I have a novel idea! I have a new business concept that I’d like to share with you. I’d be curious if you think it’s any good or not. The idea is for a gas station, but it’s not like any gas station you’ve ever seen. When you pull up to the pump, instead of…
LGBT communities throughout the United States are mourning the loss of gay pioneer Arthur Evans who died in San Francisco over the weekend. Evans died due to complications from cardiovascular disease. Evans forged the road for many other gay rights activists, beginning first in New York City, later settling in where he’d call home, San…
Dick and wife Lynne Cheney garnered applause on the set of The View after the couple agreed gay marriage and gay rights should be allowed in America, the New York Daily News reports. “I think freedom means freedom for everybody, and you ought to have the right to make whatever choice you want to make…
Conservatives are questioning Herman Cain after he allegedly tried to conceal the sexual identity of a top adviser, the Associated Press reports. Allegations arose after campaign coordinator Kevin Hall filed for unemployment benefits, citing that Cain’s team tried to cover up an adviser’s sexual orientation in an effort to appease conservatives. Campaign attorney for Cain…
Teonna Monae Brown, 19, was charged with the April 18 Baltimore McDonald’s beating of transgender woman Chrissy Lee Polis, 22, and will now serve the sentence of five years in prison for the crime. The incident attracted national attention after the video was posted on YouTube by a McDonald’s employee who recorded the incident but…
North Carolina conservatives may get their way in banning same-sex marriages after passing a motion to place a constitutional amendment on the state’s May 2012 ballot. The final vote – 30-16 – gained three-fifths majority by pin-thin margins needed to pass the measure. The measure kept its momentum after gaining prior approval in the House…
The Episcopal church lost one of its own Sunday as Walter C. Righter, a retired, gay-friendly bishop for the church passed at the age of 87. The announcement was confirmed Tuesday by Rich Creehan, spokesman for the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, where Righter was ordained nearly 60 years ago, the Los Angeles Times reports. Righter…
In a series of criminal events spanning the D.C. area, police are now investigating the weekend murder of a possible transgender woman, a classified hate crime, according to police records. The Metropolitan Police Department held an official news conference Monday to discuss the crime, where community activists took foothold in working with the MPD. The…
Rick Welts is the first NBA executive to come out, who did so publicly in a tell-all, front-page interview with The New York Times in May. Now, the former Phoenix Suns president and chief executive officer has called quits on his post to pursue other interests. But Welts isn’t worried – according to an interview…
North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast without legal language in its constitution that would otherwise ban same-sex marriage. While the state’s law already defines marriage between a man and a woman, the state constitution does not, prompting Republican lawmakers to move quickly in order to squander the possibility of legalized gay marriage…
