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All EU nations must recognize children of same-sex parents

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The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Bulgaria must issue identity papers to the child of a same-sex couple. The European Union’s (EU) top court has ruled that Bulgaria must issue identity papers to a child of same-sex parents, and that all EU nations must respect such families. The ruling came after authorities in Bulgaria refused to issue a birth certificate for a child, named Sara, who was born in 2019 to a married same-sex couple: Bulgarian born Kalina Ivanova and Gibraltar-born Jane Jones (not their real names). Sara was born in Spain, but she couldn’t be considered […]

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Lesbian VT State Senator Launches Bid For US House

VT Digger reports: Becca Balint, the president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate, is running for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, she announced Monday morning. Balint joins Lt. Gov. Molly Gray in the Democratic primary to succeed U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who is vacating his House seat to run for the U.S. Senate. No Republicans have entered the race. Balint, 53, is the first openly gay woman elected to the Vermont Senate and the first woman to serve as its president. Read the full article.

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SoCo Pride Hosts Winter Lights Ice Skating Rink at Courthouse Square

Santa Rosa has put up a beautiful, temporary, synthetic ice skating rink in Courthouse Square, in the heart of Downtown Santa Rosa! Sonoma County Pride will be hosting the ice skating rink on 4 days in December, and will receive the proceeds of our sessions! We need volunteers for 4.5 hours shifts to perform tasks such as checking in ticket holders, monitoring the rink for safety, providing skate rentals to skaters, sharpening and sanitizing the skates, and HELPING SPREAD GOOD CHEER. What a great opportunity to help Sonoma County Pride and have a Beyond the Rainbow experience in Downtown Santa […]

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US LGBTQ+ population hits 20 million

At least 20 million adults in the U.S. identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a new analysis of government data, representing nearly 8 percent of the nation’s total adult population. Millions more may identify as something “more expansive” like pansexual or asexual, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation said in a recent report. Using data from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, an experimental household probability survey released in bi-weekly phases during the pandemic, the HRC report estimates the U.S. adult LGBTQ+ population is nearly two times larger than it had been believed to be. Census data suggests that more than two […]

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Gay man brutally beaten with metal pole and robbed of his walker

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A gay man was brutally beaten with a metal pipe and robbed of his walker while bystanders ignored him in Brooklyn, New York. More than a month since the attack in his hometown of Coney Island, Jawhar Edwards still has a swollen eye after his eye socket was broken when a man and a woman battered him and threatened to kill him. As he ducked out of a birthday honouring his late godmother, Edwards went to pass out food to the homeless on the boardwalk by 19th and 21st Streets on 4 November at around 12:30am. That’s when two people […]

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SoCo Immigrants Demand Path To Citizenship Before Christmas. Rally Thur. on Courthouse Square

O n Thursday, December 16, 2021, at 6pm, at the Shea Federal Building, 777 Sonoma Ave., in Santa Rosa, Immigrants and allies will hold a public “Speak-Out” to let California’s U.S. Senators know that they expect passage of a Path To Citizenship for Christmas, as President Biden and the Democrats promised.  At 7pm, they will walk with lights to the Old Courthouse Square, in downtown Santa Rosa, to show holiday shoppers, elected officials and the community at large that undocumented residents of Sonoma County demand legalization as soon as possible. “It is difficult for the undocumented community to celebrate the […]

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Tragic 12-year-old boy dies by suicide after relentless anti-gay bullying

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A 12-year-old boy took his own life after being tortured by bullies and told he would go to Hell because he is gay. Eli Fritchley was a seventh-grader from Shelbyville, Tennessee, who adored Spongebob Squarepants and played the trombone. He died by suicide on 28 November, no longer able to bear the “pain and torture” from kids at his school, his parents said. Eli was never afraid to be himself, Debbey and Steve Fritchley told WKRN-TV, and they were in awe at his bravery in the face of bullies at his school, Cascades Muddle School in Bedford County. “He was told because he […]

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LACMA Spotlights Queer Black Artists & Subjects

“The Obama Portraits Tour” and “Black American Portraits” exhibits at LACMA not only celebrate portraiture, but also queer Black artists and subjects. In the West Coast presentation of “The Obama Portraits Tour,” Kehinde Wiley’s Barack Obama and Amy Sherald’s Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama are on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through Jan. 2. Wiley, who identifies as gay, was the first Black artist to paint an official presidential portrait for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery when Obama selected him in 2018. Wiley’s “Portrait of a Young Man,” his eagerly […]

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Racist, anti-LGBT+ texts by cops could jeopardize hundreds of cases

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The caption read “hanging with the homies.”  The picture above it showed several Black men who had been lynched.  Another photo asked what someone should do if their girlfriend was having an affair with a Black man. The answer, according to the caption, was to break “a tail light on his car so the police will stop him and shoot him.”  Someone else sent a picture of a candy cane, a Christmas tree ornament, a star for the top of the tree and an “enslaved person.” “Which one doesn’t belong?” the caption asked. “You don’t hang the star,” someone wrote […]

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