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News (USA)
Muggers thought a gay couple would be an easy target. They picked the wrong men to try to rob.
“The guy pulled a knife trying to rob me of my bag. So I put him on the ground.”
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Life
Drag superstar Monét X Change just released the protest song of the summer
“This year we are experiencing this beautiful intersection of Black Lives Matter and Pride and I genuinely think it’s changing the world.”
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News (USA)
17 New York guards disciplined for letting a trans prisoner choke to death on her own vomit
A psychiatrist said that it was risky to put 27-year-old trans inmate Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco into a cell on her own. Guards did it anyway.
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Commentary
Mondaire Jones & Ritchie Torres could bring needed Black, LGBTQ representation to government
LGBTQ equality has transformed the country, but queer and trans people of color still need representation.
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News (USA)
New York City prison guards laughed & didn’t help as a transgender woman died in her cell
“It was horrifying for the family to see this footage,” said David Shanies, the lawyer representing the inmate’s family. “They were completely unprepared for what they saw. They all broke into hysterical crying.”
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News (USA)
Shocking photo shows dozens of unmasked gay men partying on NYC street without social distancing
“It’s insulting to see a generation behave like this when our elders had to survive an epidemic to fight for our rights,” one witness told LGBTQ Nation.
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Life
“Hamilton” actor Javier Muñoz was gay bashed by undercover police officers
“We’ve come so far in the LGBTQ community,” Muñoz said. “How dare anyone try and push us back. No. And so I will stand up, and I will be that guy who’s going to get scrappy.”
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LGBTQ Pride
Pride in Pictures: The liberation of a ‘Gay In’ at a record-breaking kissing contest
50 years later, what should have been recognized as a Guinness world record at the first Pride parade reminds us of the powerful act of being out.
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News (USA)
Black, gay journalist Keith Boykin arrested covering George Floyd protests
Police arrested the CNN contributor without warning when he was taking pictures of a protest and held him for hours.