Uganda has just signed a bill that further criminalizes homosexuality, CNN reports. RELATED: British Playwrights Stage Play About Gay Ugandan Man Passed on Friday, the Anti-Homosexuality Bill calls for life imprisonment for gay sex involving HIV-positive individuals, acts with minors and the disabled, and for repeated “offenses” between consenting adults. The bill’s original 2009 version, named “Kill […]
According to a recent study by the Williams Institute, the number of African-Americans within the LBGTQ community is rising fast. RELATED: The LBGTQ Factor: The Hidden Side Of Stop and Frisk The study estimates that there are 1,018,700 LBGTQ African-American adults in the U.S today. Eighty-four thousand African-Americans are in same-sex couple households, with 33.9% […]
What comes to mind when you visualize the typical Stop & Frisk recipient? A young Black male standing on the corner? A Hispanic youth? Someone who resides in New York City Housing Authority housing? Perhaps they’re wearing Timbaland boots and baggy jeans? What about if they are transgender? You read the last part correctly. All […]
