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Republican Spanish-language anti-trans misinformation targets Latino communities

Spanish-speaking communities are being targeted with anti-LGBTQ and anti-transgender messages ahead of the midterm elections. A double-sided postcard is being sent to homes in predominantly Latino neighborhoods in western Colorado. “Joe Biden and his political allies are indoctrinating your children,” the flier, which NBC News reviewed, says in bold red letters translated from Spanish. “Radical and irreversible gender experiments on children,” the other side says in bold pink text, falsely claiming the Biden administration is “pushing” for the treatments by blocking puberty and removing genitalia. An image of the highest-ranking openly transgender government official, Rachel Levine, the Department of Health […]

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As election nears, conservative groups have ramped up anti-trans campaign ads

In the last leg of what has been a heated midterm election cycle, some conservative groups have ramped up misleading or inflammatory campaign ads targeting transgender rights, which have become an increasingly partisan and divisive issue. A radio ad from America First Legal, a conservative group founded by Stephen Miller, who served as a top adviser to former President Donald Trump, accused President Joe Biden and “progressive leaders” of pushing children to take hormones and undergo surgery “to remove their breasts and genitals.” “Not long ago, everyone knew that you’re either born a boy or a girl,” the narrator says […]

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Gay Men File Appeal in Trumped-Up Chechnya Conviction

 Two men, whom police tortured in Chechnya, are appealing their conviction on false, politically motivated charges, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should withdraw the charges against the two men, Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isayev, who are brothers, void the conviction, immediately free them, and hold to account those responsible for torturing them. On October 25, a regional appeal court in Pyatigorsk will hear their appeal against sentences of eight and six years in prison, respectively, for allegedly providing food to a member of an illegal armed group. “The injustice against Magamadov and Isayev could not be more stark, and […]

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Brazil’s fake news crisis is lethal for LGBT+ community

The Brazilian presidential election has fueled a misinformation emergency that has tipped the LGBT+ community into a boiling pot of fake news. This is part of a broader global problem and we need a global plan to stop it. Since the beginning of this year’s election race, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro deliberately galvanized Christian voters by framing the election as “a fight between good and evil,” repeating the scare tactics about the LGBT+ community he used in 2018. Bolsonaro’s tactics have also dragged his opponent, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva into an outright contest of who is the true Christian among them. Caught […]

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‘It’s Raining Men LGBT History of The Russian River’ Happens at the Sonoma County Guerneville Library Sat. Nov. 19

It’s Raining MennGLBT History of Guerneville and the Russian River Saturday Nov. 19, 11 AM at Guerneville Library The Russian River has always been a Gay destination. What was the scene in Guerneville like in the mid 1960s? Did you take the bus from San Francisco to Wholer Bridge? What was the “Moon Over the River” game? Did you grab a beer at The Rusty Nail or attend a women’s weekend? Do you know fires targeted gay businesses? This 1 hour presentation of the GLBT history of the River starts in the 1930s and follows its rise as a gay […]

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DNA evidence could help D.C. police solve the 1987 murder of a lesbian woman

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D.C. police have used DNA testing technology that could help solve the 1987 murder of a lesbian woman. On May 13, a 35-year-old woman named Greta Denise Rainey was found raped and strangled in her Capitol Hill apartment. Eighteen months before her death, a 22-year-old named Florence Eyssalenne was also found raped and murdered in her apartment, which was next to Johnson’s. At the time, investigators took DNA samples as part of a police rape kit. Now, using contemporary DNA-testing technology that wasn’t available at the time, police have tested the samples and formed a DNA profile of an unidentified […]

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Free legal clinic hosted by Crocker Law, North Bay LGBTQI Families, Positive Images Happens Nov. 12

A free legal clinic hosted by Crocker Law, North Bay LGBTQI Families, and Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center will take place on the Empire College of Law Campus (3035 Cleveland Avenue, Santa Rosa) on Saturday, November 12 from 11am-3pm to help our community. Specifically, attorneys and paralegals will be available to assist with forms and procedure for securing legal parentage between parents and children, as well as legal name and/or gender marker changes. This event will be held in combination with the November Social Saturday Intergenerational Gathering hosted each month by Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center and North Bay LGBTQI Families. In […]

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Community unites to create Pride display after couple was targeted by MAGA vandal

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A Chicago couple whose home has been repeatedly vandalized by a Trump supporter is combatting hate with love. Erica Hungerford and Peter Charnley rallied their community last weekend to create a massive display of LGBTQ Pride on their garage. ADVERTISING The couple has refused to be intimidated by a man who has repeatedly destroyed their Pride flags and left them threatening MAGA messages at their home in the city’s Jefferson Park neighborhood, where they have only lived since February. The couple was joined by about a dozen members of their community on Sunday to paint a rainbow mural on their […]

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