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Megan Rapinoe Nike AdNew York police have opened a possible hate crime investigation after eight posters depicting out-lesbian soccer star Megan Rapinoe were defaced with homophobic graffiti. Commuters reported the graffiti to police after discovering it in Manhattan’s Bryant Park subway station. Nike posters showing Rapinoe on the field had been defaced with phrases like “shemale” and “screw this ho.” The Metropolitan Transit Authority responded immediately and notified police.”Hate has no place in the transit system and we work hard to...

Gay dating app Scruff has agreed to buy embattled app Jack’d following a data breach scandal that leaked thousands of private photos of users. Jack’d will still pay a $240,000 settlement fine as part of damage control for the data breach. The app claims to have over five million users worldwide. It will also continue to operate as an independent app, separate from the more popular Scruff app, according to parent company Perry Street Software. “This acquisition will provide Jack’d members...

Twitter recently announced that it’ll forbid hate speech issued against entire religious groups (like calling them subhuman and vermin). They may also extend similar protections to people targeted for their race, gender and sexual orientation. This announcement comes on the heels of Instagram announcing its new anti-bullying features including an AI detection system that asks people to “reconsider” before they post a potentially insulting comment and a “restrict option” allowing users to flag bullies and review any comments before they’re...

A former Alabama sheriff’s deputy who went on a homophobic Facebook tirade after a gay teenager took his own life just landed a new gig with a different Alabama law enforcement agency. Jeff Graves was fired from his position a Madison County sheriff’s deputy in May after he went on Facebook to mock the death of 15-year-old Nigel Shelby, a Huntsville, Alabama teenager who died by suicide the previous month after he was bullied relentlessly for being gay. Responding to another...

Sandra Spagnoli became the first female police chief of Beverly Hills in 2016. Since then, she’s been nothing but trouble. In the past three years, over 20 department employees have filed civil lawsuits or employment complaints against her, accusing Spagnoli of all types of professional misconduct, including making derogatory remarks about people’s religions, sexual orientations, and ethnicities, and denying them opportunities because of their identities. This week, department employee Dona Norris was awarded $250,000 after a jury determined she had been...

This is not the homophobic wedding dress-maker in question, btw. This woman seems like a very nice lady.When Angel Lane approached New York-based D Auxilly about creating a $1,500 jumpsuit for her upcoming wedding to Tiffany Allen, D Auxilly’s dress designer Dominique Galbraith reportedly didn’t ask about her measurements or her wedding date — she mentioned how her love of Jesus forbids her from treating lesbians like other couples. Ugh. The Metro reports that Galbraith responded: Let’s address one thing real quick:...

The tides are high, babies. If you’ve been feeling particularly edgy, angered or just downright depressed, there may be an Astrological explanation for that. Cancer Season has arrived and as the first water sign of the Zodiac, she stirs the emotional soup. But that’s just the start of it, because Cancer Season is always an emotional one. That doesn’t explain the especially high stakes anxiety in and around our collective experience. That we can blame on Eclipse Season. Eclipse Season...

This just in: Fuller House star and Dancing With The Stars contestant Juan Pablo Di Pace just came out as gay. During an emotional TedX event, the 39-year old actor/singer opened up about the homophobic abuse he suffered growing up in Argentina. “Acceptance was my fuel, and when that is the case, like an addict, you do whatever it takes to get a fix,” he said. “I figured, if I changed my f*cking self, I could be in.” Di Pace, who was raised Catholic,...

The Washington Post recently explained how four white teens Glenelg, Maryland got busted for spray-painting racist, anti-Semitic and antigay graffiti as a senior “prank.” They got busted by their own cell phones. While the vandalism happened on May 24, 2018, The Washington Post is just now revealing details behind the actual hate crime which was committed by four graduating seniors: Seth Taylor, Matt Lipp, Josh Shaffer and Tyler Curtiss The day before graduation, the teens spray-painted swastikas, penises, “KKK,” “F*ck,” “Jews,”...

He’s coming out, and he wants the world to know. An anonymous Twitter user claiming to be a gay English Football League player says he’s getting ready to publicly come out and has been cluing in his loved ones in the meantime. “I’m a professional footballer, playing for a club in the . I will be revealing my identity soon, but I am a proud gay man, hoping to break the mould,” the user wrote on July 5. “I am...

Republican pundits eager to praise Women’s World Cup soccer star Kelley O’Hara received a rude awakening when cameras caught her smooching her girlfriend in the stands. Following the big win by the American team at the World Cup Finals, O’Hara received praise for picking up an American flag which had accidentally fallen to the field. Fox News’ Walid Phares called O’Hara a “new American heroine.” The network even ran a story on O’Hara’s teammates Megan Rapinoe and Allie Long dropping...

Italian Olympic swimmer Filippo Magnini was sunbathing on Cala Sinzias beach in Sardinia last weekend when he heard someone crying for help. It was a gay newlywed. He was drowning in the ocean after being knocked off his inflatable unicorn float by a wave. The 37-year-old world champion quickly leaped into action. He dove into the water and swam out to the drowning man, Andrea Benedetto, who had just married his boyfriend two days earlier in nearby Cagliari. According to eye witnesses,...

Ellie-Mae Mulholland — an 18-year-old lesbian from the Walsall Garth area of Hull, England — was reportedly beaten “black and blue” by two so-called friends because she asked for one to pay back 10 pounds ($12.47) that she loaned them. According to Hull Live, Mulholland was attacked on the street on July 8 before 4.30 p.m.. According to her 22-year-old sister, Stevie-Leigh Ansell, “My younger sister was out and about on her way home from one of her friend’s house....

Breaking up is hard to do. Just ask Justin, a member at Vida Fitness in Washington, D.C. Twitter user Sean Keady recently found the Dear John letter written by Justin’s ex-boyfriend left in the men’s bathroom. Along with it was a little, ahem, souvenir from the ill-fated romance. The note read: “Justin, here is your c*ck ring back–I’d rather have a wedding ring. Cannot play your games any longer. Bye, Felicia!” The note also included an illustration of a middle finger. The letter (and...