This week Immigration Equality and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center will launch the LGBTQ New Americans Project, featuring audio and video oral histories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer immigrants living in Brooklyn and throughout New York City. Through extended conversation, the project records the unique experiences of LGBTQ immigrants in their own words. (more…)
Founding member of Christian rock group 'Everyday Sunday', 35 year old Trey Pearson, who is married with two children has come out as being gay. In a recent letter to his fans he revealed that not everything is as it seems. The Christian Rocker stunned fans across the world earlier this week, admitting he’s been attracted to men since he was a teen. (more…)
Last night’s 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in New York was full of surprises, including Jennifer Lawrence making an unannounced appearance to present Robert De Niro with the Excellence in Media Award. “Robert De Niro is not gay, so I don’t know why we’re here,” Lawrence joked with a straight face when she arrived on the stage. (more…)
On Wednesday, January 13, LGBTI members took to the street to protest the senseless killing of Pasca. 21-year-old openly gay Matshidiso Pasca Melamu was brutally beaten and mutilated; a gruesome murder which has left her family, cops and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) community reeling in shock. (more…)
South African 800m athlete Caster Semenya and her long-time girlfriend, Violet Raseboya, they had their traditional wedding in Ga-Dikgale in the Capricorn District of Limpopo (yes oh! Iyana stole their name!) over the weekend. Semenya and Raseboya got engaged in May 2014. 24 year old Semenya made headlines in 2009 when she was subjected to a gender test after winning the gold in the women's 800m IAAF's Championship in Berlin. She was cleared and went on to win the silver medal at the 2011 World Championship in Daegu. Her greatest achievement to date was winning a s
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