A transgender woman suspected of practicing cosmetic surgery without a license is facing criminal charges after she injected a patient with doses of unsafe substances including a concoction of tire mender sold under the brand Fix-A-Flat, Super Glue, and mineral oil and other toxic substances. The patient was admitted to the hospital with severe illnesses….
Amherst investigators announced Tuesday the death of Jamey Rodemeyer will not be ruled a crime in wake of the teen’s controversial death attributed to gay bullying. Rodemeyer’s cell phone and computer were analyzed at a forensic lab to determine whether he had received harassing or bullying comments prior to the teen’s suicide on Sept. 18….
Danielle Orna, 17, died suddenly Thursday though details of the teen’s death have not been released by Essex County Police. Orna was the President of the Gay-Straight Alliance at Nutley High School in Nutley, N.J. Police were unable to revive the teen when they arrived at 11 p.m. on report of an “unresponsive female,” the…
Lady Gaga will be presented with this year’s Trevor Hero Award at the annual Trevor Live event on Dec. 4, reports MTV News. The gala is hosted and sponsored by the Trevor Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention for LGBT youth. The Trevor Project will also recognize Google Inc. with the Trevor 2020…
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has now banned the words “lesbian,” “homosexual,” “fairy,” and “condom” among 1,600 other words the country has deemed “pornographic or offensive to Islam.” “PTA hereby intimates all individual users of telecom services that are involved in such activity to refrain from such practices that involve generation of spamming,” the company…
Brandon McInerney, an Oxnard teen who shot gay classmate Larry King after he said the boy was flirting with him, has accepted a plea deal and will spend the next 21 years in prison. “Larry had a complicated life, but he did not deserve to be murdered,” Greg King, father to Larry, told the Los…
The Parents Television Council (PTC) says Fox’s hit show ‘Glee’ crossed the line by airing the episode “The First Time” which depicts two young couples having sex for the first time. The organization says it has nothing to do with the fact that one couple is gay, rather, it’s the age of the characters that…
Police say the man suspected of shooting a transgender woman Thursday in Hollywood may have also been the same man who robbed and shot fire toward another transgender victim in West Hollywood just 45 minutes after the heinous murder. Cassidy Nathan Vickers, 32, died Thursday from gunshot wounds before police arrived on scene. She was…
Army Capt. Stephen Hill says he did not intend to reveal his sexuality after asking GOP presidential candidates if the military’s discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy would ever make a comeback should the candidates become victorious in their win. Hill instead explains in an interview with the Associated Press that his debate question was…
Over the last month, animal activists have mounted concern over the separation of Buddy and Pedro, two male partner penguins at the Toronto Zoo who have been estranged for breeding. The two ‘love birds’ have had quite a past; Buddy, 21, used to have a female partner for “quite a few years” before meeting Pedro,…
