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School board orders removal of student-painted mural containing LGBTQ+ imagery

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A West Michigan school board has ordered the removal of a student’s mural after parents freaked out over some LGBTQ+ imagery included in the artwork.  Grant High School student Evelyn Gonzales painted the mural at the Child and Adolescent Health Center at Grant Middle School after winning an art contest.  The mural shows kids and animals wearing hats with red crosses on them. The kids have diverse skin colors and one wears a hijab. One girl in the mural wears rainbow colors. Another student wears a transgender flag shirt while getting a shot from a bunny nurse. And two kids […]

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These 7 history-making LGBTQ+ Latinx artists were all honored on stamps

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Queer people of Latin American heritage have been making history for centuries, but most of them don’t get official recognition for their work by their national governments. These seven Latine/Latinx LGBTQ+ people have had the honor to have their likeness or their artwork grace an official postage stamp of their country.  Sergio E. Baradat (born 1959) Sergio Baradat, an out gay graphic designer of Cuban descent who grew up in Miami, makes sense to be the person to start off a list about Latine folks on stamps because he is a leader in the postage design world.  ADVERTISING Get the […]

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Sen. John Kennedy reads sexually explicit passages to justify anti-LGBTQ+ book bans

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During a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about book bans, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) read sexually explicit passages from two LGBTQ+ memoirs in order to justify censorship as a necessary way to protect children from pornography and sexual grooming. However, other experts during the hearing pointed out book bans are also being used to ban non-sexual LGBTQ+ children’s books and other books about the anti-Semitic Nazi Holocaust, Native American genocide, and Black and Latino civil rights experiences. The hearing, entitled “Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature,”featured testimony from five witnesses: two who claimed that the upset around book […]

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Utah judge says trans minors must turn over private health records in sports ban lawsuit

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A Utah judge has ruled the state can access the private medical records of two transgender minors who are suing to overturn the state’s anti-trans sports ban.  According to the Salt Lake Tribune – which called the decision unprecedented – Judge Keith Kelly stated that the medical records of the two trans girls speak to how the sports ban has affected their mental health and that information about their transitions and medical care “go to the issues that are squarely raised in this case.” He added, “Their physical, mental, and emotional conditions are all relevant issues.”  The girls’ attorneys say the true […]

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Andorra’s prime minister just came out as gay

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Andorra Prime Minister Xavier Espot Zamora came out as gay in an interview with Ràdio Nacional d’Andorra yesterday. “I’m gay. I’ve never hid it,” he said. “Now, if I’m not asked, I don’t have to say it, in the sense that it doesn’t define the entirety of my person and even less of my personal politics. But at the same time, I think it shouldn’t be a problem to express it.” “Latvia is a sovereign, free, and democratic country. But it must be legal and fair for all,” he said in his inaugural address. “And if this helps many children, […]

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Ron DeSantis appoints anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group co-founder to powerful state commission

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has appointed a Moms for Liberty co-founder to the state’s ethics commission. On Wednesday, the struggling 2024 presidential hopeful announced that he had appointed Tina Descovich to the Florida Commission on Ethics, which oversees the conduct of state employees and investigates complaints of “breach of the public trust,” according to the Orlando Sentinel. DeSantis made the announcement in a press release, but did not specify why he wanted Descovich on the commission. Her appointment much be approved by the Florida Senate, where Republicans currently hold a supermajority. “It will be a privilege to serve the state I love […]

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VA started the school year with new anti-trans policies. The state’s largest district won’t comply.

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Referring to the Virginia Department of Education’s (VDOE) 2023 model policies for the treatment of transgender students, attorney Wyatt Rolla of the ACLU of Virginia said Governor Glenn Youngkin’s (R) administration is “throwing school districts under the bus to advance its own dangerous anti-trans political agenda.” The new model policies, which replace the ones published by the VDOE in 2021, require teachers to use a student’s legal name and the pronouns associated with their “biological sex” unless a parent submits written instructions to use a different name or pronoun. Even when parents do submit written instructions, the policies allow teachers to ignore them and […]

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California just became the first U.S. state to establish Transgender History Month

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California has become the first U.S. state to establish a Transgender History Month. On Wednesday, the state Assembly voted in favor of House Resolution 57, introduced late last month by state Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco), to recognize August as Transgender History Month beginning in 2024. Previously, San Francisco became the first city in the nation to declare August Transgender History Month back in 2021. Santa Clara made a similar declaration in 2022. “The history of transgender people is there if you look for it,” Haney said. “As long as there has been a California, there have been transgender people here contributing to their community, […]

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These affirmations for LGBTQ+ people can calm your anxiety & grow your self-confidence

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The vitriol directed at the LGBTQ+ community lately can feel defeating, and studies have shown that anxiety levels for queer folks have skyrocketed. But psychologists have also developed a simple technique you can do anywhere to calm yourself and grow your feelings of self-worth. You only need your mobile device or a laptop to feel better using “positive affirmation.” “People wish to view themselves as competent, compassionate, and worthy individuals, but their attitudes, intentions,and behaviors do not always match this ideal,” according to psychological researchers Clayton R. Critcher and David Dunning. “As such, people possess an eclectic toolkit of strategies […]

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LGBTQ+ group banned from marching in town’s Labor Day parade for the “safety of the public”

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An LGBTQ+ group was banned from participating in an Iowa town’s Labor Day parade, reportedly at the behest of the mayor. On Thursday, just days before the parade in Essex, Iowa, members of Shenandoah Pride say they received an email from Mayor Calvin Kinney on behalf of the city. “Out of concern for the safety of the public and that of Essex Labor Day parade participants, the City of Essex has determined not to allow parade participants geared toward the promotion of, or opposition to, the politically charged topic of gender and/or sexual identification/orientation,” the email read. “This parade will not […]

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