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A Black gay journalist was told to stop “queening out” on camera. Now he’s speaking out.
He says he suffered so much racist and homophobic discrimination that the stress gave him a medical condition.
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“Star Trek” actress Mary Wiseman comes out as queer & proud
The 35 year old actress has “dated and loved people of all genders,” she said after trying to relay that she wasn’t straight in a prior interview.
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A trans woman was murdered on Christmas Day. Police are choosing to misgender her.
Courtney Eshay Kay’s family told Chicago police that she was a trans woman. They’re still classifying her under the wrong gender.
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A Black gay man was slashed & left for dead by strangers. He spent the holidays in the hospital.
Anthony Crumbley lost use of his arm, fell into a coma, and spent his birthday in the hospital because three strangers sliced his neck. Now he’s terrified to go home.
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Your tax dollars are at work — helping hate groups act as “charities” that save millions
Lax enforcement of IRS policies allow anti-LGBTQ hate groups and white nationalists to masquerade as tax-exempt charities, saving them millions in taxes.
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Fort Lauderdale’s out mayor faced intimidation & slurs from Trump supporters. He was still reelected.
Mayor Dean Trantalis had pink flags left around his home and slurs hurled at him. He’s not alone in being targeted.
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The first Black gay man on “Survivor” speaks out about racism & homophobia on the show
“Why do so many of us seem to go in the first few votes? Why are we always targeted first?”
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BET is celebrating Black LGBTQ people with #29DaysofQueerExcellence
In addition to sharing different Black LGBTQ people each day in February, BET will also feature cast members of ‘Pose’ in a docuseries and honor Jaboukie Young-White.
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Employee fired for publishing man’s name & HIV status in misleading report
CBS published (then deleted) an article that made it seem that HIV could be spread through saliva. Even worse – the police officers that supplied the info are still promoting that as fact.
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Lil Nas X says that he tried ‘praying & praying & praying’ to be straight as a teen
“I was just praying and praying and praying… that it was, like, a phase,” he said.