[Trigger Warning: Homophobia] Community activists are furious over a new video that appears to show Brooklyn police roughly detaining a gay man and pepper-spraying him while hurling homophobic slurs at his friends. The incident took place at approximately 4:00 am… Read More ›
BY RAKSHITA PATEL New figures claim 78 trans people have already been killed in 13 countries this year and 1,233 in 59 countries since January 2008 New figures published today show 78 trans people were murdered in 13 countries from 1… Read More ›
by Joseph Patrick McCormick Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has been evacuated, after a former far-right activist committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, after writing a blog post slamming France’s recently passed equal marriage bill. Dominique Venner, a famous… Read More ›
by DAVID BADASH Michigan Senate Republicans have passed a bullying bill — not an anti-bullying bill — that actually gives license to bully. In an Orwellian twist, the bill, which passed 26-11, with zero Democratic votes, allows kids to be bullied… Read More ›
By Aisha Harris Mountain Dew recently released three new ads featuring a crazed goat voiced by rapper Tyler, the Creator, who was also the mastermind behind the commercials. The goat is seen attacking a waitress after she gives him the soda,… Read More ›
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›
Game ranger course ‘general’ is on trial for murder, child abuse, neglect and allegedly forced teen to eat his own feces BY JOE MORGAN Three ‘gay and effeminate’ teens have died after being starved, tortured and killed at a camp that… Read More ›
A seemingly trivial controversy reveals quite a bit about pervasive political values by Glenn Greenwald News reports yesterday indicated that Bradley Manning, widely known to be gay, had been selected to be one of the Grand Marshals of the annual San Francisco gay pride… Read More ›
By David Edwards A gay man was arrested at a hospital in Missouri this week when he refused to leave the bedside of his partner, and now a restraining order is preventing him from any type of visitation. Roger Gorley told… Read More ›
She claims that when she went to the principal to complain about the harassment, the principal allegedly replied, “I don’t want a dyke in this school.” Within the first three days of enrolling in Magnolia Junior High School in Mississippi, … Read More ›
By HOLBROOK MOHR JACKSON, Miss. — A 22-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate, whose body was found near a river levee in the Mississippi Delta this week. The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department… Read More ›
Police officers allegedly ripped a wig from a transgender woman’s head and emptied the contents of her handbag onto the street. Video footage has emerged of officers holding down Jose Dos Santos, 49, as they arrested her on Soho’s Wardour… Read More ›
The following statement was read aloud by the comrades of the No Golden Dawn in Chicago Working Group in front of the Greek consulate NoGoldenDawnChicago@gmail.com | http://www.facebook.com/NoFascistGoldenDawnPartyInChicago | @NoGoldenDawnChi | 312-446-4939 January 19, 2013 The Honorable Ioanna Efthymiadou Consul General in… Read More ›
The Vatican’s newspaper slammed laws on gay marriage as an attempt at a communist-like “utopia”, a day after tens of thousands of demonstrators turned out in France to support homosexual unions. In a scathing front-page editorial yesterday, the official Osservatore… Read More ›
By Arturo Garcia The American Family Association (AFA) emailed members urging them to keep their children out of school during an anti-bullying event organized by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). According to The New York Times, the evangelical group’s… Read More ›
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