Tag: lgbt community

Shane Sleeper reportedly planned to gun down members of his local LGBT community at gay bars. Police in Illinois have located a suspect accused of planning terror attacks on gay bars after mistakenly releasing him from jail. Shane Sleeper, 31, was initially arrested by police in February and has been held in jail since then. Originally, he faced misdemeanor charges of obstructing and resisting a police officer. The state attorney’s office later dropped those charges, but only to streamline the process...

The sketch that featured John Mulaney playing a faux drag brunch waitress on SNL recently brought back up some frustrating feelings I've bottled up for a while. There is a growing trend of swarms of heterosexual men and women who are coming into our establishments for their own personal enjoyment. They are going to drag shows, gay bars and more where they are viewing and commenting on what they see as if it's a spectacle of sorts, and we are...

Journalist Ronan Farrow, who has been tight-lipped about his sexuality for years now, finally revealed that he identifies as part of the LGBT community during an acceptance speech on Monday night. He was on hand to accept The Point Foundations' Courage Award, which was presented to him by fellow journalist Thomas Roberts at their annual Point Honors New York Gala. The foundation is a national scholarship fund for queer students. “Being a part of the LGBT community – which recognized that...

Organizers cite tension with LGBT community, including mishandling of the Bruce McArthur serial killer case. Police in Toronto have withdrawn their application to march in the 2018 Toronto Pride parade, ending efforts to appeal a rejection by parade organizers. Toronto Pride initially banned police from marching last year after Black Lives Matter demonstrators interrupted the parade to protest police brutality. The call for a ban intensified in recent months as outrage grew over police’s handling of a serial killer case that...

Despite more privacy, LGBT groups can no longer reach their audiences. In the wake of the Facebook controversy involving Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm hired by the 2016 Trump campaign to exploit data from 50 million users without their knowledge or consent, Buzzfeed News reports that the social networking site has blocked ad targeting based on sexual orientation. Facebook removed the option to target ads by sexual orientation last month but did not publicly announce the change, which effectively makes...

"They talked about various ways they felt homosexuals have plagued society they would harm our community." Police are investigating two letters containing death threats received this week by the Sacramento LGBT Community Center. https://instagram.com/p/BeWThCxhBRa/?utm_source=ig_embed Both letters had a “faith-based bent” to them, center director David Heitstuman told the Sacramento Bee. “They talked about various ways they felt homosexuals have plagued society, then went on to talk about the various ways they would harm our community, including destroying and murdering every queer, lesbian,...

Hundreds of  turned up to drown out the Westboro Baptist Church, when they decided to target a gay high school footballer. Jake Bain, a popular footballer at John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Missouri, came out publicly as gay last October at an all-school assembly. His bravery was praised by his coach and teammates – but the young athlete attracted attention from the notoriously anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church, which announced it would picket the school. However, when the protesters turned up to...

A man who threatened to “kill 85 faggots at a gay club” in messages sent on Grindr has been arrested. Me’Schach D. Israel-Miller, from Columbus, Ohio, reportedly sent the threatening messages on the gay dating app on March 1. The user who received the message then took screenshots and posted them on social media. The post reportedly went viral, sparking police to investigate the threats. Police officials used pictures that he had on his profile to then find his Facebook. From there, they found...

Just days ago, actor Lee Pace said in an interview with W Magazine that his sexuality did not define him or his life as an actor. He didn’t want to be labeled as ‘gay’…or anything else for that matter. Many ran with his response, including us here at Instinct, as a conversation starter on the importance of pride versus the right to privacy. But it seems that his response to the question about being gay got a bigger reaction than...

Gay goth Darkness Vlad Tepes has launched a campaign to add a black stripe to the iconic rainbow flag, helping goths become more integrated in the LGBT community. Speaking to the Lancashire Telegraph, Tepes “Very few goths are ever seen in the gay community but when they are they are not always welcomed due to their dark gothic fashion. “When some goths go to the gay scene a minority of them get confused with being into the dominatrix sexual lifestyle which...

It's another religious exemption law Georgia lawmakers are working on a bill that discriminates against gay couples wanting to adopt. Republican Senator William Ligon introduced Senate Bill 375 aka Keep Faith in Adoption and Foster Care Act earlier this month. The bill allows adoption agencies to deny placing children with same-sex couples based on their religious beliefs. It also prevent the state’s Department of Human Services from taking ‘adverse actions’ against agencies if they do this. On Tuesday (20 February) morning, the Georgia...

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said efforts to ban homosexuality "create unnecessary divisions." Indonesia has ramped up discrimination and abuse against the LGBT community, and insiders say a law banning same-sex relations could be coming as soon as next week. On Wednesday, U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein warned the Indonesian government that such measures are “deeply wrong.” “The hateful rhetoric against this community that is being cultivated seemingly for cynical political purposes will only deepen their suffering and create unnecessary divisions,” Zeid,...

A planned social media campaign "will focus on improving people's awareness, campaigning and monitoring." It’s a year of firsts at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, as figure skater Adam Rippon became the first openly gay American man to qualify for the Winter Olympics. Just four years ago in Sochi, Russia’s gay propaganda ban created a dangerous environment for athletes who wanted to be out and proud. Unsurprisingly, the Russian Ministry of Justice refused to allow a Pride House, a...

We wish we had these books when we were tots. Whether you have kids of your own or just want to dote on someone else’s, it’s never too soon to introduce children to the wonders of literature. And if you can incorporate positive representations of the LGBT community, so much the better. Unfortunately, publishers frequently face backlash and even boycotts by anti-LGBT groups. But we can make sure they don’t succeed by buying books aimed at making the future more inclusive...