Tag: death

Jong Hyun was attacked by trolls in 2013 for openly supporting a bi trans student on Twitter A K-Pop star who is known for supporting the LGBTI community has passed away. Jong Hyun was a member of South Korean pop group SHINee. The singer was at his rented apartment in southern Seoul, South Korea. Gangnam Police said they received a phone call from his sister at 4:42pm (local time). Jong Hyun reportedly sent his sister a number of messages with his ‘last goodbye.’ Medics arrived...

Giovanni Melton's former foster mom reveals troubled history A father allegedly shot his 14-year-old gay son, with police attributing the killing in part to the boy’s sexual orientation. Henderson police in Nevada say 53-year-old Wendell Melton shot and killed his son Giovanni in the morning of Thursday 2 November. Sonja Jones is Giovanni’s former foster mom and said Wendell always had a thing against his son’s sexuality. She told 3 News: ‘He hated the fact that his son was gay. ‘I’m sure that inside...

A man was recently found dead in his apartment and his boyfriend, who happens to be a gay porn star, has gone missing. This past Thursday, November 2, California man Keith Harris was found dead in his home in Hayes Vally, San Francisco. He was 48-years-old. Paul Novales, the manager of the apartment where Harris lived, was the one to find Harris’s body. Novales told the Bay Ara Reporter that he hadn’t seen Harris in sometime and went to check up on...

In the wake of the tragic shooting yesterday in Texas, Gays Against Guns stormed Washington D.C. this morning and staged a "Die-In" at the Hart Senate Office building. This is the first time the group has done a demonstration like this on the capitol. So far, eight people have been arrested for the demonstration. Michael Adolph of the Washington D.C. Chapter said, "GAG believes that the time has come to not only start talking about gun reforms but to start...

Gabriel Fernandez was allegedly beaten, burned, bitten and starved before his death. A man accused of torturing his girlfriend’s 8-year-old son to death did so because he through the child was gay, a prosecutor has said. 32-year-old Isauro Aguirre, of Palmdale, California, has been charged with the murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fernandez with a special circumstance of torture. The boy’s mother, Pearl Fernandez, also faces trial. During opening statements on Monday (October 16), Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor on Jon...

As the days and hours go by after the tragic shooting in Las Vegas, victims and families of victims are trying to find out if those at the shooting escaped, are wounded, or worse. As names have started to arise, two gay people (and a couple to boot) have been added to the list of victims. Cameron Robinson and Bobby Eardley were a gay couple from Utah. More specifically, Robinson was from Cedar City. Robinson would reportedly drive the two and...

Bunnies, Celebrities, And More React To The Playboy Founder’s Passing The news of Hugh Hefner’s death is shocking the nation. If there’s anyone, living or dead, who can snatch attention away from the ever-growing Kardashian-clan, is the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy. A man whose vision changed the lifestyle of men since 1953. Rather than being, ahem, manly; Hefner created the playboy. Dapper, expensive taste, and surrounded by beauty. Hefner revolutionized the modern, American man. After passing in his home, the...

Rest In Power. Gay rights activist Edith Windsor has passed away aged 88, her wife Judith Kasen-Windsor confirmed to the New York Times. Windsor’s Supreme Court case back in 2013 overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, giving same-sex married couples federal recognition in the US for the first time. After her previous wife, Thea Spyer, died she sued the US government after being ordered to pay $363,053 (£224,940) in federal estate tax. They had been together for 44 years and married in Canada...

A beloved pop star and LGBTQ activist from Israel was laid to rest today after suffering a tragic watery death. Amir Fryszer Guttman was a former member of the Israeli boy band High Five. The group released three albums and one EP between 1996 and 2000 before dismantling. Afterwards, Guttman went on to have a successful solo career, releasing more albums, writing songs for other artists, hosting TV shows, and directing musicals. He also became one of Israel’s first celebrities to...

Pedro Aunión Monroy, 42, died on Friday after falling 100 feet to his death at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid. The acrobat had been warming up before a set by Green Day and fell from his harness. But while more than 34,000 people witnessed the tragic moment, it’s the beautiful message Monroy left his boyfriend with that has the world talking now. “I can’t wait to see my beautiful boyfriend. Love, come to my arms!” he wrote Thursday on Facebook. Monroy...

A late police officer will be honoured by his gay colleagues over a viral video in which he danced at a Pride parade. NYPD Officer Michael Hance, who was straight , made headlines in 2015 after he was filmed dancing with a reveller at the city’s Pride parade. In the clip, the officer – assigned to protect the parade – twerks on a Pride marcher as Michael Jackson’s ‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’ plays. Officer Hence, who served with the NYPD...

His attackers called him pondan (f****t) as they beat, burned and raped him An 18-year-old student who was viciously beaten, burnt and raped with a blunt object has died from his injuries. T Nhaveen was attacked on Saturday at about 2.20am in a field in George Town, Penang – an island in Malaysia. He was left brain dead and hospitalised. Nhaveen died on Thursday at 5.31pm (Penang time) according to a report in The Star. Nhaveen was attacked a day before he was...

Tributes are being paid to a gay man killed in the Ariana Grande concert bombing. Martyn Hett, 29, has been confirmed dead by loved ones following a terrorist attack at the Manchester Arena. Posts from family, friends and worried strangers had been shared tens of thousands of times in a bid to track him down after the attack. Just an hour before the attack he wrote on Twitter: “When you sneak out for a toilet break on the Macy Gray song and...

Baker, an Army veteran, is responsible for the enduring symbol of the LGBT community. Gilbert Baker, the civil rights activist who created the rainbow flag, has died at age 65. Baker first designed the flag nearly 40 years ago for San Francisco Pride in 1978. Cleve Jones shared the news on Facebook. “I am heartbroken. My dearest friend in the world is gone,” Jones wrote. “Gilbert gave the world the Rainbow flag; he gave me forty years of love and friendship. I can’t...