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Bishop T.D. Jakes in his sit-down with the Huffington Post’s Marc Lamont Hill discusses the topic of the Black church and LGBT community “coexisting.” Gay Preacher’s Wife author Lydia Meredith calls out the bishop’s “toxic theology” and “segregation.”

Communication has become a lost art. We live in a time where smartphones and social media have captivated our time. It has all but eliminated the need to pick up a telephone. Stella Nova, a self-published author, is the creative force behind a book titled Life-InQuestion: The Ultimate Social Experiment for the Communicatively Challenged. She…

Singer La’Porsha Renae has been a fan favorite among reality TV fans ever since she first stepped foot onto the “American Idol” stage and blew audiences away with her amazing voice. However, the beloved vocalist upset one of her biggest group of supporters, the LGBT community, this weekend when she commented that she doesn’t agree…

Manny Pacquiao came under fire earlier this year when he bashed the gay community, comparing gay people to animals. Pacquiao has already endured the major backlash, which cost him a lucrative endorsement deal, but now he’s back in the headlines thanks to fellow boxer “Sugar” Shane Mosley, who claimed that he’ll fight Pacquiao for the honor of the…

Erica Campbell

Last week, Kirk Franklin reignited a national conversation about the treatment, or rather the mistreatment, of gay people in the Black church and offered an apology to the LGBT community for the homophobia they’ve experienced from Christians. Now, it looks like fellow gospel star Erica Campbell is keeping the conversation going as she recently shared…

Over the past decade, the LGBT Rights Movement has boomed and Americans watched as famous couples like Monfiah and Terez, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, and Shaun T and Scott Blokker and many others tied the knot and shared their love with the world. But after the Supreme Court of the United States made…

Kerry Washington has played a number of LGBT characters in the past, but she certainly cemented herself as an LGBT ally this year when she challenged the Black and LGBT communities to band together instead of fighting at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards. And Washington recently flexed her ally muscle in an interview when she…

Chris Brown has had an up-and-down relationship with the LGBT community for years and although the singer has claimed numerous times that he’s a proud ally, he recently came under fire from his gay Atlanta fans after he allegedly bailed on an Atlanta Black Pride event. According to the Georgia Voice, Brown was supposed to…

There’s long been a negative and tense history between the black church and the LGBT communities in America. And even though the LGBT rights movement has grown tremendously over the past few years and same-sex marriage has been legalized nationwide, there’s still a common thought that Black Christians are hostile and homophobic towards the LGBT…

Model and actress AzMarie Livingston is most known for appearing on “America’s Next Top Model” and for dating Raven-Symone. But in a recent interview with HuffPost Live, Livingston let fans into her life in a more personal way when she spoke about the little known issues that black lesbians face. While chatting with Marc Lamont…

Even in the year 2015, noted agender celeb Andre J has a style that turns heads and garners everything from question marks to praise and even Vogue magazine covers. But in a frank new interview with “I’m From Driftwood,” Andre opens up about not being accepted as a child and how he overcame being bullied. In…

Over the last two years, President Obama has become one of the biggest public supporters of LGBT rights and representation. Last night, Obama made history for the LGBT community, once again, when he became the first president to directly recognize the LGBT community at a State of the Union Address. During his address, Obama pushed…

Facebook has been under fire from many in the LGBT community for months over their “real name only” policy, which forced many drag queens to either use their real names for their personal pages or delete their page altogether. Although Facebook initially refused to change its policy, despite the protests of many LGBT activists, the…

This Independence Day, people across the nation are going to be celebrating freedom, family and good food, but for minority communities like the LGBT community, there have definitely been new developments this year when it comes to LGBT equality that are worth keeping in mind this Fourth of July. Check out a list of some…

Funnyman Adam Carolla isn’t happy about the way the gay community is allegedly policing the way society speaks about them and he recently shared his thoughts on the matter in an interview with the Salon, saying that the gay community has turned into a mafia. In the interview, Carolla talks about a supposed increased sensitivity…

Without a doubt, 2013 has been the landmark year, so far, for progress when it comes to equality and the LGBT community. Landmark moments were had thanks to the bravery of celebrities coming out and governments across the nation passing legislation to allow for more legal protection to the LGBT community. Below we’ve listed some…

Veteran Brand Nubian emcee Lord Jamar found himself in the throes of controversy over the past few months after he commented that Macklemore is pushing a “gay agenda” on hip-hop and that homosexuality does nothing to elevate humanity. With both fans and fellow hip-hop artists criticizing the rapper for his comments, Jamar is now further…

A transgender woman in El Monte, Calif., has filed a federal civil rights and assault lawsuit against an unnamed El Monte police officer and the El Monte Police Department, claiming that the officer forced her to perform oral sex on him and then raped her. According to the Los Angeles Times, the woman, who used…

Rapper 50 Cent has never had a great relationship with the LGBT community thanks to some cringe-worthy lyrics and remarks he’s made about gays and lesbians as well as popular gay blogger Perez Hilton. According to 50 Cent, he’s never been homophobic and now he’s going the extra mile to prove it as he gears up…

Pope Francis has been gaining the approval people across the globe in recent weeks over his unorthodox approach to promoting grass-roots ministry in the church, including visiting the prisons and favelas, aka ghettos, of Rio de Janeiro during his recent trip to Brazil for World Youth Day. Now, Pope Francis is shocking the world again…