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Santa Rosa Symphony Youth Ensembles Perform in Free Mini-concerts

a On Saturday afternoon, March 23, musicians and faculty from the Santa Rosa Symphony Institute for Music Education will play music in various Railroad Square venues. These “Music Around Town” performances are free to the public. The Institute has partnered with a select group of historic businesses and venues to create community and expose more people to classical music and the amazing array of SRS education programs. The public is invited to stroll through the shops, restaurants and galleries as chamber ensembles of 2-14 young musicians and faculty perform 20-30 minute sets. This unique event will be held 2-5 PM […]

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Sampling Ten-Minute Tastes of the LGBTQ Past: Preparing for Queer History Conference 2019

Reprinted with permission from History Happens, the newsletter of the GLBT Historical Society (San Francisco)” with a link to our website (www.glbthistory.org). bIn June 2019, the GLBT Historical Society is co-hosting an unprecedented gathering in San Francisco: the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender History’s first stand-alone conference, Queer History Conference 2019. Founded in 1979, the committee is an affiliate of the American Historical Association that promotes the study of the LGBTQ past by facilitating communication among scholars in a variety of disciplines. As the conference approaches and participants finalize their papers, History Happens dropped in for a chat with the conference co-chairs, Amy […]

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Chelsea Manning Jailed For Contempt Of Court

NBC News reports: Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning was jailed on Friday after refusing to answer questions from a federal grand jury in Virginia. Earlier in the day, Manning told reporters that she was prepared to go to jail following the closed contempt hearing for her resistance to provide testimony because she doesn’t believe in the grand jury process. On Wednesday, Manning did appear before a grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in an undisclosed case, but refused to answer any questions. “I responded to each question with the following statement: ‘I object to the […]

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Utah Republicans Gut Bill to Ban Gay Cure Therapy

Republicans have gutted a bill that would have banned gay cure therapy in Utah. A group of lawmakers in Utah had fronted a bipartisan push to outlaw conversion therapy in the ultra-conservative state, putting forward a bill that would have placed a legal ban on conversion therapy for minors in the state. The legislation would have made “any practice or treatment that seeks to change the sexual orientation or gender identity” of a minor unlawful. However, the bill failed to make it over its first legislative hurdle intact, with lawmakers on the Utah House Judiciary Committee opting to  move forward with an amended […]

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John Duran Steps Down as WeHo Mayor

Hours before a West Hollywood City Council meeting to discuss options regarding Mayor John Duran involvement in the City, Duran announced his resignation as mayor via Facebook. He said that he will still maintain his council seat until the end of his term in November.- Advertisement – “I am handing the mayor’s gavel to my friend John D’Amico as the mayor pro tem to fill the remaining two months of my mayor’s term,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “I am not resigning from council and will complete this term which expires in November of 2020.” Duran said that he […]

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Trump Picks Anti-LGBTI, Pro-gun Leader for Post Against Gender Violence

Activists are concerned with Donald Trump’s nomination to lead the Office on Violence Against Women. His nominee is Shannon Lee Goessling, a Republican with an anti-LGBTI and pro-gun record. This office is an organization that works with victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and more. They administer grants to help support these victims in a variety of ways. When first announcing her nomination to the position, Trump and the White House praised her legal and business records. They specifically noted her time as director of the Crimes Against Women and Children Prosecution Unit in Atlanta, which she earned after serving almost a decade as a state […]

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School Gay-straight Alliances Make Straight Kids Feel Safer, Research Says

LGBTI and straight students feel safer when a school has a gay-straight alliance club, according to research. Conducted by the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, the research found that with every additional year the school operated the gay-straight alliance, the teenagers felt safer. Elizabeth Saewyc, professor of nursing at UBC and senior author of the study, told Phys.Org: ‘We found that students’ feelings of safety at school kept increasing over at least 14 years, the longest time a GSA has been in a B.C. school so far. ‘Schools that never had a GSA did not show the same patterns of […]

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Gay Dads Are More Active in Parenting than Straight Men

Gay dads are more active in child-rearing than heterosexual men, according to a new study. Conducted by Éric Feugé from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), the study is the ‘first of its kind’. It observed 46 families (including 92 gay fathers and 46 children – ages one to nine) over seven years. The study analyzed the roles gay dads take in raising their kids and found the way they parent is ‘very equitable’. ‘We learned that gay fathers’ sharing of tasks is very equitable,’ Feugé told the Montreal Gazette. ‘There was a high degree of engagement in all types of parental roles.’ Sam Blaylock and gay dads […]

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Germany Plans to Ban Gay Cure Therapy

Germany plans to push ahead with a ban on gay cure therapy, the country’s health minister has said. Germany’s health minister Jens Spahn, the country’s most senior gay politician, told newspaper Die Tageszeitung that he would seek a ban on the discredited practice. In the February 15 interview he said: “Homosexuality is not a disease and it doesn’t need to be cured. That’s why I’m in favour of a ban on conversion therapy. “I do not believe in these therapies because of my own sexual orientation. I [believe] that God has something in mind.” Spahn said the challenge was in “practical implementation” of a […]

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Will Durst presents: ‘Durst Case Scenario: And They’re Off!’ at Occidental Center for the Arts.

Sunday March 31 @ 4 pm. Will Durst presents: ‘Durst Case Scenario: And They’re Off!’ at Occidental Center for the Arts. In this lightning-paced, 85-minute comedic tour-de-force, satirist/author/actor Durst, described by the New York Times as “possibly the best political comic working today”, celebrates the two-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s ‘Reign of Error’ with a hysterically historical up-dated analysis and rollicking feast of outrage about where we are, how we got here, and what may lie ahead. Prepare to meet the funny side of defiance! $19 Adv/$24 at door. Fine refreshments. Art Gallery open. Wheelchair accessible. www.occidentalcenterforthearts.org. 707-874-9392. 3850 Doris Murphy Ct. Occidental, […]

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