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Record number of Americans back same-sex marriage as Supreme Court fears grow

Support for same-sex marriage has reached an all-time high in the US, according to new polling. Seventy-one per cent of Americans said they support same-sex marriage in Gallup’s annual Values and Beliefs poll, released Wednesday (1 June). This is one percentage point more than last year, and the highest level of support since Gallup began asking Americans about marriage equality in 1996. That year, just 27 per cent of Americans supported same-sex unions. According to Gallup, the statistic reflects a “steady increase [of support]among most subgroups of the population, even those who have traditionally been the most resistant to gay marriage.” […]

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Taliban using monkeypox as an ‘excuse’ to ’round up’ and arrest LGBTQ+ Afghans

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The Taliban is using monkeypox as an “excuse” to harass and detain LGBTQ+ people in Afghanistan. Two gay men who live in Kabul told PinkNews that the Taliban’s persecution of LGBTQ+ people has been ramping up ever since monkeypox started being detected in Europe. While not sexually transmitted, public health officials believe monkeypox is being transmitted in these networks through close contact during sex – though experts have also suggested the statistics may be skewed towards queen men because they are more conscious of their sexual health. Right now, Afghanistan has not officially recorded any cases of monkeypox – but that hasn’t stopped the […]

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Frameline 46 Review: “Wandering Heart”: Directed by Leonardo Brzezcki

In a truly electrifying performance, Leonardo Sbaraglia bares his heart, soul, and everything else as Santiago, a gay single father on the verge of a midlife meltdown, in actor-turned-director Leonardo Brzezicki’s moving sophomore feature. With his teenage daughter Laila (Miranda de la Serna) about to leave home for the first time, Santiago must confront his self-destructive behaviors and his deep-rooted fear of being alone over the course of a fateful summer split between Argentina and Brazil. With a career spanning five decades now, Sbaraglia is no stranger to challenging, demanding roles, from one-half of a gay bank-robbing duo in Burnt Money to […]

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Petaluma Pride – And Event for All Ages – Happens Saturday

Join Petaluma Pride, Amor Para Todos, Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center, North Bay LGBTQI Families, and Petaluma TIDE on Saturday, June 11, 2022 from 4-6pm for OUT in the Park, a Pride month picnic and celebration on the Petaluma City Hall Lawn (11 English Street)! This gathering will also serve as the Positive Images and North Bay LGBTQI Families Social Saturday Intergenerational Gathering for the month of June. Bring your own snacks and seating to this all-ages, family-friendly Pride month gathering, and connect with your Petaluma LGBTQIA+ community and allies. Activities will include a drum circle (bring your own instrument if you have one!), bubbles for kids, and […]

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Ohio Republicans pass bill requiring genital inspections for school sports

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Late Wednesday night, Ohio Republicans passed a bill requiring certain high school and college athletes competing in women’s sports to have their genitals inspected to ensure that they are not transgender. H.B. 61, known as the “Save Women’s Sports Act,” was intended to prevent transgender women and girls from participating in school athletics. Under the Ohio High School Athletics Association’s (OHSAA) current guidelines, transgender women and girls must have completed a minimum of one year of hormone treatment and/or demonstrate that they do not possess physical or physiological advantages over “genetic females of the same age group.” The new law would prohibit trans […]

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Jerusalem Pride marches defiantly on after death threats sent to organiser and politicians

Jerusalem Pride defied death threats and counterprotests to celebrate LGBTQ+ rights loudly and proudly. Around 7,000 people attended the Jerusalem Pride march on Thursday (2 June), with 2022 marking the event’s 20th anniversary. Knesset speaker Mickey Levy addressed the crowds, saying he was “shocked to the depths of my soul” by the threats. “So I came today to stand against this evil specter,” he said, per The Times of Israel. “You are entitled to love who you want, you are entitled to marry who you love, you are entitled to raise a family like anyone else. These are not privileges, these […]

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Frameline 46 Review: “Follow the Protocol” Directed by Fabio Leal

With a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor, writer-director-star Fábio Leal navigates the sometimes steamy, other times awkward tribulations of sexual connection amid a global pandemic. For his narrative feature debut, Leal returns to the neurotic comedy and uninhibited sex that made his shorts Renovation(Frameline43) and The Daytime Doorman so memorable and unique. When his boyfriend announces he’s no longer bisexual and dumps him via Zoom at the height of lockdown, lonesome bear Francisco (Leal) is left with a lot to grapple with—including being nicknamed “the COVID police” by his friends after routinely canceling them on social media for not following health guidelines. But […]

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LGBTQ+ Ukrainians on their new reality and why help is needed now more than ever

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Franz is struggling to comprehend how it’s been 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, kicking off a war that has dragged on for months. “You know, I didn’t even realise it’s been 100 days already,” Franz, who is just 18 years old, tells PinkNews. “It doesn’t feel quite right that it’s already summer. Some part of me still expects to see snow outside the window each morning, as if it was all just February that never ended.” Right now, Franz is in Slovakia, where he’s studying at university. He spends his days wondering where time is going – why the days seem to be […]

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Georgia court rules against employers that deny transgender health coverage

A federal court in Georgia ruled Thursday that employers who categorically exclude gender-affirming medical care from health insurance coverage violate federal law.  Anna Lange, a transgender woman and sheriff’s deputy in Houston County, Georgia, sued in 2019 after she was denied coverage for a vaginoplasty in November 2018.  The Sheriff’s Office provides health care coverage to employees through the county plan, which, beginning in 1998, excluded coverage for talk therapy related to gender dysphoria, gender-affirming hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgeries, according to the opinion released Thursday.  Chief Judge Marc Treadwell, of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, wrote […]

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