All posts tagged "Gayrightsmovement"

NEW YORK — A Colorado man accused of tearing down LGBTQ rainbow flags by NYC’s historic Stonewall Inn during a Pride month hate crime was arrested Monday on charges police said were part of a pattern of attacks in the area. Cops charged Patrick Murphy, 25, of Denver, with committing criminal mischief as a hate crime for the June 10 vandalism incident by the West Village national monument. Joined by two others, Murphy and his fellow hatemongers allegedly tore down several rainbow-colored flags displayed on a fence by the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park on Christopher St. before ......

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Several people carried signs at Monday’s Capitol rally. “Stop the Democratic grooming of our children,” said one. “My child is not your science experiment,” said another. But most prominent were the white buttons adorning dresses, shirts, and jackets that read: PROTECT PARENTS’ RIGHTS. Summertime may be the carefree highlight of the year for school-aged children, but it’s been a turbulent season for local school boards, especially in Southern California. Boards in Chino and Murrieta enacted policies requiring teachers and school staff to inform parents of changes in their......

A shirtless man whose friend was dancing exuberantly as they pumped gas at a Brooklyn Mobil station was stabbed to death by a stranger who said the men’s antics were offensive to the killer’s Muslim faith, a witness told the Daily News. The NYPD is investigating the caught-on-video killing as a possible hate crime. The mayhem started when the victim pulled up the the Mobil gas station on Coney Island Ave. near Avenue P in Midwood about 11:15 p.m. Saturday, cops said. He and his four friends, all shirtless in swim trunks on one of the hottest days of the year, got out of their white sedan to pu......

PHILADELPHIA -- The lesbian founder of a Mt. Airy neighborhood art space filed a complaint with the state commission on human rights earlier this month, alleging that because of homophobia, board members turned two of her drawings away from public view, effectively censoring her work. The complaint, and the controversy the board’s actions have since sparked in one of the city’s most progressive enclaves, echo charged debates across the country over LGBTQ rights and what to do when artwork offends some viewers. In one of the drawings, entitled Kissing in the Summer Sun, two women kiss; in the o......

Candace Cameron Bure is denying allegations of bigotry levied against her by transgender actress Miss Benny. The “Full House” alum, 47, told People that she did not try to have the 24-year-old “Glamorous” star removed from the Netflix spinoff, “Fuller House,” contradicting the latter’s version of events. “I never asked Miss Benny’s character to be removed from ‘Fuller House’ and did not ask the writers, producers or studio executives to not have queer characters on the show,” read Bure’s statement, noting that the streamer revival “has always welcomed a wide range of characters.” Bure, who pla......

Just four days after a federal judge ruled a Tennessee law restricting drag shows was unconstitutional, attorney Brice Timmons was in an Orlando, Florida, courtroom describing how a new Florida law was causing Hamburger Mary’s to censure its drag shows. Timmons, a civil rights attorney with Memphis-based Donati Law, represented the Friends of George’s theater company in the Tennessee case, fighting a law that prohibited “adult cabaret” from taking place on public property or where children could see it. U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker, appointed by President Donald Trump, ruled June 2 the Te......