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Canada’s Government Asked Citizens whether They’re ‘Comfortable’ with LGBT People

Canada’s federal government posed a rather simple question to its residents: are they comfortable with LGBT+ people? In a preliminary assessment to better understand the challenges faced by the country’s queer community, a wing of the government surveyed Canadians and found an overwhelming amount are, indeed, comfortable. Phew. ‘We obviously have more work to do’, LGBT+ activists say.  The survey, conducted in the summertime, asked Canadian citizens whether they would be comfortable if their neighbour, manager or doctor was LGBT+, Global News reported. Around 91.8 per cent said that would be comfortable if a next-door neighbour were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and […]

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Ner Shalom in Cotati Hosts Immigrant & Refugee Rights Justice Cafe January 12

NER SHALOM SOCIAL JUSTICE CAFÉ IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS Sunday, January 12th, 2020 12:00 PM: Café Opens 1:00 – 4:30 PM Program Artwork by Jami Taback Learn From Engaging, Informed SpeakersDiscover how You Can Get InvolvedEat Delicious Organic Jewish Food at Our CaféEnjoy Wonderful Music from the Ner Shalom Good Shabbos Band Win Some Fantastic Locally Sourced Raffle PrizesPeruse the Art by Jami Taback and Susie Stonefield Miller Speakers From the Following Organizations: ▪ Avi Rose, Jewish Family & Children’s Services East Bay ▪ Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)▪ Queer Asylum Accompaniment▪ Rapid Response Network ▪ Never Again is Now▪ GoCompassion▪ Of One Soul Interfaith Sanctuary ▪ Comite Vida The Social Justice Café is Free and Open to the Public.Donations gladly […]

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Study Finds Anti-gay Teasing is the most Common ‘Violent Behavior’ among Teenage Boys

Homophobic teasing is the most common “violent behaviour” among teenage boys, a new study has found. The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, looked at whether attitudes towards gender equality affected violence in teenage boys. It surveyed 866 teenage boys in community settings like after school programmes and libraries, covering 20 lower-resource neighbourhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to researchers it is the first study to ask teenage boys about violence and attitudes to gender in “US urban, community-based settings”, rather than schools or clinics. Researchers found that when male high school students supported equality between genders, they were […]

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Trump’s New Legal Adviser Is an Anti-LGBT Bomb Thrower

If you don’t know who Jenna Ellis is, you are hardly alone. Many officials at the upper echelons of Trumpworld don’t really know her, either. In more than a dozen conversations with senior figures in the White House, 2020 campaign, and broader Trump orbit, barely anybody had known Ellis as more than a blip on the Fox News radar—if that—before this October. “She literally came out of nowhere,” said one person close to President Donald Trump. And yet, Ellis, a constitutional law attorney who’d worked since last year as the public policy director at the James Dobson Family Institute, has quickly gone […]

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International Teachers in Indonesia Given ‘Psychological Exams’ to Uncover Sexual Orientation

International teachers in some Indonesian schools are being subjected to intrusive ‘psychological exams’ aimed at uncovering their sexual orientation and attitude towards LGBT+ rights. Questions seen by the New York Times include “Agree or disagree: ‘I would feel uncomfortable knowing my daughter’s or son’s teacher was homosexual,’” and “True or false: ‘The gender composition of an orgy would be irrelevant to my decision to participate.’” Some questions were reserved specifically for men, such as: “I wouldn’t want to die without having experimented sexually with both men and women,” and “I can be sexually attracted to anyone in the right circumstances.” Homosexuality is […]

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Interior Dept Cuts “Sexual Orientation” From Guidelines

The Huffington Post reports: President Donald Trump’s Interior Department removed “sexual orientation” from a statement in the agency’s ethics guide regarding workplace discrimination. “You shall adhere to all laws and regulations that provide equal opportunities for all Americans regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, or handicap,” reads one of 14 principles of ethical behavior in the agency’s 2017 guidelines. The 2009 version President Barack Obama’s Interior Department issued included the categories “race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability.” The above-linked report notes that current Interior Sec. David Bernhardt literally red-lined the phrase out of a letter sent on his […]

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More LGBTQ Millennials Plan to Have Kids Regardless of Income, Survey Finds

Since they married in 2015, Jonathan Hobgood, 37, and his husband, Kerry Johnson, 36, have wanted to be dads. At first, the couple saw adoption as the best path to parenthood, but South Carolina, where they live, is one of 10 states with religious exemption laws that make it more difficult for same-sex couples to foster and adopt, and they worried that adopting would set them up for a legal nightmare down the road. “Our concern was that if we did a private adoption and the birth mother decided a couple of years later that she wanted her child back, we would […]

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Trans Activist who Campaigned against Transphobia Murdered in Canada

A trans woman and activist who tirelessly worked to battle transphobia was allegedly murdered last weekend in Canada and a suspect has been arrested. Julie Berman, 51, based in Toronto, had for years exerted energy in raising awareness of the rocketing rates of anti-trans violence across the city. She lit candles and delivered potent and inspirational speeches at Transgender Day of Remembrance vigils, loved ones and colleagues said. But according to authorities, she was killed in a downtown boarding home near the corner of Brunswick Avenue and Harbord Street, a residential neighbourhood with fish and chips eateries and university accommodation. Toronto Police […]

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Liberty Counsel: Send Us Money To End Lengthy Prison Terms For Those Convicted Of Anti-LGBT Hate Crimes

Via press release from hate group leader Mat Staver: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1990 that burning the American flag is First Amendment protected speech. But if you burn an LGBT flag, it’s another story. An Iowa court just sentenced a man to 16 years in prison after he torched an LGBT flag. That’s a hate crime in Iowa, which means Adolfo Martinez, who stole the pro-homosexual banner off a church and used lighter fluid to set it aflame, will spend the next decade-and-a-half behind bars. What he did was wrong, but no one was hurt or verbally threatened. […]

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