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Teens Get 13 years for Luring Men from Grindr to Rob Them in ‘Humiliating’ Anti-gay Attack

A gang of teenage boys were sentenced to 13 years after luring gay men they met on Grindr into a city park before robbing and humiliating them in a homophobic attack. By using fake Grindr accounts, the teens would target gay men and tempt them into Bordesley Green in Birmingham, England, reported Birmingham Live. The four victims were left fearing for their life after the teens tied them up, urinated on them and robbed them in a string of attacks from January 5 to March 29. One Grindr victim was gagged before being forced to walk in dog excrement.  Three victims were […]

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Local Author Book Launch Jan. 26 at Occidental Center for the Arts

Sunday, January 26th 2-4 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts Book Launch Series.  Local long-time columnist/writer Susan Swartz presents her first novel, Laughing In The Dark.  On-stage conversation with close friend/writer Miriam Silver. Q&A, book sales and signing. Free admission, donations happily accepted. Refreshments by donation, beer/wine for sale. OCA: 3850 Doris Murphy Way, Occidental, CA. OCA’s facilities are accessible to people with disabilities. For more info: occidentalcenterforthearts.org or 707-874-9392.

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Supreme Court Rejects Inmate’s Bid for Sex Reassignment Surgery

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal by a convicted murderer who filed a civil rights lawsuit because Texas prison officials denied her request to be considered for gender reassignment surgery. The justices let stand a lower court’s decision to reject the claim by inmate Vanessa Lynn Gibson that denying the surgery request violated the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Gibson, 41, who is transgender, was assigned male at birth and has lived as a female since age 15. Gibson was incarcerated in 1995 for aggravated assault, then was convicted of […]

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Facebook’s ‘Inaccurate’ HIV PrEP Ads an ‘Imminent Danger,’ LGBTQ Groups Say

More than 50 LGBTQ, HIV and public health organizations have signed an open letter calling on Facebook to remove “factually inaccurate” advertisements placed by law firms that “suggest negative health effects” of HIV-prevention medication Truvada, a type of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP. “The advertisements are targeting LGBTQ Facebook and Instagram users, and are causing significant harm to public health,” the letter states. “The law firms’ advertisements are scaring away at-risk HIV negative people from the leading drug that blocks HIV infections.” The ads were bought by various law firms looking to use the platform’s targeted advertising capabilities to recruit gay and bisexual […]

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Book Review: ‘The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics’ by Olivia Waite

The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics, by Olivia Waite, is a gentle, lushly written story of sapphic love, which romance readers are sure to enjoy. It’s 1816 and Lucy Muchelney’s life as she knew it is officially over. It’s been six months since her father died and not only has her best friend and long-time lover gone and married a man, but her brother, Stephen, is now thinking of marrying Lucy off too. Stephen doesn’t care that she wants to continue her father’s legacy of creating star catalogues because he knows that, as a woman, she won’t get taken seriously as […]

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Pioneering Testicle Transplant Raises Hopes of Future Surgery for Transgender Men

A groundbreaking testicle transplant operation has taken place, raising hopes of potential future operations for transgender patients. Several of the world’s leading experts in genital surgery performed the pioneering operation for an unnamed cisgender man in Belgrade, Serbia.ADVERTISING The man was born without testicles due to a rare condition, leaving him reliant on injections to receive testosterone, similar to transgender men. The six-hour operation saw a testicle transplanted from the patient’s twin brother, which will allow him to produce his own testosterone. The two brothers, who now have one testicle each, are both doing well, transplant surgeon Dr Dicken Ko […]

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Pete Buttigieg is Tied with Donald Trump in Republican Stronghold of Arizona as Popularity Surges

Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg is soaring in popularity in the Republican-dominated state of Arizona, with a new poll putting him neck-and-neck with Donald Trump. Alongside his fellow Democratic hopeful Joe Biden, Buttigieg is in a statistical dead heat with Trump, suggesting that even staunch Republicans in Arizona are beginning to turn their backs on the party.ADVERTISING Buttigieg has 43 per cent support, compared to Biden’s 44 per cent and Trump’s 46 per cent, the latest poll shows. This represents a decrease in support for Biden, who led Trump 49 percent to 44 percent in the state based on a May poll. The South […]

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Call to Action: The Board of Supervisors will vote on Tuesday 12/10 on a resolution to halt any future investments in Wells Fargo or BNP Paribas

We are on the verge of a historic moment:  The Board of Supervisors will vote on Tuesday 12/10 on a resolution to halt any future investments in Wells Fargo or BNP Paribas, naming them as primary funders of the private corporporations responsible for detaining immigrant children separated from their families. Please come out on Tuesday 12/10 at 8:30.  The item will be considered 8:45, after a presentation by the Treasurer Erick Roeser.  As in 1985, when the Board considered a resolution to divest from South African Apartheid, the county treasurer is feigning ignorance of the options to invest wisely and ethically.  (See […]

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Man Sentenced to Death for Killing Transgender Cellmate

A California inmate was sentenced to death Thursday for the 2013 killing of his transgender cellmate in a shocking case that shined a light on the dangers of sexual assault and violence trans people face when they are not housed according to their gender identity. Miguel Crespo, 48, was housed with Carmen Guerrero, a trans woman, at Kern Valley State Prison for just eight hours in October 2013. During that time, Crespo bound, gagged, tortured and murdered Guerrero in their shared cell. A California jury last month found Crespo guilty of first degree murder and assault. At his sentencing, Crespo […]

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Miss Myanmar is the First Openly Lesbian Contestant in Miss Universe History

This year’s Miss Universe pageant will include the first openly gay contestant in the competition’s 67-year history, who bravely came out despite homosexuality being illegal in her home country. Swe Zin Htet is the reigning Miss Myanmar and she came out publicly on a beauty blog just a week before she is due to take part in the final of the pageant on Sunday (December 8). LGBT+ people face violence and persecution in Myanmar, also known as Burma, which has no anti-discrimination laws of queer people and criminalises same-sex relations with a sentence of up to life in prison. The 21-year-old, who […]

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