Brooke Sopelsa

“We thought it was just a boring trip to the tax office, but it turned into a lot more than that.”

Police are asking for the public’s help in apprehending the unidentified male shooter.

The high court is again rejecting a gay death row inmate’s appeal that claims jurors in South Dakota were biased against him because of his sexual orientation.

While New York state has permitted transgender individuals to change the gender on their birth certificates since 2014, the policy does not apply to minors.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has signaled he would sign the bill, which would ban “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” in primary schools.

Sixty years after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech to an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial, civil rights leaders are remembering the man who made that March on Washington possible. Bayard Rustin was an LGBTQ and civil rights activist best known for being a key adviser to King, and for participating in one of the first Freedom Rides and later planning the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Thousands gathered on the National…

National Coming Out Day has been observed annually on Oct. 11 since 1988. Founded by psychologist Robert Eichberg and activist Jean O’Leary, the day is meant to celebrate and promote the increased visibility of the LGBTQ community. “Most people think they don’t know anyone gay or lesbian, and in fact everybody does. It is imperative that we come out and let people know who we are and disabuse them of their fears and stereotypes,” Eichberg said in a 1993 interview, according to his Associated Pr…

New York City police said they are conducting an “internal review” following the spread of a video on social media that appears to show an officer using a homophobic slur on a police car announcement system. A video shared on Instagram last week, which had more than 2 million views Thursday, appears to show an officer in the passenger’s seat of a marked police car making a comment about oral sex and then saying “f----t.” The Instagram user who shared the video did not immediately respond to a r…

Virginia Del. Danica Roem has made political history once again after winning a seat in the state Senate on Tuesday. She is the first out transgender person elected to Virginia’s upper chamber and only the second trans person elected to any state Senate in the United States, following Delaware’s Sarah McBride in 2020. Roem, a Democrat, defeated her Republican opponent, Bill Woolf, by more than 3 percentage points. Woolf, a former Fairfax County police officer, was endorsed by the state’s Republi…

The Trevor Project, a national suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization for LGBTQ youth, announced it is leaving X, formerly known as Twitter, because of “increasing hate & vitriol on the platform targeting the LGBTQ community.” The decision comes just over a year after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk finalized his $44 billion purchase of the company. “LGBTQ young people are regularly victimized at the expense of their mental health, and X’s removal of certain moderation functi…