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Gay Prisoner Says LGBTQ Inmates Receive Disproportionate Solitary Confinement

A gay man who used to be an inmate in a Massachusetts prison has claimed that LGBTQ prisoners receive a disproportionate amount of solitary confinement, reported WBUR. Michael Cox told the Massachusetts judi...

Trans Prisoner Strawberry Hampton Gets Moved to Female Prison

After a year-long battle in court, trans woman prisoner Strawberry Hampton was transferred to a female prison, reported the Chicago Tribune. Hampton won her suit against the Illinois Department of Correction...

ACLU Wins Lawsuit for LGBTQ Inmates in San Bernardino County

In 2014, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s department on behalf of prisoners in San Bernardino county jails. The lawsuit accused the Sheriff’s depart...

Trump pushes back against trans prisoner protections

The Administration of President Trump has announced it will reverse rules designed to protect transgender prisoners. The rules allow trans prisoners to use facilities (specifically, cell blocks and bathrooms) w...

Georgia trans woman’s lawsuit against prison officials gets backing of feds, Elton John

Ashley Diamond, a trans woman from Rome, Georgia, and who performed as a drag queen in Atlanta, got a major backing of support in her federal lawsuit against the officials within the state Department of Correct...

Former prison doctor pleads guilty to sexually molesting male inmates

A former prison doctor for the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta pleaded guilty today to sexually abusing three inmates.

The abuse occurred in October 2011 when the three inmates sought medical treatment, according to a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Outspoken: Country singer Chely Wright, U.S. Rep. Steve King and more…

“When I first moved to Nashville, I worked at Opryland and there are a lot of gay boys running around at those themeparks. I was afraid there was some identifiable factor in me that they could pick up on, that they might know that I was gay.”

— Country singer Chely Wright, who recently came out, in a candid interview last week with Oprah Winfrey (“Oprah” via ContactMusic.com, May 19)

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Current Law vs. Equality Act vs. Fairness for All Act — What’s the Differences?

Marjorie Taylor Greene Posts Anti-Trans Sign Outside Office

House Passes Equality Act

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Two Versions of One Woman: Billie Holiday

Movies to Look Out for This Season

Nava Mau Part of Strong Ensemble in New LGBTQ-themed Series “Genera+ion”

Gay Prisoner Says LGBTQ Inmates Receive Disproportionate Solitary Confinement

Trans Prisoner Strawberry Hampton Gets Moved to Female Prison

ACLU Wins Lawsuit for LGBTQ Inmates in San Bernardino County

Trump pushes back against trans prisoner protections

Georgia trans woman’s lawsuit against prison officials gets backing of feds, Elton John

Former prison doctor pleads guilty to sexually molesting male inmates

Outspoken: Country singer Chely Wright, U.S. Rep. Steve King and more…

Atlanta Billboard Campaign Demands End to Violence Against Black Trans People

Two Versions of One Woman: Billie Holiday

Style Hair, Write a Poem, and Daydream

Birthday at Home

Movies to Look Out for This Season

Nava Mau Part of Strong Ensemble in New LGBTQ-themed Series “Genera+ion”

No, It’s Not Fair, Aunt Barb

Ethel Waters and the Harlem Renaissance

Out on TV

Best Bets: Spring Arts Edition

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