Out Americana icon Brandi Carlile and pop rock legend Pink paid tribute on Wednesday to Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor after news broke of O’Connor’s death. Read on » The Brazilian Justice Minister earlier this week announced a plea agreement with one of two police officers accused of assassinating Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco, a Black lesbian and human rights activist who was killed by gunfire from a passing car in 2018. Read on » By Jacob Lev, CNN Read on » It was very late one night in 1993, a few months after I arrived in Manhattan, and I had just come out of a gay bar called The Works on the Upper West Side. I was a bit inebriated – ok, drunk. I had about 15 blocks to walk to the tiny one bedroom that I shared with a roommate, and I was cutting through Columbus Circle, which was dilapidated and desolate – nothing like it is today. Read on »
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