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Pride Flags Ignite Hope and Outrage in Utah, Where Youth Suicide Rate Soars

For the first time last June, residents in Heber City, Utah, saw their downtown adorned in rainbows. Sky Elizabeth Smith, 15, remembered driving with her family through the tiny Rocky Mountain town in northern Utah where she grew up, and finding herself surrounded by dozens of rainbow banners on both sides of Main Street. “It made me feel really, really happy,” she told NBC News. Smith, a high school student who identifies as pansexual, attempted suicide last year after what she described as routine bullying from classmates. Some classmates, she recalled, told her that Jesus was going to return and […]

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Halloween Bash with Music be the Thugz at Occidental Center for the Arts

Thursday October 31 @ 7:30 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts presents Halloween Bash with the Thugz!! A fun-filled evening of dancing and frolicking awaits you when West County favorites The Thugz (Tribal Hippie Underground Zone) – long-time purveyors of cosmic Americana and old-time psychedelic music – bring their positive vibes and communal spirit, original songs and cosmic jams to a first time ever Halloween Bash at OCA! There will be a $250 cash prize for Best Halloween costume! $15 Adv/$18 at the door. OCA is wheelchair accessible. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465.

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Halloween Party Happens this Saturday in Sebastopol

Sebastopol Senior Center’s Fabulous Halloween LGBTQ and Friends Dance Party. Included in the $15 door prices are 4 rooms of fun, black light art, gorilla kissing photo booth, talking pumpkins, delicious food for meat eaters and vegetarians, CAKE, Fortune Tellers for private sessions by donation, live DJ takes requests, home-backed chocolate chip cookies, FUN PEOPLE, ghosts that fly through windows, 8-foot clowns, skeletons. Beer and wine only $5. Our team of volunteers are up late preparing this wonderful event for you to enjoy. All money raised goes to help Seniors.And DJ BearCake Donald Rodreick has been up late working on his “Monster Mash” dance […]

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Film Review: ‘HAM : A Musical Memoir’

The singer and Tony nominated Broadway actor Sam Harris wrote a memoir, which he parlayed into a one man stage show picking  up Ovation Awards in LA, and now its a full blooded film.   Most people know of Harris from when he won TV’s first ever talent show Star Search back in 1987 but Ham A Musical Memoir  starts way before then when he was growing up as gay boy in Oklahoma’s bible belt.  His story is full of ups and downs,, with more of the latter as anybody who also had to hide their sexuality for a very long time will know all to well. […]

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Host City for WorldPride in 2023 has been Announced

WorldPride 2023 will be held in Sydney, InterPride has announced, marking the 50th Anniversary of Australia’s first Gay Pride Week. InterPride is the international association of Pride organisations, and it voted on Sunday, October 20, at its Annual General Meeting in Athens on the bids for 2023 WorldPride. Sydney’s bid, submitted by Sydney Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras, focused on LGBT+ rights in the Asia Pacific region where many countries see extreme violence and discrimination against LGBT+ people. In 2014, Brunei introduced a law allowing death by stoning for same-sex sexual activity, although it was later revoked. The bid said that WorldPride […]

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Northern Ireland Prepares for Momentous Shift to Marriage Equality

Campaigners who fought for decades to end Northern Ireland’s same sex-marriage ban and restrictions on abortion prepared on Monday for a momentous change to the laws on both at the stroke of midnight. Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that does not allow same-sex marriage. Also, unlike England, Scotland and Wales, laws in Northern Ireland forbid abortion except where a mother’s life is at risk, bans that have been upheld by the region’s block of conservative politicians. But an overwhelming vote by British lawmakers in July to compel the government in London to overhaul the laws […]

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Lesbian’s Skull Cracked and her Arms Dislocated after Ugandan Doctor Discovers her Sexuality

A Ugandan doctor allegedly shattered a patient’s skull, arms, legs and back with an iron bar and then threw her out of the hospital, all because she is lesbian. The patient was attacked in August this year in Kampala, the country’s capital, where the medical professional brutally battered her after finding out she is friends with his daughter. Enraged, the doctor ordered security to give him an iron bar which he then used to pelt the woman’s head, arms, legs, and back, local outlets reported. Patient went in to purchase glasses, left with her body and mobile phone shattered.  According […]

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UTAH: Mormon Church Opposes Ex-Gay Torture Ban

The Associated Press reports: A proposed conversion therapy ban in Utah is in danger of being derailed after The Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints came out in opposition, just months after it said it wouldn’t stand in the way of a similar measure under consideration. The church said in a statement that the regulatory rule prohibiting Utah psychologists from engaging in LGBTQ conversion therapy with minors would fail to safeguard religious beliefs and doesn’t account for “important realities of gender identity in the development of children.” State regulators crafted the rule at the request of Republican Gov. Gary […]

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A Transgender Woman Made History in the Muslim-majority Bangladesh

In a country where it is not only illegal to be gay, but laws are defined by traditional and strict religious views, a trans woman being elected councillor seems like a fever dream. But for Bangladeshi garment shop owner Pinki Khatun, it’s a reality. Khatun was elected as councillor for Kotchandpur, a rural town in the country’s westside, after beating her nearest rival by more than 4,000 votes earlier this week, reported The Straits Times. “I am very delighted. I campaigned door-to-door and people have responded positively,” said Khatun. “I did not face any discrimination or hate campaigns.” Trans councillor: ‘My aim is […]

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Cop Who Slammed a Gay Man against a Windshield and Mocked Him Collects $100k a Year

A Californian police officer smashed a gay man against a car’s windshield – hurling homophobic insults at him and mocking his voice – is now retired and collecting around $100,ooo per year from his pension pot. The former Palo Alto police sergeant was swamped with criticism when video footage capturing the incident went viral in April, The Mercury News reported. Wayne Benitez was placed on administrative leave earlier this year after the video surfaced, state officials said, and retired on 30 September. Scrutiny bubbled again, however, when it emerged that the former officer is collecting a monthly pension of $9,866 — earning him […]

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