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Happening This Month at Sonoma County Library

Join the Sonoma County Library for in-person and virtual eventsthroughout the month of January, from Afro-Peruvian drumming workshops to author talks. All events are free and you don’t need a library card to attend; registration is required for select events. See some of our January events below! Kids & FamiliesLearn about barn, screech, great horned, and burrowing owls at Seeds & Reads: All About Owls—then dissect a real owl pellet to discover what owls eat! For grades K-6. Advance registration required. Available at seven library locations: Northwest Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park-Cotati, Sebastopol, Petaluma, Roseland, Healdsburg, and Rincon Valley.Join North Bay Events for Family Trivia at the library. […]

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Happening This Month at Marin’s Spahr Center

SECOND TUESDAY!January 10In-person at Mgt Todd Senior Center1560 Hill Road, NovatoHill Community Roombehind the main buildingsee site map belownew people warmly welcomed! 12:30 to 1 pm brown bag & social1 to 2:30 pm discussionWear a mask if you wish. And let’s be sensitive to others needs for safety, approaching with a hug only if the other is open to hugging.  Social Committee Calendar Coming SoonSam’s Place, the restaurant that has given the Social Committee activities a home for many years, has a new banquet room policy that needs clarified before the Games Day, Senior Breakfast and Women’s Coffee schedule can be confirmed. Watch […]

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SAN DIEGO PRIDE GIVES $250,000 TO 46 GROUPS

Following one of the largest Pride Celebrations in the organization’s history, San Diego Pride is granting out $250,000 to 44 LGBTQ-serving organizations and initiatives. After 3 years apart due to COVID-19, 2022 marked the return of the organization’s tentpole events, the San Diego Pride Parade and Festival allowing San Diego Pride to continue its grant program helping fund organizations across the globe. “Our Pride in San Diego is special. We approach our work with an abundance mindset. It’s how our organization grew to have over 40 year-round programs and how we became the most philanthropic Pride in the world,” said […]

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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs extends protections to LGBTQ+ state employees and contractors

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Arizona’s newly elected Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) signed an executive order extending employment protections to state employees and contractors who are LGBTQ+. As the Human Rights Campaign reports, the executive order, signed on Hobbs’s first day in office Tuesday, directs the state’s Department of Administration to update hiring, promotion, and compensation policies for all state agencies to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity and include provisions in all new state contracts to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The executive order goes beyond what is already required under state and federal laws banning employment discrimination […]

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18 LGBTQ+ Words added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2022

Language is constantly evolving and dictionaries are always trying to capture the latest additions to how we communicate. Queer language moves quickly and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) managed to include several new LGBTQ+ entries (including “LGBTQ” itself) this year. You may be surprised at the slang that made it into such a fancy institution and how they chose to define words that mean so many different things to so many different people. Anti-gay and Anti-homosexual The Oxford English Dictionary added a bunch of anti- prefixed words this year, and unfortunately, these two were on the list. Bakla This word is borrowed […]

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The right has a hot new legal theory to destroy LGBTQ+ rights

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The Federalist Society – the right-wing legal group that Donald Trump made the selection committee for his judicial appointees – has had a lot of success peeling back LGBTQ+ rights by promoting the doctrine of originalism. Originalism tests laws on the principle of whether the nation’s founders intended the Constitution to be interpreted in a particular way. Unsurprisingly, conservatives like the ways things looked in the 18th century a lot more than they do today, so originalism has been a handy way of bending the law rightward. The apotheosis of originalism was the Supreme Court’s decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. The majority […]

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Scotland lawmakers pass transgender rights bill

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The Gender Recognition Reform bill introduced by the Scottish government last spring was passed in the country’s Parliament in a final 86-39 vote Thursday. The sweeping reform bill modifies the Gender Recognition Act, signed into law in 2004, by allowing transgender Scots to gain legal recognition without the need for a medical diagnosis. The measure further stipulates that age limit for legal recognition is lowered to 16. Colin MacFarlane, director for Stonewall Scotland and Northern Ireland at the U.K.’s largest LGBTQ advocacy and rights organization, in a statement released after the vote called the bill’s passage “a tremendous step forward for […]

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LGBTQ+ people have more federal student debt than non-LGBTQ+ people

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A new William’s Institute study has found that LGBTQ+ adults are more likely to have federal student loan debt than non-LGBTQ+ adults. The study found that 39% of LGBTQ+ adults have student debt totaling approximately $93 billion. Most of those loans are federal loans, and the study found that 35.4% of LGBTQ+ adults have federal loans, compared to 23.2% of non-LGBTQ+ adults. The largest burden seems to fall on transgender adults. 51% of trans adults have federal student loans, compared to 35.9% of LBQ cisgender females and 27.9% of GBQ males. The news you care about, reported on by the people who […]

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Drag queens take on Tennessee bill seeking to restrict their performances

“The intent of the legislation is just to simply say that you cannot have sexually explicit entertainment … in a public venue where kids might be present,” Johnson said. Critics like Veronika, whose name off-stage is Steve Raimo, say the bill targets the LGBTQ community and that the subjectivity of what is considered “sexual” could effectively ban drag in many settings.   “I don’t know who will be the drag police to judge whether my performance was adult-oriented,” Veronika said. Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, a statewide LGBTQ advocacy group, said other art forms use many of […]

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Gay asylum seeker recalls devastating moment he knew he had to flee: ‘My parents wanted to kill me’

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It’s almost four years since Paul fled Uganda and travelled to Kenya to claim asylum.  Life at home wasn’t easy for Paul. He had known he was gay for some time, but he kept his sexuality a closely guarded secret – especially from his parents. It wasn’t just that he feared not being accepted, he was afraid he would be subjected to violence if they knew he was gay. When they eventually discovered the truth, Paul’s home life took a dramatic turn for the worse. He knew he had to get out. “My parents wanted to kill me,” Paul tells PinkNews. He would ultimately like […]

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