LGBTQ news and entertainment
Treven Gokey, 49, was arrested Wednesday at his Phoenix home for allegedly making terrorist threats specifically targeting LGBTQ+ community members and the business Cruisin 7th Bar on North 7th Street in Phoenix. Continue reading “Police: Phoenix Man Threatened To Shoot Up Gay Bar Over Charlie Kirk”
Some news items worth your time: • The Advocate: Out actor Zane Phillips (Fire Island, Glamorous) says attending a local theater camp in small town Texas was the beginning of his learning to accept his sexuality. “Without it, I wouldn’t have met a lot of the people who guided me to this place of being confident in myself and being okay with myself.” Continue reading “Theater Is Where Zane Phillips Learned To Accept Himself + More”
A 17-year-old in Suffolk County was arrested in connection with an anonymous email threatening to “shoot up” Sequoya High School in Holtsville, New York. When police showed up at the teen’s house, he was apparently very surprised, saying, “I can’t believe you guys found out it was me.” Continue reading “Long Island Teen Arrested For Threatening To “Shoot Up” His High School”
Some news items you might have missed: • New Music: The latest from American Idol alum David Archuleta – “Afraid To Love.” Continue reading “David Archuleta Isn’t ‘Afraid To Love’ + More News”
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“We are professionals. We are trained military people. We will be on rooftops. You will not be safe. A hot piece of lead will cut through your skull. You bastard. You will be killed, and I don’t give a fuck who you are. Back out of this bullshit before it’s too late, or we’ll start cutting down your staff. This is not a threat. This is a promise.”
A tearful Caporusso reportedly told the courtroom on Tuesday: “I am not a man that would harm anyone. I asked myself, ‘How could I have done such a thing?’” And yet…he did. The one-and-a-half year sentence is the term recommended by the government.
On Thursday, an anonymous man phoned MILK+T, an LGBTQ-owned boba tea shop in Las Vegas, and threatened to ‘blow up’ the business over a Pride flag and a Biden/Harris sign on display. Caroline Sadorra, the manager of the tea shop’s Las Vegas branch, answered the call. Sadorra told local NBC News affiliate KSNV that while the Pride flag was a regular fixture at the business, the Biden/Harris sign was left there after a recent campaign event by Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV). 
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One of the owners, Beyah Delmundo, told KSNV she plans to file a police report with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Monday morning. The business’s phone recorded the caller’s phone number. Delmundo says she considered removing the Biden/Harris sign after the call, but decided, “Right now is not the time to be silent and to be shy about what you stand for.” In sharing the recording on Facebook, MILK+T wrote, in part:
To attack us was simply unwarranted. It shocked us and made us realize how much hate there is in our country. More than ever, we have to come together. Choose kindness and love, not the route of tearing another apart and threatening violence because of our differences.
LGBTQ rights ARE human rights. At MILK+T, we believe that Black Lives Matter. Women’s rights are human rights. No human is illegal. Science is real. Love is love, and kindness is everything.
Even though this shook us to our core, we stand firmly on what we believe. It takes courage to stand for what you believe in, and despite everything, we have courage and hope in the good there is in the world.
Ralph Perkins (mugshot via Tampa Police)
Ralph Perkins was arrested Wednesday on a charge of making a written threat to conduct a mass shooting and is currently being held without bail in the Hillsborough County jail.
According to the arrest report, Perkins made the threats Monday after his offer for an unidentified person to move in with him was rejected.
“I like to take a gun I like to wipe the whole gay community out in Tampa and then kill myself,” Perkins wrote via a grammatically incorrect text message on his phone. “That’s going to be my ultimate present to Tampa Florida is the annihilator the gay community before I kill myself.”
Officers confirmed that Perkins sent the threats from his phone and took him into custody just after midnight Wednesday.
Perkins’s angry comment was apparently spurred by being rejected by another man on Grindr. No weapons were found during Perkins’ arrest, but a spokesperson for Tampa Police told the Tampa Bay Times, “We cannot predict what he would have done had he not been arrested.” The Times also notes that Perkins is a registered sex offender