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Stonewall Inn explains why it stopped selling Bud Light – and it’s nothing to do with Dylan Mulvaney

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The bar where police raids sparked the 1969 Stonewall uprising has revealed why it stopped serving Bud Light – and it has nothing to do with calls for a boycott over the beer brand’s collaboration with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. Co-owners of New York’s Stonewall Inn, Stacy Lentz and Kurt Kelly, have revealed that the bar turned its back on Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch, in 2021.  At that time, the bar staged a “Keep Your Pride” campaign, which involving refusing to serve products of companies that claimed to be allies of the queer community but which also donated funds […]

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Rwandans explain what life is like for queer community

As the UK government fights to save its Rwanda asylum plan in the Supreme Court, a gay man from the country reports on the dangers facing the community there. On Thursday (29 June), the Court of Appeal ruled that the government’s much-criticised plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. Prime minister Rishi Sunak and home secretary Suella Braverman have indicated that they intend to challenge the ruling. On the same day, the government’s Illegal Migration Bill, which backs up the Rwanda plan, suffered heavy defeats in the House of Lords. Innocent Uwimana – whose name has been changed to protect […]

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Gay couple walking their dog is violently attacked & stoned

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Ivan Miadini said it was like a scene out of the Old Testament. He and his husband were walking their dog a week ago Saturday night in Drogheda, north of the Irish capital in Dublin, when a gang of teenage boys starting verbally abusing them, calling them “f****t bastards”, “queers” and “pedophiles.” “They threatened to kill us, rape our dog and told us to go back to our own countries,” Miadini told the Independent. “They were going to chase us off the island.” The incident escalated as the teenagers started hurling stones at the couple and their dog and then physically attacked […]

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Forbidden Kiss Presents A Special Comedy Event Wednesday, July 12

FORBIDDEN KISS @ The California in Santa Rosa 7:30pm – 9:15pm SPECIAL COMEDY EVENT!  It’s comedy burlesque, sketch comedy, stand-up and more, including the premiere of a new talk show – with Cheryl King, Shan Free and Alia Beeton as The Cunning Linguists.  Join Cheryl and her other guests Velvet Thorn, Martin Gilbertson, Jonni Machado, Serena Elise, and Malia Abayon for this sexy, smart vaudeville show. Adult-oriented material, for those 18+. Parental guidance is suggested. 

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North Carolina governor vetoes trio of anti-trans bills

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On Wednesday, Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a trio of anti-trans bills passed by wide margins in the Republican-controlled state House and Senate. The three bills would ban gender-affirming care for minors, prohibit trans athletes in school sports, and limit classroom discussions about gender and sexuality. Despite the governor’s vetoes, prospects for killing the legislation are poor. Republicans hold veto-proof majorities in both state chambers. Cooper condemned the bills as “a triple threat of political culture wars” and accused Republicans of “scheming for the next election” at the expense of vulnerable children. “A doctor’s office is no place […]

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Nepal ordered to recognise same-sex marriage by Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court in Nepal has issued an interim order enabling the registration of same-sex marriages, a move which has been described as a “significant step towards marriage equality” in the country. The interim order was issued by the Supreme Court on Wednesday (28 June), asking the government to establish a separate register of marriages for same-sex couples in the country, the Associated Press (AP) reported.  The US embassy in Nepal wrote on Twitter: “This decision is a significant step towards marriage equality and recognition in Nepal that marriage is a fundamental right. “With the recognition of full marriage equality, Nepal will continue […]

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Businesses use rainbow flags to defy anti-Pride mayor who called LGBTQ+ identity a “lifestyle”

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The mayor of a California city in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area has drawn criticism from citizens and business leaders after refusing to issue a proclamation recognizing June as Pride Month and describing LGBTQ+ identity as a “choice of lifestyle.”  As the Los Angeles Blade reports, 2023 was the first year since 2014 that the city of Torrance, California did not issue a Pride Month proclamation. While the city reportedly does not sponsor Pride events or fly the Pride flag over its city hall, former mayor Patrick Furey did issue the proclamations beginning in 2014. But this year, Mayor George Chen, […]

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Waterloo university stabbing was ‘targeted anti-LGBTQ+ attack’, police say as suspect charged

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A 24-year-old man has been charged in connection with the stabbing of a university professor and two students during a gender studies lecture in Canada, in what police say was a “hate-motivated incident”.  Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, an international student who had recently graduated from Waterloo University in Ontario, is alleged to have carried out the “planned and targeted” attack “motivated by hate related to gender expression and gender identity”, police said in a press release. About 40 students were attending the class on Wednesday (28 June) when a man stabbedthe 38-year-old professor, a 20-year-old woman and a 19-year-old man, police said. The victims […]

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Food For Thought’s food drive program needs volunteers

Food For Thought’s food drive program is growing, and we need YOU to help collect food donations! So far this year, we have already collected over 13,500 food items at food drives for our neighbors in need! If you can jump in the mix to TRY ON A FOOD DRIVE it would be most excellent to have your help. We’ve got to keep the food rolling in through the Summer too!  I will be on site with bells on to welcome, orient, and train 1st-time food drive volunteers at:  Saturday, July 8th: Windsor Oliver’s training shifts 12:30pm-3pm and 3pm-5pm  Saturday, July 15th: […]

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Curve Magazine Cartoons: A Dyke Strippers’ Retrospective

 Thursday, July 13, 2023GLBT Historical Society Museum4127 18th StreetSan Francisco, CA 941147:00 PM | General Reception7:30 PM | Remarks by curator Julia RosenzweigTickets are $10.00 or free for members. Click here to reserve your ticket. Purchase your Tickets About the ExhibitionThe landscape of lesbian cartoons in the 1990s was small yet vibrant; full of passion, satire, self-deprecation, and deep-cutting political and social commentary. Publishing these cartoons in the early years of Curve magazine (which was named Deneuvemagazine between 1991-1995) was a natural fit, aligning with the pivotal lesbian publication’s cheeky voice and journalistic integrity, and enhancing both the aesthetics of the pages and its witty content. In the […]

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