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The first trailer for the third season of 13 Reasons Why has been unveiled. In the short teaser, we see the return of all the central characters (except for Katherine Langford as Hannah Baker, who chose to sit this season out) and the introduction of a new murder mystery, much like the first, controversial season. Who killed Bryce Walker ? Yep, the despicable excuse for a human has been murdered, and everyone’s a suspect. The season is set eight months after last...

Saturday’s WNBA All-Star Game ended up as a 129-126 win for Team A’ja Wilson over Team Elena Delle Donne. The game was also a look at the next generation of the 23-year-old league. The greatest stars of this era of women’s basketball such as Diana Taurasi, Candace Parker, Maya Moore, and Sue Bird weren’t in uniform. Six first-time All-Stars, including game MVP Erica Wheeler, were on the floor. Wheeler became the first undrafted player to be the All-Star Game MVP. The...

At least three people were killed and 15 other people injured in a shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California, authorities said Sunday night. A suspect was also shot and killed. "It's sort of a nightmare you hope you never have to live in reality," Police Chief Scot Smithee said at a news conference. Smithee said the suspect appeared to be shooting "somewhat randomly" and that investigators had no information on a possible motive. He said that police believed...

The third season of Netflix’s critically acclaimed fantasy horror series, Stranger Things, has recently been released and the post-binge watch blues are very real. After a two-year break, some critics and fans are declaring it the most riveting and charming season so far. Netflix has revealed that 40.7 million accounts had watched Stranger Things 3 in the first four days since its July 4th premiere. The season follows the main cast as they navigate puberty, love, rabies-ridden rats and a Russian conspiracy. Oh and of...

A Detroit man was charged Friday in connection with the shooting of two gay men who were contacted through Grindr. The Wayne County prosecutor’s office alleges that 26-year-old Demetris Nelson used the online hookup/dating app on July 6 to track down the men before fatally shooting 31-year-old Brian Anderson and critically wounding 26-year-old Malcolm Drake. Prosecutors say Nelson targeted the men because they were gay. “The allegations are that social media contacts were used to target, contact, rob, fatally shoot one...

Ronald Trey Peters (image via Facebook)Atlanta police have arrested 21-year-old Joshua Ellis as a suspect in the June 4 robbery and murder of 28-year-old gay social worker Ronald Trey Peters. Police continue seeking two other unnamed suspects. Police arrested Ellis in at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on June 6. According to Project Q, “He’s being held on three charges – aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated assault and armed robbery – from an unrelated case, according to jail records.” The...

Nathan PriceNathan Paris and his same-sex partner say that their neighbor in Brown County, Ohio has increasingly threatened them in a dispute that began with the neighbor calling them “f*gs” and “queers” and escalated to the neighbor allegedly shooting at them, flipping their car over and setting it on fire. The local news affiliate visited the two-acre parcel of land where Paris lives with his partner in a shipping container that they converted into a makeshift “tiny home.” Paris says that...

Police are looking for a man who opened fire in the parking lot of Toucan's Tiki Lounge Police are searching for a man who opened fire in the parking lot of a Palm Springs gay bar, injuring two people in the early hours of Sunday, March 24. A fight broke out in Toucan’s Tiki Lounge, which spilled outside. Shots were then fired, and two people were struck in the lower half of their bodies, one outside the club and one inside. Cellphone...

The Anti Defamation League called the attack the 'deadliest' for the Jewish community in the history of the United States The shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania left the American Jewish community horrified. What happened? The shooter allegedly said ‘All these Jews need to die’ at the time of the attack. He took the lives of 11 worshippers. This tragic event took place on Saturday, 27 October. The perpetrator barged in during Shabbat services with an AR-15 and two handguns,...

A typical night at one of San Antonio’s gay watering holes, Pegasus Nightclub, turned into a nightmare for patrons. According to My San Antonio, a customer was kicked out of the bar around 12:30 a.m. on Monday October 8th and returned shortly after and opened gun fire on patrons outside of the bar near a taco stand. Two men and one woman were struck by the gun fire that sent San Antonio’s gay strip running in a frenzy. According...

The new interim memorial for the victims and survivors of the Pulse Nightclub shooting was unveiled yesterday in Orlando, Florida. The tribute features panels and murals honoring not only the 49 victims of the deadly shooting which took place on June 12, 2016, but the families, first responders and community members who came together in the aftermath of the tragedy. According to Pulse nightclub owner and foundation founder Barbara Poma, every aspect of the design came directly from those affected by...

Carl Blea and husband Marc Lange refute police's claim it was a "robbery gone wrong." A gay man from Palm Springs was shot while holding hands with his husband while the pair were on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. A bullet went through real-estate agent Carl Blea’s buttocks and exited through his thigh, according to the Desert Sun. Blea and husband Marc Lange were returning from a night out at about 2:30am, walking toward the condo they were staying at, when a...

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...

"My fears had come true and he did what he said he was going to do." In a shocking statement, the widow of the man who killed 49 people in a 2016 shooting spree at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub admitted she knew he had been planning a massacre for some months. USA Today reports that, in a 12-page handwritten statement to the FBI, Noor Salman claimed she saw her husband, Omar Mateen, prepare for the June 12, 2016, assault. Written just hours after...