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A bipartisan effort looks to rectify tax inequities for same-sex married couples
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced legislation helping bring financial equality to same-sex married couples. Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine reintroduced the Refund Equality Act on Thursday, the 10-year anniversary of the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court ruling, which legalized marriage equality as a constitutional right. The act would allow married […]
Harvey Milk is an icon. Pete Hegseth is an idiot
Pete Hegseth likes to puff out his chest and wrap himself in the flag, replete with his eye-rolling star-spangled banner pocket square. His entire act is so phony, so immature, so beyond the realm of what gentlemen should be. He screams “warrior,” but in reality he is weak, and weak on innumerable levels. Hegseth tosses around […]
Hungary’s LGBTQ community defies government ban on Pride march
Hungary’s LGBTQ community is preparing for a face-off with the country’s autocratic government and plans to push ahead with a march in the capital on Saturday despite a government ban and threats of legal repercussions. The populist party of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in March fast-tracked a lawthrough parliament that made it an offense to hold […]
Local News
LGBT Walk at Wildlife Preserve
Friday, July 4·10:30am – 12:30pm The Madeleine Sone Wildlife Preserve, 300 Ryan Ranch Rd, Sebastopol, CA 95472, USA notes https://myactivecenter.com/#centers/USA.CA.Sebastopol.Sebastopol-Area-Senior-Center-/activities/36577 Meet Monthly on 1st and 3rd Friday at 10:30 AM at The Madeleine Sone Wildlife Preserve, 300 Ryan Ranch Rd, Sebastopol
July Events at Sonoma County Library
Kids Circus of SmilesJoin Mr. Quick and Mr. Mustache on a comical adventure featuring juggling, flips, and gravity-defying catches! Grades K-6. At five locations: Petaluma Community Center (assembly room), and the Central Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park Cotati, Rincon Valley, and Healdsburg libraries. Make Your Own Trading CardsCelebrate your favorite fandoms and make your own trading cards! Grades […]
Arts & Entertainment
Left Edge Theatre at The California Present Hindsight 2025 – 10-minute Play Festival July 19 & 20
Over 300 plays submitted from across the globe. Only 10 made the cut. Hindsight 2025A Staged Reading Event The California Theatre, Santa RosaSaturday, July 19 & Sunday, July 20 Two days. Ten bold plays.One unforgettable experience. Step into Hindsight 2025—a weekend of sharp, surprising, and stirring 10-minute plays that explore the past, illuminate the present, and imagine […]
Frameline49: “Row of Life” Screening Happens Tuesday at the Roxie Theatre in SF & Streaming Now
tFormer Marine, three-time Paralympian, fourteen-time Guinness World Record setter, and renowned ocean rower Angela Madsen is committed to her sport. By chronicling the year leading up to Madsen’s unsupported solo row from Los Angeles to Hawai’i, director Soraya Simi captures both the everyday beauty of a sapphic love story and an athlete’s fearless tenacity. Once Madsen embarks on her […]
State News
Stanford Medicine caves to Trump Administration, ends gender-affirming surgeries for youth
Stanford Medicine will no longer provide gender-affirming surgeries to patients under the age of 19 after facing threats from the Trump Administration. “After careful review of the latest actions and directives from the federal government and following consultations with clinical leadership, including our multidisciplinary LGBTQ+ program and its providers, Stanford Medicine paused providing gender-related surgical procedures as part […]
Queer educators will soon unveil 10 new LGBTQ+ lessons for California public schools
A coalition of local educators and LGBTQ+ organizations in California are unveiling 10 new LGBTQ+ history lessons for the state’s K-12 public school classrooms under the theme “Pride, Resistance, Joy: Teaching Intersectional LGBTQ+ Stories of California and Beyond.” The curriculum was created by local K-12 teachers in collaboration with the LGBTQ+ history organization One Institute, the ONE […]
