CBS Films has said it will ‘look into’ why all reference to homosexuality was removed from the U.S. DVD release of the movie Pride, reports Pink News. The U.S. DVD cover had no references to homosexuality. The original text described the main characters in the movie as a ‘London-based group of gay and lesbian activists.’…
Denee Mallon, 74-year-old transgender woman, has become the first person to receive gender reassignment surgery on a government Medicare plan. From her hospital bed in Chicago Mallon said, “Here I am, finally, after all these years. It happened.” NBC News reported that her operation will be one of the first paid for by Medicare after…
Members and allies of the transgender community held a vigil in Trafalgar Square, London Saturday afternoon, in memory of Leelah Alcorn, the transgender teen who took her own life last week, reports Pink News. In her heartbreaking suicide note Leelah Alcorn noted a life of pain and rejection, including by her Christian parents who refused to…
Madonna sparked outrage Friday after her Twitter account posted images of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela Photoshopped onto her Rebel Heart album cover, reports The Huffington Post. Below is the album cover: Here’s Madonna’s Tweet with Nelson Mandela: And the Tweet with MLK: Following the tweets, fans and journalists posted things like “STOP,”…
