Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered on the chilly Christopher Street Pier tonight to honor the memory of murdered gay teen Jorge Mercado and to call on the federal and Puerto Rican governments to charge his killer with a hate crime.
More from Joe My God
In April, the predictably anti-gay Artur Davis—the black conservative Democrat from Birmingham, Alabama who boasts an abysmal 45 percent Human Rights Campaign score—was the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to vote against the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes.
More from Rod Online
President Obama will sign the Department of Defense authorization bill containing the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act (aka the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr.
More from Towleroad
A federal hate crimes bill, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act, which was passed by the House on October 8, is expected to get a final vote in the Senate today,.
More from Towleroad
Seen here in her only useful form, Stephanie Pratt just got snagged for DUI early this morning, according to TMZ: Law enforcement tells us Pratt, who appears frequently on MTV's "The Hills," was busted this morning at 3:45 AM.
More from EyeGossip.com
The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed by the House today as an attachment to a Department of Defense appropriations bill: "Democrats and advocates hailed the 281-to-146 vote, which put the measure on the brink of becoming.
More from Towleroad
Country star Wynonna Judd better find someone new to tutor her kids, because the teacher hired to homeschool her kids was just arrested on child pornography charges.
More from The Evil Beet
The annual United Nations General Assembly begins today and NYC is under a tight security lockdown. Midtown subway stations are swarming with cops and ominous men in dark suits and many East Side streets are closed.
More from Joe My God
*all pretend*
I've introduced many heroes in my life, including Nick Auger the Superhero and Bryce Thompson the Action Hero.
More from Definition of a Man
Because local law enforcement does not stay up to date with the happenings of their peers in other towns and counties, Atlanta police just made the same mistake as Ft.
More from Queerty
The NYC district attorneys' office is having a hard time finding New Yorkers willing to serve on the jury for the murder trial of notorious mobster John Gotti, Jr.
More from Joe My God
Attorney Albert Gordon, a leading gay rights activist, has died. He was 94 years old. Gordon is considered a pioneer in the gay rights movement having used publicity to highlight hypocritical law enforcement and anti-gay persecution.
More from GaySocialites
Pioneering Gay Rights Attorney Albert Gordon Dead at 94EDGE BostonLos Angeles attorney Albert L.
More from Google Gay News
A heterosexual whose twin sons were gay, he battled bigotry in law enforcement and successfully argued for the revocation of laws against consensual homosexual acts.
More from Yahoo Gay News
According to reports from Anoka-Hennepin School district officials, the two teachers at a Minnesota high-school, who were accused of repeatedly harassing a student they thought to be gay are on leave without pay from their jobs.
More from Gay Agenda
In a disturbing new report from PEOPLE Magazine, a law enforcement insider with the NYPD reveals that DJ AM had eight undigested OxyContin pills in his stomach and a ninth in his mouth when he was discovered dead on the seventh floor of an apartment building on Lafayette Street in Manhattan last Friday.
More from EyeGossip.com
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said Friday it has fired the two agents, as well as their supervisor, who took part in this summer's raid of a Fort Worth gay bar that resulted in law enforcement clashing with hundreds of patrons and leaving one man hospitalized with a serious head injury.
More from Topix Gay News
On Top Magazine
3 liquor agents fired after raid on gay barChicago Tribune... summer's raid of a Fort Worth gay bar that resulted in law enforcement clashing with hundreds of patrons and left one man with a serious head injury.
More from Google Gay News
The Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents were part of a raid at the Rainbow Lounge that led to clashes with hundreds of patrons on the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall raid in New York.
More from Yahoo Gay News
Being openly gay and working in law enforcement hasn't always been easy, the highest-ranking openly gay man in one of the nation's largest sheriff's departments, told his local, generally conservative, newspaper after his recent promotion to captain in the Riverside County Sheriff's Department.
More from Qnews