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Malaysian Police Can Arrest Transgender People and Force them to Undergo ‘Islamic Education’

Human rights activists in Malaysia have condemned an order by the religious affairs minister that gives “full license” for police to arrest and detain trans people. On 10 July, minister Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri announced on social mediathat he had given the religious police (Jawi) “full licence to carry out its enforcement actions” against transgender people in Malaysia. He elaborated that his order goes beyond arrests, but also allows police to subject trans people to “religious education” so that they will “return to the right path”. Trans people in Malaysia are already heavily persecuted under Sharia law, but activists fear Al-Bakri’s order […]

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Young Conservatives University Group Accused of Racist Bake Sale, Mocking Pronouns and HIV

Students at the University of North Texas (UNT) are trying to get a “Young Conservatives” group banned from campus due to “racism, transphobia and homophobia”. The Young Conservatives of Texas is a state-wide organisation that has chapters in 20 universities. A petition calling for the group to be removed from campus has already received more than 2,600 signatures. Ryan Semegran, president of the university’s LGBT+ alliance organisation GLAD UNT, was one of the students who started the petition. Semegran told PinkNews that they want the Young Conservatives chapter removed from campus due to “blatant homophobia, transphobia, and racism” towards students. The petition links to a tweet posted by […]

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Happening This Week at Marin’s Spahr Center

To join the Spahr Senior Groupon Monday, 7 to 8 pm,click the purple button below the Butterfly Heart._____________ Check-in Mondays We catch up with each other on how we’re doing and have unstructured conversations. Topical ThursdaysJuly 23: By request, we’ll return to the subject of Black Lives Matterand other movements in culture. Following a deep, meaningful conversation about BLM on June 25, participants asked for more! August 6: Nancy Flaxman facilitates. While the Comet Neowiseonly returns every 6766 years, thankfully Nancy returns every monthto lead us in discussing a topic. Creating Community in the Midst of Sheltering-in-PlaceSee old friends and make new ones! Join us!The Spahr Center’s LGBT […]

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Free Online LGBTQI History Class Wednesday Will Feature Beverlee Laird from PFLAG and Positive Images

LGBTQI History: A Sonoma County Timeline 1960s – 1990s Next Wednesday, 7/22, 1:30 – 3pm we will be talking with  Beverlee Laird about PFLAG and her role in starting Positive Images. Both organizations provide support for LGBTQI youth and their families. We are online this summer via Zoom! Please contact me to enroll in this FREE class and receive a Zoom invite: cdungan@santarosa.edu

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Tunisia: Two-Year Sentence for Homosexuality

A Tunisian court sentenced two men accused of sodomy to two years in prison on June 6, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today. The decision violates their rights to privacy and nondiscrimination under international law and Tunisia’s 2014 constitution. The police also attempted to subject the defendants to an anal exam, apparently to use as evidence in the case. Police arrested the two men, both 26, on suspicion of same-sex conduct on June 3 in Le Kef, a city 175 kilometers southwest of Tunis, after one of them filed an unrelated complaint against the other. The prosecutor of the Kef First Instance […]

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Pompeo says U.S. Should Limit which Human Rights it Defends

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argued Thursday for a more limited U.S. view of global human rights advocacy based on the principals laid out by America’s Founding Fathers, a suggestion critics assumed meant stepping away from more modern concepts such as support for women and the LGBTQ communities around the world. Pompeo, speaking in Philadelphia, singled out property rights and religious freedom as “foremost” principals in a speech that elsewhere complained about the “proliferation” of protections in international agreements related to human rights. “As was clear from the start, Secretary Pompeo’s Commission on Unalienable Rights was designed to challenge the international […]

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LGBTQ Political Representation jumped 21 Percent in Past Year, Data Shows

At least 843 LGBTQ people currently serve in elected offices across the United States, constituting a 21 percent increase since June 2019, according to the LGBTQ Victory Institute’s “Out for America 2020” census of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer elected officials. Particularly pronounced increases were seen in the number of LGBTQ mayors, with a 35 percent year-over-year jump; the number of bisexual and queer-identified people, with increases of 53 percent and 71 percent, respectively; and the number of transgender women serving in elected office, with a 40 percent year-over-year rise. “In a world where our civil rights are under […]

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Court Awards Damages to 20 LGBT Youth in Uganda

The High Court of Uganda awarded damages of UGX 5,000,000 (about US$1,340) to 20 homeless gay, bisexual, and transgender people who had been arbitrarily detained and held without access to their lawyers. Their arrests had occurred in response to complaints about their sexual identities. On June 15, the court ruled that the prison system’s refusal to allow the 20 people access to counsel violated their rights to a fair hearing and to liberty. The 20 people, who were residents of the Children of the Sun Foundation (COSF) shelter, had been detained for over 6 weeks without access to lawyers. Human Rights Watch […]

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Record Number Of Openly LGBTQ Candidates Running For Office In U.S.

The number of openly LGBTQ elected officials in the United States has more than doubled in the past four years — and those ranks could soon grow, thanks to a record field of LGBTQ candidates this year, according to new data from an advocacy and research group. The LGBTQ Victory Institute’s Out For America report, released Thursday, tallies 843 openly LGBTQ elected officials across all levels of government at present, up from 417 in June 2016. The institute says a record 850 LGBTQ people are running for office this year, including several candidates with strong chances of entering Congress. Yet […]

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Bay Area AIDS Treatment Activism is the New Online exhibit at SF’s GLBT Historical Society

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In the face of daily tragedy, the Bay Area’s AIDS treatment activists of the 1980s and 1990s undertook their advocacy with defiance, determination and hope. They distributed experimental medications for people with AIDS. They founded advocacy organizations demanding government and industry-sponsored research on the disease, and then demanded community participation in those initiatives. They took to the streets in order to attract and leverage media attention. “AIDS Treatment Activism: A Bay Area Story” is a new online exhibition on the GLBT Historical Society’s website. The show uses documents, flyers, photographs, ephemera and audiovisual materials to explore the rise and growth of […]

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