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GAY LA: When Lesbian Visibility Was an L.A. Specialty

In 2017, West Hollywood’s Plummer Park hosted an exhibit titled Lesbians to Watch Out For: ’90s Queer L.A. Activism. – Advertisement – On display were banners, pamphlets, radical texts and street flyers that told of a time gone by in Los Angeles: a time when the lesbian scene wasn’t just thriving but on the verge of creating major social change. Though it’s disheartening to think about how the city has changed in regard to holding and maintaining lesbian spaces, it’s something we shouldn’t allow ourselves to gloss over and forget. At least, not if we want the community to thrive. Before […]

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Iowa Republicans Pass Bill to Cut off Funding for Trans People’s Healthcare

Iowa Republicans have launched an eleventh-hour plot to cut off funding for transgender people’s healthcare. Republicans in the Iowa Senate launched a surprise attack on Friday (April 26), quietly slipping in an amendment to a crucial healthcare funding bill taking aim at transgender people. Iowa Republicans ‘slip in’ amendment to cut off transgender healthcare funding The amendment, penned by Senator Mark Costello, carves a broad exemption into non-discrimination healthcare laws, stipulating that civil rights measures “shall not require any state or local government unit or tax-supported district to provide for sex reassignment surgery or any other cosmetic, reconstructive, or plastic surgery […]

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Trans Activists Sue Tennessee for Refusing Gender Change on Birth Certs

Four transgender activists are suing the state of Tennessee over an anti-trans policy that prevents them from changing their gender on birth certificates. A lawsuit was filed on behalf of the transgender activists last week by Lambda Legal in the US District Court in Nashville. The lawsuit argues that refusing transgender people the right to change their gender on birth certs violates the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the constitution. It also argues that forcing a transgender person to identify with a sex that is not who they are violates their freedom of speech under the First Amendment.SPONSORED Transgender plaintiff: ‘I […]

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Official Accused of Harassing Transgender Student Gets Job Back

A West Virginia assistant principal accused of harassing a transgender student won an appeal to get his job back Monday. The Harrison County Board of Education voted to reinstate Lee Livengood after voting unanimously last month not to renew his contract at the end of a three-year probationary period, news outlets report. County Schools Superintendent Mark Manchin said Monday’s decision was difficult and followed “a lot of discussion.” In November, Livengood allegedly followed transgender teenager Michael Critchfield into the boys bathroom at Liberty High School and said, “You freak me out.” Critchfield said Livengood also ordered him to prove his […]

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William Weld’s Pro-LGBTQ Record Isolates Trump as Lone Anti-LGBTQ Candidate

GLAAD, the largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released the following backgrounder to the national media highlighting the pro-LGBTQ record of former Massachusetts Governor William Weld just after he announced his 2020 presidential campaign. Weld’s announcement now marks the first credible primary challenger to President Donald Trump, the most anti-LGBTQ United States President in recent memory.  Weld’s 2020 entry now makes President Donald Trump the only elected leader from a major political party to be fully anti-LGBTQ, lightning-speed progress from just a decade ago. “Governor William Weld represents what is needed and has been missing within the Republican Party: a […]

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Judith Light to Receive 2019 Isabelle Stevenson Award for LGBT Activism

Actress Judith Light has been named the 2019 recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Award for her decades-spanning support for the LGBT+ community. Light was an early supporter in the fight against HIV and AIDS and worked hard to combat stigma in the early 1980s. She has been involved with numerous LGBT+ organisations over the course of her career, including GLAAD and the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights group. The award—which is a non-competitive Tony Award and recognises members of the theatre community for their human rights and advocacy work—has previously been awarded to Rosie O’Donnell and Larry Kramer. “To be so generously acknowledged by […]

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House Judiciary Committee Passes Equality Act

The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to federal civil rights laws. The Equality Act, which U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in March, passed the committee by a 22-10 vote margin with all Republican committee members voting against it. The openly gay Rhode Island Democrat in a statement after the vote said “fairness and equality are core American values.” “This bill affirms those values and ensures members of the LGBTQ community can live their lives free from the fear of legal discrimination of any kind,” […]

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Calls for Answers after Police Kill Black Bisexual Man

New York police are being called on to release body cam footage and more information about the death of Kawaski Trawick, a black bisexual dancer who was shot dead in his own home by an officer. Trawick was killed on April 14 when a police officer fired four shots into his chest at his apartment in the Bronx, New York. The 32-year-old was part of the local ballroom scene and had been living in Hill House, a supportive housing unit. In the days and weeks since, calls for the New York Police Department to release more information about the circumstances of […]

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White Supremacist Sentenced to Life for Murdering Black Trans Woman

A white supremacist has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a black trans woman. Brandon Michael Tyson murdered Brooklyn BreYanna Stevenson in Oklahoma City in 2017. Tyson, a member of the white supremacist group, the Aryan Brotherhood, will serve his sentence without the possibility of parole. Judge Amy Palumbo condemned Tyson as she sentenced him on Wednesday (24 April). ‘Your actions show that you’re a liar, a thief, and a murderer,’ Judge Amy Palumbo said. ‘You are a danger to the public. You have been given chance after chance after chance.’ The authorities did not say if they though […]

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Intersex Rights Bill Tabled Until Next Year

A state bill designed to provide intersex individuals with informed consent for medical treatments regarding their sex characteristics has been pushed to a vote in 2020- Advertisement –  Last week, Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced that legislation to ensure intersex individuals—a term used often used by people born with variations in their sex characteristics, including genitalia—can provide informed consent before any medical treatments or interventions that could irreversibly affect their fertility or sexual function, will be pulled from the 2019 legislative session and pushed to 2020. After hearing testimony on the bill last Monday, the Committee decided to postpone […]

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