Gary Carnivele

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Houston Gets Emergency Shelter For LGBTQ Teens

The Houston Chronicle reports: By some estimates, at least 10,000 youth aged 15 to 17 in the Houston area don’t have a place to sleep on any given night. Many identify as LGBTQ+ and may be fleeing unsupportive or unsafe living environments. A new emergency shelter aims to give those most at risk a safe place to rest their heads. On Monday, LGBTQ+ community leaders and advocates unveiled Asia’s House, the city’s first temporary emergency shelter for queer and trans youth. The shelter is a partnership between Houston’s Montrose Center and Grace Place, a nonprofit that provides support for homeless youth in […]

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Strength In Weakness: Guy Hammond’s Program That Devastates LGBTQ Survivors

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At 17 years old, Sami Tacher remembers standing atop a parking garage outside Seattle and staring down at the pavement. They had been trying for five years to suppress their attraction to men. At 15, Tacher had found Strength in Weakness, a Christian ministry that purported to teach people experiencing “same-sex attraction” how to resist those desires. To Tacher, who had grown up believing that being gay would destroy their relationship with God and devastate their family, SIW felt like an answer. Two years later, Tacher says, they could no longer imagine how they were supposed to live the rest […]

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Pro-LGBTQ Pharmacy Vandalized With Slurs 

The Davis Vanguard reports: A family-owned Woodland pharmacy was vandalized early Monday morning, with a window smashed near pro-LGBTQ signs and anti-gay slurs painted across another window, prompting community leaders to raise concerns about a potential hate crime and an escalating pattern of online harassment targeting LGBTQ+ supporters in Yolo County. Corner Drug, a longtime Main Street pharmacy, disclosed the vandalism in a Facebook post Monday, saying the damage came after the business had publicly displayed its support for the LGBTQ+ community. “Early this morning the window of our family pharmacy was smashed and anti gay slurs were painted on them,” Corner […]

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Lindsey Graham Was Allegedly This Trans Sex Worker’s Client. Now, She’s Speaking Out

Lindsey Graham, who passed away on July 11 at 71 years old, served in the Senate for 23 years and garnered a reputation for his hawkish views and hardline anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Years before his death, rumors swirled as allegations surfaced about the Republican senator engaging with male sex workers. The public and the media underscored the hypocrisy of the senator publicly working to roll back LGBTQ rights while allegedly engaging in queer sex behind closed doors. In this episode of “UNCLOSETED with Spencer Macnaughton,” Taylor Snider, a trans woman and former sex worker, says Graham was a former client. She says Graham’s team […]

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Ken Paxton gloats after extracting $10 million from Texas Children’s Hospital for ‘detransition’ center

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An unprecedented settlement agreement has been reached in a case brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that requires Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to pay $10 million to the state and create a “detransition clinic.” The settlement comes following an investigation initiated by the attorney general’s office in 2023, according to a report by The Texas Tribune. That same year, Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 14 into law, which prohibits trans-identifying minors from receiving puberty blockers and hormone therapies. Although the agreement was reached in May, it was announced by Paxton’s office on Friday that the historic settlement has now “been fully executed.” […]

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Alliance Defending Freedom’s Complete Track Record on LGBTQ Issues

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Since 2020, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has made headlines for a series of sweeping decisions that have rolled back rights for women and LGBTQ people. They’ve ruled to allow abortion bans in 13 states and bans on trans athletes in 27 states. And this year, Colorado overturned its ban on conversion therapy for minors.  What headlines tend to miss, though, is that all of these decisions were won by the same legal group: Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). Labeled as an anti-LGBTQ hate group and active in over 80 countries, ADF is a conservative Christian legal powerhouse, having fought relentlessly against abortion, gay […]

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Homophobic attackers who assaulted gay couple with fruit spared jail sentence

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Two men who chased a gay couple through north London, spat at them and pelted them with fruit while hurling homophobic abuse have avoided jail, despite being convicted of a hate crime. Mariusz Smietana, 46, and Dariusz Wawrzenczyk, 37, were sentenced at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court after being found guilty of assault by beating over the attack on Alex Grant, 34, and his partner in Gospel Oak, Camden. The court heard the couple were holding hands as they walked home from swimming at the Highgate Men’s Ponds on Hampstead Heath, shortly after 10pm on 1 July 2025, when they were […]

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Transgender candidate Joanna Whaley victorious in Michigan Democratic primary

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Joanna Whaley just moved one step closer to becoming Michigan’s first out transgender lawmaker. Whaley on Tuesday won the Democratic Primary in Michigan state House District 2, taking 56 percent of the vote to Frank Liberati’s 34 percent and Gary Schlack’s 9 percent. She will now face Republican nominee Ron Kokinda in the November general election. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. Nearly 6,500 voters supported Whaley in the primary, while Liberati received about 3,900 votes and Schlack received roughly 1,000. “Thank you to Allen Park, Lincoln Park, Melvindale and Southgate, […]

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Meta Ordered To Pay $942M In New Mexico Lawsuit

The Wall Street Journal reports: A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and limit the time young people in the state can spend on its apps, significantly increasing the cost of the landmark child safety verdict against the Facebook and Instagram parent. The judge said Thursday that Meta must create a new $567 million abatement fund in addition to paying $375 million in civil penalties that a jury previously ordered. The company must also enact certain safety features such as limiting the amount of time underage users in the state spend on Facebook and Instagram, […]

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Extreme ballot measure could force anatomy inspections for girls’ sports teams

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The debate over transgender student-athletes is heading directly to voters this November, with a surprising and extreme ballot measure in Washington state seeking to restrict trans girls from participating in school sports that align with their gender identity. IL26-638 would apply specifically to girls’ sports teams, creating certain eligibility requirements for K-12 athletes.  As a result, female students would have to prove their sex assigned at birth, and criticism has emerged regarding the enforcement provisions outlined in the bill’s literature. Under the proposal, female students would need to have their sex assigned at birth verified through genetic screening, testosterone level […]

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