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Anti-abortion politics are threatening a vital HIV prevention program

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Anti-abortion advocates in the U.S. are threatening to kill one of the most successful public health programs in history over unsubstantiated facts, unwavering opposition to a woman’s right to choose, and blatant anti-LGBTQ+ bias. Conservative rganizations, including the Heritage Foundation and Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, are threatening U.S. lawmakers with the withdrawal of their support if they grant a routine reauthorization to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the hugely successful HIV prevention initiative in Africa. The far-right Family Research Council describes the 20-year-old program as “a massive slush fund for abortion and LGBT advocacy.” PEPFAR, […]

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Senate Democrats introduce legislation to help trans people get accurate credit scores

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Senate Democrats have introduced legislation that could help transgender and nonbinary people receive accurate credit scores. The Name Accuracy in Credit Reporting Act, introduced last week by Sens. John Fetterman (D-PA) and Tina Smith (D-MN), would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act to require credit reporting agencies to only use a person’s current legal name in credit reports, according to The Hill. In March, Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) marked Transgender Day of Visibility by introducing companion legislation in the House. As Fetterman’s office noted in a press release announcing the introduction of the legislation, people who legally change their names often face challenges obtaining […]

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A staggering 81% of trans adults have considered suicide

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An alarming 81% of transgender adults have considered suicide, according to a new studyfrom the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Comparatively, it found 35% of cisgender adults have considered suicide. The first-of-its-kind study, which appeared in this month’s edition of the journal Psychiatry Research, examined the prevalence of serious drug use, psychological distress, and suicidality among a nationally representative sample of trans and cisgender adults. The study took its data from the U.S. Transgender Population Health Survey (TransPop). The study found that 42% of trans adults have attempted suicide, compared to just 11% of cis adults. It also found that 56% of […]

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Turkish police arrest & jail tourist for 3 weeks because he “looked gay”

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A Portuguese man says he was arrested and jailed in Turkey for 20 days because he “looked gay.” During a visit to Istanbul last month, Miguel Alvaro says he was on his way to meet a friend for lunch when he asked police officers for directions. According to LBC, Alvaro was unaware that an unsanctioned LGBTQ+ march was happening nearby. Alvaro says that one of the Turkish police officers order his arrest. “They grabbed my arms and I tried to free myself. One of them hit me in the ribs, they pushed me against a van, they hit me on the shoulder, […]

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Conservatives threatened to hold LGBTQ+ library books hostage. The plan blew up in their faces.

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When Amy Vance and Martha Martin checked out nearly all of the books from the Rancho Peñasquitos branch of the San Diego Public Library, they had a nefarious plan. The incompetent duo emailed the administrator that they would not return the “inappropriate” books. The duo thought they had the upper hand with the plan to hold the books hostage, but instead, their plan backfired spectacularly. They inadvertently raised $45,000 for the library to expand its LGBTQ+-themed programming and materials. “Minor children have the right to belong to a community that respects their innocence and allows families to have conversations about sex […]

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Police examine gay men’s remains taken from Republican businessman’s estate

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ndiana State Police and forensic investigators have completed DNA profiles for two different humans whose remains were exhumed from the estate of now-deceased wealthy Republican businessman Herbert Baumeister. Police believe Baumeister murdered over 20 men and boys that he met at Indianapolis gay bars during the mid-1980s and ’90s. Baumeister, who is considered one of Indiana’s most notorious serial killers, lethally shot himself in the head on July 3, 1996, after police found evidence of 11 men’s bodies hidden at his 18-acre Fox Hollow Farm estate in Westfield, 20 miles north of Indianapolis. Investigators recovered over 10,000 charred bones and […]

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Virginia superintendent defies governor’s new policies that discriminate against trans students

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Francisco Durán, the Arlington Public Schools superintendent, announced he would not comply with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) new educational policy that targets transgender students for discrimination. Durán made a public statement outlining his reasoning for parents in the district. For his decision, Durán cited federal court decisions, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Virginia’s Department of Education introduced policies last week that would force students to use bathrooms, pronouns, and names that align with their sex assigned at birth. The guidelines went into effect immediately. “I reaffirm our unwavering support for our LGBTQIA+ […]

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Russian president signs legislation outlawing gender-affirming procedures

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that bans transgender individuals from receiving gender-affirming care, changing their gender in official documents and public records, fostering or adopting children, and having a legal marriage. Marriages involving at least one trans person will be annulled.  Legislators who promoted the new law said it is necessary to protect Russia’s “traditional values” against “Western anti-family ideology,” including the “pure satanism” of transitioning, The Guardian reported. Similar rhetoric has been used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a deadly ongoing attack now entering its 516th day. “There will be suicides in the trans community, no doubt because […]

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Jen Psaki exposes Moms for Liberty’s extremist anti-LGBTQ+ agenda

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On the most recent episode of her MSNBC show, former White House press secretary Jen Psaki devoted a segment to exposing the right-wing extremist agenda of the anti-LGBTQ+ organization Moms for Liberty. Anyone who has been paying attention to the frequent chaos and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric at school board meetings nationwide and efforts to ban books by and about LGBTQ+ people and people of color, you’re already well aware of what Moms for Liberty stands for. SPLC said the hate group is “at the forefront” of the “mobilization” of right-wing extremist groups claiming to fight for “parents’ rights.” But as Psaki […]

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Disabled trans man shot 5 times as attacker yelled anti-LGBTQ+ slurs

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A transgender male wheelchair user was shot five times with a pellet gun during an anti-LGBTQ+ assault. He’s now sharing his story to highlight both the attack and the poor hospital care he allegedly received afterward. He also hopes to encourage other trans people to speak out about their own experiences. Around midnight on Saturday, July 15, Andrew Jonathan Blake-Newton of Pontiac, Michigan rode in his power wheelchair to get groceries at a store about two blocks away from his home. During his trip, a person in a small beige 4-door car began shooting him and then drove away while […]

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