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Over 1 Million Black Adults in the U.S. Identify as LGBT

Interesting news.

According to The Williams Institute, an estimated 1,018,700 (or 3.7 percent) of Black American consider themselves lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT), and 34% are raising children.
Some more info:

• The estimated 84,000 Black Americans live in areas where there are higher proportions of Black Americans. 
• Most Black gay couples live in Georgia, New York, North Carolina, and Maryland.
• Overall, Black LGBT have higher unemployment rates and are less likely to have a college degree when compared to their non-LGBT counterparts.
• Black LGBT couples are also less likely than their different-sex counterparts to have health insurance coverage for both partners.

Read the full report here

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Black Gays make up a Huge Chunk of LGBT Community

This week, the Gallup Poll revealed some info about the large numbers of POC (people of color) in the LGBT community.

And a new piece has grown from that data. Apparently, Black folks makes up a huge chunk of those numbers.

According to the report, released by Gallup earlier this week, 4.6 percent of African Americans responded "yes" when asked if they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, along with four percent of Hispanics, 4.3 percent of Asians and 3.2 percent of Caucasians.

"This data reveals that, relative to the general population, the LGBT population has a larger proportion of non-white people and clearly is not overly wealthy," said study author and demographer Gary Gates, of the UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute. 

If this is the case, then we need to use this info as a way to change the game. We should start telling the world our stories and make sure we are being recognized.

This info is a breath of interesting air 

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WATCH: NoMoreDownLow.TV coverage of 2012 DNC

The team over at NoMoreDownLow.TV, gives a Black LGBT perspective of the 2012 DNC.

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13 People Charged for the Death of Robert Champion

Finally, some real movement in the Robert Champion/FAMU case. 13 people were charged for his death in the band bus.

The Grio reports

State Attorney Lawson Lamar said 11 of the 13 people will face a hazing resulting death charge, a third-degree felony. If convicted, they could face up to nearly six years in prison. The other two people will face a misdemeanor charges.

The names of those charged will not be released until they are all arrested, Lamar said. It was also not immediately clear whether they were all band members.

Legal experts had predicted prosecutors may file more serious charges like manslaughter and second-degree murder. The Champion family attorney, Christopher Chestnut, said they were disappointed.

"They had hoped for more serious charges. They were hoping for a stronger message. He was beaten to death," he said.

Prosecutors, however, didn't think they had enough evidence.

"The testimony obtained to date does not support a charge of murder, in that it does not contain the elements of murder," Lamar said. "We can prove participation in hazing and a death. We do not have a blow or a shot or a knife thrust that killed Mr. Champion. It is an aggregation of things which exactly fit the Florida statute as written by the Legislature."

I wished for more serious charges, but this is a start.

A Man Convicted in the Murder of Marcellus Andrews

A man was finally convicted for the murder of 19-year-old Marcellus Andrews. Marcellus was beaten to death while being taunted by gay slurs in August.

Here is the latest news:

A Black Hawk County jury has convicted a man of voluntary manslaughter in the beating death of a college student in Waterloo. 

The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier  says the jury returned the verdict Friday afternoon in the case against 20-year-old Paris Anding. He was charged in the August beating death of 19-year-old Marcellus Andrews during a fight.

Prosecutors say Anding swung a baseball bat and hit Andrews in the head. The defense claimed Anding was protecting his aunt.

Andrews’ death drew nationwide attention from gay rights activists after witnesses were quoted in local media saying Andrews was taunted with anti-gay slurs. Waterloo police said there was no indication of a hate crime. Andrews’ family and friends downplayed the idea and said he wasn’t gay.

Voluntary manslaughter has a max of 10 years, and there is no minimum. I hope this helps the Andrews family. Paris should pay for this horrible crime.


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