Via TV Guide: Anissa is presented as a strong, confident woman off the bat, but by the end of the premiere, she's also revealed to be openly gay. Rather than presenting Anissa with a coming out story in the first season, Black Lightning chose to reveal her sexual orientation and then move right along because this girl has a million things to do and stressing about her sexuality is not one of them.

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A local woman said she's now scared just to walk down the street after being violently attacked in South Los Angeles for being gay.

There were hugs and tears as Sabrina Hooks and her girlfriend Morgan recounted the violent encounter that left the 26-year-old beaten and bruised for her sexual orientation.

"For it to get violent and, like I said, no one helped, that's just what really stunned me and it still hurts. It makes me fear just to walk down the street," Hooks said.

Logann Pruneda, a student at Bullard High, says she was pelted with full juice boxes at school on Monday for being gay. It was her 16th birthday.

The Fresno Unified sophomore said that after a fire drill outside the school, she was hit with three boxes of apple juice from behind, leaving an abrasion and bruise on her neck. She was also hit in the back and ribs.

She heard a male call her “a faggot, a queer, a lesbo” during the attack, but did not see who did it, and did not recognize the voice.

Becky Reid, 32, was sentenced after being convicted on Thursday by a jury of the murder of mother-of-one Lyndsey Vaux, 30, following a six-week trial at Manchester Crown Court.

Reid refused to leave her cell at HMP Styal on Friday to face sentencing.

Ms Vaux’s daughter, aged 12, was sitting in the public gallery when the sentence was announced.

Ms Vaux died in Wigan on May 22 last year, half-starved and severely injured following years of beatings by Reid, after falling under her control and losing contact with her daughter five years ago.

“Master of None’s” Lena Waithe made history at the 69th Emmy Awards on Sunday, becoming the first black woman ever to win in the category of writing for a comedy series.

Waithe, who plays Denise in the Netflix series, co-wrote the “Thanksgiving” episode with “Master of None” co-creator Aziz Ansari. Her nomination also marked the first time a black woman was nominated for a comedy writing Emmy.

A couple of months after its release, 4:44 stands as perhaps JAY-Z‘s most nakedly honest album to date. The project finds Hov exploring dimensions of himself he hadn’t in previous projects, with one of them being the fact that his mother, Gloria Carter, is a lesbian. He makes the reveal on his touching song “Smile,” and in a recent conversation on the D’USSE Friday podcast, Hov’s mother details the moment she explained her sexual orientation. Apparently, it brought him to tears.

A same-sex couple were left ‘speechless’ after a barman wrote ‘lesbians’ on their drinks bill.

Belinda Mulcahy, 46, and Joanne Sheperd, 41, were shocked when they saw the bill’s description at Hafan y Mor holiday park near Pwllheli, North Wales.

The couple have described barman’s actions as ‘horrifying’.

Sheperd had taken Mulcahy out for her birthday drinks, when they were given the receipt.

‘We could have been friends.’

‘We hadn’t done anything overt,’ Sheperd told The Sun.

‘We hadn’t been kissing or holding hands. We could have been friends.’

Jay Z admits he had a hard time convincing his mother to come out on his album but eventually got her to say yes. Via Pinknews:

Jay-Z has opened up about his mother’s reaction to a song revealing she is a lesbian.

Gloria Carter came out as gay on her son’s album, 4:44, released in June.

In track Smile, Jay-Z can be heard rapping about his mother hiding her sexuality.

However it has now been revealed she told her celebrity son she would “absolutely not” allow the rap to be released.

A bakery is facing boycott calls after it refused to serve a lesbian couple.

Eileen Del Rio and her fiancée Wendy, who live in California, went to Tastries Bakery with the expectation of picking out their wedding cake.

But after the tastings were over and they were ready to make their order, owner Cathy Miller came over and told the couple she couldn’t design their cake because she’s Christian.

Eileen recalled that Miller “met with us today to set up the process.

A new documentary offers an intimate glimpse into the life and tragic death of the late pop icon Whitney Houston, exploring questions about her love life and her struggles with addiction.

Filled with never-before-broadcast footage from the pop legend's 1999 world tour, the documentary, airing on Showtime this Friday, gives a viewpoint into the last days of the six-time Grammy Award winner, whose sudden death in 2012 at the age of 48 left her fans around the world reeling.