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Family Judge ‘Breached Ethics Rules’ by Refusing to Approve Adoptions by Gay Couples

A judge violated ethics rules by insisting he did not want to oversee same-sex adoptions, officials have concluded. Judge Mitchell Nance, who presides over family court in Kentucky’s 43rd Judicial District, caused a storm earlier this year after he banned cases involving gay families from his courtroom. Judge Nance’s order registered an “conscientious objection to the concept of adoption of a child by a practising homosexual”, seeking to recuse himself from such cases on the grounds of “matters of conscience”. The judge claimed he cannot hear the cases because he believes there is no circumstance in which “the best interest of the child [would] be […]

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Equality California Endorses Candidates in Congressional and State Senate Races

Thursday, Equality California announced the endorsement of three strong pro-equality candidates for Congress and California State Senate offices. “In light of the Trump Administration’s anti-LGBTQ actions, it is imperative that we continue to promote and support strong pro-equality candidates at both the state and the national level,” said Rick Zbur, Executive Director of Equality California. “The candidates we have endorsed today will fight for equality and for the rights of the LGBTQ community.” The Equality California-endorsed candidates are as follows: U.S. Congress: Katie Hill Equality California endorses Katie Hill for California Congressional District 25, which is located in North Los […]

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42 Bay Area LGBTQ Organizations Receive Community Issues Grants from Horizons Foundation

  Horizons Foundation’s 2017 slate of Community Issues grantees represent a diverse group of organizations and individuals serving nine Bay Area counties. Grants are being awarded in the arts, advocacy and civil rights, health and human services, community building, and leadership, and encompass programs that focus on youth, the elderly, immigration, trans rights, LGBTQ history, and capacity-building. “The Community Issues grants have long been at the heart of Horizons’ grantmaking,” added Horizons President Roger Doughty. “It is always Horizons’ honor to partner with some of the most effective, inspiring, and creative organizations, leaders, and activists in our community – and […]

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Sonoma County Supervisors Commit Funds to Combat Rive Area Homelessness Issues

Sonoma County supervisors last week approved $450,000 for projects targeting homelessness on the lower Russian River where a growing number of people have been living on the streets and in roadside encampments in recent years. The projects are part of a community effort to alleviate homelessness and its impacts, with the stated goal of placing 50 people from the area into permanent, stable housing by January 2019.  The approved plans do not include housing-stock additions, in part because of the disqualification of a proposal that included construction of 20 tiny homes. Its rejection by the Community Development Commission leaves an […]

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LGB Teens Are Four Times More Likely to Be Suicidal

A new study has revealed that lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning teens are at least four times more likely to be suicidal than their heterosexual peers. The research in the Journal of Adolescent Health investigated how sexual orientation and traumatic experiences affect suicidal feelings and attempts in teenagers. The study asked questions to 5,000 students from 97 high schools in Nevada, United States. A risk of suicide was linked with childhood experiences of trauma, known as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). These traumatic experiences included sexual assault, domestic violence and physical harm from a parent. The study discovered that LGB people […]

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House LGBT Caucus Slams Trump Administration’s HHS Censoring

The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus slammed the Trump administration for continuing to censor and erase transgender and allied voices from public discourse at the Department of Health and Human Services, which has reportedly withheld more than 10,000 public comments from a proposal with life and death consequences for the transgender community. “The Trump administration has all but conceded that they cannot win a public debate on the merits and so has resorted to erasing opposition voices from the public sphere,” said LGBT Equality Caucus Executive Director Roddy Flynn. “This disturbing development comes just days after reporting that agencies within HHS […]

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US Sanctions Murderous Anti-LGBT Chechen President, Assets Frozen, Banned From US Entry

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed new sanctions on five Russians and Chechens, including the head of the Russian republic of Chechnya, for alleged human rights abuses. Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov delivers a speech during a rally in support of Muslim Rohingya following the recent violence, which erupted in Myanmar, in the Chechen capital Grozny, Russia September 4, 2017. REUTERS/Said Tsarnayev The new sanctions blacklisted Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader and a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Treasury Department said in a statement. U.S. authorities accused Kadyrov of overseeing “an administration involved in […]

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Carson Jones Reveals His Experience on Dating Apps and the DM He Keeps Getting

Politics After the LGBT community celebrated Doug Jones’ senate win last week in Alabama, beating homophobic and accused sexual predator Roy Moore, the queer community celebrated something else. Internet detectives discovered Jones had a gay son, Carson Jones, and a new Instagram hunk was born. We had the opportunity to ask Carson Jones some questions about his father’s win, if he’s single or taken and what his DM box is looking like these days now that he has a whole lot more thirsty followers … including us. Hornet: Since we first blogged about you, your Instagram following has grown by […]

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San Diego Pride Gives Over $100,000 to LGBT Serving Nonprofits

San Diego LGBT Pride has announced that due to the success of this year’s Pride event, they are able to donate $104,182 of the proceeds back to 51 LGBT-serving organizations. Each year Pride works to return proceeds from our annual Pride weekend to the LGBTQ community. Over the years, San Diego Pride’s community contributions have well exceeded 2 million dollars, which have been distributed to dozens of organizations through Pride Community Grants, sponsorships, and event support. The 2017 Pride grants help fund LGBT youth programs, sobriety services, LGBTQ arts and culture, communities of color, programs that support our transgender community, […]

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$1.35 Million in Liberation Fund Grants to Boost Grassroots Organizing Led by Women of Color and Transgender People of Color

Groundswell has announced $1,350,000 in grants for 30 organizations in its inaugural round of grantmaking through the Liberation Fund, a joint project of Groundswell Fund (a 501c3) and Groundswell Action Fund (a 501c4). Grantees were recommended for funding by 15 leading women of color movement leaders who serve as advisors to the Liberation Fund, including Alicia Garza, Linda Sarsour, Mary Hooks, Isa Noyola and Ai-jen Poo, among others. In today’s political environment, it is more vital than ever that we organize to hold public officials accountable in their home districts to defend and advance the rights of vulnerable communities. Grassroots […]

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