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Delaware state senator Sarah McBride launches bid to be first trans member of Congress

The highest-ranking transgender elected official in the United States, Sarah McBride, has launched a bid to become Delaware’s sole member of the US House of Representatives. McBride is currently a senator in the Delaware state legislature and, if successful, would become the first trans person to be elected to federal office.  Lisa Blunt Rochester, the state’s current house representative, announced last week that she would be running at the next election to replace senator Tom Carper, who is retiring.  Speaking to Delaware Online, McBride said she was “certainly cognisant of the uniqueness of my candidacy, of the uniqueness that my voice would […]

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Arizona governor’s executive actions ban conversion therapy, allow trans health care

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs issued two pro-LGBTQ executive orders on Tuesday, banning state support of so-called conversion therapy and allowing transgender state employees to receive gender-affirming health care under their insurance plan. Hobbs made the announcement from the offices of a central Phoenix nonprofit that focuses on helping LGBTQ youth. Under the executive actions, state agencies will be prohibited from using funds to promote or facilitate so-called conversion therapy, the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to “convert” LGBTQ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations. Also, state employee health insurance plans can no longer list gender-affirming surgery as ineligible […]

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LGBTQ+ elders feel ‘excluded and isolated’ in a community ‘geared towards younger people’, study finds

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A UK-based charity dedicated to LGBTQ+ people over 50 has revealed that many feel “excluded and isolated” in a community “geared towards younger people”. Research by Opening Doors found people over the age of 50 “especially within the gay community” feel less visible due to being less likely to have “familial networks”.  Due to “distrust in the system”, the charity also found that older people often go without help from external support networks.  John Campbell, who identifies as androsexual, said his experience as an older LGBTQ+ person has been “trying at times, owing to the amount of emotional trauma”.  ‘I feel excluded’  […]

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LGBTQI+ Social Saturday: Intergenerational Gathering Happens July 8 at Grove of Old Trees in Occidental

Join Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center, LandPaths and North Bay LGBTQI Families for a Social Saturday: Intergenerational Gathering on July 8th from 10am-3pm at ! (Grove of Old Trees is on Google Maps but if you’d like to Caravan at 10, please meet at the Occidental Community Center) All LGBTQIA+ youth, families, adults, and elders are welcome at Social Saturdays, which are a recurring series of monthly events taking place throughout Sonoma County where we are seeking to bring together members of our community across generations, particularly gender expansive youth, teens, and adults.  At our July gathering, our guest facilitator Miranda […]

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Pride organizers describe timid sponsors and tighter security but no mass corporate retreat

Some corporate sponsors have kept lower profiles at Pride celebrations this year, but most have not tightened their purse strings or ditched LGBTQ causes in the face of conservative blowback, event organizers and advocates say. Many Pride organizers across the country say high-profile brand backlashes, restrictive legislation and heightened threats against LGBTQ people have fueled record crowd turnout this year. While that has often meant spending more to keep attendees safe, the polarized climate has also kept sponsorship dollars flowing to Pride events and the groups they support. Nearly 78% of U.S. Pride organizers surveyed this year by InterPride, a network of Pride events around […]

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Mexico City is trans-friendly. You can see it on the streets

North America’s largest metropolis, Mexico City, also hosts the continent’s biggest Pride parade and festival. While the LGBTQ+ community is impossible to ignore in June, what about the other months of the year?  Visitors can see queer couples holding hands and kissing in shopping centers, streets, and parks. Another common site is murals and graffiti. But a closer look at the spray paint can reveal something about CDMX’strans community. Graffiti supporting women’s rights, specifically including trans women and lesbians, are common along Paseo de Reforma, one of the main avenues of the city. Over 90,000 women and girls marched down the street on […]

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NHL bans players from wearing rainbow-colored Pride jerseys

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The National Hockey League (NHL), the highest level professional ice hockey league representing 32 North American teams, has banned teams from wearing Pride-themed warm-up jerseys during the teams’ LGBTQ+-inclusive Pride nights. The NHL’s ban will also forbid teams from wearing jerseys commemorating military veterans, people with cancer, and others. The league’s decision comes during Pride Month and barely a week after Major League Baseball (MLB) announced a similar ban. When a gay couple was shown kissing in the stadium, he said “That’s disgusting. Security, get rid of them.” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman recently talk to Sportsnet about the rainbow-colored jerseys and how some […]

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Inside Oakland Black Pride: a 5-day festival centering queer people of color

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Today, the third annual Oakland Black Pride Festival kicks off with a fabulous benefit dinner spotlighting the culinary contributions of queer people of color. It’s the first in a five-day series of events — including workshops, a cookout, and a bar crawl—that Oakland Black Pride founder and CEO Olaywa K. Austin says are aimed at serving the particular needs of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Black queer community. The festival has its roots in the summer of 2020, when Austin and friends began trying to figure out how to celebrate Pride amid the COVID-19 lockdowns. “As we were quarantined and I was […]

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“OUT of Site: Sylvester, The Mighty Real” Celebrates the Real Queen of Disco Starting with Weekend Performances in July in SF

OUT of Site: Sylvester, The Mighty Real — a collaboration between Eye Zen and our community partner SF Heritage. WHEN Previews begin Friday June 23rd; Opening July 1st Fridays @ 12pm Saturdays & Sundays @ 12pm & 4pm WHERE Beginning on the East Side of Buena Vista Park @ intersection of Haight St & Baker St Approx. 1 MILE loop Written by the beloved writer and public theologian Marvin K. White & Directed by Michael French. We’re finally going to get to tell the hidden history of queer ancestor, Sylvester in the Haight! From July to September of 2023, Eye […]

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Walgreens refuses to give trans man his hormone prescription due to ‘religious beliefs’

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A Californian transgender man claims a pharmacist at a Walgreens chain in Oakland refused to hand over his hormone replacement medicine due to their “religious beliefs”. In a Reddit post made on Tuesday (20 June), 30-year-old trans Oakland resident Roscoe Rike wrote that he had entered the pharmacy to pick up his prescription when he was asked by an employee what the medication was for. “I told him I was pretty sure that it wasn’t any of his business,” he said in the post which has since been deleted. Rike explained that he had been going to the Walgreens pharmacy on Telegraph Avenue […]

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