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We’ll Cut Your Throats’: Man Charged With Threatening Human Rights Campaign

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A Maryland man has been charged with threatening the Human Rights Campaign, referencing the Nashville school shooting, in which the shooter was said to be transgender. The Department of Justice filed a criminal complaint Monday against Adam Michael Nettina, 34, of West Friendship, Md. He is accused of making the threat by phone to HRC’s Washington, D.C., headquarters the night of March 28. A transcription of his voice mail, contained in the complaint, reads as follows: “You guys going to shoot up our schools now? Is that how it’s going to be? You just gonna to kill little kids. You’re just going […]

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Happening This Month at Marin’s Spahr Center

UPCOMING EVENTSall events are freeApril 4LGBTQ+ & HIV+ Grief Group **at the Spahr Center  and on zoomemail Nikki for info and registration:nmillett@thespahrcenter.org(see flyer below for more details)7 to 8 pmApril 6Topical Thursdays12:30 to 2 pm on zoomWhat To Do with All Our Stuff? See topic writeup belowTo join group, find purple Join Group button belowApril 11Second Tuesday LGBT+ Senior Group at Mgt. Todd Senior Center 1560 Hill Road, Novato in the Hill Community Room behind the main building(see site map & more information below)Topic: What Advice Would You GiveYounger Generations? What Would You Like to Learn from Them?12:30 to 2:30April 12LGBT+ Senior Monthly Mixer **at San Rafael Joe’s please RSVP […]

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Happening This Month at Sonoma County Libraries

Join the Sonoma County Library for events throughout the month of April, from meditative sound baths to book-making. All events are free and you don’t need a library card to attend; registration is required for select events. See some of our April events below! Kids & FamiliesJoin us for Bilingual Family Concerts with Nathalia! Nathalia’s catchy original songs will have everyone singing, dancing, and learning Spanish. At six library locations: Roseland, Rincon Valley, Sonoma Valley, Rohnert Park-Cotati, Cloverdale, and Northwest. For grades K-6.Celebrate el día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day)at a Mi Libro/My Book Workshop! Make your own book with drawings, collage, […]

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Gay Cash App founder Bob Lee stabbed and killed in San Francisco

Bob Lee, a technology executive who founded the mobile payment company Cash App and previously worked at Square, died Tuesday after he was stabbed near downtown San Francisco, according to his family and police. San Francisco police said officers responded to a report of a stabbing around 2:35 a.m. Tuesday. The officers found Robert Lee, 43, with apparent stab wounds. He was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries, police said. Police Chief Bill Scott said in a statement Wednesday night that the investigation is in its early stages and he called it a horrific crime. The incident is under […]

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U.S. Reaches All-Time High in Out Elected Officials, and They’re Ready to Fight Back

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At a time of record anti-LGBTQ+ legislation at the state level and attacks from other government officials, there’s also some good news: LGBTQ+ people are serving in elected office in record numbers, and they’re helping to counter the hate. The number of out LGBTQ+ elected officials in the U.S. increased by 68 percent over the past five years, rising from 698 to 1,174, according to a new report from the LGBTQ Victory Institute, the educational and training arm of the LGBTQ Victory Fund. This was helped along by rainbow waves in recent elections. “In 2018, LGBTQ+ people hit the campaign […]

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Santos bill would ban US foreign aid to countries that criminalize LGBTQ people

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Republican New York Congressman George Santos has introduced a bill that would ban U.S. foreign aid to countries that criminalize LGBTQ people and women. “Discrimination against both women and the LGBTQ community is unacceptable,” said Santos in a March 24 press release that announced the introduction of Equality and Fiscal Accountability Protection Act of 2023. “My bill will send a clear message that the United States will not offer federal aid to countries found to be violating the rights of individuals based on sexual orientation. We as a nation have a responsibility to stand up for the human rights of all people, […]

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Nebraska school district hit with lawsuit after shutting down school paper over LGBTQ+ content

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A school district in Nebraska is facing a lawsuit after a high school shut down its newspaper because students produced an LGBTQ+ edition.  The lawsuit states that Grand Island Northwest Public Schools and its superintendent violated the First Amendment rights of students by axing the Viking Saga in May 2022.  The newspaper had been running for 54 years. As reported by the Associated Press, legal action has been brought by the Nebraska High School Press Association, and former Grand Island Northwest High School journalist Marcus Pennell.  The student newspaper staff were made aware that the publication was being pulled three […]

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New SAMHSA Report Underscores the Harms of Conversion Therapy & Importance of Affirmation for LGBTQ Young People’s Mental Health

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 The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people, and Born Perfect, the National Center for Lesbian Rights’ program to end conversion therapy, released the following statements in response to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) new report published today: “Moving Beyond Change Efforts: Evidence and Action to Support and Affirm LGBTQI+ Youth.” Statement from Kasey Suffredini (he/him), Vice President of Advocacy and Government Affairs for The Trevor Project: “These latest report findings punctuate much of what we already know about the dangerous and discredited practice of so-called conversion ‘therapy’: it doesn’t work, it is associated with […]

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San Francisco drag artist Stefan Grygelko, aka Heklina, dies

Stefan Grygelko, better known as his drag persona Heklina, has died, his longtime friend Joshua Grannell (Peaches Christ) wrote on Facebook April 3. The two were in London where they were appearing in the “Mommie Queerest” show there, Grannell wrote, adding that he had gone to pick up Heklina that day. “I do not know the cause of death yet,” Grannell wrote. “I know this is shocking news and I am beyond stunned, but I wanted to let folks know what has happened. Heklina is not just my best friend, but a beloved icon of our community.” The news shocked […]

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Federal judge gives Texas county 24 hours to return banned LGBTQ+ books to library shelves

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A federal judge has ordered government officials in Llano County, Texas to return books with LGBTQ+ and anti-racist themes to the county’s public libraries after conservative officials removed them. Seven Llano County citizens sued county officials when local officials removed 12 titles from county libraries. The books included Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings, In the Night Kitchen by gay children’s book author Maurice Sendak, It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health by Robie H. Harris, and They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Additionally, the lawsuit alleged that county […]

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