The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) asked its supporters to submit photos for their 2015 video — and WOW did you respond! HRC received over 16,000 photos. Watch the video above or scroll through their Facebook albums! (Since not all the photos could fit in the video, you can view thousands more here: https://www.facebook.com/humanrightsc…) States the…
https://youtu.be/ImhHvumkanY A transgender woman who slashed two men with a box cutter on a New York City subway train was arraigned on assault charges Wednesday. A friend of the woman said that she was provoked with anti-gay slurs. “The other guy spit on her and called her a fa—t,” Kimball (Kimy) Hartman told reporters after…
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said in an interview Sunday that, if elected, he would ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling in U.S. v. Windsor and enforce the parts of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that the court found unconstitutional. Santorum also said that he would attempt to undermine the court’s ruling in Roe…
After racking up more than 50 accusations from women of sexual assault or unwanted advances, Bill Cosby will finally face criminal charges in Pennsylvania. Montgomery County District Attorney-elect Kevin Steele announced today that Cosby will face charges of aggravated indecent assault which is a felony of the first degree. The Huffington Post reported that the…
WASHINGTON — The National LGBTQ Task Force today called for a federal probe into the Cleveland Police over the killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year old black child. Yesterday an Ohio grand jury declined to indict the Cleveland police officer who fatally shot the unarmed black 12-year-old. In statement Russell Roybal, National LGBTQ Task Force deputy executive…
A gay Virginia man was brutally attacked on Christmas night in his own home by a man who broke his hands and fingers and also knocked four teeth out. According to NewNowNext, Drew Inge of Yorktown was also kicked in the head multiple times by the attacker who verbally assaulted him and threatened his life….
The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) has named two of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court’s landmark same-sex marriage case its “persons of the year.” In an editorial published Monday, Greg Bourke and Michael DeLeon were named NCR‘s persons of the year for 2015 for “… their historic roles as plaintiffs in Obergefell v. Hodges and…
400 days after Tamir Rice was killed while playing in a Cleveland park an Ohio grand jury has declined to indict the Cleveland police officer who fatally shot the unarmed black 12-year-old, reports The Huffington Post. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty announced the decision Monday afternoon. Rookie patrolman Timothy Loehmann shot Rice after responding…
View More: Travel News|Live News|More News Videos A new directive by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued last week means the provision to opt-out of full body scanners is no longer a guarantee when going through security screening at airports in the U.S. The Advocate reports that at the discretion of TSA agents, some transgender…
