A landmark first prosecution under a federal hate crimes law for the murder of a transgender victim has been successful. Joshua Vallum, 27, of Mississippi pleaded guilty Wednesday for the hate crime of the murder of his ex-girlfriend Mercedes William…
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Gay Couple Removed from JetBlue Flight for Confronting Ivanka Trump
A gay man and his husband were kicked off a JetBlue flight at JFK for verbally confronting Ivanka Trump (she was flying with husband Jared Kushner, their cousins, and their three kids), Heatstreet reports: According to TMZ, Ivanka had already boarded…
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Sean Spicer Named White House Press Secretary
Donald Trump today named Sean Spicer as White House Press Secretary, Hope Hicks as Director of Strategic Communications, Jason Miller as Director of Communications and Dan Scavino as Director of Social Media. Here’s Spicer responding to calls f…
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These Are The Best 15 Albums Of 2016 (And 10 You May Have Missed)
2016 has been a big one for music with new releases from the likes of Radiohead, Bon Iver and PJ Harvey along with the deaths of legends Prince, David Bowie and Leonard Cohen. As ever there has also been a huge number of under-the-radar releases from…
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NC NAACP Calls for National Economic Boycott of North Carolina After HB2 Debacle
The North Carolina NAACP says it will call for a national economic boycott of North Carolina following the dismal, lying failure of the GOP state lawmakers to fully repeal anti-LGBT HB2 as promised. And a few other things as well, namely the hijackin…
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Appeals Court Overturns Michael L. Johnson’s 30 Year Sentence for Exposing Someone to HIV
An appeals court has overturned former student-athlete Michael L. Johnson’s conviction for infecting a sexual partner with HIV. In 2015, Johnson was sentenced to 30 years in prison after he had unprotected sex with a fellow student just weeks after d…
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Mormon Tabernacle Choir Agrees to Perform at Trump’s Inauguration, and Here’s Who Won’t
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir said on Thursday it would perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony on January 20: This performance will mark the sixth time the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has sung at an inauguration. These inaugural events inclu…
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Anne Rice: ‘I Feel Like I’m Gay’
Anne Rice, whose latest book Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis, follows her Vampire Chronicles antihero Lestat to new aquatic settings, tells The Daily Beast that she feels like she is gay, and beyond gender. Rice made the remarks after being…
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Horrible Woman Banned from Kentucky Mall for Disgusting Racist Tirade: WATCH
A Kentucky mall has banned a woman for life after she went on a racist tirade against another shopper. The video, which was posted to Facebook on Tuesday evening, shows a woman verbally attacking a shopper who was checking out. Appealing to a mostly…
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Billy Eichner Surprises ‘Gays’ with the Holiday Gift of Debra Messing: WATCH
Screamer on the street Billy Eichner played a special holiday edition of one of his favorite games – “It’s Debra Messing You Gays!!!” in which he throws Debra Messing in the face of unwitting strangers (whether they’re g…
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