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A police officer brutally attacked a trans man for having an air freshener hanging in his car
Emmett Brock’s life has been ruined after Joseph Benza punched him repeatedly for three minutes.
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The NYPD’s Pride-themed vehicle may feature an anti-cop slogan
The NYPD doesn’t have the best record on LGBTQ+ community relations.
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San Diego pays $275K settlement to trans woman after she was housed with men in jail
An inmate broke her jaw. It had to be wired shut and she is still in pain.
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Police are using Grindr & other apps to entrap & torture LGBTQ+ people
A new report says social media companies aren’t doing enough to protect LGBTQ+ users in Africa and the Middle East.
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Cops shoot at LGBTQ protestors during “Straight Pride” after Proud Boys start violence
Police officers nationwide have been linked to the far-right violent militia group.
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Drag queens targeted by trolls filing false police reports saying they’re killers
One drag queen exited her house to find four police officers pointing guns at her. A troll had told police she killed her brother and was going to kill herself.
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Do cops belong at Pride parades?
LGBTQ civil rights and Black civil rights histories intersect on many issues, with violence and police brutality among them.
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LGBTQ youth face more stress from police brutality & COVID-19
1 in 5 LGBTQ youth have faced police harassment or mistreatment by police, compared to just 1 in 7 for non-LGBTQ youth.
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Georgia Rep. Park Cannon is a queer “activist elected official” getting it done in the South
She was only 24 when she was first elected to the state legislature.
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L.A. Pride no longer organizing Black Lives Matter solidarity march
A white Pride parade organizer was coordinating with police without consulting Black Lives Matter activists.
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White cops charged after video surfaces of them beating black trans woman’s head against concrete
The Fraternal Order of Police accused Brianna Hill of beating her own head against the pavement in order to frame the cops. It’s all on video.
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A queer black man wants Pete Buttigieg’s campaign to ‘be honest’ about racial police violence
Buttigieg’s local record on racial relations could cripple his campaign unless he substantially addresses it soon.
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It will take more than apologies to ease the tension between LGBTQ people & the police
LGBTQ people nationwide are still suffering abuse at the hands of police. While NYPD’s apology 50 years after the fact is nice, what about the problems plaguing us today?
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The White Night Riots happened 40 years ago today, but what has changed since then?
While the Stonewall Riots get all the attention, the White Night Riots were a brutal showdown with police that turned mourners into a mob.
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Did police carve ‘GAY’ into this man’s stomach after they beat him with batons?
He filed a complaint with the police after he was beaten by men wielding police batons. It only made it worse.
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This is just reminder that I, like, exist.
Does the LGBTQ community only have my back when I’m bashed for being gay, but not when I catch hell for being black?
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Ellen gets emotional about racism: ‘As a white person, I’m ashamed’
Ellen said she’s “furious” about police shooting unarmed black people.
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Police needlessly shot & killed a campus pride student leader in front of their dorm
As students watched in horror, police killed the mentally unstable student instead of using nonlethal techniques like a taser or pepper spray.
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The film ‘Detroit’ has good intentions. We all know how that tends to work out.
“It was two hours and 23 minutes of the muting, maiming, torturing and murder of black bodies. That’s the movie.”
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I need the help of white LGBT people to protect my black body
I’m calling on my white LGBTQ brothers and sisters for help because my spouse and I don’t know where our Black bodies are safe in America.
