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We’re going to get through this together

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Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. It has been a hard week, and while we’re more committed now than ever to sharing empowering, uplifting stories, we wanted to offer some compassion and encouragement too: It’s an emotional time, and it’s good (and vital) to express our feelings, both alone and with others. Remember, nearly 70 million others also voted for progress, equality and decency — and we’re heading into the future with them. Throughout history, we’ve needed […]

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Communities of Resilience: LGBTQ People by Supervisorial District in Los Angeles County

This district-level report is a supplement to Communities of Resilience: The Lived Experiences of LGBTQ People in Los Angeles County.1 It provides summaries, graphs, and tables of select key measures included in that report by Los Angeles County Supervisorial District. First, this report summarizes demographic characteristics of LGBTQ people by district, statistically significant differences in experiences and outcomes for LGBTQ people across districts, and statistically significant differences in experiences and outcomes between LGBTQ and non-LGBTQ people within districts. The first appendix to this report provides a set of graphs highlighting the key findings. The graphs show demographic characteristics of LGBTQ people by […]

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Despite Republican rhetoric, marriage equality wins big at the ballot box

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Voters in California, Colorado, and Hawaii approved ballot measures amending their constitutions to remove language banning marriage equality by significant margins on Tuesday. In California, Proposition 3, Constitutional Right to Marriage, amends the California Constitution to remove language stating that marriage exists only between men and women. Prop. 3 leads by 61.1 percent to 38.9 percent, with over 95 percent of the estimated vote counted. In Colorado, Measure J removes the language “Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state” from the Colorado Constitution. Measure J passed with over 63 percent of the vote, Colorado […]

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Judge rules the military must cover gender-affirming surgery for members’ dependents

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The Department of Defense’s health insurance plan, Tricare, must cover gender-affirming surgery for transgender dependents of active and retired service members, a federal judge has ruled. The exclusion of coverage for this care violates the equal protection guarantees of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. District Judge Nancy Torresen ruled November 1. The suit was brought by two transgender women in their 20s, identified by the pseudonyms Jane Doe and Susan Roe, who are both daughters of retired military members and are covered by Tricare. Doe and her father filed suit in 2022 in U.S. District Court in Maine, and Roe was added to the suit last year. Doe lives in Maine and Roe in Florida. Both of […]

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Trump’s election prompts one nonprofit to prioritize scholarships for LGBTQ+ youth in red states

Following last week’s stunning election of former President Donald Trump — a 34-time convicted felon who was impeached twice during his first term — to a second term in office, The Dru Project, an Orlando-based nonprofit founded in memory of Pulse Nightclub victim Drew Leinonen, is intensifying its mission to support LGBTQ+ youth by prioritizing scholarships for those in red states.  With mounting legal and social pressures in conservative regions, the organization hopes this pivot will help LGBTQ+ youth find affirming educational environments away from home, where anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and restrictive laws can limit their ability to live openly and authentically. “This is our direct response to the […]

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Yale psychiatrist says LGBTQ+ people should shun Trump-supporting family members over the holidays

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A psychiatrist has said that during the upcoming holiday season LGBTQ+ people have the right to shun family members who voted for Donald Trump in the presidential election. “There’s a societal norm that if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time,” she said. “I think the answer is absolutely not,” Yale University child psychiatrist Dr Amanda Calhoun said on Friday (8 November).  Speaking to MSNBC viewers on Joy Reid‘s show on Friday night (8 November) she said: “If you are going through a situation where you have family members or close friends who you know have voted in […]

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Governor Newsom Convenes Special Session to Protect California Rights Against Future Federal Policies

Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a special session of the California Legislature aimed at strengthening legal protections for civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate initiatives, and immigrant families, in response to policies anticipated from the incoming Trump administration. The session is set to begin on December 2 when the Legislature convenes. In a proclamation issued today, Newsom outlined the urgency of defending California’s values against federal policies that may jeopardize individual rights, including women’s rights and LGBTQ+ protections. This special session, he noted, will allow for swift legislative action to support California’s legal infrastructure in countering actions that could undermine state […]

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Iowa Gay Couples Rush To Marry Ahead Of Trump

Des Moines’ CBS affiliate reports: A local chaplain is helping dozens of same-sex couples across the state tie the knot before President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House in January due to concerns about marriage equality protections under the new administration. Des Moines area chaplain Anitta Milloro said they’re working with more than 40 couples who want to get married before the president-elect takes office. To assist, they are building a network of wedding resources from people who say they are willing to help couples facing the dilemma of forming a legal union by 2025. Trump’s support has wavered on […]

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With Donald Trump returning to the White House, things might get even tougher for queer and trans creators in Hollywood.

Donald Trump’s second term in the White House might lead to a festival of M&A (mergers and acquisitions) in Hollywood, as described in an explosive report from Variety that included quotes and forecasts from Mergermarket’s Lucinda Guthrie. After successfully becoming President of the United States once again, Trump is expected to do the one thing that he’s touted the most throughout his 2024 presidential run: “fire as many as 50,000 career federal employees and replace them with people who have unquestionable loyalty to the president,” as reported by The Advocate. This generalized restaffing of the U.S. government includes replacing the head of the […]

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We elect presidents that reflect who we are, and in Trump, America proves to be inherently selfish

There’s a well-proven theory that America elects presidents that reflect who we are. In the Gilded Age, America felt powerful and invincible and elected Theodore Roosevelt, a man who exuded strength and vitality. Thirty years later, America was ravaged by a depression, and we elected a president ravaged by polio when we elected Franklin Roosevelt. In 1952, America was booming again. We were commanding. We had won a war and elected the redoubtable Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.  In 1976, after the saga and stain of Watergate, we yearned to be thought simple and wholesome and elected the kind and unassuming […]

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