Billy Canu and his husband, Michael Harbron were flying home after spending Thanksgiving away with friends and relatives. Harbron and Canu, the latter of whom is CEO and cofounder of a successful search engine optimization and Web-marketing firm with offices in San Diego and London, say they got a rude awakening about bigotry, and how…
Transgender men and women will be an officially protected class in Massachusetts now that Governor Deval Patrick signed an important equal rights bill Wednesday. The newly-enacted legislation will forbid any discrimination based on gender identity. The law will also extend criminal prosecution statues to include hate crimes and acts of violence against transgender men and…
Major League Baseball has adopted a new non-discrimination policy to include gay players as a part of their protected classes, The New York Daily News reports. The MLB and the Major League Baseball Players’ Association amended Article XV of the agreement which was due to renew this year. In addition to protecting “race, color, religion…
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…
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…
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…
A transgender person was shot dead in Hollywood, the body discovered late Thursday night near Gower Street and Lexington Avenue. An investigation is underway to determine if the shooting was a result of a hate crime. ABC News 7 reported that Los Angeles police responded to reports of gunfire, but by the time authorities arrived…
Even though the anti-gay group Stop SB48 failed to collect enough signatures to qualify for a referendum that would have appealed the pending legislation, the group is up to it again. This round, Stop SB48ers will aim to remove all language that references lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from student curriculum. The group will…
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that “official proponents” of Proposition 8 can defend the ballot initiative in court. Proposition 8 has long been considered a discriminatory legislation that prohibits the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state of California. The court unanimously ruled with Proposition 8 sponsors who ultimately argued that due to a…
