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Ohio governor signs bill allowing doctors to refuse care to LGBT+ people

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The governor of Ohio has signed a bill that allows doctors to refuse medical care to LGBT+ patients if they have an objection based on “moral” grounds. The provision was buried in a 700-page document of last-minute amendments to the state’s two-year budget bill, which governor Mike DeWine approved last Wednesday (30 June). t allows any medical provider – from doctors and nurses to researchers, lab techs and insurance companies – “the freedom to decline to perform, participate in, or pay for any health care service which violates the practitioner’s, institution’s, or payer’s conscience as informed by the moral, ethical, […]

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New California law gives students a do-over for failing grades in pandemic year

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed a law to help alleviate the pandemic’s effect on grades and graduation credits by giving California students an opportunity to redo a grade level. Assembly Bill 104, now law, creates a range of grading options to accommodate K-12 students who struggled during the 2020-21 academic year, when distance learning disrupted classroom routines. These include allowing students to retake their grade level and change letter grades to “pass” or “no pass.” High school juniors and seniors may also be exempt from certain graduation requirements or have the option to complete their coursework in a fifth […]

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Hungarian Jewish groups take defiant stand against cruel anti-LGBT+ law

Jewish groups in Hungary have taken a stand against their country’s vile anti-LGBT+ “propaganda” law, warning that “no one should be labeled impure”. The wide-reaching legislation passed by Hungary’s government this month, ostensibly to combat child sex abuse, defines any positive depiction of LGBT+ gender identity and sexuality as “gay propaganda”. t forbids the depiction or discussion of these topics in schools, as well as any form of LGBT+ representation in advertising or media that could be seen by under-18s. The legislation immediately set alarm bells ringing for Hungary’s Jewish community, who know all too well what it means for a minority […]

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‘I have nothing to hide’: Brazil presidential hopeful comes out

Brazilian governor and potential major party presidential candidate Eduardo Leite, a prominent critic of President Jair Bolsonaro, came out as gay in a TV interview. Leite, governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, would be the first openly gay presidential candidate in Brazil. Anti-gay rhetoric has been a staple of speeches by Bolsonaro, who once declared that if he had a gay son, he would rather he died in an accident. “I have never spoken about a subject related to my private life”, Leite told Brazilian journalist Pedro Bial in a TV interview on Thursday evening. “But […]

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20-year-old hero stabbed in the back in possible anti-gay hate crime

A trip to Manhattan took a dark turn for Dylan Spinosa and his friend upon their return home via the Staten Island ferry. While waiting for their taxi, a drunken stranger stabbed Dylan in the back while spewing anti-gay slurs. Spinosa, 20, and his friends had gone into the city to celebrate pride and enjoy a day out now that COVID-19 restrictions have lifted. While they waited for their ride home, Spinosa and his friends noticed a drunken man harassing women with sexual remarks. Spinosa told the New York Daily News that the suspect was “harassing every girl that he passed by, talking to them sexually.” […]

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Caitlyn Jenner proposes dumping homeless people in “big open fields” where they can’t “destroy” things

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n case anyone forgot, California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner is once again reminding everyone that she’s a total asshole. Speaking to Inside California Politics, the 71-year-old reality star talked about a recent trip she took to Venice Beach, a popular tourist neighborhood in Los Angeles, where she was absolutely appalled by the number of homeless people she saw. “They’re destroying Venice Beach!” she said. “They’re destroying all the businesses down there. They don’t need to be there. The crime rate is going up … It’s mostly homeless-on-homeless murders. We can’t have that in our streets.” Jenner, who is worth an estimated […]

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Protests in Spain against suspected LGBTQ hate crime

People took to the streets of Spain’s biggest cities on Monday evening to express their anger at the death of a man in a suspected homophobic attack at the weekend. Crowds filled a central Madrid square and activists marched down a major street in Barcelona, chanting slogans and waving placards and rainbow-colored flags. “The response to the wave of LGBT-phobic hatred that ended the life of Samuel in A Coruna is overwhelming,” the left-wing Podemos party that governs in coalition with the ruling Socialists wrote on Twitter. Samuel Luiz, a 24-year-old nursing assistant, was beaten near a nightclub in the […]

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Supreme Court won’t overturn ruling against business that refused service for gay weddings

The Supreme Court on Friday declined to wade into the contentious issue of whether businesses have a right to refuse service for same-sex wedding ceremonies despite state laws forbidding them from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. The court dodged the wedding question three years ago in a case involving a Colorado baker who said baking a cake to celebrate a same-sex marriage would violate his right of free expression and religious beliefs. The issue came back in an appeal brought by Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers and Gifts in Richland, Washington. The court said Friday that it would not take up her […]

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Happening This month at Marin’s LGBTQ+ Spahr Center

Seeking Friendly Volunteers plus Seniors Who Want Visits!Bill Blackburn The Spahr Center has established a new program bringing friendly visitors together with seniors who wish to connect with others. We are seeking LGBTQ+ volunteers willing to offer an hour or two each week in bringing community to a senior who longs for more connection. We also want to hear from our seniors, who would enjoy having someone to talk to on a regular basis.Everything we do that connects lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people with each other is creating community. Whether young or old, as LGBTQ+ people, we all […]

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Young gay man tortured and killed in Mexico after he revealed that he had HIV

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A young gay man was tortured, burned and killed in Mexico after he revealed at a party that he was living with HIV, activists say. The victim, who has not been named, was allegedly slain in a blacksmith shop in Cancún, a southeastern beach town in the state of Quintana Roo, in early June. t was a night of revelry that slipped into mayhem when the victim informed party-goers that he was living with HIV, advocacy group Resilientxs told Presentes, a local queer news outlet. He died from a “blow to the head with a blunt, short object”, the Attorney General’s […]

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