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Tunisia Has its First Openly Gay Candidate for President

Just months after a Tunisian presidential commission recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality, the North African nation has its first openly gay candidate for president: Mounir Baatour. Baatour, 48, is a lawyer and president of both the Tunisian Liberal Party and Association Shams, Tunisia’s main LGBTQ rights organization. Baatour’s candidacy is noteworthy because in Tunisia homosexuality is still a crime that is punishable by up to three years in prison. Baatour himself was jailed in 2013 for an accusation of “homosexuality,” and he said prison was “very hard, and the psychological impact is very sad, and after that I was in […]

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Man Arrested after ‘Anti-gay’ Attack on 3 Latino Men Leaving Portland club

A 58-year-old man is accused of shouting homophobic and racial slurs during an attack on a group of Latino men leaving a gay nightclub in Portland, Oregon. The men passed Robert Oden after leaving CC Slaughters at approximately 2am on Saturday as he was sitting in an alcove of a nearby building. He allegedly punched three of the men in the face and told them: “Go back to your country.” One of the victims was reportedly left with a bloody, swollen lip and pain. The arrest makes Oden the first person to be accused of a bias crime under the state’s new law. […]

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The Spahr Center Invite All Seniors to a Fabulous Luncheon

When: Wednesday August 28thTime: 12:30 pm – 3 pmWhere: The Marin Yacht Club, 24 Summit AveSan Rafael, CA 94901 Come enjoy a wonderful buffet lunch and as always the cash bar will be there for your enjoyment too! The price remains the same – $25 We want to extend our thanks to BUDWING for generously sponsoring this event. Don’t forget to make a contribution to one of BUDWING’s World Banks! It’s a small world, after all, and he will contribute by doubling or tripling your gift!!  We hope to see you there!!Please RSVP by Friday, August 23rdIf you have any dietary restrictions please indicate as much […]

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Gay Couple Flee Russia after Authorities Threaten to Take away Adopted Sons

Andrei Vaganov and Evgeny Erofeyev have been raising their two sons, now 12 and 14, for nearly a decade. The children were adopted by Vaganov shortly before he and Erofeyev were married in Denmark. The couple didn’t face any problems until the youngest son, Yuri, was hospitalised due to a stomach ache and doctors realised he had no mother. This precipitated a sexual abuse investigation that threatened their right to live freely as a family. Here we live, we are an ordinary family “We never asked our children to hide anything,” Vaganov told independent Russian news outlet Meduza. “This was our conscious position: why […]

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CA Considers Non-prescription PrEP

A bill moving through the California Legislature could make PrEP available over the counter, Capital Public Radio reports.  Advocates and patients say some people who need PrEP don’t know it exists or are unsure about how to talk to their doctors about it. Many physicians aren’t educated on what PrEP is or when to prescribe it, said Courtney Mulhern-Pearson, senior director of policy and strategy for the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, which is sponsoring the bill.  “(The pharmacy) is a more accessible access point for a lot of people,” she told Capital Public Radio. “It wouldn’t require an appointment, and they’re in every […]

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ILLINOIS: Dem Gov Signs LGBT History Curriculum Bill

The Windy City Times reports: Students in Illinois public schools will learn about the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in state and national history after approval today of the Inclusive Curriculum Law by Gov. Pritzker, according to Equality Illinois. Starting with the 2020-21 school year, the Inclusive Curriculum Law — House Bill 246 — will ensure the inclusion of the contributions of LGBTQ people in the history curriculum taught in Illinois public schools. Illinois is the fifth state to enact such legislation, after California in 2011 and New Jersey, Colorado and Oregon in 2019. Sponsored by State Rep. […]

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Trans Woman Murdered in Ecuador Sparks Fears of Anti-LGBT Violence

he body of a 40-year-old trans woman known as ‘La Gata’ was found by her family in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas in the South American country. This is the eighth case of murder or violent death of a trans person in the country this year, according to Thomson Reuters Foundation. Diane Rodriguez, the first trans woman elected to Ecuador’s National Assembly, told Reuters: “Once again, the LGBT community in Ecuador is in mourning. We thought (the attacks) were going to decrease, but on the contrary, we’ve been surprised by this year’s statistics.” The killing has sparked fears […]

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Alleged White Supremacist Arrested In Terror Plot on LGBT Nightclub and Synagogue

NBC News reports: A 23-year-old Las Vegas man who allegedly wanted to attack Jews and patrons of an LGBTQ bar was arrested on suspicion of possessing parts to make a bomb, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada said Friday. Conor Climo, who was arrested Thursday, was connected to white supremacists though encrypted online conversations, federal prosecutors said. “Threats of violence motivated by hate and intended to intimidate or coerce our faith-based and LGBTQ communities have no place in this country,” Nicholas A. Trutanich, U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada, said in a statement. Buzzfeed News reports: Climo had […]

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Man Who Burned LGBT Library Books Let off with $65 Fine

Paul Dorr, a fundamentalist Christian, streamed himself on Facebook Live in October 2018 as he burned a string of LGBT-inclusive books from the library in Orange City, Iowa, which has a population of 6,004. The evangelical blogger made anti-LGBT comments as he destroyed the books, including young adult novel Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan, illustrated LGBT+ history book This Day in June by Gayle Pitman, Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino and Families, Families, Families! by Suzanne Lang. Dorr was found guilty of 5th degree criminal mischief in Sioux County District Court on Tuesday (August 6). The state of Iowa had sought the maximum penalty, a […]

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Mike Pence Appears with 3 Sets of ‘Anti-LGBT Extremists’ in 5 Days

Between August 2 and August 6, Pence was at a conference organised by conservative blogger Erick Erickson, a roundtable with Donald Trump’s religious freedom ambassador Sam Brownback and a “fireside chat” with Mike Farris, CEO of anti-abortion Christian lawyers the Alliance Defending Freedom. The Human Rights Campaign said that Pence is on an “anti-LGBTQ crusade.” On August 2, Pence appeared on stage at The Resurgent Gathering conference in Atlanta with Erick Erickson, a conservative evangelical American blogger and radio host who organised the conference. Erickson, in a blog post on the same day, lashed out at Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg for not “repenting” his sexuality. […]

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