Celebrity Life
The ‘Forrest Gump of Activism’ Who Helped HIV/AIDS Patients Get Life-Saving Treatment Information
About a twenty-minute walk from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, in a city of sites dedicated to heroes of the American Revolution, there’s a tribute to a hero of the city’s LGBTQ+ community at the Philadelphia FIGHT community health center. It’s dedicated to Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a gay civil rights activist and co-founder of the Gay…
Happy the Elephant Is Self-Aware and Complex, But Should She Have the Same Rights as a Person?
A court will decide if a legal tactic long used to free imprisoned people can be used to move Happy the Elephant out of the Bronx Zoo
‘Potential Remains,’ Items Believed to Belong to Brian Laundrie Found in Florida Wilderness Park
Items believed to belong to Brian Laundrie and potential human remains were found at a Florida wilderness park during the search for clues.
What to Know About the Multiple Criminal Investigations into Alex Murdaugh
Murder investigations, embezzlement allegations, a drug addiction and hitman-for-hire: in recent months, a series of bizarre criminal incidents surrounding a prominent South Carolina family—and its patriarch, attorney Alex Murdaugh—have received national attention. It was the June deaths of Margaret and Paul Murdaugh that first received widespread coverage in the media as well as within true…
‘Turned Down Because of Who I Am.’ Woman Accuses Biden Administration of Anti-Gay Discrimination in Foster Program
Kelly Easter wanted to help. Like many Americans, she watched the news in 2020 in dismay at the conditions awaiting unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Easter, a 47-year-old realtor, lives alone in her two bedroom apartment in Nashville, Tenn. “I have the resources. I thought, ‘Why not? Let me help,’” she tells TIME.…
How the Pandemic Era May Have Deterred Witnesses From Trying to Stop a Rape
Social isolation during the pandemic has made it less likely that people will step in to help strangers, experts say
Alan Cumming Is Done With All the Queer Tropes
Alan Cumming is mid-sentence when he turns his camera and rolls up his sleeve. This is a Zoom interview of course, and he’s at his home in the Catskills, where he and his husband have spent a large chunk of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the screen, the actor is showing off a tattoo on his…
Barney Frank Looks Back—And Forward—After Decades of LGBTQ Advocacy
In 1987, Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, made history when he told the Boston Globe, “If you ask the direct question: ‘Are you gay?’ The answer is yes. So what?” The interview made Frank the first member of Congress to choose to come out while in office, and propelled him into becoming one…
The Complex Dynamic Between ‘Violence Interrupters’ and Police
Just off a stretch of Eastern Parkway, the highway-like street that goes through many of Brooklyn, New York’s most disenfranchised neighborhoods, is a small office in Crown Heights. What fills this small space is vital to the community. It’s the Crown Heights location for Save Our Streets (SOS), an activist group dedicated to combating gun…
Inside the World of Black Bitcoin, Where Crypto Is About Making More Than Just Money
“We can operate on an even playing field in the digital world”
In ‘Alarming’ Trend, More People Than Ever Are Trying to Carry Guns Onto Planes
So far in 2021, the Transportation Security Administration has seized nearly 4,500 guns at airport security checkpoints, compared with about 4,400 in all of 2019 and 976 in 2009, despite the drop in air travel caused by the pandemic
With Help From a Beer Maker, There’s a New Front Opening in the Battle Over School Masks
The owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company is using money from the super PAC he launched to fund lawsuits that would force Wisconsin schools to require masks in class