An 18-year-old transgender man, Kristian Rouse, was brutally attacked in Bakersfield, California. The attack hospitalized him for a month afterward. Thus far, police haven’t mentioned any suspects or made any arrests. According to Rouse’s mother, Euryduce Darrington, Rouse used to call to check in with her every day. One day he didn’t call, so Darrington and her…
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LAVERNE COX’S DOCUMENTARY DISCLOSURE LOOKS @ TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATION ON FILM
Laverne Cox serves as executive producer in the Netflix documentary Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen. The documentary takes a look at transgender representation in film. According to Indiewire, the film’s creative team, cast, and crew were “almost exclusively transgender.” Cox, who is best known for playing transgender inmate Sophia Burset on the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New…
TRANSGENDER WOMAN FOUND STABBED TO DEATH IN BALTIMORE
Johanna Metzger was stabbed to death in Baltimore on Saturday. She is at least the sixth transgender person in the U.S. to die a violent death this year. Metzger’s mother told local news that her daughter was a college graduate who taught herself how to play multiple instruments. Baltimore Safe Haven, an LGBTQ center, held…
TOUCHING NEW STARBUCKS AD IS ABOUT A TRANS TEEN CHANGING HIS NAME
A new Starbucks ad follows a trans boy as he starts going by his new name. The ad will air on television in the U.K. and online, and it’s part of a partnership with the U.K. transgender youth organization Mermaids. The chain will sell limited-edition mermaid cookies to raise up to £100,000 ($130,000) for the…
GAY MAN NEEDED 5 STAPLES IN HIS HEAD AFTER HE WAS ATTACHED FOR KISSING ANOTHER MAN
A gay man who was beaten after kissing another man in a bar had to get five staples in his head to close his wounds. Christopher Haughey, 31, said that the attack happened this past Saturday afternoon as he was waiting for the bus in downtown Belfast, Northern Ireland. Haughey said that he believes…
A MAN WAS PUSHED ONTO SUBWAY TRACKS & CALL “F****T” IN A TERRIFYING ATTACK
A man was hit with a hammer and pushed onto the subway tracks in New York in what police believe may be a bias-motivated crime. The 21-year-old victim was waiting for the D train in Manhattan at 1:10 a.m. early this morning when he was attacked, according to a police source who spoke with the New York…
GAY TEEN WHO PUNCHED HIS BULLY IN THAT VIAL VIDEO IS LEAVING SCHOOL
Jordan Steffy – the bullied gay teen who went viral when he punched one of his tormentors – is leaving his school and will be home schooled. Steffy is a junior at LaPorte High School in Indiana, and he told Insider that he had been relentlessly bullied since he came out in seventh grade. A classmate posted a picture…
A FATHER SLIT HIS SON’S THROAT FOR BEING IN AN ATTEMPT TO KILL HIM
A gay teen in Switzerland said that his homophobic father tried to kill him. The 17-year-old alleged victim, who has been identified in the media only as “Seran M,” told the Swiss newspaper 20 Minuten that he was woken up by his father standing over his bed with a knife shouting, “Are you gay? Are you gay?” Seran…
GIOVANNI MELTON’S FATHER RETURNS TO COURT WHILE HIS LOVED ONES STILL WAIT FOR JUSTICE
Wendell Melton, the father and accused murderer of Giovanni Melton, appeared in a Nevada court this week – mere days after the two year anniversary of Giovanni’s death. Giovanni, 14, was gunned down in his father’s home in Henderson, Nevada on November 3, 2017. Wendell initially claimed that he pulled the trigger ‘accidentally’ in the midst of…
23-YEAR-OLD TRANS WOMAN ‘BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION’
A 23-year-old South Florida trans woman, Bee Love Slater, became the 18th trans woman to die in the U.S. this year when police found her body “burned beyond recognition” in her car — just days before her 24th birthday. The murder occurred last Sunday night. It took cops two days to finally identify her charred remains. They…
