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Join Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center & North Bay LGBTQI Families for a Social Saturday: Intergenerational Gathering on April 9

Join Positive Images LGBTQIA+ Center and North Bay LGBTQI Families for a Social Saturday: Intergenerational Gathering on April 9th from 10am-1pm at Ragle Ranch Regional Park in Sebastopol! We will be gathering at the Gazebo, which we’ve reserved all day. All LGBTQIA+ youth, families, adults, and elders are welcome at Social Saturdays, which are a recurring series of monthly events taking place throughout Sonoma County where we are seeking to bring together members of our community across generations, particularly gender expansive youth, teens, and adults. At our April gathering we are excited to be offering two amazing activities: an all-ages hike and a music […]

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Gay teacher unceremoniously fired for giving rainbow Pride bracelets to students

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A gay teacher in Ohio, United States, has spoken out after being fired for giving Pride bracelets to students, saying: “There is room at the table for everyone”. According to NBC15 News, Jay Bowman, who has worked as a teacher for 30 years, was wearing a rainbow-coloured Pride bracelet when several students asked about it. Speaking in an interview, Bowman said: “If a kid has questions, if a kid wants honesty, I don’t think I should be forbidden from providing that. “I don’t try to recruit anyone. The parents are responsible for the kids. The parents are the ones who need […]

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Students stage walkout over new school policy banning Pride flags

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A group of determined New Jersey students defiantly staged a walkout in protest against a new policy that stops them from flying an LGBT+ Pride flag.  About 40 students, some wearing kaleidoscopic coloured items, in Passaic, New Jersey, took to the streets on Monday (28 March) for the right to fly the Pride flag, NJ.com reported. The Passaic board of education recently enacted a policy that bans flag displays on school grounds with exceptions for the American flag, New Jersey state flag and school flags.  But students want to be able to raise the LGBT+ Pride flag. Several stood in front of the city’s […]

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Community rallies behind LGBTQ-run nonprofit after a fake volunteer tried to sabotage it

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A food distribution program run by an Iowa LGBTQ couple was almost sabotaged by a fake volunteer – but the community rallied to save the day. Every month, Together We Achieve holds a food box giveaway event in which it passes out over 1000 boxes of food to those in need. One person, however, decided to sign up for 10 volunteer slots with a “hateful email” that was reportedly intended to hurt the leaders of the organization. At the organization’s helm is couple Raymond Siddell and Matthew Salger. Fortunately, volunteers stepped in and filled the slots. “It’s just amazing when you […]

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LAPD investigates assault allegation against YouTuber filed by trans influencer

The Los Angeles Police Department said Wednesday that it is investigating an allegation that YouTube personality Denzel Dion attacked the social media personality Demi Martinez last week. Martinez filed a police report accusing Dion of attacking her last Thursday after a party in the Hollywood Hills, according to Rosie Cervantes, a spokesperson for the LAPD. Martinez, who goes by La Demi online and has over 300,000 Instagram followers, is a transgender woman known for posting about beauty, makeup and her transition. Early last Thursday, Martinez posted on Instagram that she had been the victim of a hate crime and an […]

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Arizona governor signs bills limiting transgender rights, abortion

 Arizona’s Republican governor signed a series of bills Wednesday targeting abortion and transgender rights, joining a growing list of GOP-led states pursuing a conservative social agenda. The measures signed by Gov. Doug Ducey will outlaw abortion after 15 weeks if the U.S. Supreme Court allows it, prohibit gender confirmation surgery for minors and ban transgender girls from playing on girls sports teams. Bills targeting abortion and transgender rights have been popular with the conservative base in states where Republicans dominate but could be politically risky in a battleground state where Democrats have made significant inroads. The Arizona abortion legislation mirrors […]

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UN Body Condemns Sri Lanka’s Criminalization of Same-Sex Acts

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In a major judgment issued this week, a United Nations treaty body called on Sri Lanka’s government to repeal its law criminalizing adult, consensual same-sex conduct – including between women. The case was brought under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) by Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, an LGBT rights activist who faced harassment and discrimination for her sexual orientation and human rights advocacy on behalf of sexual and gender minorities. The judgment by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women concerned Sri Lanka’s Penal Code, a relic of British colonial rule that dates to 1883. […]

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Marin’s Spahr Center Transgender Day of Visibility Happens March 31

We will be hosting a community art making event to decorate our upstairs meeting space! Drop in anytime between 4pm and 7pm on Thursday March 31 to make art, listen to music, and be in community. We will provide refreshments!  About TDOVTransgender Day of Visibility is recognized internationally as an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments and resilience of the trans community. TDOV was founded by activist Rachel Crandall in 2009 to bring visibility, gather the community together, and highlight both the power and continued discrimination of trans people around the world. Last year, the Board of Supervisors and towns of Fairfax, […]

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Spy agency chat rooms became a ‘dumpster fire’ of ‘racist, homophobic’ hate speech during the Trump years: report

Before Mike Pompeo served as secretary of state in the Trump Administration, he was director of the Central Intelligence Agency — a position he held from January 2017 to April 2018. According to Daily Beast reporters Jeff Stein and Howard Altman, it was during Trump’s first year in office and Pompeo’s months as CIA director that spy agency chat rooms first saw a major increase in hate speech. And it only got worse after that. The Beast journalists report, “Dan Gilmore, who worked in an administrative group overseeing internal chat rooms for the classified Intelink system for over a decade from […]

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