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India’s Medical Curriculum Gets LGBTI Update

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India’s National Medical Commission has ordered publishers and medical schools to edit their textbooks and curricula to exclude discriminatory and unscientific portrayals of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people. The order from the country’s highest medical regulator follows a June 2021 Madras High Court rulinginstructing institutions across the country to roll back prejudicial and inaccurate portrayals of sexual and gender minorities. In the judgment, Judge Anand Venkatesh said, “Ignorance is no justification for normalizing any form of discrimination.” His language echoes previous court rulings and commission reports in India. In 2018, when the Supreme Court unanimously struck down India’s colonial-era criminal prohibition on same-sex […]

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Man arrested for beating couple, police dog in apparent hate crime

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Police in Palo Alto, California have arrested a man in connection with a brutal attack on a woman and a gay man as well as a police dog in a crime apparently motivated by hate. Alexander Joseph Furrier, 26, faces charges of felony battery, felony hate crime, felony assault on a police dog, and resisting arrest, reports CBS News.  According to law enforcement, Furrier attended a house party with a female friend on Saturday night (October 9). The woman later left the party with two gay men, prompting Furrier to follow them while shouting homophobic slurs. The two men eventually parted […]

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Texas just quietly launched a campaign to delete the existence of LGBTQ people

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The State of Texas has just been busted for deleting the existence of LGBTQ people from its official website. The New York Times reports that the state scrubbed a resources page for LGBTQ youth from its site after one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s Republican primary challengers called it “offensive” and not in line with good ol’ fashioned “Texas values.” Candidate Don Huffines voiced his outrage over the page in a homophobic video posted to Twitter on August 31. “They are promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth!” he raged. “I mean, really?! This is Texas! These are not Texas values. These are not Republican Party values. But these […]

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LGBTQ Venezuelan migrants in Colombia struggle to survive

Edgar García and his partner, Dannys Torres, on Oct. 3, 2018, used a canoe to cross the Arauca River that marks the Venezuela-Colombia border. García was a member of the board of directors of Alianza Lambda de Venezuela, a Venezuelan LGBTQ rights group, before he fled Venezuela. Torres worked as a hairdresser in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. The couple now lives in Rafael Uribe Uribe, a working-class neighborhood in Bogotá, the Colombian capital. Torres continues to work as a hairdresser. García most recently worked for a telecommunications company. “We are settled here in Bogotá,” García told the Washington Blade on […]

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Gov. Newsom signs bill into law that ensures students chosen gender appears on diplomas

Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation Wednesday authored by Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco) and co-sponsored by Equality California and Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis to give students at California public colleges — especially transgender and nonbinary students — the ability to have the names that reflect their gender identities printed on their diplomas. Assembly Bill 245 will ensure diplomas do not “deadname” or call the graduate by the name they were assigned at birth rather than the name they use. “A diploma represents years of hard work,” said Assemblymember Chiu. “Students should be able to celebrate their academic achievements without fear of being deadnamed. Deadnaming […]

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Happening Now at Face to Face

PrEP Program Update As Fall comes into view we wanted to update you on our new PrEP Program. We started to prescribe PrEP, the once-a-day pill to prevent HIV in June. As of today we have 18 people who are now on PrEP, meaning 18 people who won’t get HIV! And we are just getting started…..If you know of a friend and/or loved one who should get on PrEP, please do give them our information or direct them to this link and they can get started on PrEP in a matter of days. It’s FREE and prescriptions are delivered to your door.This new […]

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SoCo blood makes are in crucial need of donors

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Blood banks in Northern California and across the nation are sounding an alarm over a blood and platelet shortage the American Red Cross says amounts to a national emergency, with supplies at their lowest levels in at least six years. The shortage, now in its third week, is the third and most severe supply crisis at blood banks since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to the Red Cross. It has spurred blood banks, including those in the North Bay, to plead for donors of all blood types to visit as soon as they can, especially those with O-negative blood, the […]

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Gay refugee who fled rape and persecution in El Salvador kidnapped while trying to enter US

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A gay refugee who was forced to flee El Salvador because of anti-gay discrimination has opened up about his painful efforts to start a new life in the United States. Martin – not his real name – is currently residing in a refugee camp in Reynosa, Mexico, where water supplies are short and living conditions areinhumane. He never intended to leave El Salvador – he lived “peacefully” in his home country and even had his own business. But everything changed for Martin when he was raped. “I am from the LGBTQ community, I am gay,” Martin said. “And in my country, I suffered discrimination […]

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A teen was beaten for carrying the pride flag at school

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A 17-year-old student continues to recover following a brutal beating by a classmate. The reason for the attack: The bully saw his victim carrying the pride flag. The incident happened at Southwestern High School in the southern community of Piasa, Illinois. School administrators had promoted a “red, white, and blue,” day encouraging students to bring their favorite flags to school. The Jacksonville Journal-Courier reports that when a classmate noticed the student’s pride flag, he asked him to throw it away. When the student refused, his classmate attacked him, punching him in the head. At the time of this writing, the extent of […]

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