The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have announced that an arrest has been made in the shooting death of a transgender woman who was killed in Hollywood in October. Aniya Knee Parker, 47, was shot point-blank in the head in the 600 block of North Kenmore Avenue early Oct. 2. In a two-sentence news release,…
They claimed they were the objects of sexual harassment before, during and after their appearance in a gay Pride parade. But Providence, Rhode Island firefighters Theodore Fabrizio and Stephen Deninno have lost their lawsuit against the city in a case that pitted ‘religious exemptions’ over what a unanimous high court ruled was “a legitimate work…
Marriage equality will finally come to the entirety of the isle of Great Britain when same-sex marriages begin in Scotland this coming Wednesday. The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act, which was overwhelmingly passed by the Scottish Parliament in February, came into effect earlier this month, reports Pink News. Scotland enforces a 15-day notice period…
Annie Proulx, the author of the original Brokeback Mountain story has said that she wishes she had never written the story. Proulx, who wrote the 1997 short story, which was adapted in 2005 into the Oscar-winning film starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal, told interviewer Christopher Cox in the Paris Review that Jack and Ennis…
Sia’s “Chandelier” which features the young dancer Maddie Ziegler of reality TV show Dance Moms, was stunning and quickly inspired countless remakes and parodies by everyone from “Girls” star Lena Dunham to Jim Carrey and Kate Mckinnon, reports the Huffington Post. Now filmmaker Ryan James Yezak has decided to set his holiday take on “Chandelier”…
Taco Bell has said they did not create a gay-themed commercial featuring two men cuddling and a same-sex wedding that leaked onto the Internet. In the well produced commercial, which can be seen above, two buddies stop at the fast food chain for a “breakfast pitstop” and then one of them ponders aloud, “I wonder…
Florida’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has spent most of the year trying to stop the progress of marriage equality has been named ‘Loser of the Year’ by the Tampa Bay Times this week. Twice-divorced Bondi was re-elected in November 2014, previously claimed in a legal brief that “disrupting Florida’s existing marriage laws would impose…
For years, efforts to pass laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination in employment and public accommodations have been derailed by the right-wing myth that sexual predators will exploit those laws to sneak into women’s restrooms. In 2014, that myth finally began to lose steam, reports Media Matters For America in their latest post. Anti-LGBT activists…
Jan. 4, 2015 at 9 p.m. ET/PT, Oprah Prime on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. and the Selma marches 50 years later. Oprah sits down with acclaimed actor David Oyelowo, star of the upcoming feature film Selma, along with the film’s award-winning director Ava DuVernay, for a conversation…
Morocco has jailed two men for having gay sex, reports Pink News. A court sentenced two men Dec.23 to three years in prison for “homosexual practices”, the maximum penalty under the law. The ruling was fast-tracked by the court, after the two men, believed to have been local to the area, were found having sex …
