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Coalition of Wikipedia writers fights to preserve queer history amid global anti-LGBTQ+ backlash

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Last weekend, over 150 people gathered in Montreal, Canada, for the first-ever in-person Queering Wiki international conference.  Hosted by Wikimedia LGBT+ and Wikimedia Canada (Wikimedia is Wikipedia’s parent company), the gathering brought together contributors, editors, activists, academics, and librarians from at least 30 countries under the theme “Knowledge Without Borders: Queer History and Queer Futures.” The goal: “Strengthen how the world’s largest free knowledge platform documents LGBTQ+ people, history, and culture,” a press release explained.  The decision to hold the gathering was fueled by the global rise in anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment and increased criminalization of LGBTQ+ people, which is no doubt […]

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Who has the most to lose if Trump pushes teachers back into the closet? Your child.

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For the first time in nearly 10 years, Alice* didn’t spend her fall welcoming a new class of students. After leaving her role as a high school English teacher last spring, she spent back-to-school season tending to her newly launched small business in the southwestern Ohio town where she lives with her wife. She left, in large part, because of her sexuality. Alice spent most of the last decade teaching at a public school in her area after leaving her previous role at a Catholic school when another teacher was fired for being gay in a targeted campaign by a student’s parent. When […]

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Help Keep Sonoma County Farmworkers Warm During this Cold Season

The Peace & Justice Center is collecting warm clothing and work essentials for immigrant laborers and farmworkers through Indivisible Sonoma County’s BOOST program. Drop off donations Monday–Friday, 1–4 p.m. Indivisible Sonoma County’s new BOOST program provides practical support for people in our community affected by harmful federal policies. Each quarter, BOOST will focus on a different community need. For October and November, BOOST is collecting warm clothing and work essentials for immigrant laborers and farmworkers. In December, the program will support the Volunteer Center’s Secret Santa program. Items needed For men For women Clean, gently used jackets and sweatshirts are […]

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Surviving & Living Fully – Dec 5th AIDS History Event at Dawn Ranch (the old Fife’s)

Over the past year, members of our community have shared memories, photographs, and archival material. Some sat for oral history interviews, some scanned scrapbooks, and some listened to the stories of others. Together, we’ve documented and preserved the unique way the Russian River’s LGBTQ+ community and allies responded to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s. Now we’d love for you to join us to mark the completion of this project.  Surviving and Living Fully: The River’s Response to AIDS Saturday, December 5, 2026 Dawn Ranch (the original Fife’s), 16467 River Road, Guerneville Register for walking tours and program on […]

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Homophobes are getting punished for violating an anti-LGBTQ+ law

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An unintended confluence of AI, blind allegiance, and rabid homophobia is landing supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade in court, leading even his most faithful supporters to question the authoritarian state’s methods. Homophobic authors of anti-LGBTQ+ posts are now regularly being charged under the very same laws meant to suppress the LGBTQ+ community in Russia, Mediazona reports. A raft of cases is arriving in front of magistrates accusing fans of the Russian Supreme Court’s 2023 decision outlawing the “LGBT movement” — and the total ban on so-called LGBTQ+ symbols that came with it — of violating the law. One woman dragged before a judge, […]

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Canada Banned Conversion Therapy. Is Guy Hammond’s Ontario Ministry Still Selling It?

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What Uncloseted’s Investigation Found: In 2006, Stephen Boehner’s wife discovered Stephen was gay. Boehner, now a nonbinary 61-year-old, had been holding this secret since they were 12 years old, growing up in the 1980s in rural Nova Scotia. But after 13 years of being married to a woman, the burden was too much to bear. Shortly after their wife found out and not knowing where else to turn, they chose to confide in Guy Hammond, a preacher at the nearby Halifax-Dartmouth Church of Christ. They arranged a private meeting, but it didn’t go as they expected. “He starts laughing, a […]

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No pardons for historic gay offences in Northern Ireland since law introduced in 2018

Northern Ireland’s scheme to disregard historic convictions for now-abolished gay sex offences has granted no pardons or disregards in the eight years since it came into force in 2018. Just three people have applied to the scheme since it was introduced, and none of the applications met the relevant criteria. The scheme was approved by the Northern Ireland Assembly in 2016. Offences covered include gross indecency and procuring others to commit homosexual acts. Eligibility requires that the act was consensual, involved someone aged 17 or above, and is no longer classed as an offence.  Posthumous pardons automatically apply to anyone […]

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Authors sue Alabama’s library board for censoring books with transgender characters

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Three authors have joined an advocacy group in a federal lawsuit challenging the Alabama Public Library Service’s anti-trans book ban.   Late last week, legal nonprofit Democracy Forward filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on behalf of authors Kit Rosewater, Page Powars, and Phoenix McDonald, and Read Freely Alabama, a volunteer organization that advocates against library censorship. The complaint argues that the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS) policy not only violates the First Amendment, but also negatively impacts the three authors’ book sales. “I think that having a small group of people […]

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