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M&S hits back at new attack on gender neutral changing rooms

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Marks & Spencer has defended yet another attempt by ‘gender critical’ activists to troll the store’s gender-neutral changing rooms. The British retailer – which sells food, clothes and home goods – informed customers on social media in August they are welcome to use any changing room in stores as they are inclusive of all genders. This has, however, been company policy for several years. The move, predictably, outraged people online who claim to be concerned about women’s safety and used the move to share anti-trans rhetoric about changing rooms.  A group calling itself “Women’s Rights Network” posted about the trans-inclusive […]

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New Gay Film “Spoiler Alert” Opens at Rialto Cinema Friday

Even if you didn’t know the full title of the bestselling memoir by entertainment journalist Michael Ausiello that this film is based on—Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies—within the opening moments you’ll find out where it’s eventually headed. We see a heathy looking, but distraught Michael (Jim Parsons) in a hospital bed lovingly facing an ailing Kit (Ben Aldridge) with Michael’s voice-over telling us, “this isn’t how our story was supposed to end”. He then takes us back through their lives together, from the moment he first caught sight of the “sweatband-wearing matinee idol” on jock night at a New York […]

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Club Q Suspect Formally Charged in Colorado Mass Shooting

The suspected gunman who prosecutors have accused of killing five people in the mass shooting at the gay nightclub Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo., last month has been formally charged with more than 305 counts, which include murder, attempted murder, assault, and hate crimes. On Tuesday morning, Colorado’s Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen announced the charges at a hearing. The suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, appeared in court for the announcement. Aldrich’s lawyers say Aldrich identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. Aldrich is accused of entering Club Q in the final minutes of November 19 and using a long-gun killed […]

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Historic NYC Gay Bar Julius’ Granted Landmark Status

New York City’s ABC affiliate reports: New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted on Tuesday to designate Julius’ Bar in the Village as an individual landmark. In the 1960s, the state liquor authority did not allow people to be served alcohol if they were openly gay. “In 1966, we had something called the sip-in,” Julius’ Bar manager Nick Gabriellini said. “Where the state liquor authority didn’t allow homosexuals to be served alcohol if they were openly gay. So, they staged the sip-in here, and there was a lawsuit.” The sip-in and lawsuit, even before the Stonewall uprising around the corner, would […]

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Gay CA State Senator Gets “Groomer” Bomb Threat

Just in via press release: Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) released the following statement after receiving a bomb threat targeting his home and office: “Early this morning, I was informed by the San Francisco Standard and the police that someone had issued a bomb threat against me, listing my specific home address and also threatening to shoot up my Capitol office. The email said ‘we will fucking kill you’ and called me a pedophile and groomer. “This latest wave of death threats against me relates to my work to end discrimination against LGBTQ people in the criminal justice system and […]

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Happening this Month Sebastopol Senior Center for the LGBTQI Community

OutWest Holiday DanceSaturday, December 176:30 – 9:30 pmWischemann Hall465 Morse St. Sebastopol“OutWest events are open to everyone. (The events are predominantly attended by lesbians, but open to everyone, men, women, trans, straight, queer, pan… etc.) Thanks for asking!Joy outwestdance@gmail.com Exciting Announcement!LGBT+ Movie NightWe are launching a monthly evening activity at our Senior Center for our LGBT+ folks.LGBT+ Movie Night (Bring your own dinner / snacks / drinks) LGBT+ Movie NightThe 3rd Thursday of each monthDate: Jan 19th & Feb 16th & Mar 16th Time: 5:30pm meet and greet      6 pm movie starts (Bring your own dinner / snacks / drinks)      7:30 Movie discussion      8 clean […]

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‘It’s easier to die than live in Russia’: Queer artist flees Putin’s LGBTQ+ ‘propaganda’ crackdown

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After Russia voted to extend its LGBTQ+ propaganda law to adults, artist and activist Yulia Tsvetkova has been forced to flee. Tsvetkova was acquitted of distributing pornography and so-called LGBTQ+ “propaganda” by the Komsomolsk-on-Amur court in July, in a rare win for the queer community in Russia. Tsvetkova was arrested and charged with distributing pornography in 2019 after she posted drawings of vaginas on social media in a bid to combat societal body norms. She was also charged over the same drawings in 2020 after Russian officials claimed she violated the country’s LGBTQ+ “propaganda” law. After the acquittal, prosecutors attempted to relaunch proceedings against Tsvetkova, but on […]

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Same-sex households in the U.S. surpass 1 million for the first time, data shows

The number of same-sex couple households in the U.S. has surpassed 1 million for the first time, according to recently released government data.  There were more than 1.2 million same-sex couple householdsacross the country in 2021, up from 540,000 in 2008, an increase of 120%, the data, taken from the Census Bureau’s annual American Community Survey, showed. About 710,000 (59.2%) of the same-sex couple households were married, and about 500,000 (41.7%) were unmarried.  The number of married same-sex households started to outnumber unmarried same-sex households in 2016, following the Supreme Court’s landmark 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges ruling, which effectively legalized gay marriage […]

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Sonoma County Pride’s “Drag On Ice” Happens December 9 at Old Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa

Sonoma County Pride & Redwood Ice Theatre Company have teamed up to present Sonoma County’s first-ever DRAG ON ICE show with Milk from RuPaul’s Drag Race! Presented by Santa Rosa Metro Chamber. Get ready for a 90’s theme drag show with host MILK from RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 and DJ Rotten Robbin with performances by Lolita Hernandez, Shania Twampson,  Maria Twampson & Milk! As part of this event, Sonoma County Pride will be donating its portion of proceeds from Drag on Ice to the Colorado Healing Fund to help the victims of the Club Q shooting. For tickets visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drag-on-ice-tickets-469557337637

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Brittney Griner faces violence, bigotry and threat of torture in Russian penal colony, experts say

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The 32-year-old was sentenced in August to nine years in a Russian penal colony after pleading guilty to drug charges. She was reportedly found at an airport with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.  At her sentencing, Griner told the court she had made “an honest mistake” and she “never meant to break any laws”.  In early November, Griner was moved from a detention centre to the IK-2 penal colony in Yavas, Mordovia – some 480 kilometres southeast of Moscow.  University of Helsinki sociologist Olga Zeveleva told The Guardian prisons in the area “are notoriously terrible, even by Russian standards”.  “It is a place any […]

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