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Try Bingocize for Fun and Falls Prevention September 28

Join a friendly Bingocize exercise game led by Sister Frances of the Russian River Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and learn about helpful local programs and services for adults 60+ on Sat., Sept. 28, 11 a.m.-noon, at the Central Santa Rosa Library, 211 E St., Santa Rosa. There’ll be free fun and prizes for all ages who try the simple seated and standing exercises. Sonoma County Area Agency on Aging (AAA) staff will also provide information about how older adults can lower their risk of falling, plus how to find government and non-profit services that support and improve the lives of older adults 60+ […]

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Tech Entrepreneur Seeks to Become Indiana’s First Out Governor

Pete Buttigieg isn’t the out gay person from Indiana with high political ambitions. Josh Owens, a tech entrepreneur who leads one of Indiana’s fastest growing companies where employees earn a minimum of $50,000, has a launched a bid to become his state’s first openly gay governor. His campaign website is here. A Democrat who’s CEO of SupplyKick — which aims to build company selling brands on Amazon — Owens filed paperwork for Indians’s 2020 gubernatorial race on Monday. “I’m running for governor now because I believe in an Indiana where teachers are paid what they deserve and where all are welcomed, respected and […]

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SB 132 to Ensure Dignity and Respect for Incarcerated Trans Folks

The sponsors of Sen. Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) SB 132 — a coalition of civil rights and legal organizations including Transgender Law Center, TransLatin@ Coalition, ACLU of California, Equality California, Lambda Legal, and Medina Orthwein LLP — released the following joint statement on Friday announcing that SB 132 — the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act — will become a two-year bill as the coalition continues to conduct outreach to gain additional input from incarcerated transgender people and consider potential amendments: “Every person deserves basic human dignity, agency, and respect. That continues to be the guiding principle behind our work […]

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Women Occupy Most Same-sex Households, Except in Cities

Female couples make up more than half of all same-sex households in the United States, but male couples dominate in cities with large gay populations. The U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday that the U.S. had almost 1 million same-sex households in 2017 (about 0.8 percent of all U.S. households), with female couples making up almost 52 percent of those households. The findings emerged in the bureau’s American Community Survey. Related NBC OUT ‘Bachelor’ franchise gets its first same-sex proposal Male couples dominated in cities with the largest gay populations, but the rate varied depending on the city. In San Francisco […]

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Indian State Bans Unnecessary Surgery on Intersex Children

India’s Tamil Nadu state government has issued an executive order banning medically unnecessary surgeries on children born with intersex variations. “Intersex,” sometimes called “differences of sex development” in medical literature, refers to the estimated 1.7 percent of people born with sex characteristics – such as chromosomes, gonads, or genitals – that differ from social expectations of female or male. Except in very rare cases when the child cannot urinate or internal organs are exposed, these variations are medically benign natural variations of human anatomy, and do not require surgery. But in the 1960s, surgeons in the United States popularized “normalizing” cosmetic operations on intersex children, such […]

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US News Networks Have Stopped Talking about LGBT Issues during Trump

An analysis of a decade’s worth of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News coverage by The GDELT Project shows the flatlining focus on LGBT+ issues on all three networks coinciding with the 2016 election, when Trump began to dominate the news agenda. The analysis, drawing on transcripts from the Television News Archive, looked at the frequency with which terms like gay, lesbian, transgender, LGBT and queer are mentioned. The analysts wrote: “Starkly apparent is that mentions have almost disappeared across all three stations since November 2016.” According to PinkNews‘ analysis of the data set, between July 2009 and July 2016 – when Donald Trump […]

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Top Dem Donor Charged With Running Drug House After Third Man Overdoses In His Home

The New York Times reports: Ed Buck, a Democratic donor and activist whose West Hollywood apartment was the scene of two methamphetamine overdose deaths since 2017, was arrested on Tuesday after investigators said a third man suffered an overdose in his home last week. Mr. Buck, 65, who has not faced charges for the earlier overdoses but was subject to a wrongful-death lawsuit, was charged on Tuesday with battery causing serious injury, administering methamphetamine and maintaining a drug house. He faces up to five years and eight months in prison. The charges relate only to the most recent incident on Sept. 11, […]

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Amidst Violence, Hondurans March for Pride

The LGBT Pride March in Honduras’s San Pedro Sula, which drew 450 people, was the uplifting culmination of a week of Pride activities that also included more sober reflections, such as a candlelight vigil for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people killed in Honduras. LGBT activists led the August 24 march with a banner that read, “Honduras inhabitable LGBTI,” meaning “Honduras unlivable [for] LGBTI.” Despite the activists’ courage and pride, which I also observed at Tegucigalpa’s march on the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia in May, violence against LGBT people does make Honduras unlivable for many. In a country where many […]

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Yearly HIV Infections in San Francisco Drop to 197

Every year, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) publishes a comprehensive report on HIV incidence and prevalence in the city, showing HIV trends to guide the public health response. Continuing a downward trend since the peak of the HIV epidemic in the 1990s, the most recent report with 2018 data shares a historic milestone reached by the city: Fewer than 200 HIV diagnoses occurred in San Francisco. A total of 197 people were diagnosed with HIV last year in San Francisco. This is a 13% decline from 227 diagnoses made in 2017, and a 62% decline from 523 infections ten […]

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AZ Court Rules for Wedding Invitation Business Seeking to Turn away Gays

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled the City of Phoenix cannot apply its LGBT-inclusive Human Rights Ordinance to penalize a local business for refusing to make custom-made invitations for a same-sex wedding, delivering a victory for groups seeking to justify anti-LGBT discrimination in the name of “religious freedom.” In a 4-3 decision written Justice Andrew Gould, the court determines the guarantee of freedom of religion and speech under the Arizona state constitution permits Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski, owners of Brush & Nib Studios, LC, to deny services to same-sex couples.  “Duka and Koski’s beliefs about same-sex marriage may seem old-fashioned, […]

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