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Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump to implement his ban on transgender people serving in the military. The justices granted an emergency request from the Trump administration to lift a nationwide injunction blocking the policy while litigation continues. The court’s brief order noted that the three liberal justices dissented. “No more trans @ DoD,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on X. In a separate Defense Department post earlier Tuesday, before the decision was issued, Hegseth said in a video: “No more dudes in dresses. We are done with that s—.” Just over 4,000 transgender people currently serve in the military, according to Defense Department data, though some activists […]

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Lesbian Minnesota Congresswoman Angie Craig launches historic U.S. Senate bid

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U.S. Rep. Angie Craig, the first out LGBTQ+ person elected to Congress from Minnesota, officially launched her campaign Tuesday for U.S. Senate—setting the stage for a closely watched Democratic primary in a political climate increasingly hostile to queer Americans. In a campaign video released on President Donald Trump’s 100th day back in office, Craig, a Democrat representing Minnesota’s Second Congressional District, slammed the Republican for “trampling our rights and freedoms as he profits,” accused billionaire Elon Musk of trying to “burn [the government] to the ground,” and called out a “cowardly Republican Party” enabling it all. “There’s chaos and corruption coming out of Washington, crashing down on all of us every […]

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Listen to Rainbow Zone Radio Show / Zona Arco Iris Radio Mostrar, a bi-lingiual show, 4-6 PM on 89.1 KBBF

Rainbow Zone Radio Show is a bi-lingual, two hour-long, program featuring coverage of news impacting the LGBTQI+ Community; in-depth coverage of topics and events; interviews; arts and entertainment — tune in for information intended to keep the LGBTQI+ Community entertained and engaged. Airing on 89.1 KBBF FM English program from 4-6pm. Zona Arco Iris Radio/Rainbow Zone Radio es un programa que ofrece cobertura de noticias que afectan a la comunidad LGBTQI+; cobertura en profundidad de temas y eventos; entrevistas; artes y entretenimiento: y información necesaria para mantener entretenida y comprometida a la comunidad LGBTQI+. 89.1 KBBF FM Programa de español […]

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THUGZ in the Amphitheater at Occidental Center for the Arts Saturday May 10

Saturday, May 10 @ 4 pm. THUGZ in the Amphitheater at Occidental Center for the Arts. West County’s favorite cosmic Americana band returns for an outdoor Spring concert in our amphitheater! Bring your own seat cushion or low-backed chair and get ready for a real good time enjoying your favorite GD songs and other classic Americana. Tickets are $20 advance, $25 at the door at www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. Discount for OCA members. No outside food/drink allowed except water. Refreshments, beer and wine for sale. The amphitheater is wheelchair accessible. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465. 

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LGBTQ+ grads celebrate “Lavender Graduation” despite universities canceling their events

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Over the weekend, LGBTQ+ college graduates in Utah came together for a “Lavender Graduation” ceremony after their schools canceled their own long-standing events. According to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), Lavender Graduations have been held on college and university campuses across the U.S. since 1995, when Dr. Ronni Sanlo held the first event for three students at the University of Michigan. Sanlo, a Jewish lesbian, conceived the ceremony as a way to honor the accomplishments of LGBTQ+ graduates after she was barred from attending her own children’s graduations due to her sexuality.  Lavender Graduations are similar to many specialized commencement events often […]

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Trump HHS posts ‘so-called report’ pushing conversion therapy for trans kids

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The Trump administration escalated its assault on transgender youth Thursday with the release of a controversial new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that promotes conversion therapy and discredits gender-affirming care. Advocates and experts have said the report is filled with misinformation about both.  Commissioned under President Donald Trump’s January Executive Order 14187, the 409-page report falsely claims medical transition is harmful and unproven, and promotes “exploratory therapy”—a rebranded version of conversion practices widely condemned by major medical associations. The order directed HHS to attack WPATH’s standards of care, revoke federal funding for transition-related treatments, and reshape public health policy to align with […]

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KRCB, Host of Outbeat Radio for 26 Years, Needs Your Support

The following is from an op-ed written by Darren LaShelle, President and CEO, Northern California Public Media, for the Press Democrat released Sunday, April 27 2025. Public media is one of America’s best chances for bringing people together and healing the divisions we see across the political and economic spectrum—and I’d like to tell you why.Stations like Northern California Public Media—which includes KRCB TV Cotati, KPJK TV San Mateo, KRCB FM Rohnert Park, and KRCG FM Windsor—have made significant strides in serving our communities, even while operating for decades with limited resources. At a time when we need more government support to […]

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Riveted Industrial/Goth Night with DJ Aggrofemm and Friends Happens at The California May 10

Gear up for Industrial+Goth+Post-Punk music and dancing with DJ Aggrofemm (Hell Heim), DJ Decay (global scene icon & creator of the oldest continually operating gothic/industrial dance club in the U.S., and second oldest in the world: DEATH GUILD, San Francisco); and local powerhouse DJ KAJE of renowned darkwave & synth night, INTERZONE. PLUS Performance art pieces by Charlie Bones, Janessa and Gabrial. Our kitchen is open and serving our bar bites menu during Left Edge Friday night shows, Happy Hours and most evening concert shows from the time doors open until end of intermission. Doors open 8:30pm. Music starts at 8:45pm […]

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Jill Sobule, ‘I Kissed a Girl’ singer-songwriter, dies in house fire

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Bisexual musician Jill Sobule, the singer-songwriter behind the 1995 sapphic anthem “I Kissed a Girl,” died Thursday in a house fire at age 66. Firefighters were called about 5:30 a.m. to a home in Woodbury, Minnesota, a suburb of the Twin Cities, The New York Times reports. They found Sobule dead inside the house. She was staying with friends while rehearsing for a performance of songs from her autobiographical one-woman show, Fuck 7th Grade, which was to take place Friday at the Swallow Hill Music Festival in Denver, Sobule’s hometown, her publicist said. Sobule’s “I Kissed a Girl” came out 13 years before Katy Perry’s different […]

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The inconvenient paradox of the war on trans rights that the GOP hopes we don’t notice

Central to heteronormativity is a presupposition that people are “naturally” cisgender and heterosexual, and that values, laws, and institutions should be organized accordingly. Within this framework, gender and sexual nonconformity are framed as medical or psychological disorders and immoral perversions of religious teachings. Power structures are organized in ways that favor people who identify as cisgender and heterosexual (especially men) and marginalize people who identify with differing sexual and/or gender categories, or who otherwise fall outside of heteronormative standards. Perhaps the most impressive feat of heteronormativity is its clever obfuscation of the fact that it, in and of itself, is a gender ideology, […]

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