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GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Index Unveils How Tech Companies Intentionally Rolled Back Safety Policies For LGBTQ People

GLAAD has announced the findings of its fifth annual Social Media Safety Index (SMSI), an annual report on LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression online. The in-depth report analyzes six major social media platforms — TikTok, YouTube, X, and Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, and Threads — across 14 indicators that address a range of issues affecting LGBTQ people online including data privacy, content moderation, workforce diversity, and more. All companies are failing to meet basic standards across most safety metrics on the SMSI scorecard. Read the full report. Offering a quantitative ranking and also highlighting LGBTQ safety policy rollbacks from major platforms, the report […]

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Data Privacy in Trump 2.0 and LGBTQ Rights: What You Need to Know

The average American spends over three hours on their phone every day, and nearly half of U.S. teens say they’re on the Internet almost “constantly.” While most of us understand that not all of our data is private, the scope of how much U.S. government agencies can access is overwhelming: Internet history, private messages, health information, political affiliation and phone location data are all up for grabs. “We are constantly shedding data as we go about our daily lives,” says Lisa Femia, staff attorney at Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital rights advocacy group. She says with no comprehensive Federal data privacy law, there’s little […]

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Four Pianists: Barbara Higbie, Tammy Hall, Adrienne Torf, and Mary Watkins at Occidental Center for the Arts Friday May 23

Friday, May 23 @ 7 pm: Four Pianists: Barbara Higbie, Tammy Hall, Adrienne Torf, and Mary Watkins at Occidental Center for the Arts. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to enjoy and celebrate the music and friendship of four gifted pianist/composers, who share five decades of collaboration in jazz, classical, gospel, folk, New Age and Women’s Music; plus Grammy/Bammy awards! This show will include solo, duo, trio and quartet performances of both beloved classics and new originals drawn from newly-released CDs by each artist. Tickets are $35 advance, $25 for OCA members at www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. $5 additional at the door (if available). Online fees waived for this event. […]

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Ugandan Mothers Stand by Their LGBT Children

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The passage of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act in 2023 made life significantly more dangerous for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and those who support them. The law, which includes the death penalty for so-called “aggravated homosexuality” and lengthy prison sentences for the “promotion of homosexuality,” has fueled a wave of arrests, raids on shelters, evictions, and public outings. Many LGBT people have gone into hiding. Amid this repression, a small group of Ugandan mothers—some for the first time—began speaking publicly in support of their LGBT children. In April 2023, eight of them signed an open letter to President Yoweri […]

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Military commanders will be told to send transgender troops to medical checks to oust them

Military commanders will be told to identify troops in their units who are transgender or have gender dysphoria, then send them to get medical checks in order to force them out of the service, officials said Thursday. A senior defense official laid out what could be a complicated and lengthy new process aimed at fulfilling President Donald Trump’s directive to remove transgender service members from the U.S. military. The new order to commanders relies on routine annual health checks that service members are required to undergo. Another defense official said the Defense Department has scrapped — for now — plans […]

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Gender policing does not ‘protect’ butch women and lesbians

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When the Supreme Court issued its 88-page long judgement that the legal definition of ‘sex’ is based on ‘biology’, gender critical lobbying group and controversially registered charity LGB Alliance declared it was a “landmark for lesbian rights in the UK”.  “This matters greatly to LGB people,” CEO Kate Barker said of the ruling. “It is especially important to lesbians, because the definition of lesbian is directly linked to the definition of woman.”  Barker – who once claimed a singular drag queen carrying the Olympic torch demonstrated the “erasure of woman in all spheres of public life” – went on to say the ruling “marks a watershed […]

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LGBTQ+ festival fights back after Trump’s cuts National Endowment for the Arts funding

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A festival featuring the works of playwrights from countries where LGBTQ+ rights are suppressed is turning to fundraising after President Donald Trump’s National Endowment for the Arts cut its grant to the group. The National Queer Theater said they have created a GoFundMe page where the community can support the Criminal Queerness Festival taking place during NYC Pride 2025, NBC Newsreports. The Criminal Queerness Festival takes place at the HERE Art Center in NYC on June 11-28. According to its website, the festival “showcases the works of international LGBTQ+ playwrights from countries where queer identities are criminalized or censored.” This year’s festival features plays reflecting queer […]

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Scottish Parliament’s trans bathroom ban condemned as ‘rushed and unworkable’

A trans charity in Scotland has labelled the ban on trans women using female toilets in Scottish parliament an “unworkable” decision which will prevent trans folks “from participating in Scottish democracy”.  Following the UK Supreme Court ruling that the definition of ‘sex’ in the 2010 Equality Act refers to ‘biology’, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) – which oversees accommodation at Holyrood – decided that as of Monday (12 May) use of “all facilities designated as male or female” will be based on “biological sex” to be “in line with the Supreme Court judgment”.  Alongside designating single-sex spaces as solely based on biology, gender neutral […]

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Labour and other political parties banned from four biggest UK Prides

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Organisers of four major Pride events in the UK have jointly banned all political parties, including Labour, from its Pride events this year. Acting in solidarity with the trans community, organisers of Pride events in Birmingham, Brighton, London, and Manchester collectively said they would be “suspending political party participation” from this year’s Pride events unless the needs of trans people are urgently addressed. In a joint public press release, organisations Birmingham Pride, Brighton Pride, Pride in London, and Manchester Pride, said they will not “stand by as the dignity, safety, and humanity of our trans siblings are debated, delayed, or […]

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How to fight Trump’s anti-trans messaging that’s poisoning public opinion

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As President Donald Trump intensifies his second-term campaign to roll back LGBTQ+ rights, new polling suggests that his relentless attacks on transgenderpeople are gaining traction with the public, despite broad disapproval of his presidency overall. LGBTQ+ advocates say this slide requires accurate media representation of trans lives Public opinion is shifting to restriction According to a national survey released Saturday by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, a majority of Americans—68 percent—now say gender is determined by sex assigned at birth. Two-thirds oppose public insurance programs like Medicare or Medicaid covering gender-affirming carefor minors. And nearly half of the respondents support banning such care for trans […]

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