Chrissy Lee Polis

Hundreds turned out for a rally last night outside the Baltimore McDonald's where trans woman Chrissy Lee Polis was brutally beaten while some restaurant employees stood by and even filmed it. The Washington Blade has a report from the rally, which was attended by several politicians, and Polis' mother: A crowd of about 300 spectators sang “We Shall Overcome,” as politicians and activists denounced the beating that captured national media attention after it was recorded by a restaurant...Read Full Story

TOWSON, Md. – Teonna Brown, the 19-year-old woman who was captured on video beating a transgendered woman silly inside a Maryland McDonald’s, has plead guilty to first-degree assault and to a hate crime.For those of you who were unaware of this story, Chrissy Polis, a 22-year-old transgendered woman, was inside a McDonald’s when she was attacked by Brown and Brown’s 14-year-old friend.While restaurant employees stood around and watched, one even filming the entire event, Polis had the crap...Read Full Story

Baltimore, MD – Bond has been denied for Teonna Monae Brown, one of the two teens charged with beating Chrissy Lee Polis in a Baltimore McDonald’s.The attack was filmed by a McDonald’s employee who has since been fired, but not before he posted the video on his Facebook and found out the hard way that most of society did not find the act as hilarious as he did and do not condone the actions of Brown and her 14-year-old friend.I don’t normally like to post about the same story in one week, but...Read Full Story

So ladies I was watching Love & Hip Hop (yes, yes I was, it's a guilty pleasure since there's rarely anything on, lol) and there was an episode where Chrissy proposed to her boyfriend of 6 years rapper Jim Jones.  Chrissy stated that she is a woman who goes for what she wants and she believed that Jimmy would propose but not until he purchased that million dollar ring which is not what Chrissy needed or wanted.  Chrissy decided to take matters into her own hands and propose to him at a...Read Full Story

The San Diego Alliance for Marriage Equality (S.A.M.E.) and All Out at City, the Queer student group at San Diego City College, drew about 70 people to a march and rally they staged outside the McDonald's in Hillcrest April 30 in support of Transgender rights. The rally was in support of Chrissy Lee Polis,the 24-year-old Transgender woman who was beaten up by two teenage girls in a women's restroom at a McDonald's in Baltimore April 18, while McDonald's staff and customers looked on and only...Read Full Story