Naya Rivera is missing on a Southern California lake after her toddler son was found alive, but alone on a boat … TMZ has confirmed. Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies found the 4-year-old boy on the boat — presumably rented by Naya — shortly before 5 PM on Lake Piru, but Naya was not there. Law…
(Photo: Shamann Walton) Shamann Walton, a San Francisco supervisor, has introduced legislation that would outlaw racially-motivated 911 calls such as those made by various “Karens” around the country, reports Towleroad. The legislation is appropriately named: The CAREN Act, which stands for Caution Against Racially Exploitative Non-Emergencies. The bill would charge people who make false racially-biased emergency…
(Photo: Sonya Holt) The lovely Tennessee woman who shouted at a protester at a Black Lives Matter protest that he is a “gay homosexual piece of crap” and told a 16-year old “you’re just a poor little Black girl with a messed up mind,” has been fired from her job, reports toofab.com. On Monday morning, Keith…
(Photo: Kanye West. Photo By David Shankbone) The possibility of a future with President Kanye West and first lady Kim Kardashian inched closer to reality on Saturday as the rapper tweeted he is running for president, apparently this year, reports The Hill. In an Independence Day tweet, the 43-year-old musician and fashion designer said he is running for…
Californians living in several key Golden State cities could incur hundreds of dollars in fines if they venture out in public without masks, reports CNN. Authorities in Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Monterey announced they’ll enforce California Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s mask mandate by citing people who don’t cover their face in public. …
Kiki Xtravaganza on drawing inspiration from gender-bending performance artists, the ballroom and voguing scene and finding a support network BY VICTOR MELAMED | PHOTO BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM Kiki Xtravaganza is an icon in LA nightlife. As with other club fixtures and performance artists, however, her history is shrouded in a fair degree of mystery. Behind…
Newly married trans activist Luckie Alexander on the “All Black Lives Matter” march, racial injustice and providing a platform for transmen to be their own story tellers. BY MARK ARIEL | PHOTO BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM “I was 8 years old when I found out I wasn’t like my little brothers,” reveals trans activist Luckie Alexander in…
Lauran Winnett on making it in Hollywood, the thick clouds of nepotism and blurring the lines between rigid gender categorizations BY MARK ARIEL | PHOTO BY DUSTI CUNNINGHAM Lauran Winnett (aka PuzziNiggrr) stumbled onto the Los Angeles Drag Scene in the Spring of 2014. She’s an actress, vocalist, songwriter and storyteller who has been fortunate…
Australian born songwriter and pop artist Yanni Burton’s new single focuses on moving on from past relationships BY VICTOR MELAMED Yanni Burton turns the spotlight on his own struggles of letting go and moving on from past relationships in his new single and music video, A Part of Me. “I have a history of getting lost…
Los Angeles LGBT Center celebrates Supreme Court landmark decision to protect LGBT employees BY ORLY LYONNE In response to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision last month in three employment discrimination cases that employees cannot be fired because of sexual orientation and gender identity, the Los Angeles LGBT Center issued the following…
How Little Things Got Us Here “Everyday I leave my house there’s a realization that today could be the day some local cop takes their insecurities and lack of training out on me. Making me the honoree of America’s next big protests and riots.” BY SULLIVAN LEWIS You want to know the most ridiculous thing…
WEST HOLLYWOOD COMMUNITY MOURNS DEATH OF ENTERTAINER AND HIV ADVOCATE IRENE SODERBERG The West Hollywood community is mourning the loss of entertainer, HIV Advocate, Fairy Godmother of Fundraising, and WeHo resident, Irene Soderberg, who passed away last month. Soderberg has been entertaining for over 30 years. Wherever there was a piano in West Hollywood, she…
More Naturally “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” —Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013.…
How Did That Happen?! I would have bet a magnum of vintage Krug that we would lose our Title VII GLBT workplace discrimination cases in the Supreme Court last month, and I’ve rarely been so happy to be so wrong. But my God, you guys! It seemed impossible. Of course we still had the remnant…
THE NEW NORMAL We asked these clean and sober individuals with various lengths of sobriety time, what their new normal is like in recovery during the coronavirus pandemic. Stay Connected “I’ve been trying to get sober for 15 years. I recently got one year. It’s the longest I’ve been sober. When the pandemic hit, I…
On Tuesday, a Black transgender woman was left in critical condition after she was shot in downtown Los Angeles, reports CBSLA. The incident happened near 15th Street and Hooper Avenue at about 7:10 p.m on Tuesday. No arrests have been made and a suspect description was not released. A motive in the incident was also…
(Photo: Kelly Clarkson) Singer Kelly Clarkson has released a video just in time to wrap up Pride month. Clarkson has been taping episodes of her Kelly Clarkson Show at home during the coronavirus pandemic, reports LGBTQ Nation. Interspersed with photos from Prides around the world, Clarkson gives her take on Swift’s LGBTQ anthem. WATCH:
(Photo: Kristian Rouse) Police are investigating a brutal attack on a transgender teen that nearly killed him, reports KGET. The teen, Kristian Rouse, 18, was found laying on the floor of his apartment, barely alive, by his mother, Eurydice Darrington. “He could barely speak, barely breathe. He had marks around his neck, his face was swollen,…
(Photo L-R: Margaret Cho, Gina Yashere, Ian Harvie) Here TV, America’s first and largest LGBTQ+ video channel, is partnering with The Fight Magazine and WEHOville.com for OUR PRIDE, a two day, 12-hour virtual Pride event featuring discussions with activists, political leaders, drag queens and comedians in addition to live entertainment from a rainbow-wide stripe of…
Donald Trump gave a wide-ranging interview to Christian Broadcasting Network on Monday night, and was asked about the recent Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ people are protected from being fired under civil rights laws, reports Towleroad. Asked how he felt about his appointee Neil Gorsuch ruling in favor of LGBTQ people, Trump replied: “I was…
Gail Hayden, director of the California Farmers’ Market Association, was captured on video last week at the Livermore Farmers’ Market berating Dan Floyd, owner of Dan Good Cookies, for handing out Pride flags at his booth, reports Towleroad. “I don’t even care what the flags are for,” Hayden claimed. “This person may have an issue…
Today the Los Angeles LGBT Center joins a lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal and Steptoe & Johnson LLP challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) recently published health care discrimination rule that purports to carve out LGBTQ people and other vulnerable populations from the protections of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care…
