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Staten Island: Beauty Queens Banned From St. Patrick’s Parade After Pageant Winner Comes Out As Bisexual

First, a report from yesterday: On Sunday, Miss Staten Island is taking a walk — and a stand. Madison L’Insalata — who exclusively revealed to The Post she is bisexual — plans to deck herself out in rainbow gear when she marches in the Staten Island St. Patrick’s Parade. Organizers have again banned the Pride Center of Staten Island from marching and L’Inslata wants to show her support for the LGBTQ community. “There’s no rule against me wearing a rainbow,” said L’Insalata, 23, who has never before publicly discussed her sexual orientation. “I want people to see the colors and ask […]

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Transgender Weightlifter Continues Tokyo Olympics Bid

The fairness of transgender athletes competing in women’s sports will be under the microscope in Australia on Sunday when New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard continues her bid to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. Hubbard, who competed in men’s weightlifting competitions before transitioning seven years ago, will lift in the women’s 87-plus kg division in the Australian Open in Canberra on Sunday. She kept her Olympic hopes alive by winning last month’s World Cup in Rome where she lifted 270kg, edging Ukraine’s Anastasiia Lysenko by 4kg. Related NBC OUT Stuck on the sidelines: A transgender powerlifter fights for the right to […]

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Father’s Gay Music Festival Happens Sunday, June 16

Father’s Gay is a grassroots festival in Santa Rosa by and for queer folks that happens during Pride month. Father’s Gay understands Pride is a protest and a celebration of LGBTQIA+ power and resilience. Father’s Gay doesn’t center dads or dudes (but bring yours if he’s gay) — it’s named because it happens the same weekend as Father’s Day. Father’s Gay features musicians from all over the west coast (mostly local and broader Bay Area). Father’s Gay centers QTPOC. Father’s Gay has no corporate sponsors. Father’s Gay 2020 is open to all ages!

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Governor’s Photo with ‘Sisters’ Stirs Controversy in Kentucky

Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, a Democrat, made history last week when he became the first governor in the state to appear at a rally for the Louisville-based Fairness Campaign, upholding a campaign promise to support LGBTQ rights. Each year since 1999, when Kentucky’s first-ever nondiscrimination ordinances were passed into law by the city councils of Louisville and Lexington, the Fairness Campaign has lobbied lawmakers to make such discrimination illegal statewide. While Beshear’s presence at the rally made headlines, it was a photo of him with local chapters of the activist drag troupe the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence that launched a separate scandal that […]

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DOJ Sides With Hate Group On LGBT Rights Ordinance

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Department of Justice has weighed in on a lawsuit filed by a Kentucky wedding photographer who is challenging a city ordinance banning businesses from discriminating against gay customers. The Justice Department filed a “statement of interest” this week in federal court saying that the photographer, Chelsey Nelson, is likely to succeed on her claim. Nelson sued Louisville city officials in November, arguing that the city’s ordinance violated the First Amendment. She has written about her business that she “can’t photograph anything that conflicts with my religious conviction that marriage is a covenant relationship before God […]

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‘Being Gay is not Enough’: Buttigieg’s Candidacy Divides LGBTQ Democrats

When Pete Buttigieg walked away from this month’s Iowa caucuses with the most delegates, it marked the first time an openly gay candidate had ever won a state’s presidential nominating contest. But if anyone was expecting a collective celebration from all corners of the LGBTQ community, they were disappointed. “It’s truly embarrassing to have the first gay presidential candidate of this magnitude be this conservative — next,” poet Alex Dimitrov wrote on Twitter the day after the caucuses on Feb. 3. While Buttigieg certainly has his fair share of queer supporters — including several LGBTQ officials and a number of the country’s […]

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Michigan Student with Lesbian Parents Stopped by Teacher from Writing about Gay Marriage

A Michigan high school teacher would not allow a student with two mothers to write about same-sex marriage for a class assignment. Destiney McDermitt, 16, a junior at Hill McCloy High School in Montrose, about 70 miles northwest of Detroit, was instructed by an English teacher on Feb. 7 to pick a topic she felt strongly about and argue either for or against it as part of an assignment titled “Taking a Stand,” she and her mother Angela McDermitt-Jackson told NBC News on Tuesday. McDermitt-Jackson said the teacher told her daughter that she could not write about same-sex marriage because […]

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Mike Pence’s Botched Handling of HIV Recalled as Trump Hands him Responsibility for Coronavirus

Mike Pence was governor of Indiana when it experienced “the largest concentrated outbreak of HIV ever documented in the United States” in 2014-15. Pence’s contribution to the crisis has been put under the microscope after Donald Trump put the vice president in charge of America’s response to the Covid-19 coronavirus. It was back in early 2015 when public health officials noticed a spike in new HIV and hepatitis C transmissions in Austin, Indiana, with NPR reporting it as the “largest HIV outbreak in Indiana’s history” at the time. Most the cases were linked to drug use, specifically the injection of prescription opioids. At the […]

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WA Lawmakers Pass Ban On Gay/Trans Panic Defense

ABC News reports: A measure prohibiting homicide defendants from claiming a defense that panic brought on by a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity has been passed by lawmakers in Washington state. Nine states — California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey New York and Rhode Island — have legislatively banned the use of gay or transgender panic as a legal defense. The Washington measure, passed by the Senate on a bipartisan 46-3 vote Wednesday, is named after Nikki Kuhnhausen, a transgender teen who was killed last year. The legislation now goes to Gov. Jay Inslee for his signature.

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A Third of Poland Has now been Declared an ‘LGBT-free Zone’

A third of Poland has declared itself to be an official “LGBT-free” zone as local municipalities sign a pledge adopting resolutions against “LGBT propaganda”. Nearly 100 Polish municipal or local governments have now proclaimed themselves to be “free from LGBTI ideology”. Local authorities in these areas pledge to refrain from acts that encourage tolerance and must avoid providing financial assistance to NGOs working to promote equal rights. An “Atlas of Hate” map created by activists reveals the extent of Poland that has signed up to this pledge – and it covers an area greater than the size of Hungary. The area has […]

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