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Neo-Nazis disrupt a drag story hour in New Hampshire

A group of neo-Nazis disrupted a drag story hour in New Hampshire over the weekend, another in an escalating series of threats and attacks against the LGBTQ community in recent months.  The drag story hour, at which drag queens read children’s books to kids, took place at an LGBTQ-owned coffee shop in Concord, the state’s capital, on Sunday. In video that has attracted over 6.5 million views on Twitter, more than a dozen men wearing masks, sunglasses, baseball caps and matching shirts and pants can been seen chanting, raising their right arms in unison and banging on the coffee shop’s […]

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Temecula City Councilmember Stalks Out Over Pride Month

The East Bay Times reports: When Temecula Mayor Zak Schwank started reading, City Councilmember Jessica Alexander started walking. Alexander, an outspoken Christian conservative, walked off the council dais during a recent meeting as the mayor began to read a proclamation honoring LGBTQ Pride Month in the city. Before she left, Alexander decried what she described as sexually explicit LGBTQ flags, including one she said promotes pedophilia. “If you don’t oppose this proclamation being given to minors, we are celebrating and encouraging sexual activity and giving them (a) sexual credit card with no limit,” Alexander said. “You are encouraging them to expose them […]

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Napa Valley College Pride Learning Community Offering 2-Semester LGBTQ+ Program This Fall

The Napa Valley College Pride Learning Community promotes student success in college and life through an immersive communal experience in academics and college life. This two-semester program includes a cohort of students who work together with experienced faculty and college counselors with a focus on LGBTQ+ studies. These courses prepare students for transfer to a 4-year college or university or for entry to the workforce.  Careers this learning community can prepare you for include: Being part of this learning community will offer you special field trips, activities, and experiences beyond a regular college class. You will meet new people and […]

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Montana Man Sentenced To 18 Years After Using Assault Weapon In Crusade To “Clean Out” His Town Of LGBTQs

From the Justice Department: A Montana man was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris to 18 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for shooting into a residence and attempting to shoot others with the intent of ridding a town of LGBTQI+ residents. John Russell Howald, of Basin, was convicted by a federal jury on Feb. 17 of a hate crime involving an attempt to kill and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence for firing an AK-style rifle at the residence of a woman who was known within […]

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Illinois Becomes First State to Ban Book Bans

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Illinois has become the first state to enact what’s being called a ban on book bans. House Bill 2789, signed into law Monday by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker, will deny state funding to public libraries that ban materials because of “partisan or doctrinal disapproval” of the content. “We are not saying that every book should be in every single library,” said Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, according to the Associated Press. “What this law does is it says, let’s trust our experience and education of our librarians to decide what books should be in circulation.” Giannoulias, who also holds the post of […]

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Call To Action: Protest Anti-LGBTQI+ Owners of Several Sonoma Businesses at General’s Daughter June 20

REMINDER – PROTEST ON JUNE 20TH, 5:30 – 7:00 IN FRONT OF THE PIZZA AND PINOT AT GENERAL’S DAUGHTER – OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET.  WE ARE WAKE UP SONOMAOUR MISSION IS TO:Promote equality of human and civil rights within our community, through research, education about threats to those rights, and to champion community-based solutions. We see THESE BUSINESSES in direct conflict with our mission.Stand with us, boycott LeFever/Mattson owned businesses! (If you don’t see the image above with list of LeFever Mattson businesses, be sure to show remote content in this e-mail.) Think about where your money is going—you would be supporting the following:Large […]

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West Hollywood Drag-Themed Art Display Vandalized Days After Pride

A public photo art display celebrating drag queens and LA Pride history has become the target of vandalism in West Hollywood.  The life-size portraits come from an essay on the second West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval in the late 1980s, and have been on display along the Sunset Strip section of Sunset Boulevard since May 1. Now, more than a dozen of them have been burned, tagged with graffiti, stabbed, or slashed.  Local station KABC-TV spoke with the artist responsible for the displays, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of her personal safety.  “Some of the images were burned and they were gouged with some kind […]

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For China’s LGBTQ community, safe spaces are becoming harder to find

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 The space for China’s LGBTQ community just got even smaller. Founded in 2008, the Beijing LGBT Center had played a prominent role in combating prejudice against sexual and gender minorities in China. On May 15, four days after its 15th anniversary and two days before the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia, the center said on its official WeChat account that it was closing because of “force majeure,” which in China often refers to being shut down by the government. “We were all shocked by the news,” said Marry Yang, a volunteer at the center. “It’s quite sudden. Most people don’t know […]

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Queer teenager killed in Israel after death threats from family members for being LGBTQ+

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Sarit Ahmed, an 18-year-old queer Druze woman, died after being shot multiple times while sitting in her car in Northern Israel, in a killing allegedly motivated by her sexual orientation.  Ahmed was found lying in the street near Yarka, with multiple gunshot wounds to her upper body on Friday (9 June), according to Israeli emergency services. After being taken to Galilee Medical Centre in Israel’s Northern District, Ahmed was pronounced dead.  The 18-year-old had previously received death threats from her brothers due to her queer identity. In 2020, Ahmed filed a complaint against two of her brothers, claiming they had made explicit […]

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