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Delaware Guv Fails to Issue Pride Proclamation, Triggering Backlash
. The administration of Delaware Gov. John Carney has been receiving criticism for its handling of LGBTQ issues as of late. Most of the frustration from LGBT and other progressive activists concerns the administration’s handling of Regulation 225, which would mandate that transgender students request permission from a parent or guardian before changing their gender(…)
HELSINKI: Human Rights Campaign Calls On Trump And Putin To End Chechnya’s Crimes Against LGBTs
From the Human Rights Campaign: Today, just ahead of tomorrow’s Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki, HRC projected an enormous message onto the Presidential Palace in Helsinki demanding that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin immediately end the ongoing anti-LGBTQ crimes against humanity occurring in the Russian republic of Chechnya. For more than 15 months, Donald Trump and(…)
Phoenix Permanently Paints Road Crossings with Pride Colors
Phoenix has painted two crossings with Pride colours in a tribute to its LGBT+ residents. (ILoveGayPhoenix/Twitter) Phoenix has permanently painted two zebra crossings with Pride colours, embracing the city’s LGBT+ community. The city’s council unanimously voted to give two crossings a rainbow makeover, reports The Arizona Republic. The two crossings are in Seventh and Glenrosa(…)
Local News
North Bay LGBTQI Families Hosts Event to Draw Attention to and Benefit Families Separated at the Border
Please join North Bay LGBTQI Families and H Peace on Monday July 16 at the old courthouse square at from 6-7pm for a demonstration supporting reuniting families and discontinue separating families! We will have speakers discussing how the separation affect health/ mental health and the community at large. We will be walking as a group(…)
Gay Wine Weekend Happens July 21 – 23
Enjoy 3 full days of LGBT events in Northern California’s magnificent Sonoma Valley – home to some of the world’s most prestigious wines and wineries. Celebrate with world class wine and culinary delights, music and dancing in a private estate vineyard, VIP Receptions, wine tasting excursions, champagne brunch, wine auction and pool party in one(…)
Arts & Entertainment
Book Review: ‘Paper is White’ by Hilary Zaid
Set in the late 1990s in the Bay Area, Hilary Zaid’s debut novel, Paper Is White, follows Ellen Margolis, assistant curator at the Foundation for the Preservation of Memory, as she navigates the choppy waters of history, kicked up by two very intense and very important personal involvements. The novel opens with an Indian tale(…)
Book Review: ‘Portraits’ by N.A. Diaman
Diaman is an experienced gay writer with seven novels and three memoirs under his belt. This newest novel is a quiet, charming story of long loving relationships in San Francisco and Europe (Germany, then mostly in Paris) and finally, briefly, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. There are three chapters, the first named for Theo,(…)
State News
Nancy Pelosi clarifies ‘I am LGBTQ’ quote
House minority leader and key opponent to Donald Trump Nancy Pelosi has clarified a quote in which she declared “I am LGBTQ,” leading to speculation about her sexuality. Pelosi is the most senior representative of the Democratic Party in Congress and a crucial figure in opposing Republican policies, including anti-LGBT legislature or attempts to block(…)
Creating the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District
Gentrification and economic displacement are not mere abstractions for LGBTQ San Franciscans. We see the tangible effects daily on the places where we live, work and play. The loss of a neighborhood formed around our identities is devastating — not just for individuals but also for the extended families, institutions and events that form our(…)
