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EU court tells member states: gender marker changes are the law
European Union member states must allow transgender citizens to update their names and gender markers on identification documents, according to the EU’s highest court. On Thursday, the EU Court of Justice (COJ) ruled that member state Bulgaria’s ban on trans people updating their names and gender markers on birth certificates — established in 2023 with a Bulgarian […]
Man who said Trump should ‘kill all trans people’ sentenced for anti-trans hate crime
A Seattle man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for a violent hate crime attack against a transgender woman in the city’s University District. Andre Karlow was convicted on Friday (13 March) of a second-degree assault and committing a hate crime for attacking Andie Holcepl in March 2025. Holcepl testified that she encountered […]
Budget cuts and ignorance of history are racing us towards another HIV & AIDS epidemic
I’m old enough to remember what it looked like when the government decided AIDS wasn’t its problem. I remember the silence from the Reagan White House as funerals piled up. I remember watching and hearing about brilliant sons, partners, uncles, friends, entire communities disappear while officials shrugged and said this was a “gay” disease, something […]
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Sonoma County Pride Announces 2026 Theme: Pride & True — Advance, Advocate, Act Up.
In a year marked by renewed national debates over LGBTQIA+ rights, identity, healthcare, and education, Sonoma County Pride is choosing clarity over reaction. Our community is not hypothetical. Our families are not political theory. Our history is not negotiable. Pride began as protest, but it has always been rooted in truth — the truth of […]
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North Bay Unites Hosts Noncooperation Training March 22
Coming together for a Mass Training to prepare to shut it down on May Day: No Work. No School. No Shopping. You’re invited to participate, Saturday, March 14, from 9-3 pm at Mission High School in San Francisco for the Bay Resistance Mass Noncooperation Training. Also, on Sunday, March 22, 12-6 pm, North […]
LA community centre launches trans health clinic ‘open for all’
A Los Angeles community centre for transgender and non-binary people has opened a first-of-its-kind healthcare clinic providing a host of services for locals. Californian trans safe space, the Connie Norman Transgender Empowerment Center (CONOTEC) cut the ribbon on the newly opened Connie Norman Transgender Health Care Clinic on Saturday (14 March). The newly opened service, […]
