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Barbara Higbie & Friends Winter Solstice Celebration at Occidental Center for the Arts Dec. 17

Saturday December 17 at 7 pm. Barbara Higbie & Friends Winter Solstice Celebration at Occidental Center for the Arts. Grammy nominated, Bammy award winning pianist, singer-songwriter and fiddler Barbara Higbie was the first woman to be signed to Windham Hill Records, known for its many platinum selling Winter Solstice albums. Barbara and friends celebrate this year’s Winter Solstice, along with the release of her new album, with a high energy mix of seasonal and original music; also featuring Jami Sieber, Vicki Randle, Michaelle Goerlitz and Dewayne Pate. Join us for this special performance of amazing Windham Hill musicians in Occidental! Tickets […]

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Transphobia on Twitter is ‘the worst it’s ever been’ as anti-LGBTQ+ slurs surge

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Anti-LGBTSQ+ slurs have skyrocketed on Twitter, despite Elon Musk’s claims to the contrary, a new study has found. The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), along with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and other groups, found that anti-LGBTQ+ remarks have risen by at least 1,458 times a day. Additionally, offensive comments against Black people had risen to 3,876 times a day, according to reports from The New York Times. “Elon Musk sent up the Bat Signal to every kind of racist, misogynist, and homophobe that Twitter was open for business,” CCDH chief executive Imran Ahmed said. Despite this, Musk claimed that hate speech impressions were […]

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Black Trans Woman Shahere ‘Diamond’ Jackson-McDonald Fatally Shot

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Transgender woman Shahere “Diamond” Jackson-McDonald was found shot to death in Philadelphia the morning of November 24, Thanksgiving Day. Jackson-McDonald, 27, was discovered at her mother’s apartment in the Germantown neighborhood, Philadelphia’s NBC affiliate reports. She had been shot several times and was pronounced dead at the scene. It didn’t appear that anyone had forced their way into the apartment. “We are here today to honor a promising life that was violently ended by a person or persons that Philadelphia Police and our office are working tirelessly to bring to justice, so that they can be held accountable for this crime and […]

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Justice Neil Gorsuch angrily calls anti-discrimination training a “reeducation program”

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During heated arguments at the Supreme Court yesterday in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis – about a web designer who doesn’t want to make websites for same-sex couples – Justice Neil Gorsuch appeared angry and even suggested that a Colorado baker had been forced into a “reeducation training program” after he discriminated against a gay couple. The case is about a web designer named Lori Smith, who says that Colorado’s anti-discrimination law might make her make websites for same-sex couples even though she wants to make them only for opposite-sex couples. Her complaint, which cites the Bible as well […]

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Russian libraries remove LGBTQ+ books from their shelves after Putin signs harsh anti-LGBTQ+ law

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Russian libraries are removing LGBTQ+-themed books from their shelves after the country’s President Vladimir Putin signed a law yesterday expanding the prohibition on LGBTQ+ “propaganda.” The newly signed law effectively outlaws any public expression of LGBTQ+ life in Russia by banning “any action or the spreading of any information that is considered an attempt to promote homosexuality in public, online, or in films, books or advertising,” Reuters reported. Four Moscow libraries have already taken action in the wake of the new law, according to Russian media. The libraries reportedly received a list of authors whose books they needed to make completely unavailable on shelves and online. […]

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The upcoming generation makes this lesbian teacher feel hopeful for the future of LGBTQ+ equality

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Jere Chang’s talented and gifted students in Atlanta, Georgia are growing up in a world very different from the one she grew up in. When she was a student during the 1980s, she and her queer peers largely stayed closeted, trying to fit in to avoid being bullied or outed. There wasn’t much LGBTQ+ representation in the media. Instead, she constantly heard about how people like her were “abominations” who “live in sin.” She worried that her own family might disown her if she ever came out, and she never imagined she’d be able to live authentically as a lesbian. […]

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South Korean army ignores family’s urgent plea to recognise trans soldier’s death as ‘on-duty’

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The South Korean army has refused to recognise the death of a trans soldier as “on-duty” after protests. A committee made the decision during a Thursday (1 December) meeting, where they classified trans soldier Byun Hee-soo’s case as a “general death”. Byun, who is believed to be the first openly transgender soldier in South Korea, was found dead at her home in March 2021 after being discharged from the military a year prior. After her death, family members and LGBTQ+ activists called for the military to categorise her death as “on-duty”. But the nine-member panel opted to reject the category after finding […]

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Anti-LGBTQ org launches alert system to protest drag shows

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Texas Family Project — an anti-LGBTQ organization that wants to stop “the Left” from “indoctrinating kids,” “confusing children about changing their gender,” and “undermining parents’ ability to protect their children’s innocence” — has launched Defend Our Kids Texas, a website where people can report live drag queen performances. “Our mission is to expose attacks on our children’s innocence by uncovering and highlighting the left’s public displays of sexual degeneracy,” the website reads. The site’s lead face is Sara Gonzalez, a host for the conservative broadcast Blaze TV. Gonzales has called drag performers “pedophiles,” directed her social media followers to shut down drag performances […]

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Legislator behind Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law is accused of Covid-relief fraud

The Florida legislator who sponsored legislation critics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill was accused of illegally obtaining tens of thousands of dollars in Covid-relief funds, authorities said Wednesday. Joseph Harding, 35, was indicted on six counts of wire fraud, money laundering, making false statements and other crimes, the U.S. attorney’s office for Northern Florida said in a release. Harding, a Republican whose district is south of Gainesville, is accused of seeking Covid-relief loans from the Small Business Administration in 2020 for two companies, Vak Shack Inc. and Harding Farms, according to the indictment. The indictment alleges that in applications to the […]

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