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When it comes to prosecuting overdose deaths, what a difference money and skin color make. Meanwhile, it’s been two years since a 26-year-old Black gay male died in the West Hollywood home of a 63-year-old white man and 243 days since the second one died. That’s not a typo. Yes,…
Counsel to Governor Andrew Cuomo, Alphonso B. David speaks on stage at World AIDS Day at Kings Theatre in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York. (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images for Housing Works, Inc.) The new president of the HRC has been involved in politics his whole…
Regina Duggins (Founder), Ron Rico Judon (VP), Latisha Bradley (Secretary), Jermaine Beigen (Community Outreach) Queen Symone O’Bishop, Queen Crystal Guysir and Emperor Beau O’Bishop. Provided/Charleston Black Pride Shante Savage attended the 2017 Charleston Pride Parade. A new group called Charleston Black Pride has since branched off from the Charleston Pride…
Darren Walker, a gay black man from Texas in a realm created by old-money elites, is the connector of connectors. In a new Gilded Age, he believes that wealth can be made to do more good.
Black transgender women are murdered at alarming rates. They have a bleak life expectancy between 35 and 37 years old, according to Julian K. Glover, an African American Studies doctoral student at Northwestern University and receive an average annual income of $10,000 — well below the poverty line. According to the Human Rights Campaign at the time of…
Police have made an arrest in connection with the murder of Muhlaysia Booker, a transgender woman killed in Dallas last month. Kendrell Lavar Lyles was arrested on June 5 and is suspected in two other murders, police announced Wednesday. He was charged with three counts of murder. The other two…
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Gilead CEO Daniel O’Day on Thursday during a congressional hearing, pointing out that his pharmaceutical company charges nearly $2,000 to U.S. customers for Truvada, a drug designed to reduce the risk of HIV, while a generic version of the same drug only costs $8 in Australia.…
The sister of a man shot and killed by a Walgreens security guard after he was suspected of shoplifting has filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming her brother was a victim of bias because he was black and gay. The suit, filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court on…
Trigger warning: This post contains mention of suicide. The tragic loss of of gay Alabama teen Nigel Shelby, who experienced anti-LGBTQ bullying at school, has shaken LGBTQ and allied communities across the country. Nigel, 15, is remembered by his mother, Camika Shelby, as “outgoing” and “always full of joy, full…
Attorneys for “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett say charges alleging he lied to police about an attack have been dropped.
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