It’s been a tragic week in Louisiana due to the deaths of three Black trans women over the course of three days. On Saturday night, Chyna Doll Dupree, was killed outside of a shopping center according to the Times Picayune. https://twitter.com/KaneBlacque/status/836604455357296640 When news of her death hit friends and loved ones, they shared messages of love support and […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Meryl Streep, TV host Seth Meyers, and the Golden Globe-winning movie “Moonlight” will be honored next month by the Human Rights Campaign, the LGBTQ civil rights organization. The award for “Moonlight,” a coming-of-age film about a black gay youth, will be accepted by Tarell Alvin McCraney, the author of the […]
Liverpool was not the first choice of location for the July 6 wedding of Russell Wilson and Ciara. The Seahawks quarterback and R&B singer were hoping to tie the knot in North Carolina, but scrapped the idea in protest of the state’s transgender bathroom law, wedding planner Mindy Weiss recently told TheKnot.com. In March, North […]
Thursday's decision follows two other major milestones for LGBTQ with regards to the military – in 2011, the "don't ask don't tell" policy was expelled, and in 2015, the Pentagon expanded the Defense Department's equal opportunity program.
Tracy Morgan is taking a stand against a new law in Mississippi by canceling a show he had scheduled there.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has vetoed legislation allowing clergy to refuse performing gay marriage and protecting people who refuse to attend the ceremonies. The Republican rejected the bill on Monday, saying “I have examined the protections that this bill proposes to provide to the faith based community and I can find no […]
History was made Saturday night at the 2016 Spirit Awards. It seems that for the first ever in awards show history, a transgender person has won a major film prize. Mya Taylor, star of the Indie film “Tangerine,” won for Best Supporting Female, according to EW. “The first thing I thought is this movie ain’t […]
The idea of an LGBT group buying his church is really getting under the skin of an anti-gay Harlem pastor. So much so that Pastor James David Manning made it known exactly what it would take for him to green light Rivers of Living Water Ministries’ purchase during a broadcast from his place of worship, […]
Gracing the cover of OUT magazine's OUT 100 issue as "Ally of the Year" comes as no surprise -- Obama is likely to go down in history as one of the most progressive presidents, if not the only one who has fought so tirelessly for LGBTQ rights.
A 5-year-old California girl has been barred from attending her Christian elementary school all because her parents are a lesbian couple.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A transgender inmate who says she was called “it” and “some kind of animal” by guards who watched her shower has won a legal victory that forces the Maryland prison system to better train for how to treat transgender people, advocates say. Neon Brown, who goes by Sandy, said in a grievance […]
