Diamonds Are Forever It is with great sadness that we write to our community and supporters today to let you know that BreakOUT! has experienced another great loss, the death of one of our Core Member Leaders, Diamond D’Maree. Diamond died on Saturday, June 27 at her home surrounded by close family and friends, with [...]
LGBTQ youth take lack of local media coverage into own hands In just under three months in the beginning of 2015, at least 10 transgender women were murdered in the U.S., mostly transgender women of color. Several other gender non-conforming and queer people of color were also killed, including Jessie Hernandez, killed by the [...]
We're kicking off #MakePennyProud and our #BlackTransLivesMatter campaign with a Twitter Rally on Friday, March 6th at 1pm CST // 2pm EST. Join us on Twitter using hashtags #MakePennyProud and #BlackTransLivesMatter and stay tuned for more BIG announcements in our media campaign! Thank you, Erin Wilson, for the beautiful portrait of Penny! UPDATE: Here's [...]
In Life and In Death, We Are All Survivors #BlackTransLivesMatter BreakOUT! has just heard of the death of another community member in New Orleans, Penny Proud, the night of February 9th, 2015. While we mourn the loss of yet another member in our community, we are reminded how important it is to affirm the value [...]