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Nancy Pelosi slams Republican Push to Permit Discrimination Against LGBT Prospective Parents

PinkNews Daily LGBT+ Newsletter Signup to receive a daily roundup of the top LGBT+ news stories from around the world Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, has blasted an attempt by House Republicans to permit discrimination against gay prospective parents. Congressional Republicans passed an amendment on Wednesday that would permit adoption providers to discriminate against same-sex couples. House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted in favour of the amendment to a funding bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Introduced by GOP Rep. Robert Aderholt, it would allow taxpayer-funded adoption agencies to deny same-sex couples the ability […]

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North Bay LGBTQI Families Hosts Event to Draw Attention to and Benefit Families Separated at the Border

Please join North Bay LGBTQI Families and H Peace on Monday July 16 at the old courthouse square at from 6-7pm for a demonstration supporting reuniting families and discontinue separating families! We will have speakers discussing how the separation affect health/ mental health and the community at large. We will be walking as a group to La Rosa for the fundraiser after. La Rosa Tequileria and Grille will be donating 10%of all sales the entire day so please make sure to stop by. There will also be a container where donations an be dropped off if you can’t dine or […]

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HAWAII: State Supreme Court Rejects Hate Group’s Appeal On Behalf Of B&B That Turned Away Lesbians

Via press release from Lambda Legal: The Hawai`i Supreme Court today rejected a petition from a Hawai`i bed & breakfast seeking review of a lower court ruling that the business had violated Hawai’i’s anti-discrimination statute when it denied a room to a lesbian couple because of their sexual orientation. Aloha Bed & Breakfast, whose owner says same-sex relationships “defile our land,” is represented by the anti-LGBT legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which claimed a religious justification for the discrimination. In February, the Intermediate Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court ruling, and today the Hawai`i Supreme Court declined to review […]

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Trump Drains HIV/AIDS Funding to Pay for Child Migrant Detention

The Trump administration is reportedly draining money from HIV treatment programes in order to fund child migrant detention. Slate reports that budget documents show funding has been reallocated within the Department of Health and Human Services from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program to pay for the Trump administration’s aggressive stance on child migrants, which may require thousands of people to be detained. According to documents leaked to the outlet, funding is already being drained from the primary government programme for HIV/AIDS care in the US to fund the surge in detention work undertaken by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Slate alleges that “the process of […]

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Nancy Pelosi clarifies ‘I am LGBTQ’ quote

House minority leader and key opponent to Donald Trump Nancy Pelosi has clarified a quote in which she declared “I am LGBTQ,” leading to speculation about her sexuality. Pelosi is the most senior representative of the Democratic Party in Congress and a crucial figure in opposing Republican policies, including anti-LGBT legislature or attempts to block progress on rights. She gave a recent quote to Rolling Stone magazine in which she said she was “LGBTQ,” which some people took as a declaration about her own orientation. She said “I’m LGBTQ, I support those issues. I’m proud to. But they use that […]

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LGBT Groups Raise Alarm: We Must #StopKavanaugh

From Lambda Legal: Judge Kavanaugh would guarantee 40 more years of Trump’s values on the Supreme Court. Like every other judicial nominee who has a seal of approval from the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, Judge Kavanaugh shares Donald Trump’s same distorted view of the law. We have good reason to fear that Judge Kavanaugh will abuse his power on the Court to protect the wealthy and the powerful while depriving LGBT Americans of our dignity, demeaning our community, and diminishing our status as equal citizens. There is too much at stake to allow Judge Kavanaugh to sit on […]

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Pride in London Condemns Anti-trans Protest as ‘Vile’: ‘We Are Sorry’

Pride in London was heavily criticised on Saturday for allowing a small anti-trans group to lead the parade. They have now issued an apology and condemned the protest as against the spirit of Pride. As PinkNews reported yesterday, the anti-trans group GetTheLOut were allowed to lead the parade during over 47 minutes that our reporter filmed live. The small group of women showed banners with anti-trans slogans and handed out extreme transphobic literature, to the mixed bemusement of Pride attendees who had been expecting the Mayor of London to lead the parade with NHS staff. Pride in London initially issued a […]

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Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors Fund and the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty Unveil First-of-its-Kind Resource to Address Youth Homelessness

Today, Cyndi Lauper and the True Colors Fund, in partnership with the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, unveiled the State Index on Youth Homelessness –a first-of-its-kind resource that evaluates all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their efforts to prevent and end youth homelessness. The two organizations have also launched a campaign to empower the public to contact their governors to improve their state’s index scores. The State Index on Youth Homelessness provides a snapshot of some of the legal, systemic, and environmental barriers that youth experiencing homelessness face. The State Index assigns all 50 states […]

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Creating the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District

Gentrification and economic displacement are not mere abstractions for LGBTQ San Franciscans. We see the tangible effects daily on the places where we live, work and play. The loss of a neighborhood formed around our identities is devastating — not just for individuals but also for the extended families, institutions and events that form our collective, living culture. Recently, members of the GLBT Historical Society participated in a march through the Polk District led by activist Juanita More. We laid black wreaths at former gay businesses in that once-thriving gayborhood. Longtime LGBTQ activist Cleve Jones joined the march to remind us […]

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Gay Man Was ‘Assaulted and Held Captive for 4 Days Because of his Sexuality’

A man was beaten and held hostage for four days because of his sexuality, a court has heard. The alleged victim, who is 50, was held against his will in a Massachusetts flat, prosecutor Dylan Krasinski said on July 2. Police have charged Jackson Sugrue, 19, with a hate crime in connection to the alleged assault, which has echoes of Zak Ostmane, a 35-year-old French LGBT activist who was drugged, raped, beaten and held hostage for two days before risking his life to get free last year. Meghan Kelly, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney’s office, said Sugrue also […]

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