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Roll Into 2018 with An Evening of Comedy & Dancing, and Help Our Community Rebuild

Join us at The Laugh Cellar on January 6th for a fundraiser to benefit The Anova Center for Education – Sonoma County’s only nonprofit school for children living with autism. Anova’s Santa Rosa campus was destroyed in the North Bay Fires, leaving 120 students ranging from 5 to 22 years old without a school.  Proceeds from this night will go to their Phoenix Campaign, which will help rebuild their K-12 classrooms, transition program, occupational therapy equipment, and many other specialized needs of our students. All-Star Stand Up Comedy Line Up with: Jennie McNulty, Ronn Vigh, Irene Tu And… Dance the […]

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Out Gay Corey Johnson Elected as NY City Council Speaker

Corey Johnson was elected City Council speaker in an overwhelming vote Wednesday, capping months of maneuvering that will make him the city’s second-most-powerful elected official. Johnson — a Manhattan Democrat who is gay and HIV positive — was chosen in a 48-1 vote. Councilwoman Inez Barron, who mounted her own last-minute bid for speaker to protest the lack of black candidates, was the lone no vote. The new leader is expected to pose a challenge to Mayor de Blasio — saying he won’t hesitate to push through bills over the mayor’s veto, which never happened under his predecessor — although […]

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New Poll Shows Voters Back LGBTQ protections, won’t tolerate politicians who Attack LGBTQ People

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality Pennsylvania today released new polling data conducted by Hart Research Associates one year out from the 2018 midterm elections, showing that likely voters across Pennsylvania overwhelmingly support LGBTQ-inclusive policies and are less likely to vote for a candidate who does not. HRC is on the ground in Pennsylvania, a priority state through HRC Rising — the largest and earliest grassroots expansion in its 37-year history. “A year out from the midterm elections, the data clearly show that Pennsylvanians overwhelmingly support LGBTQ equality,” said JoDee Winterhof, Senior Vice President for Policy and Political Affairs. […]

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27% of California Adolescents Are Gender Nonconforming, Study Finds

A new UCLA study finds that 27 percent, or 796,000, of California’s youth, ages 12 to 17, report they are viewed by others as gender nonconforming at school. The study also assessed differences in mental health among gender nonconforming youth and gender conforming youth in the state and found no significant difference in the rates of lifetime suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts between gender nonconforming youth and their gender-conforming peers. However, gender nonconforming youth were more than twice as likely to have experienced psychological distress in the past year. “The data show that more than one in four California youth […]

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2018 Brings Local LGBTQI Seniors Many Opportunities to Gather, Learn, Grow, and Much More

NEW SENIOR CENTER LGBTQI PROGRAMS:  With the help of an LGBTQI Giving Circle grant, Sonoma County Adult and Aging Services was able to provide the staff of three Sonoma County senior centers — Finley Community Center’s Senior Wing in Santa Rosa, Vintage House in Sonoma, and the Sebastopol Area Senior Center — with cultural competency training in LGBTQI aging issues in 2016-2017.  All three have since added new special programs for LGBTQI seniors including “Aging Gayfully” classes (see below).  The Sebastopol Area Senior Center has also scheduled an exciting February field trip to the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco as well as committed to […]

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LGBTQ Connections Kicks Off 2018 with 3 Great Events

Free film screening! El Canto del Colibri, Thursday, January 11th from 6:30-9 pm at the Arlene Francis Center- El Canto del Colibri is a documentary exploring the relationships between Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBTQ family members. This film is in Spanish with English subtitles, and we will have time before and after to share food and build community. This event was rescheduled after the fires in October, and we are really excited to share it with you all! This event is free but capacity is limited. Please reserve your spot here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/el-canto-del-colobri-film-screening-tickets-41027866453?aff=efbeventtix Celebrate the renewal of our Santa Rosa LGBTQ youth group! […]

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Learn How to Document Your Medical Wishes at a Free Advance Care Planning Workshop January 16

Half of us will become unable to speak for ourselves in a future medical situation, yet only 23 percent of adults have written advance health care directives defining our health care wishes. To help residents think ahead about documenting their health care wishes, My Care My Plan: Speak Up, Sonoma County will host a free advance care planning workshop, Who Will Speak for You If You Can’t Speak for Yourself?, on Tuesday, January 16, 1:30–3:30 p.m., at the Redwood Credit Union Community Room, 3033 Cleveland Avenue, Santa Rosa. Register  online at MyCareMyPlanSonoma.org under Events, by phone at (707) 565-5950 or […]

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Picketers to Protest US Rep. Scott Peters for Sponsoring Bill to Gut Drug Discounts

A group of 25 to 35 HIV/AIDS and drug pricing advocates, including many from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), will stage a protest and picket line in front of the district office (4350 Executive Drive, Suite 105 in San Diego) of San Diego Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA, 52nd District) today Dec. 28 at 1:45 p.m. to denounce and protest his recent introduction of federal legislation that would severely curtail nonprofit hospitals’ participation in a federally-administered drug discount program that costs the government and taxpayers nothing, and which was specifically created to extend the lifeline of care and services that safety net […]

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HRC Announces New Staff for 2018 HRC Rising Effort

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced key national and in-state staff to lead HRC Rising, a bold, proactive grassroots campaign to accelerate progress in states from coast-to-coast, resist the politics of hate, fight anti-LGBTQ legislation, and fuel pro-equality candidates and initiatives in 2018, 2020 and beyond. HRC has begun recruiting at least 45 full-time political, field, grassroots organizing, volunteer engagement, communications, and digital staff for this earliest, largest grassroots deployment in its 37-year history. Today, HRC announced the first 12 staff, who will join more than two dozen existing staff working on the HRC Rising initiative. They will immediately […]

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The Spahr Center Marin Shares It’s 2017 Fundraising Highlights & More

AIDS Walk July was AIDS Walk time for all of us at The Spahr Center. Thanks to the efforts of our board and staff, we raised over $20,000 to support HIV prevention and education in schools and the community. Many thanks to everyone who donated to make this fundraising event a huge success! Academy of Friends Gala The Spahr Center participated in The Academy of Friends Gala in February and we received a $10,000 grant at their awards ceremony. New Grants Innovation Grant We received a $50,000 Innovations grant from the Marin County’s Behavioral Health Department in November to support LGBTQ youth […]

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