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Jerusalem Pride marches defiantly on after death threats sent to organiser and politicians

Jerusalem Pride defied death threats and counterprotests to celebrate LGBTQ+ rights loudly and proudly. Around 7,000 people attended the Jerusalem Pride march on Thursday (2 June), with 2022 marking the event’s 20th anniversary. Knesset speaker Mickey Levy addressed the crowds, saying he was “shocked to the depths of my soul” by the threats. “So I came today to stand against this evil specter,” he said, per The Times of Israel. “You are entitled to love who you want, you are entitled to marry who you love, you are entitled to raise a family like anyone else. These are not privileges, these […]

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LGBTQ+ Ukrainians on their new reality and why help is needed now more than ever

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Franz is struggling to comprehend how it’s been 100 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, kicking off a war that has dragged on for months. “You know, I didn’t even realise it’s been 100 days already,” Franz, who is just 18 years old, tells PinkNews. “It doesn’t feel quite right that it’s already summer. Some part of me still expects to see snow outside the window each morning, as if it was all just February that never ended.” Right now, Franz is in Slovakia, where he’s studying at university. He spends his days wondering where time is going – why the days seem to be […]

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SoCo Libraries Celebrate Pride Month

Celebrate Pride Month with Your Library June is Pride Month, a time to honor, recognize, and celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. The Sonoma County Library honors Pride through our collections, events, and programs. Celebrate this June and beyond with our round-up of resources and offerings! Join us for upcoming Pride Month events and learn more here. Advanced registration is required for all events.  Celebrate Pride and share your story with Here + Queer, Sonoma County, a new archive project that collects and amplifies the histories of Sonoma County’s LGBTQ+ communities. This project accepts digital content in the form of personal narratives, essays, anecdotes, photographs, creative works, audiovisual material, and […]

Food for Thoughts Long Table Online Auction is open June 5 – 12

Want a fun way to support FFT and win amazing items? You are in luck! The Our Long Table online auction is open today, June 5 and goes through 8 p.m. on June 12. With over 40 items to bid on there is truly something for everyone. Packages include a whole year of unlimited movies at Rialto Cinema, a Bodega Bay getaway, and locally made jewelry! Bidding in the auction is easy! Simply visit the online auction now through June 12 to view and bid on your favorite items. Winners will be notified the evening of June 12 via email, and you do not need […]

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Mexican LGBTQ group rallies support for beach ‘paradise’ battered by storm

When Hurricane Agatha battered a Mexican beach hamlet popular with LGBTQ residents and visitors earlier this week, members of the community sprang into action to help the town rebound. Zipolite, located on the enchanting southern Pacific coast of Oaxaca state, found itself directly in the path of the storm on Monday. The storm touched down only about six miles (10 kilometers) west of the town as a Category 2 hurricane, damaging buildings and filling the beach with debris.  By Thursday afternoon a GoFundMe campaign had already raised over $21,000 to be used “for the reconstruction of this paradise,” the GoFundMe […]

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A 25-year-old got in a taxi outside an N.Y.C. gay bar. He was dead an hour later.

Social worker Julio Ramirez, 25, met up with a friend on April 20 for a night out in Hell’s Kitchen, a Manhattan neighborhood near Times Square in New York known for its lively restaurant and bar scene. Their last stop was the Ritz Bar and Lounge, a popular, multilevel gay venue in the heart of the neighborhood’s Restaurant Row.  Surveillance footage from a nearby security camera shows Ramirez walking away from the venue with three unidentified men at 3:17 a.m., according to his brother, Carlos, who said he was briefed by investigators. The four men then entered a nearby taxi, […]

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North Carolina lawmakers advance bill to limit LGBTQ teachings in school

North Carolina lawmakers advanced legislation on Wednesday that would prohibit classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for some public school students, a move decried by opponents as harmful to LGBTQ youth. The “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” a broad piece of legislation that opponents say mirrors Florida’s so-called Don’t Say Gay bill, cleared the state’s Republican-led Senate and will head to the House of Representatives, which also has a Republican majority. It could reach the desk of Governor Roy Cooper as soon as this week. Cooper, a Democrat, has spoken against the bill and is all but certain to […]

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 The number of young gay and bisexual adults has doubled in four years in UK

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The UK’s respected Office for National Statistics says that the number of young people (aged 16-24) who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual has almost doubled in just four years. It’s risen from 4.1% in 2016 to 8% in 2020. The figures come from an analysis of the country’s large-scale Annual Population Survey, which surveys around 320,000 households annually. Breaking down that 8% figure, 2.7% of 16-24 year-olds identified as gay or lesbian, and 5.3% as bisexual. Looking more broadly at all age groups, the proportion of all adults identifying as LGB stood at 3.1% in 2020. This is an increase from 2.7% in […]

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Black Gay Candidates Make History With Primary Wins in Texas

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Thanks to victories in primary runoffs Tuesday, Texas is poised to have its first Black gay male state legislators — and one Black lesbian, who won a special election just weeks ago to fill a vacancy, is likely to be elected to a full term. Before Jolanda Jones’s victory in the special election, Texas had never had a Black member of the LGBTQ+ community in the state legislature. She won the special election May 7 in the Houston-area Texas House District 147 to succeed Rep. Garnet Coleman, who retired in February; that gave her the seat through December. In the Democratic primary […]

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Happening This Month at SF’s GLBT Historical Society Museum

Neon Comes Out: San Francisco’s Gay Bar SignsIllustrated Talk Thursday, June 96:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.In-person programThe Tenderloin Museum398 Eddy Street, San Francisco$10 | $5 for members Gay bars were often hidden, unmarked enclaves for only those in the know. Often veiled behind tinted glass, with narrow entrances to allow doormen to screen patrons, they needed to hide the goings-on within from the general public, and the police, as a matter of survival. In the late 1960s, bars started coming out of the dark, announcing themselves with neon signs. In this talk co-presented by the GLBT Historical Society, historian Jim Van Buskirk will be joined […]

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