The vigil held at the site of Tyli’a “NaNa Boo” Mack’s death last Friday evening in Washington, D.C. brought family, friends, activists, and allies together to mourn the loss of a well-known member of D.C.’s transgender community as well as to denounce the ongoing violence against transgender people, particularly transgender people of color, across the [...]
GLAAD Media Field Strategist Adam Bass is in Greeley, Colo. as the trial in the murder of Angie Zapata begins, working alongside local advocacy organizations on the ground to coordinate local media efforts and support Zapata’s family and friends. Angie Zapata was an 18-year-old transgender woman who was brutally murdered in her own home last [...]
The work of the Colorado Anti-Violence Program (CAVP) is incredibly vital – and also challenging. It requires being available to hear and then respond to the horrific attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) community members.
The ten-year remembrance of Matthew Shepard’s murder is also the ten-year remembrance of Rita Hester’s. Rita was a transgender woman from Boston, Massachusetts who was viciously stabbed to death on November 28, 1998. Rita was murdered only one month after Matthew was brutally attacked and died in Laramie, Wyoming.
Rita’s murder prompted activist Gwen Smith to [...]
On the July 28 edition of Clear Channel’s nationally syndicated radio program The War Room with Quinn & Rose, host Jim Quinn made defamatory anti-gay comments while discussing a federal case in which a jury ruled that the city of Philadelphia could not bar a Boy Scouts chapter from city-owned property despite the organization’s anti-gay policy.
