Historic Alabama gay bar loses license after double-homicide
Birmingham police say they have been called to The Quest Club over a hundred times in the past year.
September 12, 2024
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Report: Anti-LGBT Homicides Nearly Double in 2017
Hate-related homicides of LGBT people were up 86 percent from 2016, and political rhetoric is partly to blame, says a new report.
January 22, 2018
Judge says Birmingham can close gay club that was the scene of double homicide
The judge lifted his injunction on suspending the business license for The Quest Club, which police said they visited over 100 times in the past year.
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Violence Report Warns: All LGBT Murders Need Attention
Forty-nine people were killed in Orlando, double the amount of all LGBT homicides reported in 2015. None of these killings are acceptable, a new report reminds us.
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Hate Crimes, Including Anti-Trans Crimes, Rose in 2019
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Transgender Woman and Housemate Murdered in New Mexico
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March 1, 2018
An Alabama LGBTQ+ bar advertised a drag show. Then the city denied its liquor license
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A State of the Union Fail
Whether Donald Trump is ever impeached, he has no right to be called president or have his State of the Union address taken seriously.
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Killer Who Said Gays 'Must Be Put Down' Receives Death Penalty
Peter Serge Avsenew was sentenced to die for the murder of a Florida gay couple.
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Police find bodies of murdered reporter Jesse Baird and his boyfriend
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Gay Reporters Account of Lesbian Murder Wins Pulitzer
Eli Sanders wins the Pulitzer Prize for a story about the 2009 murder of Teresa Butz.
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Ex-cop accused of killing gay TV presenter and his boyfriend faces new charges
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Gay artist-activist couple killed in upstate New York; suspect charged with murder
Prominent Buffalo couple Mickey Harmon and Jordan Celotto were found dead in their home Tuesday.
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Transgender Woman Killed in Wichita
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Nearly 30 Years Later, Lesbian Couple's Murder in National Park Remains Unsolved
Julianne "Julie" Williams and Laura "Lollie" Winans' killer is still unidentified after their 1996 slayings in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park.
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Texas Man Acquitted in the Deaths of Two Drag Artists — a Trans Woman and a Gay Man
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No, Marsha P. Johnson Would Not Suggest Queer Youth Disregard History
A writer made the claim that British LGBT youth have moved beyond having to learn about Alan Turing or AIDS. Wrong on so many levels, writes Amanda Kerri.
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Joe Fryer, NBC News' jack-of-all-trades, is his social studies class's newest celebrity
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Straight People: If Jussie Smollett Lied We Don't Owe You an Apology
But feel free to give us one.
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