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5 N.Y. Schools Evacuated After Bomb Threats Over LGBTQ+ Books

The person threatening the schools was upset about “groomers,” which is a far-right wing slur to attack LGBTQ+ people who work with children.

Trans Man Poe Black Fatally Stabbed in California Desert Community

Black, an artist and activist originally from Nashville, had been living in Slab City, an alternative community near Niland, Calif.

35 transgender and nonbinary people who died by violence in 2023

The epidemic of fatal violence against transgender, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people continues.

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New York Schools on Lock Out After Second Bomb Threat Over LGBTQ+ Book

For the second time in two days students in a Rochester-area school district have been terrorized because somebody doesn’t like the books in the school library.

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South Carolina Trans Teen Killed; Man He Met for Date Charged With Murder

Jacob Williamson was found dead Tuesday, four days after he left his home for a date with a man he met online.

The Year in Queer

A month-by-month breakdown of the important LGBT news events of 2008.

Gay Official Claims Reporter Bullied Him

Outed by reports he used Grindr at work.

There's a Human Behind the Sensational Florida Cannibal Case

Justin Tyler Calhoun, who identifies as a trans woman, is accused of savagely killing her ex after accusing him of being a cannibal. The tabloids love the story -- and ignore the realities that led to it.

Here are the 31 transgender Americans lost to violence in 2024

The epidemic of fatal violence against trans people in the U.S. continues.

The 21 Trans Women Killed in 2015

As a new year dawns, activists continue to decry an 'epidemic' of fatal violence directed at transgender women.

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