Politico reports: A coalition of advocacy groups sued the Trump administration on Monday over its rollback of LGBTQ patient protections, arguing that last week’s Supreme Court decision extending workplace legal protections to gay and transgender employees invalidates the new rules. Big picture: The suit marks the first challenge stemming from the 6-3 high court decision that(…)
Show Your Pride By Supporting FFT’s Programs for Give Out Day! Give OUT Day is the only national day of giving for the LGBTQ community, raising $6+ million for 700+ organizations since 2013. Hosted by Horizons Foundation, the world’s first LGBTQ community foundation, Give OUT Day supports diverse LGBTQ organizations – from community centers to(…)
Women Who Love Women & Men Who Love Men I am very excited to announce these two online groups starting this week! Please read the descriptions below. Come and feel the connection, and take this time to nurture yourself. I will be a participating helper for John with the Men’s group. These are for seniors(…)
Creative LGBT+ activists in Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv have used drones to vastly improve a Soviet-era monument. Like Pride parades around the world, the annual Kyiv Pride march – which has previously drawn violent far-right counter-protesters – has been cancelled in 2020 due to coronavirus. With LGBT+ people prevented from marching through the streets, on Sunday activists(…)
Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., on Thursday blocked Senate consideration of the Equality Act, an LGBTQ civil rights bill, by citing “Harry Potter” author J. K. Rowling’s recent blog post, which has been criticized as a “transphobic manifesto.” “To say in the words of J.K. Rowling this past week where she wrote, ‘All I’m asking, all(…)
A Chicago teenager faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of a 37-year-old woman, whom he allegedly killed after learning she was transgender. Orlando Perez, 18, was taken into custody by Chicago police after admitting to shooting Selena Reyes-Hernandez in the head and back on May 31. Perez allegedly was upset to discover(…)
San Francisco Pride’s 2020 Online CelebrationSaturday, June 27, 1-9 p.m. Sunday, June 28, 2-7 p.m.Available online at sfpride.org SF Pride is pleased to announce that this weekend-long tribute to LGBTQ+ luminaries and queer solidarity will be hosted by some of San Francisco’s most iconic drag queens and activists, including Honey Mahogany, Persia, Sister Roma, and Yves Saint Croissant. Headlining Saturday’s celebration is New(…)
The law often operates as the apparatus that facilitates instead of prevents the untimely deaths of so many in historically excluded and oppressed communities – including the LGBTQ community. The deaths of both Aimee Stephens and Don Zarda, whose workplace discrimination cases the Supreme Court decided posthumously in their favor on Monday, are a case in(…)
Police investigating the murder of Dominique Rem’mie Fells, a Black trans woman whose dismembered body was pulled from a river in Philadelphia, have issued an arrest warrant for a murder suspect in connection with the case. Warning – contains graphic descriptions of violence. Fell’s mutilated body was recovered from the Schuylkill river on June 9. Her corpse(…)
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling protecting LGBTQ rights in the workplace sets the stage for another major legal fight over the scope of religious-rights exemptions to certain federal laws that could dilute the landmark decision’s impact. The justices ruled 6-3 on Monday that federal employment law safeguards gay and transgender employees from discrimination but failed(…)
