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Chechnya Starts Concentration Camps for Gay Men, First Time after Hitler
Homosexual men are being tortured with electric shocks and beaten to death in concentration camps in Chechnya. This is the first concentration camp for homosexuals since Hitler’s camps in 1930s. Reports have emerged that 100 gay men were detained and three killed in these camps last week. Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper known for its critical(…)
Government Risks ‘Neglecting Needs of LGBT Youth’ in Sex Education
Campaigners have expressed concern with the findings of the first round of public consultation on what schools should be teaching in the Relationships Education and Relationship and Sex Education (RSE) curricula. The consultation, which runs until November 7, 2018, was called following government plans to introduce the mandatory subjects in schools across the country by September 2020. Then-Education(…)
US Medical Group Takes Stand Against Intersex Surgery on Children
Protesting intersex surgeries | Photo: Flickr/Stuart Crawford 18 September 2018 The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in the United States has taken a stance against performing unnecessary surgery on intersex children. The organization, which was founded in 1947, issued the new guidelines earlier this year. Intersex people are those born with variations in their(…)
Local News
Project Nunway: Nunlimited Happens October 12 at the River
FRI, OCT 12 AT 6:30 PM Project Nunway Nunlimited: To Infinity and Beyond Guerneville Veterans Hall · Guerneville, CA Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3617422 Greetings and Welcome to the First Annual Russian River Sisters Project Nunway! This event was first created by the San Francisco Sisters over ten years ago by Sister Babra Ganesha and has become a world(…)
RR Sisters HOst Anthem Closet Ball October 6 at R3
It’s that time of the year again! The Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence (with a tiny bit of help from Purple Stardust Productions) are throwing a big drag contest. Yes! Closet Ball is coming! TICKETS: https://anthem.brownpapertickets.com Join us on Friday, October 6th at the R3 Hotel for the 15th incarnation of this amazing show. (…)
Arts & Entertainment
Lesbian Film Vying for Oscars Glory is a Sold Out Hit after Kenya Lifts Ban
Rafiki is the first Kenyan film chosen to screen at the Cannes Film Festival | Photo: Facebook 24 September 2018 A lesbian film banned in Kenya has sold out all its planned sessions after a court temporarily suspended the ban. Rafiki became the first Kenyan film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival and hoped(…)
Book Review: ‘Some Animal’ by Ely Shipley
Shipley has accomplished a meditation on gender, time, and the forms of life that is a gift to his readers. Shipley gives gifts in layers. We observe each by its inversion into another: poets and psychologists, bits of trivia or miscellany rest alongside intimacy, and bodies appear as bound until they are freed, or free(…)
State News
West Hollywood to Host First Ever Bi Pride
Dust off your pink, purple and blue blue flags because it is Pride season again. Bi Pride, that is! The City of West Hollywood, amBi LA and HRC LA is hosting the first city-wide Bi Pride celebration in the country on Saturday, Sept. 22 at the WeHo Park Auditorium. The event will begin with a(…)
San Francisco Bay Times: Four Decades of an LGBT Free Press
The San Francisco Bay Times, the first newspaper for the LGBTQ community to be jointly and equally produced by women and men, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. This living-history panel will review San Francisco history from 1978 as covered in the pages of the paper. Among those who will take part in recounting(…)
