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Queer Afghans cry for help under Taliban rule, citing private prisons, torture & death
An LGBTQ+ rights group in Afghanistan is calling the international community’s acceptance of Taliban rule a “betrayal of humanity” and is demanding justice for queer people from the United Nations, human rights organizations, and countries that “claim to support human rights.” Rainbow Afghanistan details a litany of abuses against the queer community by the Taliban, which […]
More Than 100K Transgender Youth Live in States Impacted by Restrictive Laws: Study
About 100,000 trans youth in America live in a state that took a basic quality of life element away this year. Some lost the ability to stay on a youth sports team while others lost access to essential health care, or countless teens lost the ability simply to use the restroom of their choice. A […]
Georgia agrees to pay for gender-affirming care for public employees, settling a lawsuit
The state of Georgia will start paying for gender-affirming health care for state employees, public school teachers and former employees covered by a state health insurance plan, settling another in a string of lawsuits against Georgia agencies aiming to force them to pay for gender-confirmation surgery and other procedures. The plaintiffs moved to dismiss their […]
Local News
All Invited Social Saturday: Intergenerational Gathering at Brew Sat. Dec. 18
Join Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center and North Bay LGBTQI Families for an end-of-year Social Saturday: Intergenerational Gathering on December 18th from 11am-3pm at Brew (555 Healdsburg Ave) in Santa Rosa! Come by to celebrate the season with us, and take home one of our specially assembled LGBTQIA+ Family and Community Care Packages! All LGBTQIA+ youth, families, adults, and elders […]
Learn New Job Skills at Sonoma County Library
Whether you’re looking to reenter the workforce or start a new career, Sonoma County Library has you covered! In addition to the online learning platforms we already offer, we’ve added four more resources to improve your job and technology skills, courtesy of the California State Library. Learn more about these resources below! Coursera partners with more than 200 […]
Arts & Entertainment
Film Review: “Hi, Are Your Single?”
Nearly all of us in the LGBTQ community were raised in a very heteronormative family lacking in role models that as gay men and women we could actually relate too. That is rapidly changing and hopefully future generations of queers will benefit from those who a whole slew of LGBTQ ‘pioneers’ we can now take […]
‘We Play Ourselves’ is a Darkly Comic Meditation on Success and Happiness
Jen Silverman’s debut novel, We Play Ourselves, reads like the work of a more established novelist. Silverman is no novice though. She has a body of work as a playwright and staff writer for TV shows and her sense of pacing shows clearly in the book’s plot. The reader learns from the first two pages they’re in […]
State News
New California law gives students a do-over for failing grades in pandemic year
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a law to help alleviate the pandemic’s effect on grades and graduation credits by giving California students an opportunity to redo a grade level. Assembly Bill 104, now law, creates a range of grading options to accommodate K-12 students who struggled during the 2020-21 academic year, when distance learning […]
Caitlyn Jenner proposes dumping homeless people in “big open fields” where they can’t “destroy” things
n case anyone forgot, California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner is once again reminding everyone that she’s a total asshole. Speaking to Inside California Politics, the 71-year-old reality star talked about a recent trip she took to Venice Beach, a popular tourist neighborhood in Los Angeles, where she was absolutely appalled by the number of homeless people […]