I started this project 13 years ago, nobody was telling those stories."

The LGBT Center of Central PA and the LGBT History Network sponsored the third annual LGBTQ+ History Prize at National History Day in Pennsylvania, held on April 21 at the University of Scranton. The top prize of $500 went to Chloe Thompson in the senior high school division, from Upper Darby Senior High School, Upper Darby, PA, for their website titled "The turning point of LGBT+ media." Their teacher is Susan Beck. Two honorable mention awards of $150 each were also presented. One went to Miah Skelly, in the senior high school division, from North East High School, North East, PA, for their paper titled "LGBTQIA+ Turn to Justice: How Trans-People of the 1970s Address the Court System." Their teacher is Morgan Gulley.

HARRISBURG, PA You're invited to help celebrate the grand opening of the LGBT Center of Central PA's new home! The LGBT Center, its board members, staff, and local officials will be holding a ribbon cutting for the organization's permanent home at 1323 N. Front Street in Harrisburg at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 17. The space will be open to the public at 5 p.m. for an open house and reception, coinciding with Harrisburg's Third in the Burg.

LGBT History Month is being celebrated with the unveiling and dedication of two new state historical markers on Sunday October 10 at 2 PM in Harrisburg. These are the first two markers with an LGBTQ+ history theme to be installed in Pennsylvania outside of the City of Philadelphia. The markers were approved earlier this year by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. The ceremony will be held on the front steps of the Pennsylvania state capitol.

Harrisburg, PA – The LGBT Center of Central PA is pleased announce the grand opening of a new traveling history exhibit at the State Capitol. The Long Road to LGBTQ+ Equality in Pennsylvania chronicles the efforts that activists have taken in Pennsylvania to achieve full equality for LGBTQ+ people, which debuts this year in honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a pivotal event in the LGBTQ+ movement toward equality.