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GOP Congressman sued for implying opponent is gay in vile campaign mailers

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A Republican Congress member from Arizona is getting sued for using a picture of his male primary opponent with a male friend and implying that they are a gay couple. The lawsuit involves a mailer sent by the campaign for Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) as well as some street signs about one of his primary opponents, Republican and car insurance company founder Elijah Norton. The mailers and signs used a 2018 picture of Norton with his friend Leslie Hammon, 34, where they’re outside of a bar and have arms around each other’s shoulders. Hammon is gay. Related: Gay congressional candidate falsely […]

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El Salvador: Transgender People Denied Equal Rights

Transgender people in El Salvador experience significant discrimination in daily life because there is no procedure for legal gender recognition, Human Rights Watch and COMCAVIS TRANS said in a report released today. The Legislative Assembly should comply with a recent Supreme Court ruling and create a simple, efficient procedure to allow trans people to accurately reflect their self-declared gender identity on identity documents. July 18, 2022 “We Just Want to Live Our Lives” El Salvador’s Need for Legal Gender Recognition Download the full report in English The 40-page report, “‘We Just Want to Live Our Lives’: El Salvador’s Need for Legal Gender Recognition,” exposes the pervasive […]

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Call to Action:  Stop Anti-LGBTQI+ Comic Dave Chappelle from Performing at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts

The tasteless, anti-LGBTQI+ comic is scheduled to perform three shows at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, July 26-29.  Perhaps the LBC staff and board are unaware of Chappelle’s numerous anti-Trans comments that are well-documented and of which he has offered no apologies.  Chappelle identifies as a so-called “TERF (Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist)” joining author KJ. K Rawlings in such dangerous hate speech.   Netflix has come under fire for producing and airing two recent Chappelle shows that feature anti-Trans comments.  Recently, a Minneapolis show switched locations as a direct result of a protest organized after Chappelle refered to Monkeypox as “a […]

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Iowa library closed after endless complaints about LGBTQ staff & theft of books

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An Iowa library will re-open for limited hours of operation after a temporary closing due to ceaseless community complaints over LGBTQ books and staff members during the ongoing national debate over content in libraries and schools. Over the past two years, the Vinton Public Library has seen two library directors leave their positions after facing criticism for Pride displays and other books that some in the community consider inappropriate or overly partisan. In early July, the library was forced to close after the departure of out gay interim director Colton Neely, who had taken over in June. The library will reopen Monday for limited […]

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Happening This Summer at Sebastopol Center for the Arts

SebARTSSummer Patio Music Series You are invited to Sebastopol Center for the Arts’ Summer Patio Music Series – live music on our patio on Sunday afternoons, starting July 24. July 24, 12-2 pm, SoCo BlueAugust 7, 2-4 pm, Phil Lawrence QuartetAugust 14, 2-4 pm, Swing FlingAugust 21, 2-4 pm, Dave JenkinsAugust 28, 2-4pm: Backstory TrioEveryone is welcome. Payment is by donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Reserve your spot SebARTS Art and Y(art) SaleJuly 23-24, 10am-3pmHelp us shrink our huge collection of art and art supplies. We cannot store it all. Will you adopt a piece of […]

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Barbaric “gay tests” are still victimizing men across the world

So-called ‘gay tests’ have been used by anti-gay governments and authorities to inflict immense physiological and physical trauma to victims for decades. From Egypt to Uzbekistan, Uganda to Saudi Arabia, forced anal tests are persecuting gay men in more than a dozen countries around the world – all with either the explicit or implicit support of governments. In countries where same-sex sexual activity is outlawed, law enforcement officials have been documented forcing men accused of consensual same-sex relations to undergo invasive and degrading forced anal examinations. The flawed ‘evidence’ from these unscientific tests is then used by legal authorities to […]

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Ukraine’s oldest human rights group fights for LGBTQ equality

Their lineage dates back to the days of the Soviet Union; operating under the name “Memorial” it was the first human rights group recognized by the USSR. Now more than 30 years and one name change later, Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) continues its mission of protecting freedom, the disenfranchised, and minority groups throughout Ukraine. While Ukrainian forces have been battling Russian fascism for almost a decade, KHPG’s responsibilities have rapidly evolved since February 24, when Russia’s full-scale invasion started and the nation’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, declared martial law. A portfolio of work that includes pushing freedom of speech claims, fighting government discrimination, […]

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El Salvador urged to introduce trans rights reforms and act on historic Supreme Court ruling

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El Salvador is facing calls to urgently introduce a path to legal gender recognition and protection from discrimination for trans people. In February 2022, El Salvador’s Supreme Court ruled that the constitution prohibits discrimination based on gender identity, and gave the legislature one year to create a system for trans people to change their names on their identity documents. To comply with international human rights standards, lawmakers are also being called upon to introduce a a system for gender recognition. Five months on, with no reforms announced, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report officials to create a “simple, efficient procedure to allow […]

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Queer mum forced to adopt her own child after being refused birth certificate wins High Court case

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A queer mother who was forced to adopt her own child after a registrar refused to put her on the birth certificate has won her legal battle. Sarah Osborne, 48, and Helen Arnold, 48, welcomed a child together via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in 2014. But they were told by the Cambridge Register Office that Osborne could not be listed on the child’s birth certificate as there “could only be one mother”. Only if Osborne was the father, which she “clearly wasn’t”, the registrar quipped, could her name have been added. The registrar said Osborne would have to “adopt” her own […]

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House votes to protect same-sex marriage in case the Supreme Court rescinds it

The House passed the Respect For Marriage Act Tuesday to codify legal same-sex marriage nationwide, fearing that the conservative majority on the Supreme Court will rescind the right after it overturned Roe v. Wade last month. The vote was 267-157, with 47 Republicans supporting it. The bill would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, enshrine legal same-sex marriage for the purposes of federal law, and add legal protections for married couples of the same sex. House to vote on bill codifying same-sex marriage JULY 19, 202203:12 Same-sex marriage remains the law of the land under the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling […]

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