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Women Occupy Most Same-sex Households, Except in Cities

Female couples make up more than half of all same-sex households in the United States, but male couples dominate in cities with large gay populations. The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the U.S. had almost 1 million same-sex households in 2017 (about 0.8 percent of all U.S. households), with female couples making up almost 52 percent of those households. The findings emerged in the bureau’s American Community Survey. Related NBC OUT ‘Bachelor’ franchise gets its first same-sex proposal Male couples dominated in cities with the largest gay populations, but the rate varied depending on the city. In San Francisco […]

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Reading Cinemas in Rohnert Park Presents Horror-Fest

Reading Cinemas gets into the spirit of October with “Horror-Fest” by showcasing a classic horror film every Wednesday night (except Oct. 30) including Hitchcock’s PSYCHO on Halloween. All tickets are $11 and shows start at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the box office, or guests may conveniently purchase tickets in advance online, or download the Reading Cinemas USA app. For more information please visit ReadingCinemasUs.com, or follow us on Facebook @RohnertPark16, or on Twitter and Instagram @ReadingCinemas. HORROR-FEST SCHEDULEReading Cinemas Valley Plaza 28 DAYS LATER (2002)OCTOBER 2 @ 7PMFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful […]

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Mormon Church Doubles Down on Opposition to Same-sex Marriage

The Mormon church has doubled down on its stance that marriage is “between a man and a woman”, despite adjusting one of its anti-LGBT+ policies. President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russell M Nelson, addressed students at Mormon institution Brigham Young University (BYU) on Tuesday, September 17, to tell them about “five truths”. n 2015, the church announced that children of LGBT+ parents would be banned from baptisms and from joining the church, unless they “disavowed” their parents’ relationships. Less that two weeks later, more than a thousand members had quit the church.  This year, the church revoked this policy and said […]

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Indian State Bans Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children

India’s Tamil Nadu state government has issued an executive order banning medically unnecessary surgeries on children born with intersex variations. “Intersex,” sometimes called “differences of sex development” in medical literature, refers to the estimated 1.7 percent of people born with sex characteristics – such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals – that differ from social expectations of female or male. Except in very rare cases when the child cannot urinate or internal organs are exposed, these variations are medically benign natural variations of human anatomy, and do not require surgery. But in the 1960s, surgeons in the United States popularized “normalizing” cosmetic operations on intersex children, such […]

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US News Networks Have Stopped Talking about LGBT Issues during Trump

An analysis of a decade’s worth of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News coverage by The GDELT Project shows the flatlining focus on LGBT+ issues on all three networks coinciding with the 2016 election, when Trump began to dominate the news agenda. The analysis, drawing on transcripts from the Television News Archive, looked at the frequency with which terms like gay, lesbian, transgender, LGBT and queer are mentioned. The analysts wrote: “Starkly apparent is that mentions have almost disappeared across all three stations since November 2016.” According to PinkNews‘ analysis of the data set, between July 2009 and July 2016 – when Donald Trump […]

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Transgender Woman Attacked in Portland in What May be Hate Crime

Three people, including a transgender woman, were attacked in Portland, Oregon, in what police say may be a bias crime. The assault happened in a downtown parking lot around 2:30 a.m. Thursday, and the assailants had fled by the time officers arrived, Portland police said in a statement. Atlas Marshall, who said she was attacked near some food carts, believes she was targeted because she is transgender, NBC affiliate KGW of Portland reported.  “He saw me, visibly could tell I was trans, I was queer, and he started throwing homophobic and transphobic slurs at me,” Marshall told the station. She said that […]

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Top Dem Donor Charged With Running Drug House After Third Man Overdoses In His Home

The New York Times reports: Ed Buck, a Democratic donor and activist whose West Hollywood apartment was the scene of two methamphetamine overdose deaths since 2017, was arrested on Tuesday after investigators said a third man suffered an overdose in his home last week. Mr. Buck, 65, who has not faced charges for the earlier overdoses but was subject to a wrongful-death lawsuit, was charged on Tuesday with battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house. He faces up to five years and eight months in prison. The charges relate only to the most recent incident on Sept. 11, […]

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Lesbian Singer Cris Williamson to Play Occidental Center for the Arts

Sunday October 6 @ 7 pm. Occidental Center for the Arts welcomes Barbara Higbie and Cris Williamson! Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist and singer, Barbara Higbie, in duo with iconic women’s music pioneer, singer/songwriter, teacher and activist Cris Williamson (The Changer & The Changed), bring their uplifting mixture of new material and old favorites to one of their favorite venues! The very real friendship binding these two brings a powerful mixture guaranteed to delight, inspire, cheer and comfort. $28/Advance; $34 at the door (if available).Fine refreshments, wheelchair accessible, Art Gallery. Reservations advised (via BrownPaperTickets)@ www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, CA. 95465

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Amidst Violence, Hondurans March for Pride

The LGBT Pride March in Honduras’s San Pedro Sula, which drew 450 people, was the uplifting culmination of a week of Pride activities that also included more sober reflections, such as a candlelight vigil for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people killed in Honduras. LGBT activists led the August 24 march with a banner that read, “Honduras inhabitable LGBTI,” meaning “Honduras unlivable [for] LGBTI.” Despite the activists’ courage and pride, which I also observed at Tegucigalpa’s march on the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in May, violence against LGBT people does make Honduras unlivable for many. In a country where many […]

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Yearly HIV Infections in San Francisco Drop to 197

Every year, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) publishes a comprehensive report on HIV incidence and prevalence in the city, showing HIV trends to guide the public health response. Continuing a downward trend since the peak of the HIV epidemic in the 1990s, the most recent report with 2018 data shares a historic milestone reached by the city: Fewer than 200 HIV diagnoses occurred in San Francisco. A total of 197 people were diagnosed with HIV last year in San Francisco. This is a 13% decline from 227 diagnoses made in 2017, and a 62% decline from 523 infections ten […]

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