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‘Conversion Therapy’ Services Would be Banned Under Measure Advancing in California

The California Assembly voted Thursday to add gay “conversion therapy” to the state’s list of deceptive business practices, following a debate that focused on the personal experiences of several lawmakers and hinted at potential lawsuits to come. “It is harmful and it is unnecessary,” Assemblyman Evan Low (D-Campbell), the bill’s author and one of the Legislature’s most vocal LGBTQ members, said of the practice. Low, who told Assembly members that he explored conversion therapy as a teenager and suffered depression over his sexual orientation, insisted that the bill would be limited to efforts that involve the exchange of money. “There’s nothing wrong with me,” […]

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Man Jailed for Life After Deliberately Infecting Others with HIV

A hairdresser has been handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 12 years at Brighton crown court after deliberately trying to infect 10 men with HIV. Daryll Rowe, 27, from Brighton, showed no emotion as he was sentenced for five charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and five of attempting to do so. After being diagnosed in April 2015 in his home city of Edinburgh, Rowe met men on gay dating app Grindr and had sex with eight of them in Brighton, East Sussex, between October that year and February 2016, before fleeing to the north-east […]

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Equality California Urges Senate Foreign Relations Committee to Reject Pompeo Nomination

Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization, sent a letter to members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Monday urging them to oppose the nomination of Director Mike Pompeo to serve as U.S. Secretary of State. Throughout his career, Pompeo has been a staunch opponent of LGBTQ equality and refused to disavow those positions during his Senate confirmation hearing last week when prompted by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and others. “Since his nomination, we have been deeply concerned about Director Pompeo’s troubling anti-LGBTQ record, including his co-sponsorship of multiple bills during his service in the U.S. […]

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Three LGBT+ Winners Have Been Awarded a Pulitzer Prize this Year

Three LGBT luminaries have been won prizes for their literary and journalistic feats in this year’s Pulitzer Prize. The 2018 Pulitzer Prize winners in 14 journalism and seven letters, drama and music categories were announced on Monday. Journalist Ronan Farrow, novelist Andrew Sean Greer and poet Frank Bidart have had their work honoured this year by the highly coveted prize-givers, as well as The Washington Post for its work exposing anti-LGBT senator and alleged sexual predator Roy Moore. Farrow, who revealed this month that he is a “member of the LGBT” community, has received a public service award for his work […]

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Britain Says Regrets Role in Anti-gay Laws Among Former Colonies

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Tuesday she regretted Britain’s role in anti-gay legislation across its former colonies, seeking to address criticism of the Commonwealth at its gathering in London. May is looking to reinvigorate the Commonwealth, a 53-country network of mostly former colonies, as Britain seeks new post-Brexit ways to project its influence in the world and establish a role as a leader of free trade. Speaking on the second day of a week-long meeting in London, May addressed a wide range of humanitarian and environmental issues, including laws which outlaw same-sex activity in 37 of its 53 member […]

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Lambda Legal Want You to Know Your Rights as a Same-sex Couple art School Dances

  Even though you still hear about schools barring same-sex couples from dances, did you know that doing so is likely to be against the law? As long ago as 1980, a federal court upheld high-school senior Aaron Fricke’s right to bring his male date to the prom. The court also ruled that how other students might react to Aaron and his date did not justify banning them. Supreme Court and federal court cases since then affirm that policies or actions that block same-sex couples from proms and dances—and policies created to make such discrimination possible—violates students’ rights to free […]

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China’s Sina Weibo Reverses Gay Content Clean-up After Outcry

China’s Sina Weibo’s on Monday reversed a decision to remove gay content after outcry among gay Chinese who say the company had smeared homosexuality by lumping it with pornography as it tried to meet government censorship directives. China’s Twitter-equivalent Weibo said on Friday it would remove pornographic, violent or gay videos and cartoons in a three-month campaign, singling out a genre of manga animations and comics that often depict raunchy gay male relationships. In response, gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) advocates poured online to criticise the decision using hashtags, open letters and even calls to dump Sina shares. On […]

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Discriminating Sex: Making the American “Oriental at SFs GLBT Historical Museum

Thursday, April 12            7:00-9:00 PM  The GLBT History Museum  4127 18th St., San Francisco   $5.00 | Buy Tickets | Free for Members        Historian Amy Sueyoshi will discuss her new book, Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American “Oriental” (University of Illinois Press, 2018). While San Francisco at the turn of the 20th century perturbed religious conservatives who saw it as a “moral cesspool,” it also developed a reputation as a city that tolerated a wide range of gender and sexual expression and that cultivated easy race relations. Yet all was not love […]

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SFO Set to rename a Terminal after Harvey Milk

San Francisco Airport looks set to rename Terminal 1 after murdered LGBTI rights hero Harvey Milk. The name change was first proposed five years ago by former city supervisor David Campos. He suggested renaming the whole airport in honor of the campaigner – immortalized by Sean Penn in the 2008 film, Milk. In light of the proposal, an airport naming committee formed. It decided to instead rename Terminal 1 of the US airport after Milk. San Francisco Airport lit in rainbow colors for Pride in 2015 (Photo: zoxcleb CreativeCommons2.0) City supervisors Hillary Ronen and Jeff Sheehy proposed legislation reflecting the […]

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Portugal Passes Law to Let Trans People Self-identify Their Legal Gender

Portugal has passed a law that allows transgender people to change their legal gender under a “self determination” system. The new law, which makes Portugal the sixth European country to adopt a “self-ID” gender recognition law, passed through the country’s parliament on Friday by a reported vote of 109-106. It removes a medical diagnosis requirement for transgender people to have their gender legally recognised, and instead allows them to change their legal gender through a procedure based on self-determination. The new gender recognition law removes hurdles to transition that have faced criticism, and instead respects that trans people themselves know best […]

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