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Rise in LGBT Parents Expected in US, Says Survey

A new survey has found that more LGBT+ young people than ever before are planning on having children in the US. The LGBTQ Family Building Survey asked 500 adults who identify as LGBTQ if they had plans to start or expand their families. They also surveyed over 1,000 adults who do not identify as LGBT+. The survey found that 77 percent of LGBT+ millennials are already parents, or are considering having children – which marks a 44 percent increase over older generations. Meanwhile, 63 percent are considering expanding their families, and 48 percent are actively planning to grow their families in the […]

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GAY L.A. –Crossdressing Tales of the “Ambisextrous” Julian Eltinge

A closer look at L.A.’s OG drag queen. Once upon a time, in a place that bears a faint resemblance to the Los Angeles we know today, there was a city full of crossdressers, queers and vaudevillians trying to make it in the entertainment industry. When the nascent film industry came to town in the early 20th century, it created a reason for performers of all kinds to come to the City of Angels to make their name, no matter how bizarre or localized their stage acts might have been.- Advertisement – One of these people was named Julian Eltinge. […]

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GAY L.A. – In 1958, Gay Rights Won For the First Time

Before the 1950s, America didn’t have any gay publications. While there may have been pulpy Gay and Lesbian fiction for folks to read and a few movies about gay life playing in cinemas (1936’s “These Three” and 1944’s “Laura” come to mind,) there weren’t any magazines or even pamphlets that queer folks could pick up to read about gay life. To put out an out-and-out gay magazine was just too risky, and while Lisa Ben, the RKO staffer who put out the country’s first lesbian magazine-cum-newspaper in the 1940s, was responsible for penning entire issues of “Vice Versa,” she had […]

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Major Businesses Stop Paying for Ads with Daily Mail After Transphobic Articles

Major businesses have pulled their advertising with media website Daily Mail after it published a story that incorrectly identified a double child murderer as trans. Hotel chain, Travelodge, and online survey portal, Survey Monkey both stopped advertising with Daily Mail after the story. The Daily Star originally reported – and then retracted – that Ian Huntley convicted of murdering two children in 2003 was trans. The Star corrected the story that Hunter wanted to transition genders so he could move to a female prison. The Daily Mail also published the story but did not change the incorrect the claims that Hunter now identifies as […]

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Equality California Announces New Leadership

Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization, announced the 2019 officers of the Equality California and Equality California Institute Boards of Directors. Presidents Joe Gregorich of Sacramento and Beth Collins of Santa Barbara will lead the organizations’ respective boards during Equality California’s 20th anniversary year. “We’re thrilled to have such dynamic leaders at the helm of Equality California and Equality California Institute as we celebrate this important milestone,” said Equality California Executive Director Rick Zbur.“At such a critical moment for the LGBTQ community and our fight for full equality, we’re deeply grateful that they have chosen to devote […]

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Two percent of US High School Students Identify as Transgender

Just under 2% (1.8%) of High School students in the US identify as transgender. That’s the findings of a new survey by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). The CDC surveyed students across 19 states and large, urban school districts. This included Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin. Urban districts included Los Angeles and New York City, among others. The survey looked at how many youth identify as transgender. It also looked at what risk trans youth were to violence, substance abuse, suicide and sexual risk. Key findings included: 1.8% of students enrolled in the participating 10 states and nine […]

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Online Dating is the Most Popular Way LGBTI Americans Meet Their Soulmates

A study released last month showed that almost 60% of LGBTI couples in America met online. This compared to just over 20% who met in a bar or restaurant that year. Sciologists Michael Rosenfeld and Sonia Hausen of Stanford University and Reuben Thomas of Arizona State University conducted the study. It looked at data from the multi-year How Couples Meet and Stay Together survey across nearly 20 years from 1980 to 2017. Meeting online was by far the most frequent way LGBTI people in same-sex relationships met their significant others in 2017. Early adopters of online dating In fact, the study found: ‘Same-sex couples were […]

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Brexit Might Be the End of LGBTI Protection, Human Rights Lawyer Warns

The Brexit process is threatening the rights of the LGBTI community, British lawyer Helena Kennedy warns. After Prime Minister Theresa May’s proposed Brexit deal was defeated by a historic margin in parliament, her government survived the no-confidence vote. However, the situation still feels uncertain ahead of the official Brexit date, 29 March 2019. In an interview with Reuters, Kennedy explained the lack of a government commitment to the Human Rights Act might be a sign the law will be replaced or repealed after Brexit. The Human Rights Act incorporates the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) into the British statute […]

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Gay Teen Fighting for Asylum in Sweden as He Could be Executed in Iran

Mehdi is terrified of returning to Iran | Photo: Courtesy of Carlo Rapisarda15 February 2019    15:12 GMTJoe Morgan A gay 19-year-old is fighting for survival as he fears being executed in his home country of Iran. Mehdi Shokr Khoda, who also identifies as Christian, is hoping he will be granted asylum in Sweden in his final appeal. The final decision will be made in two weeks. Terrified of being deported to Iran ‘I cannot live open as a gay in Iran,’ Mehdi told Gay Star News. ‘They won’t understand something about you. They will just kill you first.’ In his corner is his […]

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Tennessee Bill on Indecent Exposure Targets Trans People, Campaigners Say

A Republican bill in Tennessee would penalise trans people who use a locker room which doesn’t match their assigned gender. House Bill 1151 was introduced on on February 6 and it proposes expanding the offence of indecent exposure to include any “member of the opposite sex” who enters a single-sex bathroom, locker room, dressing room or shower and shows their “genitals or buttocks.” The current draft of the legislation appears to specifically target trans people. It states: “A medical, psychiatric, or psychological diagnosis of gender dysphoria, gender confusion, or similar conditions, in the absence of untreated mental conditions, such as schizophrenia, does not serve as a defence […]

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