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Gay Salvadoran Finds Freedom and Hardship in America

A year to the day after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in May 2018, Luis Rodriguez, 20, writhed on a gurney in a Los Angeles emergency room with a kidney and bladder infection. He wasn’t just in pain – he was worried. His asylum claim had not yet been approved. He had no work permit, though he’d been working seven days a week anyway. Now he was seriously ill, and bills were mounting. When Rodriguez arrived in the United States, he had planned to finish his final year of high school, earn a university degree and then become a systems engineer. […]

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We Ask for Fair Treatment for LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers

We at the Sacramento LGBT Community Center, join our fellow LGBTQ+ Centers to ask for fair and affirming care of asylum-seekers. Across the United States, people of all backgrounds are reacting with outrage in light of the Administration’s announcement that people who attempt to seek asylum outside of ports of entry will be denied the right to this protection. On Sunday, November 11th, an estimated 78 LGBTQ asylum seekers reached the United States border in hopes of escaping persecution in Central America. Originally traveling with a larger group from Honduras, they left the caravan after experiencing discrimination and threats from […]

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October is LGBTQ History Month and National Bullying Prevention Month

October is LGBTQ History Month and National Bullying Prevention month and we’ve got two great easy opportunities for you to show support for LGBTQ youth: Wednesday, Oct 16 is #PronounsDay, an international day of recognition that seeks to make respecting, sharing, and educating about personal pronouns commonplace. Referring to people by the pronouns they determine for themselves is basic to human dignity. Thursday, Oct 17 is #SpiritDay, a special international tradition that was started in Oct 2011 after a number of LGBTQ young people were lost to bullying & suicide. In order to visibly let our LGBTQ youth know they […]

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National Coming Out Day: 2019’s top LGBTQ Coming Out Stories

Founded in 1988 by psychologist Robert Eichberg and activist Jean O’Leary, National Coming Out Day is observed annually on Oct. 11, and it’s day to celebrate and promote the increased visibility of the LGBTQ community. The date was chosen to mark the anniversary of the 1987 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, which drew an estimated 500,000 people to the nation’s capital. “Most people think they don’t know anyone gay or lesbian, and in fact everybody does,” Eichberg said in a 1993 interview. “It is imperative that we come out and let people know who we are and […]

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Candidates Address LGBTQ Issues at Presidential Forum

Nine Democratic presidential candidates touted their support for LGBTQ rights and sought to illustrate a stark contrast between their views and those of the man they hope to defeat in 2020: President Donald Trump. A town hall Thursday hosted by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and CNN focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer rights. The candidates’ views and policy proposals displayed more similarities — including ending the transgender military ban and passing the Equality Act — than differences. Each was given about 30 minutes to address issues ranging from HIV prevention pills to hate crimes and violence. While […]

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Gay WI Man Beaten so Brutally all his Teeth Needed to be Removed

A Wisconsin man was so badly beaten in an an alleged anti-gay hate crimeattack that he had to have all his teeth removed. Cedrick Green of Racine, Wisconsin, is facing a hate crime charge of battery causing great bodily harm over the incident, as well as a charge of bail jumping. Local outlet The Journal-Times reports that the victim, who is yet to come forward publicly, was attacked by three men who called him gay and taunted him for his sexual orientation. Victim’s jaw was ‘so broken he had to have teeth removed’. According to the criminal complaint, the victim was repeatedly beaten […]

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Russian Court Orders LGBT Groups to Disband for ‘Denying Family Values’

A Russian court has ruled that two crucial LGBT+ groups must be disbanded on the country’s largest social network, VKontakte, for “denying family values”. The Russian LGBT Network, which was instrumental in evacuating 150 people threatened by the anti-gay purges in Chechnya, must no longer be active on VKontakte. The social site, owned by internet company Mail.Ru, has around 100 million users and ranks as the second largest global social network. LGBT+ advocacy groups “propagate nontraditional sexual relations”, says court.  Now the queer activist group, as well as Russian LGBT Community, must decamp from the network, severing contact from a large […]

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California OKs Pharmacists to Dispense PreP

Pharmacists in California will be able to dispense HIV prevention pills to patients without a doctor’s prescription after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Monday that supporters say will greatly reduce the spread of infection. Advocates of Senate Bill 159 say California is the first state to authorize pre-exposure prophylaxis, also called PrEP, and post-exposure prophylaxis, known as PEP, without prescriptions. California is already considered a leader in AIDS prevention, they say. PrEP is a once-daily pill for HIV-negative people while PEP is a medication that people take to prevent the virus from taking hold. Supporters say PEP significantly reduces the […]

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My Dad’s Closet: A Father, a Daughter, a Secret; An Illustrated Talk at GLBT Historical Society in SF

Friday, October 117:00–9:00 p.m.The GLBT Historical Society Museum4127 18th St., San Francisco$5 | Free for members In this illustrated presentation organized for National Coming Out Day on October 11, San Francisco resident Laura Hall recounts the life story of her gay father, Ralph, from 1918 to 2008. Hall was 24 when her father came out to her in 1975. She learned that in the late 1930s, her father had been in a relationship with a musician in Los Angeles. But two arrests for homosexual activity sent him back into the closet, prompted him to enlist in the Army and ultimately led him […]

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Florida Judge Rules it’s Legal to Force Minors through Conversion Therapy

A Florida judge has rejected a Tampa ordinance aiming to ban traumatising conversion therapy for minors, claiming that it would limit parental rights over their child’s healthcare. Medical experts consider interventions to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity to be pseudo-scientific, ineffective and harmful. The ordinance would have blocked professionals from providing ‘therapy’ to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of young people, but it was challenged by marriage and family therapist, Robert Vazzo, and Christian ministry New Hearts Outreach. US district judge William Jung sided with Vazzo and New Hearts Outreach, and wrote in his decision that a conversion […]

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