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Paris Dupree R.I.P.
Dupree was one of the legendary names of New York City’s ballroom community. Paris was the founding mother of the House of Dupree and her annual grand ball “Paris is Burning” inspired Jennie Livingston’s
Dupree is seen on the Paris is Burning DVD cover at upper right in the black hat.
Christine O’Donnell Walks Off Set When Asked About Gay Rights
Tea Party darling Christine O’Donnell walked off the set during an interview today with Piers Morgan because the host asked about gay rights issues and wouldn’t stop.
“I don’t think it’s relevant,” O’Donnell said in…….. Read/Watch rest HERE
Queen Latifah ‘The Ladies I Like’…..
If you are “chomping at the bit” for down-to-earth Jersey girl Dana Owens a.k.a reigning Hip-hop’s Queen Latifah to come out of her open closet, don’t hold your breath.
If, however, you’ve derived pleasure from Queen Latifah’s unintended “Gotcha!” moments of being outed — and there are many — so, too, has the media.
But the media’s cat and ……. Full article HERE
5th Accuser in Eddie Long Sexual Misconduct Lawsuits
There was a fifth accuser in the “Bishop” Eddie Long sexual misconduct case, reports FOX Atlanta.
Centino Kemp never filed a lawsuit and his name was withheld from the public. The 22-year-old Atlanta man apparently came forward with more allegations of sexual misconduct after the initial four cases were filed against the disgraced anti-gay mega-church pastor.
Ghana’s Gay Community Under Threat
Seventy-six countries still consider being gay a crime. Now, in Ghana, people found “guilty” of homosexuality may also face jail time, Foreign Policy reports. “All efforts are being made to get rid of these people in the society,” said Paul Evans Aidoo, an MP from the western region. Ghana’s Bureau of National Investigations has been directed to track down and arrest anyone suspected of being gay.
In a recent op-ed for the Ghana Broadcasting Co., the Rev. Stephen Wengam stated, “If homosexuality…… Full article HERE
70 Percent of Anti-LGBT Murder Victims Are People of Color – USA
It’s an all too common, if shocking story: A transgender Latina woman with HIV is attacked on a street close to her home in a low-income neighborhood in the Bay Area. Making a bad situation worse, police officers literally drag her from her bed at 6 a.m. because they think she committed the crime herself.
“They kept telling her she wasn’t who she was, and that she was a man,” explained María Carolina Morales of the San Francisco-based Communities United Against Violence as she recounted the incident to Colorlines. “She was arrested. She was taken to the station. She wasn’t listened to. She spent the weekend in jail.” 
The woman went to court a month after her arrest, but disappeared shortly after her court date.
“She was somebody who was unemployed, who didn’t have a safety net,” noted Morales. “We don’t know if she ran away, if she ended up in jail or [was] transferred to another place, another city. Her phone was disconnected the day after court. We just don’t know—don’t know what happened.”
The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its annual report on hate violence motivated by sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and HIV status last week. The report documents 27 anti-LGBT murders in 2010, which is the second highest annual total recorded since 1996. A whopping 70 percent of these 27 victims were people of color; 44 percent of them were transgender women.
The study also found that transgender ………Full article HERE
