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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 world mourned when bisexual rapper Lil Peep died of an accidental overdose, but his music and legacy remain.
Chris Brodman was found dead at a birthday party Sunday morning. The cause of death is unknown.
It's almost one year since the Pulse shooting in Orlando.
Police have been investigating the circumstances behind the fiery crash that happened last Friday.
The long-awaited report about the death of the LGBTQ+ Oklahoma teenager was released Wednesday.
Police shot off nearly 150 bullets at Mateen, an autopsy report reveals.
A cruise ship dancer who jumped 30 feet off a deck into San Diego Bay last weekend was killed by police after attacking an officer who had helped pull him onto a rescue boat, officials said Monday. Steven Hirschfield, 37, a performer and bodybuilder who lived in West Hollywood, was hired to dance aboard Saturday night's Circuit Daze harbor cruise, a dance party attended by about 900 revelers as part of the weekend's gay pride celebrations.
Walters, the state's superintendent of public instruction, is denying the existence of trans and nonbinary people after nonbinary teen Nex Benedict's death.
Police have determined that Sumaya Dalmar's death was not a murder, but investigators still released a statement after inquiries from trans residents.
Authorities identified a body found in the ocean as one of the children missing since one of their mothers drove the family SUV over a cliff in California in March.
An appeals court overturned the convictions last year.
A spokesperson for the NYPD says the agency is investigating these attacks as financially motivated crimes.
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.
Police officials assert that the teen's cause of death is unrelated to trauma but give no further details on what may have led to their death raising more questions than answers.
Meanwhile, a police spokesman says murder charges are still a possibility.
