Binyavanga Wainaina, a gay award-winning author and activist died on May 21, 2019. He was 48 years old. Wainaina died in a hospital in Nairobi after suffering from a short illness. In 2015, he suffered from a stroke. In 2002 Wainaina won for African writing the Caine Prize for “Discovering Home” which was a short […]
Jeff Graves, a Madison County Deputy was placed on administrative leave after he posted on his Facebook page a homophobic comment about Nigel Shelby, a gay teenager who committed suicide. Graves wrote that he was “seriously offended” by the LGBT movement, and gay people in response to a Facebook post made by WZDX-TV regarding the […]
Nigel Shelby, a 15-year-old ninth grader Huntsville High School student committed suicide on April 18, 2019, in his Alabama home. Shelby’s mother, Camika Shelby, said her son suffered from depression, and struggled with being gay. Shelby told NBC News: Coming out as being gay as a child is very difficult. You do not know if […]