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Oklahoma School Cancels Classes After Parents Threaten Violence Against Trans Student: “A Sharp Knife Will Do The Trick”

Oklahoma City’s Fox affiliate reports: Several law enforcement agencies have stepped in after parents made threats to harm a 12-year-old Achille Public Schools student on social media last week. 12-year-old Achille Schools transgender student Maddie’s mother Brandy Rose says her family moved to Achille from Sherman when Maddie was in 5th grade. “She’s been living as female for years– she started at Achille as Maddie,” Rose said. “We had no problems when we first started.” Trouble started when Maddie was accused by another student peeping under a bathroom stall. One parent found out, and took to a private Achille Facebook […]

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Positive Image to Host Meeting About LGBTQI Mental Health

As I’m sure you know, even though we live in a fairly progressive county, there is still a lot of work to be done to ensure our LGBTQ community members are getting the resources, support, and respect we deserve. We are currently working on a policy map to identify all the areas in Sonoma County where things could be better for LGBTQ people. As we move forward with this project over the next three years, we are looking to build a task force here in Sonoma County of community members, program leaders, advocates, youth, and anyone else who is looking […]

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‘You’re Not Always Safe in the Places You Think You Are’: Gay Porn Star Wesley Woods Assaulted in Homophobic Attack

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PinkNews Daily LGBT+ Newsletter Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world Gay porn star and comedian Wesley Woods has opened up about a brutal homophobic assault he and his best friend endured on 8 August when out walking in West Hollywood. Woods opened up about the ordeal in a video posted on his Twitter account. “My best friend and I were brutally attacked by three straight white hetero men in West Hollywood, California,” Woods explains in the video, where scars on his face are visible. “We just happened to be walking […]

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Russian Teenager Persecuted Under Anti-gay Propaganda Law for ‘Posting Pictures’

A teenager has been found guilty and fined 50,000 rubes (£600) under Russia’s anti-gay propaganda law. 16-year-old Maxim Neverov, was charged with “propaganda of homosexuality among minors”, for publishing pictures on a Russian social network. The Russian LGBT Network, who provided a lawyer for Neverov, published the story on its website on August 8. According to the report of the offence, Neverov,who is from the town of Biysk, published “some pictures of young men whose appearance (partly nude body parts) had the characteristics of propaganda of homosexual relations.” The Russian LGBT Network claimed the teen was not allowed to consult […]

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Arsonists Target Lithuania’s Only LGBT Rights Group in ‘Vicious Homophobic Attack’

Arsonists attacked the Lithuanian Gay League’s office in capital Vilnius. (lgl.lt/Instagram) The office of the Lithuanian Gay League (LGL) – the country’s only non-governmental organization representing LGBT+ people – has reportedly been targeted in an arson attack. The incident allegedly took place in Pylimo in the Old Town of Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital, at about 4am on Friday morning. The front door and door blinds of the organization’s office were set on fire, according to LGL.LGL said that a passing taxi driver stopped to put the fire out. The group described the incident as a “vicious homophobic attack,” adding: “LGL believe that the incident […]

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Number of LGBT Candidates Standing for US Office Breaks Record

A record number of over 400 LGBT+ candidates are standing in elections for public office in the United states, according to the Victory Institute. The nonprofit group supports leadership campaigns within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Sean Meloy, the political director of the Institute, told Reuters: “It’s a really exciting time… We believe that representation is power and when someone is in the room and helping to make decisions, they will automaticaly bring an LGBTQ perspective.”Amongst the candidates is a Democrat transgender woman, Alexandra Chandler, who is a former military intelligence officer running for Congress in Massachusetts. The […]

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What’s Happening at The Spahr Center

New HIV Client Advisory Committee The Board of Directors is pleased to announce that they have completed the process of interviewing and appointing client to the new HIV Advisory Committee. Nine clients have been appointed to serve on the committee, as well as one alternate in case someone has to step-down. Committee members will serve one year terms of office through August 2019. Members are eligible to serve a second, one-year term by invitation of the board. Names of the committee members are not being published at this time because of confidentiality rules, but with their permission, their names will […]

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation Donates $10M To Dem-Backed Rent Control Ballot Measure

Amid a tense battle over rent control in California, real-estate interests are writing big checks to defeat a November ballot measure that would give cities more power to regulate what landlords can charge tenants — and the initiative’s backer responded this week with a $10 million cash infusion. “We know we will be significantly outspent by the opposition, backed by deep-pocketed developers and investors who continue to wreak havoc in the housing markets,” AIDS Healthcare Foundation President Michael Weinstein wrote in a news release Tuesday. “The greed of these billionaire corporate landlords is causing widescale misery for millions of Californians, […]

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Remembering LA’s The Factory’s Glory Days

You might know the phrase The Factory as something belonging to Andy Warhol. But, once upon a time in 1974, not so mild-mannered for an optometrist Scott Forbes opened a gay club in L.A. called Studio One at The Factory. Originally built in 1929 as a space for the Mitchell Camera Corporation, the irony of the edifice eventually becoming a haven for the gay community of West Hollywood was that, by 1946, it was said that 85 percent of all movies distributed in theaters were filmed using Mitchell cameras. Considering the gay obsession with Hollywood despite its flagrant lack of […]

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HIV Care for People of Any Immigration Status in San Francisco Bay Area

Facing increasingly hostile immigration policies and rhetoric from the current administration, undocumented people in the U.S. are leading lives filled with fear and uncertainty. Fear of deportation or prosecution is preventing people from seeking social services including medical care, with potentially dire consequences for people living with chronic diseases such as HIV. “I think that as we have seen in the news a growing presence of ICE in communities—despite San Francisco’s status as a sanctuary city—we are also seeing a growing trepidation and hesitation as people are seeking care,” said Liliana Schmitt, recruitment and retention coordinator for Clínica Esperanza at […]

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