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News (USA)
Alarming data show increased suicide risks among LGBTQ youth
For teens through college freshmen, LGBTQ students show significant higher risks for suicidal thoughts and actions
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News (USA)
Do you agree with these new guidelines on gender-neutral pronouns & ‘LGBTQ’?
The Associated Press is instructing writers to consider using the singular “they” for non-binary people, but not to use pronouns like “ze.”
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News (USA)
Hate’s giant price-tag: HB2 cost North Carolina almost $4 billion
In a new analysis, it is estimated that North Carolina lost billions from jobs and events that went elsewhere.
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News (USA)
Bullied gay hacker caught by FBI agent impersonating reporter speaks out
A decade later, the Associated Press is continuing to press the FBI for a ban on impersonating reporters — and a fuller disclosure of how widespread the practice is.
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News (USA)
Pulse victim’s mom says releasing calls to 911 would be traumatizing
“The cries and screaming of death is not a sound to be played over and over …” wrote Rosetta Evans.
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News (USA)
Dept of Justice drops opposition to releasing Pulse 911 calls to media
The U.S. Department of Justice has dropped its legal case, saying that withholding the recordings is no longer necessary to the federal investigation.
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News (USA)
News media sue so you can hear Orlando’s tearful calls to 911 (Really)
The city of Orlando filed a counter lawsuit, claiming the calls by the gunman and 603 calls for help from clubgoers are part of an ongoing investigation.
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News (USA)
Meningitis victim’s brother condemns West Hollywood council member, media
LOS ANGELES — The brother of Brett Shaad, the 33-year-old West Hollywood man who died Saturday after contracting a deadly strain of bacterial meningitis, is lashing out over media coverage of his brother’s death.
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Openly gay journalist found dead in elevator shaft in Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — Armando Montano, an openly gay apprentice journalist working as a summer intern for the Associated Press in Mexico City, was found dead early Saturday. He was 22 years old.
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Commentary
Anti-gay hate group’s publication deliberately distorts AP news article
The American Family Association’s One News Now is known for being a fraudulent news sources by often creating a story around the erroneous comments of anti-gay leaders or telling only one side of an incident (making sure to make the gay community look at fault).