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Two Training Seminars about Healthy LGBTQ Relationships Offered

Healthy Relationships for LGBTQ Communities Tuesday July 9th from 6-8pm Positive Images 200 Montgomery Dr Suite C Santa Rosa “This training provides an opportunity for LGBTQ community members to learn to identify what makes a relationship healthy. By understanding what makes a relationship healthy, participants can better identify risk of violence or coercive behavior.” Intimate Partner Violence in LGBTQ Communities Wednesday July 10th from 1-5pm La Plaza at Lincoln Elementary 850 West 9th St, Santa Rosa “This training provides an opportunity for service providers to learn about the dynamics of intimate partner violence that are specific to LGBTQ communities and the need for […]

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New Map Shows Marriage Equality Worldwide

Human Rights Watch has updated our marriage equality map, which provides an overview of countries with marriage equality, civil unions or registered partnership; links to the relevant legislation; and, where possible, a brief explanation of the path – legislative, judicial, or other – that these countries took to achieve marriage equality or to provide for same-sex civil unions or registered partnership. As legal situations change in countries, this map will be further updated. In 2001, the Netherlands became the first country to open civil marriage to same-sex couples. Other countries followed. Today there are 28 countries with marriage equality—most recently, […]

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Syrian LGBT Refugees Arrive in UK in Time to Celebrate Pride

According to The Guardian, the group are the first of 15 LGBT+ refugees finally coming to London after they were accepted onto a resettlement scheme, which is supposed to be faster than the lengthy asylum process, more than two years ago. During that time, they have been waiting in Turkey where, although being gay is legal, homophobic and transphobic abuse are common and the government ruled that the group were in danger in the country. Members of the group received death threats and were having to hide in safe houses to avoid violence, the newspaper reported.  The group took legal action earlier this […]

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LA Receives First Rainbow Crosswalk on 50th Anniversary of Stonewall Riot

On the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riot, Los Angeles received its first rainbow crosswalk.  The City of LA and Venice Pride organization a commemoration ceremony today, outside of Roosterfish in Venice, where the crosswalk is located. Roosterfish is a gay bar that was successfully reopened last year with the help of Venice Pride. The permanent crossing is modeled after the iconic rainbow crosswalks in the Castro District of San Francisco. There is a rainbow crosswalk already in the City of West Hollywood, at Robertson Boulevard and Santa Monica Boulevard and in the City of Long Beach, along the strip […]

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UK’s Gay Liberation Front Unveils New Demands

The Gay Liberation Front, the U.K.’s long running activist collective, has released new demands for their continued fight.  The collective was founded in London nearly 50 years ago, following the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York, and staged the first Pride in London. Now, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the iconic throwing of the first brick by Marsha P. Johnson, the collective wants to reignite the spirit of rebellion in Pride.  On June 17, a cross-generational group made up of original members of the Gay Liberation Front and younger activists took to Trafalgar Square to recreate the first […]

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Space Contest to Send LGBT+ Astronaut Where No Queer has Gone Before

Wannabe LGBT+ astronauts are being encouraged to apply for a new contest which aims to send the first openly queer person into space. In almost six decades of space travel more than 500 people have been into outer space—none of whom have been openly LGBT+. The Out Astronaut Contest is aiming to change that by sending a young queer astronaut into orbit. “We believe that communities are empowered when they are represented,” said the contest’s organisers, Stardom Space and Project PoSSUM (Polar Suboribital Science in the Upper Mesosphere).SPONSORED CONTENTM “Our goal is to train and fly a member of the LGBT+ […]

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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Tears into LGBTQ Jewish Community

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict — ostensibly not about LGBTQ issues and thousands of miles from the U.S. — has become a potent flashpoint within the queer community. For years, the debate over Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians has roiled LGBTQ gatherings and parades where Jewish groups wanted to display symbols of the religion. In 2017, organizers of the Chicago Dyke March kicked women out for carrying the Pride flag with a Star of David, citing its resemblance to the Israeli flag. This month, a soon-to-open gay bar in Minneapolis became embroiled in the dispute when a journalist unearthed tweets by the bar’s owner calling for […]

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Border Patrol Agent Humiliated Migrant By Parading Him Around Detention With “I Like Men” Sign

CNN reports: US Customs and Border Patrol agents at a migrant processing center in Texas allegedly attempted to humiliate a Honduran migrant by making him hold a sign that read, “I like men,” according to emails written by an agent who witnessed the incident. The emails — obtained by CNN — were sent to the agent’s supervisor and outlined the March 5 episode in which a Honduran man was forced to hold a piece of paper that said, “Me gustan los hombre(s),” which translates to “I like men,” while being paraded through a migrant detention center. The incident is one of […]

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Many Parents Struggle to Adjust after Learning Child is LGBTQ, Study Finds

Stacy Feintuch, a mother of two in suburban New Jersey, said she didn’t know what was wrong when her oldest daughter, Amanda, 17, began to withdraw. “I confronted her and said, ‘You need to talk to me,’” Feintuch said: “She said, ‘It’s not what you think. I’m fine, it’s not that.” “I can’t tell you, I can’t tell you.’” Feintuch said her mind raced: “Is she pregnant? Is she in trouble?” Finally, Amanda buried her head in her pillow and said, “I’m gay.” “I was just dumbfounded, just shocked. It wasn’t even a thought in my head,” Feintuch said. “I […]

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Incidents of Anti-LGBTQ Hate Violence in 2019

GLAAD and The Harris Poll’s annual Acceptance Index shows a decline in LGBTQ acceptance among younger Americans. At the same time, GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project counts more than 114 attacks on LGBTQ Americans from The Trump Administration since President Trump took office.  Additionally, anti-LGBTQ violence continues to plague LGBTQ Americans. GLAAD compiled the following partial list of incidents of violence from news coverage from January to June 2019. From the horrific murders of transgender women of color to other random acts of violence – this list is a snapshot of anti-LGBTQ violence in America and is not comprehensive. If you’ve seen examples of anti-LGBTQ […]

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