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Lawmaker Shares Heartwarming Story of Her Gender Non-conforming Child

Lawmaker Pramila Jayapal has shared her heartwarming story of having a “beautiful” gender non-conforming child at a hearing for the Equality Act. Democratic politician Jayapal told a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Equality Act on Tuesday (April 2) about how her child came out to her as gender non-conforming in 2018. “My beautiful, now-22 year old child told me last year that they were gender non-conforming,” said the lawmaker. “And over the last year, I have come to understand from a deeply personal mother’s perspective. “I came to understand what their newfound freedom—it is the only way I can […]

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Outwatch Film Festival Presents “Family in Transition” April 24 at Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol

One Night OnlyApril 24th7PMRialto Cinemas, Sebastopol Family In TransitionIn Hebrew with English Subtitles Director: Ofir Tranin, 60 min. This is an intriguing Israeli documentary about an Orthodox Patriarch of a large family who transitions to become her true self, a woman. How does her extended family and a rural Israeli town react? The story follows a family in Nahariya, a small traditional town in Israel, whose lives change completely when their father finally decides to tell his family that he’s a transgender woman. Their mother chooses to stay with her spouse through the whole process, and just as it seems […]

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WISCONSIN: State Supreme Court Candidate Declares Victory, Said Legal Homosexuality Leads To Bestiality

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: Brian Hagedorn declared victory Wednesday over fellow Appeals Judge Lisa Neubauer in a close race for Wisconsin Supreme Court even as both sides were preparing for a potential recount. If the result holds, conservatives would likely keep control of the court for at least four years. “We made history,” Hagedorn said in a news conference. “We made history in a significant way and our margin of victory looks to be insurmountable.” Hagedorn led Neubauer 50.25% to 49.75% with nearly all of Tuesday’s votes unofficially counted — at a margin that allows a recount. The results won’t become official […]

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Utah Finally Passes LGBT-inclusive Hate Crime Law

Utah has finally added hate crime protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The Republican Governor of Utah, Gary Herbert, signed a bill on Tuesday (April 2) that expands state hate crime statute to add protections for LGBT+ people for the first time. The bill passed after decades of stalled progress in the state, which had been one of 15 with no state-level provisions for anti-LGBT hate crimes. However, the proposal passed after the Mormon Church, which dominates politics in the state, signalled that it would not resist the change. LGBT+ rights group Equality Utah said the moment represents “an impressive […]

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New Study: LGBT People A ‘Fundamental Part of The Fabric Of Rural Communities’

LGBT people are typically depicted as city and coastal dwellers. And those who live in rural America are often characterized as people yearning to escape rural life for more acceptance in urban areas.  But a new study from the Movement Advancement Project, a think tank that advocates for LGBT equality, shatters that stereotype.  Between 2.9 million and 3.8 million LGBT people live in rural America, that’s up to 5 percent of the rural population and up to 20 percent of the LGBT population. For the most part, they chose that life for the same reasons other Americans do: tight-knit communities with […]

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Lesbian Candidate Satya Rhodes-Conway Becomes Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin

Mayoral candidate Satya Rhodes-Conway has achieved victory in her bid to become mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. In doing so, she becomes the first openly gay mayor of the US city, and only the second woman. Democrat Rhodes-Conway, 47, a former three-term Madison City Council member, ousts incumbent Paul Soglin. Soglin, 73, served as mayor from 1973-1979, 1989-1997, and from 2011 until now. He was Madison’s longest-serving mayor and it was his 22nd year in the office. Rhodes-Conway’s victory was called around 9.25pm local time Tuesday. She had 62% of the vote with 92% of precincts counted (47,915 votes to Soglin ‘s 29,1500). New […]

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Pleads for the Release of Chelsea Manning

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted on Tuesday (2 April) for the releaseof whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning. A federal judge jailed Manning in March for refusing to testify in a federal investigation. While details of the investigation remain under seal, Manning confirmed authorities asked her about WikiLeaks. ‘These secret proceedings tend to favor the government,’ she told reporters outside the courthouse before the hearing. ‘I’m always willing to explain things publicly. I’ve given voluminous testimony; I’ve given voluminous information.’ In her tweet, Ocasio-Cortez wrote authorities ‘trapped’ Manning in solitary confinement and described it as ‘torture’. She also wrote the authorities should release Manning on bail. Solitary confinement […]

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North Bay LGBTQI Families Forms Parent Leadership Circle

Join the 2019 Parent Leadership Circle! We are seeking the next succession of proactive parent volunteers to take on leadership roles within North Bay LGBTQI Families. Working alongside our active founding members, the Leadership Circle will form a cohort and move through a series of workshops and team building activities over the next 6 months. Parent Leaders will be empowered to host and organize 1 NBF event of their choice to keep our community of LGBTQI families active. Cohort will meet at a farm in Sebastopol. Cohort TrainingsWorkshops (2-4 hours long, times to be announced)      ○ Sunday, April 14th:            […]

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Azerbaijan Police ‘Broke the Law’ in Randomly Detaining LGBTI People

Azerbaijan police randomly began detaining LGBTI people on Monday (1 April) night. LGBTI rights organization Minority Azerbaijan broke the news yesterday (2 April) morning, revealing shocking details of authorities ‘hunting’ transgender people, then handcuffing them and detaining them. Now they confirm authorities detained at least 14 people and they can identify five. Authorities fined two of them under Article 510 of the Code on Administrative Offenses – Minor Hooliganism. While three detainees had official charges under section 535.1 (wilfully not obeying lawful orders of the police officer who engaged protecting of public order) of the Code of Administrative Offences. Protest in Germany. | Photo: […]

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Chicago Elects its First Lesbian Mayor

The Chicago Tribune reports: Lori Lightfoot won a resounding victory Tuesday night to become both the first African-American woman and openly gay person elected mayor of Chicago, dealing a stinging defeat to a political establishment that has reigned over City Hall for decades. After waging a campaign focused on upending the vaunted Chicago political machine, Lightfoot dismantled one of its major cogs by dispatching Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, whose candidacy had been hobbled in part by an anti-incumbent mood among voters and an ongoing federal corruption investigation at City Hall. Lightfoot’s campaign, which started last May as a long-shot bid […]

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