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NYPD Officer Spewed Anti-Gay Slur Over Loudspeaker
Gay City News reports: The Gay Officers Action League (GOAL) is calling on the NYPD to take swift action after a viral video shared on Instagram Oct. 26 appeared to show an officer using an anti-gay slur. In the video, posted by the Instagram user @skymilezz, an officer sitting in a police vehicle at a red […]
Jamaican Supreme Court upholds colonial-era sodomy law
The Jamaican Supreme Court on Friday ruled against a gay man who challenged the country’s colonial-era sodomy law. Maurice Tomlinson, an activist from Montego Bay who now lives in Canada with his husband, in the lawsuit he filed in November 2015 notes the statute violates the right to privacy and other provisions of the Jamaican constitution. He […]
Black Transgender Woman Lisa Love Killed Walking Home in Chicago
Lisa Love, a Black transgender woman from Chicago, was shot and killed in the early hours of October 17. She was 35. She’s one of more than 20 trans and gender-nonconforming people to have been killed in 2023. She’s the fourth to be reported in October alone. All four of the victims this month have been Black. Authorities […]
Local News
Ian Stanley steps down as leader of LGBTQ Connection
Dear friend of LGBTQ Connection,I have something I’d like to share with you about an important change coming for me and for LGBTQ Connection. After leading LGBTQ Connection over the last 10.5 years, I will be stepping aside to promote two internal staff to take the helm. This is a bittersweet transition for me. I am sad to […]
Pandemic Relief Grant for Ag-Related Businesses
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a Request for Applications for the new Pandemic Response and Safety (PRS) Grant program. The PRS Grant program will assist small businesses in certain commodity areas, including specialty crop producers, shellfish farming, finfish farming, aquaculture, and apiculture; specialty crop, meat, and other processors; distributors; and farmers markets. Small […]
Arts & Entertainment
The Book of Anna” Maps the Emotional Landscape of a Holocaust Survivor
The Book of Anna, by Joy Ladin, explores the emotional landscape of life after the Holocaust through the eyes of fictional protagonist Anna Asher. This month, EOAGH books will release a revised & expanded edition. We meet Holocaust survivor Anna first through detailed diary entries. These day-to-day accounts of work, home, & doctor visits deepen our connection to Anna as an individual we could easily meet next door, save for the letter-headers […]
Queer music legend Ari Gold dies, aged 47
Ari Gold, the charismatic queer musician who was mentored by RuPaul, opened for Chaka Khan and sung with pop-soul titan Diana Ross, has died. He was 47. Gold, according to multiple news reports, passed away from leukaemia.× Performing since he was just five years old, Gold went from voicing the squeaky Cabbage Patch Kids and recording catchy […]
State News
Home of San Francisco’s 1st same-sex spouses now a landmark
The hilltop cottage belonging to a lesbian couple who were the first same-sex partners to legally marry in San Francisco has become a city landmark. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to give the 651 Duncan St. home of the late lesbian activists Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin landmark status. The home in the […]
Caitlyn Jenner says transgender girls in women’s sports is ‘unfair’
Caitlyn Jenner, the former Olympic champion and reality TV personality now running for governor in California, said she opposes transgender girls competing in girls’ sports at school. Jenner, a 1976 decathlon gold medalist who came out as a transgender woman in 2015, told a TMZ reporter on Saturday that it’s “a question of fairness.” “That’s […]