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Musician Rich Pagano is honoring his son's legacy with a benefit concert for the Nic Pagano Scholarship Fund, which helps LGBTQ+ people pay for addiction treatment.
When it comes to prosecuting overdose deaths, what a difference money and skin color make.
The Democratic donor was convicted in the deaths of Black gay men, injecting them with methamphetamine until they overdosed.
After intially ruling the death of Gemmel Moore an accidental, self-administered overdose, prosecutors are reviewing whether Moore's death wasn't accidental -- or self-inflicted.
Buck had previously been found guilty on charges that he provided drugs to men in exchange for sex, leading to two overdose deaths.
Stephen Port administered lethal doses of GHB to his victims; police are under fire for initially considering the deaths suicides or accidental overdoses.
Heath Ledger's father said his son's death by accidental overdose would be an enduring agony for the family and should serve as a warning to others not to mix prescription drugs. The New York City medical examiner announced Wednesday that the 28-year-old ''Brokeback Mountain'' star died from the effects of taking six types of painkillers and sedatives. His body was found Jan. 22 in his Manhattan apartment. Ledger's premature death promoted outpourings of grief from New York to Hollywood to his hometown of Perth, a small and remote city on the verge of the Outback in Australia's southwest.
Following the announcement that the teenager’s death was suicide through the combined toxicity of two common medications, The Advocate spoke with experts about the risks of these drugs.
The political activist must abandon his longtime West Hollywood home after two gay Black men died there.
The political donor is charged with providing drugs that led to the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean, and he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
That's the same drug that killed another black man found dead in Buck's apartment in 2017.
A jury, presented with mountains of evidence, convicted the onetime West Hollywood fixture of supplying meth that led to the deaths of two gay Black men.
Crackdowns and denials don't work, writes Alex Cheves. We have to work around reality.
Devon J. Lopez-Bergman was only 21.
After another man was found dead at Buck's home Monday, Lieu distances himself from his donations.
His death was revealed in a post to Facebook by his grieving mother.
The world mourned when bisexual rapper Lil Peep died of an accidental overdose, but his music and legacy remain.
As addiction runs rampant, Gay Men's Health Crisis opens a new substance abuse clinic in the heart of Manhattan.
Out activist Jasmyne A. Cannick led the call to bring the accused predator to justice, but she says opportunism elbowed her out of the narrative.
Police say the victim may be the same person who exchanged shots with a security guard at a vacant apartment building, but trans advocates have some doubts.
A longtime rumor about the pop superstar is confirmed by her ex-husband.
