The Los Angeles LGBT Center management and workers represented by S SEIU Local 721 have reached a tentative agreement offering fair pay increases for all workers, including a groundbreaking path to $15 an hour that will outpace the minimum wage increase timeline Governor Brown signed into law in April of this year. “Together the voices…
By Paulo Murillo 22-year-old transgender woman Lucia McCalip from Indiana, took her own life after ingesting a “pong seed,” which is a deadly seed from an Asian plant known as the “Suicide Tree.” McCalip’s mother, Natosha Anderson, found her on the bathroom floor after being sick for hours. She admitted she swallowed the seed…
This City of West Hollywood is set to host the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance event on Thursday, November 20, at 6:30 p.m., at the Auto Court of the West Hollywood Library, located 625 N. San Vicente Boulevard. Transgender Day of Remembrance commemorates transgender individuals who have been murdered for being transgender in Los Angeles…
By Paulo Murillo Los Angeles Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell and the LAPD announced a $50,000 reward for leads to an arrest for the murder of Aniya “Ray” Parker, a 47 year-old transwoman, who was fatally shot on Melrose Avenue in East Hollywood on Thursday, October 2. Officers believe the shooting occurred around 2:30 a.m. on N…
Los Angeles-based photographer Dusti Cunningham (he recently shot trans activist Buck Angel for the June cover of The Fight) and transgender activist Jacob Rostovsky, are working together to raise funds to complete “Gender Bent,” a photographic series containing photos of people who have bent and blurred the lines, and custom-designed their gender to better suit…
SF-based drag queen Heklina (a.k.a. Stefan Grygelko) recently announced that she will be removing the word “tranny” from drag club Trannyshack, after operating under the name for 18-years, and taking the event on the road around the country and around the globe. Trannyshack has been “rebranded’ to the new name T-Shack–some say–to appease trans activists who have…
