May 16, 2024 The Newspaper Serving LGBT Los Angeles

Author: Troy Masters


North Carolina Governor enacts venomous anti-LGBT law

March 24, 2016

March 24, 2016

BY TROY MASTERS  |  North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed a bill March 22, 2016 that keeps cities from...

UPDATED: It was a brief pause on Hillary Clinton

March 11, 2016

March 11, 2016 16

BY TROY MASTERS  |  UPDATE:  Since publishing this item, Hillary Clinton has issued a second apology. Hillary Clinton stepped in...

Sam Smith inadvertently spotlights a long history of out LGBT Oscar winners

February 29, 2016

February 29, 2016 639

BY TROY MASTERS  |  When Sam Smith bested favorite Lady GaGa and snagged an Oscar for Best Original Song at last...

Apple hires Prop 8 lawyer Ted Olson to fight against FBI terror probe

February 19, 2016

February 19, 2016 7

  BY TROY MASTERS  |  Tim Cook, the out gay man who leads the world’s wealthiest company as CEO of Apple, Inc.,...

Gay and lesbian candidates for your Supreme Court pick, Mr. President

February 18, 2016

February 18, 2016

BY TROY MASTERS & ANGELO CASIANO  | President Obama says he plans to pick a Supreme Court nominee to replace...

Justice Scalia was despised and lionized for his judicial activism against LGBT rights

February 13, 2016

February 13, 2016 2

  BY TROY MASTERS  |  FEB. 13, 2016  |  Antonin Scalia, Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States...

Hillary and Bernie both evolved slowly on gay rights

February 10, 2016

February 10, 2016 158

BY TROY MASTERS  |  “I’m not evolving when it comes to gay rights. I was there!” That’s the quote –...

12 years for ‘crime of passion’

February 10, 2016

February 10, 2016 698

BY TROY MASTERS  |  Andre Davids, 38, was sentenced to 12 years for the gruesome stabbing and dismemberment of his...

Single LGBT Seniors benefit from companion animals

January 28, 2016

January 28, 2016 8

BY MATTHEW BAJKO (with additional reporting by TROY MASTERS)  |  Many times a day on Blackburn Avenue, Stuart Isen, a...

RentBoy.com CEO indicted on prostitution and now money laundering

January 28, 2016

January 28, 2016 151

BY TROY MASTERS  |  Jeffrey Hurant, 51, former chief executive of Rentboy.com was indicted by a federal grand jury in...