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Flamenco Guitarist Juanito Pascual Trio at Occidental Center for the Arts Sept. 18

 Sunday September 18 @ 4 pm. Juanito Pascual Trio at Occidental Center for the Arts. OCA is pleased to welcome back internationally renowned flamenco guitarist Juanito Pascual, performing with bassist Brad Barrett and percussionist/ singer Jose Moreno at our outdoor amphitheater! American born ‘flamenco phenom’ Pascual has appeared world wide on concert stages and in film, television and radio. He offers a mesmerizing blend of masterful traditional and contemporary flamenco, infused with elements of jazz, pop, and rock. Juanito Pascual Trio creates a unique and exciting world music experience, delivered with passion and virtuosity that is not to be missed! Tickets are […]

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Texas’ “child abuse” investigators harassed a trans 8th grader even after a court told them to stop

On August 30, middle school administrators allegedly pulled a 13-year-old transgender boy out of class so an investigator from the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) could ask him personal questions about his past medical history, gender dysphoria, and past suicide attempt. The boy — given the pseudonym “Steve Koe” in court documents — was left “shaking and distressed” by the interrogation, The Washington Post reported. Worse yet, the interrogation allegedly occurred after a court told DFPS investigators to stop doing them. ADVERTISING Now, Koe’s story is a part of supplemental evidence being filed by the LGBTQ-advocacy organizations Lambda Legal and […]

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Beleaguered EuroPride march banned by Serbian police amid mass anti-LGBTQ+ protests

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The EuroPride march route has been officially banned by Serbian police following mass anti-LGBTQ+ protests. The event, which takes place in a different European city each year, was due to take place in Belgrade on Saturday (17 September) as part of Serbia’s bid for membership to the European Union. But the event found itself under increasing scrutiny by religious and anti-LGBTQ+ protestors, including a march led by clergy from the Serbian Orthodox Church, who used rhetoric about “saving children” and “protecting family values” to push their hateful message. Now, several weeks after Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić said the event would be postponed indefinitely due […]

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Montana adopts sketchy rule to stop trans people from changing their birth certificates

The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) has just adopted a rule change forbidding transgender people from changing the gender listed on their birth certificates. The rule change is just the latest in an ongoing legal battle between the DPHHS, the state’s Republican-led legislature, and trans Montanans seeking government documents that display their correct gender identities. ADVERTISING The DPHHS’ new rule says that a person’s sex listed on a birth certificate can now only be changed if it was incorrectly entered by a “data entry error” or if “the sex of the individual was misidentified on the original certificate […]

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Black gay community concerned monkeypox response is inadequate

In July, a 35-year-old Black man from the Washington, D.C. area went from experiencing Covid-like symptoms to watching his body be overtaken by the aggravating, blistering boils of monkeypox. And yet, as he endured the agony and uncertainty that came with the disease, he said he had other, more pressing concerns.  The man, who asked to remain anonymous because of concerns related to the stigma associated with the disease, said he was alarmed by how difficult it was to find information on monkeypox and his doctor’s seeming dismissal of his concerns about his symptoms.  He said his case is an […]

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Man dies in brutal stabbing outside gay bar

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On Friday night, police were called to the scene of a stabbing outside popular Long Beach, California gay bar, the Mineshaft. Two men were attacked, and one has died. The perpetrator is still at large. The bar’s co-owner, Jeff Darling, said that around 11:30pm two patrons were standing outside the bar when an unidentified individual rode up on a bicycle. According to witnesses, an argument ensued. The incident escalated with the rider pulling a knife and stabbing both patrons in the chest. The attacker fled the scene. Police arrived soon after and administered aid. The two victims were taken by […]

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Faculty and students sue Christian school over LGBTQ hiring ban

Divisions over LGBTQ-related policies have flared recently at several religious colleges in the United States. On Monday, there was a dramatic new turn at one of the most rancorous battlegrounds — Seattle Pacific University. A group of students, faculty and staff at the Christian university sued leaders of the board of trustees for refusing to scrap an employment policy barring people in same-sex relationships from full-time jobs at SPU. The 16 plaintiffs say the trustees’ stance — widely opposed on campus — is a breach of their fiduciary duties that threatens to harm SPU’s reputation, worsen enrollment difficulties and possibly […]

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SoCo Pride Hosts Second Chance Prom September 24

Dust off your bow ties, polish your pumps, & tease those bands for “A Queer Night to Remember”! Remember your prom? Here is your chance to have a fun night out, with that person you really wanted to attend your prom with, get dressed up, and dance all night at our 2nd Chance Prom. There will be a cash bar, photo booth, and raffle prizes! A Sonoma County Pride benefit.Due to venue capacity limits no tickets will be sold at the door. $35 a person For Tickets visit:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2nd-chance-prom-a-sonoma-county-pride-benefit-tickets-405908682797

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‘Drag Kids’ event at Boise Pride becomes subject of political pushback

When Joseph Kibbe attended the first Boise Pride Festival in 1989, he and about two dozen other participants wore paper bags over their heads to hide their faces from potentially violent onlookers. At the first festival parade two years later, Kibbe and his friends were greeted by protesters with nooses in front of the Statehouse. “Boise was a very different place back then — it was not a safe time to be LGBTQIA,” he said. Still, for Kibbe — then a junior high student who faced frequent beatings at school, now the vice principal of the Boise Pride Festival board […]

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Supreme Court temporarily blocks ruling that required Jewish university to recognize LGBTQ group

 The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily allowed an Orthodox Jewish university in New York to deny official recognition to an LGBTQ student group, the latest in a series of decisions in favor of religious rights. Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a brief order granted an emergency request made by Yeshiva University, which claims that recognizing the group would be contrary to its sincere religious beliefs. Sotomayor has responsibility for emergency applications arising from New York. The dispute is the latest clash between religious rights and LGBTQ rights to reach the high court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority. Supreme Court ratings plummet after […]

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