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LGBTQ+ Leaders Urge California Lawmakers to Restore Devastating Cuts to Health Equity Programs

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A broad coalition of leading LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations including Equality California, the Los Angeles LGBT Center, the California LGBTQ+ Health and Human Services Network, TransLatin@ Coalition, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, and more are calling on the Legislature to restore more than $31 million in proposed budget cuts to the California Department of Public Health’s Office of Health Equity (CDPH-OHE), which would eliminate dozens of programs serving LGBTQ+ communities across the state. The Governor’s May Revise for the 2025-26 State Budget proposes to eliminate two major CDPH-OHE initiatives: the California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP) and the Gender Health Equity Section […]

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SCOTUS Rejects Hate Group’s Anti-Trans T-Shirt Appeal

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a student’s challenge on free speech grounds to a Massachusetts public school’s decision to bar him from wearing a T-shirt reading “There are only two genders” due to concern about the message’s effect on transgender and other pupils. The justices turned away an appeal by the student, who was 12 at the time of the 2023 incident, of a lower court’s ruling upholding the ban as a reasonable restriction and rejecting his claim that the school’s action violated the U.S. Constitution’s protections against government abridgment of speech. Justices Samuel Alito and […]

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Democrat Adam Schiff to be the first U.S. senator to participate in California’s AIDS/LifeCycle bike ride

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Democratic U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff will participate in the upcoming AIDS/LifeCycle 2025 ride in California, making him the first U.S. senator to take part in the seven-day fundraising bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles.  Organizers of the annual ride, which first started in 2002, earlier announced that 2025 would be the final year of the fundraiser due to rising costs and declining participation. “You may not know this, but I was the first member of Congress to participate in the ride back in 2014, and now, I’m going to be the first U.S. senator to do the ride in early […]

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Utah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered it

In 2022, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox was the rare Republican governor who seemed to truly care about the well-being of transgender kids. “I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live,” he wrote in a letter that year, explaining why he was vetoing a bill that would have banned four trans middle- and high schoolers in Utah from playing on sports teams with classmates who shared their gender identity. “All the research shows that even a little acceptance and connection can reduce suicidality significantly.” Meanwhile, nationally, Republican politicians were making opposition to trans […]

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Trump administration deported a gay man to a country where he was raped

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return to the U.S. a gay asylum-seeker it wrongfully deported. In his Friday, May 23, ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, noted that the man, identified only by the initials O.C.G., has no known criminal history and was the victim of multiple violent anti-LGBTQ+ attacks in his home country of Guatemala prior to seeking asylum in the U.S. last year. As the Guardian reported, a U.S. immigration judge ruled earlier this year that O.C.G. would likely face persecution and torture if sent back to his […]

Harvey Milk Reimagined, a New Opera Happens at Yerba Buena Center for Arts in SF May 31 – June 7

In a fitting tribute to gay rights icon and activist Harvey Milk, Opera Parallèle will produce a completely new and eagerly anticipated production of Harvey Milk by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie. Newly revised into two acts instead of three, with new music and a tighter cast from its sprawling original Houston Grand Opera premiere in 1995 and San Francisco Opera debut in 1996, this reimagined version of Harvey Milk was originally intended for an earlier Opera Parallèle season, but was delayed by the pandemic. The powerful and tragic opera celebrates Milk’s enduring legacy and contributions to the nascent LGBTQ+ movement, his […]

Sonoma County Pride Hosts Transgender Rally – For Our Rights! May 30 In Santa Rosa

TRANSGENDER RALLY – For Our Rights! Friday, May 30, 2025 | 4–6 PM Old Courthouse Square, Santa Rosa For the first time in our history, Sonoma County Pride is proud to host a Trans Rally — a bold and necessary gathering to uplift, support, and defend our transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive community. This is more than a rally. It’s a call to action. Across the country, transgender people are under attack — especially our transgender youth and people of color. Discriminatory legislation, healthcare bans, hateful rhetoric, and rising violence have created a political climate that is increasingly hostile and dangerous. […]

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An Evening with Richard Smith at Occidental Center for the Arts Saturday May 31

Saturday May 31 @ 7 pm. An Evening with Richard Smith at Occidental Center for the Arts. Richard Smith is a renowned British finger-style guitarist, renowned for his variety of styles and techniques, entertaining performances and engaging charisma. A true guitar master, Richard plays a mesmerizing repertoire ranging from expertly arranged Scott Joplin rags, original compositions, traditional fiddle tunes, jazz and swing, classical and more. Impressive and endearing, Richard will delight you with his masterful technique and charismatic performance, and we are thrilled to welcome him to our stage! Tickets are $25 advance, $15 for OCA members at www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org . $5 additional at the door (if available). Fine […]

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What It Actually Looks Like When Trans People Follow Bathroom Bans

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In Trump’s new America, bathrooms have become politicized battlegrounds. What may have seemed like an issue resolved in 2017 following the repeal of North Carolina’s infamous HB 2, bathroom bans targeting the trans community have once again made national headlines alongside a spate of new bills. Nineteen states already have active laws that restrict transgender people from using restrooms that match their gender identity. Many of these bills are more extreme than those in previous years, with Florida and Utah—two states that have banned trans folks from using all government building restrooms that match their gender identity—threatening criminal penalties against violators. Florida’s law classifies the […]

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Nepali Lesbians Harassed While Registering Marriage

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After two years together, Ramita and Shilu—both pseudonyms to protect their identities—traveled to Sindhuli this month to register their marriage under Nepal’s June 2023 Supreme Court ruling which allows for same-sex marriages. But instead of recognition, the couple reportedly faced harassment, delays, rejection, and were forcibly separated, with police complicity and family hostility exacerbating their ordeal. As local officials stalled the registration process, citing uncertainty about legal procedures, Ramita’s family reported her “missing.” Despite Ramita’s insistence that she felt unsafe with her family and wanted to marry Shilu, police handed her over to relatives she described as abusive. According to both women, police […]

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