• ELIXHER
• On August 12, 2011

Trans Woman Escapes D.C. Shooting Attack

An unidentified suspect fired a semi-automatic handgun at a transgender woman at 2:45 a.m. on Sunday, July 31, just one block from the site where a transgender woman was shot to death less than two weeks earlier, D.C. police announced on Tuesday.

Calling All Lesbians - Omarion Can Make You Straight!

Calling all lesbians who want to remain gay, keep your distance from R&B singer Omarion, who claims via Twitter that he can essentially wave his wand and turn lesbians magically straight. God forbid you’re cast under his spell and condemned to a life of heterosexuality with a narcissist.

DMC Raps Against Homophobia

Pioneering rapper DMC of Run-DMC is breaking new ground again, challenging his hip-hop brethren to stand up against homophobia.

New Book Chronicles Black Gay and Lesbian Fiction

Black Like Us, edited by Devon Carbado and Dwight McBride, serves as an anthology for more than 100 years of gay and lesbian black fiction, featuring prominent writers such as James Baldwin, Alice Walker and Langston Hughes. Black Like Us puts the authors and their work in perspective, offering critical analyses of the periods in which the authors lived and the pieces were written.

New Data Begs This Question: Do We Have the Will to End the AIDS Epidemic?

According to data released by the CDC last week, H.I.V. infections among most populations in the United States, while unacceptably high, have remained relatively stable in recent years. But among young Black gay and bisexual men ages 13-29, the data show a 48 percent increase in new infections from 2006 to 2009. Our nation’s H.I.V. prevention efforts have stalled at best, and among young Black gay and bisexual men—men who have sex with men, or MSM, in public-health language—we have clearly failed.