The couple are fundraising to raise money as a reward to whoever helps them identify the sender (GoFundMe) A lesbian couple from Minnesota have spoken out about receiving anonymous hate letters containing threats towards their daughter. Angie and Jaime Mace, from St Peter, have launched a GoFundMe page to raise money to give as a(…)
An anti-LGBT+ Christian legal advocacy group has asked the US Supreme Court to review a ruling that bans employers from discriminating against transgender people on religious grounds. Alliance Defending Freedom filed a petition to the court last week, which means that the Supreme Court, if it decides to go ahead and hear the case, now has(…)
A 21-year-old Newport Beach man charged with murder in the stabbing death of former high school classmate Blaze Bernstein will also face a hate crime sentencing enhancement, the Orange County district attorney announced Thursday. Orange County District Atty. Tony Rackauckas said prosecutors added the hate crime enhancement based on allegations that Samuel Woodward killed 19-year-old(…)
A community march in Amsterdam, where the 22nd International AIDS Conference was held. Photo by: Matthijs Immink / IAS AMSTERDAM — The fight to end HIV/AIDS was given a boost by a star-studded week of presentations, panel sessions and the occasional protest at this year’s International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam. However, tensions within the community remain, and(…)
Credit: Nob Hill Theatre San Francisco is about to lose one of its precious gems that dates back all the way to the golden era of porn. Nob Hill Theatre, the legendary male strip club in SF, will be permanently closing its doors on August 19th. The owners, Larry Hoover and Gary Luce, have decided(…)
The governor of New York has called for an investigation to be launched after a same-sex couple was reportedly denied a marriage license. Dylan Toften, from the town of Root, posted on Facebook that he and his partner were rejected for a lisence by the town clerk, Laurel “Sherrie” Eriksen. The incident was confirmed by(…)
With fewer than 100 days remaining before the 2018 congressional mid-term elections, LGBT groups are ramping up efforts to channel the “resist” movement into action on Election Day and elect a new Congress able to place a check on President Trump. Chief among those efforts is the Human Rights Campaign’s #TurnOUT campaign, a $26 million effort(…)
The LGBT Foundation said there has been a recent rise in cases of shigella among men who have sex with men. Shigellosis, or shigella, is an intestinal infection caused when bacteria found in poo gets into your mouth. Last month, health officials in San Diego issued an advisory over the sexual transmitted infection. It said(…)
Seth Owen was sent to gay ‘conversion’ therapy by his parents (gofundme) A gay teenager whose parents sent him to ‘conversion’ therapy and forced him out of their home will be able to go to college after his teacher raised more than $70,000 in six weeks. Seth Owen, 18, is set to achieve his “life(…)
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) have introduced the Census Equality Act. (Photos public domain) In the wake of the Trump administration’s decision not to allow Americans to identify as LGBT on the U.S. Census, two Democratic senators have introduced legislation that would require those questions in major federal surveys. Sens. Kamala(…)
