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Republican governor vetoes anti-trans bill

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Republicans just had their broken clock moment after a GOP state governor vetoed an anti-trans bathroom bill. New Hampshire governor Kelly Ayotte made the unexpected decision to shut down a GOP-led anti-trans bill on Friday (6 February). The Senate bill, SB 268, would have amended anti-discrimination laws to allow the banning of trans people from public spaces such as toilets and changing rooms. It would have also banned trans people from joining gender-specific sporting events that are consistent with their correct gender identity. The bill was effectively a copy of one that Governor Ayotte vetoed last year over concerns that it […]

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Polyamory Isn’t Legally Protected in the U.S. Why?

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Andrea, a 43-year-old software engineer, was once open about being polyamorous. She told family and friends that she maintained multiple romantic relationships simultaneously, with the full knowledge and consent of everyone involved. Over the years, that’s meant dating partners separately as well as being part of throuples, in which she had two primary partners. “I honored the structure of monogamy while I was in it and never pursued anyone else but something always felt off. … I felt very isolated,” she says. “Something was missing. And I was always drawn to the family structures of people who were in open […]

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Brazil had the most murders of trans people globally in 2025

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According to the global Trans Murder Monitoring 2025 report, the deaths of 281 trans and gender diverse people were recorded around the world between October 2024 and September 2025. In Brazil in 2025, the Trans Murder Monitoring report recorded 77 trans women or female-presenting victims, and three trans men or transmasculine victims. The figures come from the latest edition of a dossier produced by the country’s National Association of Transvestites and Transgender People (ANTRA), released this week. Eighty-eight percent of the victims were Black or mixed race, and 14 percent were involved in some form of activism. The result represents a drop of 34 […]

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“Dystopian”: Trans radio host Ellie Krug explains what it’s like in Minnesota right now

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Trans radio host Ellie Krug is an eyewitness to the chaos the Trump administration has unleashed on Minnesota with its nativist immigration dragnet. In an interview from her home in Victoria, Minnesota, pop. 10,546, Krug is quick to point out that Trump’s immigration raids aren’t just happening in Minneapolis, but in small towns like hers across the state. “This is red country,” she says of Carver County, about 40 miles southwest of the Twin Cities. “It’s everywhere.” Krug is a lawyer by training and the author of Getting to Ellen: A Memoir about Love, Honesty and Gender Change and Being Ellen: A Second […]

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Protest set at NYC’s Stonewall after Trump administration removes Pride flag from national LGBTQ+ monument

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A protest is set for Tuesday afternoon at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City after the Trump administration removed the LGBTQ+ Pride flag from the site. That decision has drawn swift backlash from LGBTQ+ advocates, New York officials, and national civil rights groups who say the move is part of a broader effort to narrow how queer history is told on federal land. By late Tuesday afternoon, Christopher Park is expected to fill with people who know exactly why they’re there. The gathering, advertised as a community rally to defend “our flag, our park, our history,” was organized after the Pride flag was removed from the Stonewall […]

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LGBTQI+ Community Mardi Gras Benefit Party Set for Feb. 20 in Rohnert Park

A community-driven Mardi Gras benefit party will take place Friday, Feb. 20, bringing music, celebration and fundraising together in support of LGBTQ+ visibility and community resilience. The event, Mardi Gras 2026, will be held at Sally Tomatoes and is timed to follow Mardi Gras proper on Feb. 17, extending the season of celebration while centering local impact. The fundraiser is produced by community organizer Athena Rowan with support from regional partners and sponsors. Proceeds from the event will support LGBTQ+ programming, visibility efforts and mutual-aid initiatives in Sonoma County, with an emphasis on safety and inclusion for transgender and gender-diverse […]

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CALL TO ACTION: Stand Up for Sonoma Valley High School LGBTQ+ Students

On February 12, SVHS students and supporters will show up at the Sonoma Valley Unified School District Board meeting to talk about the way in which the pride flag was removed from campus grounds without any public notice or legally required governance. Our community and students deserve accountability for the resulting consequences of this action and exposure of the possible underlying motivation for this action. Wake UP Sonoma calls for School Board President David Bell, to be censured for his abuse of power, and that he be removed as President of the School Board.  Wake UP Sonoma also calls for the School Board to place the […]

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Iowa Republicans Advance K-12 “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

Des Moines’ ABC affiliate reports: An Iowa House bill that would further prohibit discussion of LGBTQ topics in schools is advancing through the Legislature. An identical version of it, on the Senate side, was approved in an education subcommittee on Jan. 21. The House bill is a bit further along and is now ready for a full floor vote. “I genuinely don’t understand why we would move forward with this when it’s being tied up on the courts,” Rep. Elinor A. Levin, D-Iowa City, said. In 2023, a new Iowa law prohibited educators from teaching about gender identity and sexual orientations […]

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Tragic new data shows one in six children who die by suicide is LGBTQ+

New data has shown that one in six children that died by suicide in England between April 2019 and March 2025 were part of the LGBTQ+ community. Out of the 647 children that died by suicide during that time period, 107 were LGBTQ+ and 46 were transgender. The figures were obtained by QueerAF via a Freedom of Information request to the National Child Mortality Database. Speaking to QueerAF on 31 January, preventable deaths campaigner Lucy Brisbane said: “Every preventable death of a child is unacceptable. “To examine how to protect all children from suicides, including trans children, we need to understand the factors […]

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The surprising way a CA professor & her students are preserving centuries of LGBTQ+ history

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In a world overrun by fake news, Professor Juana María Rodríguez is unflinchingly committed to facts.  Since 2016, the University of California, Berkeley professor has mobilized students to preserve LGBTQ+ stories on one of the world’s most extensive historical records: Wikipedia.  Through a unique course taught in partnership with Wiki Education, Rodríguez and her students produce entries for the site that cover niche LGBTQ+ subjects, many of which have fallen through the cracks due to contributor bias. And as the Trump administration works overtime to erase LGBTQ+ history from the national consciousness, Rodríguez knows that the best defense is putting […]

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