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New Repost from MAP and The Trevor Project Underscores the Harms of Conversion Therapy

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Today, the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) and The Trevor Project released a new report that spotlights the harms of conversion “therapy” and details the shifting landscape of efforts to protect LGBTQ young people against this abuse. With the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear a case this fall (Chiles v. Salazar) challenging the legality of these protections, this report offers a timely analysis into the history of these laws, the present landscape, and the importance of continuing to protect LGBTQ youth.   THE PREVALENCE OF CONVERSION “THERAPY” — AND ITS GROWING FOCUS ON TRANSGENDER YOUTH  Conversion “therapy” is a dangerous and discredited practice […]

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The Castro Fog Discussion at SF GLBT Historical Society Museum August 21

Speaking Of: A Rountable on Queer History & Today THE CASTRO FOG While every city’s neighborhoods change, few have experienced such thorough erasure from collective memory as San Francisco’s original gayborhoods. The gender-nonconforming stage acts of the Barbary Coast made North Beach home to some of the city’s earliest queer spaces. The Tenderloin was ground zero for the Gay Liberation Front and remains a hub for trans activism and culture. Polk Street hosted the discos of Sylvester, the drunken tales of Tennessee Williams, and more than a hundred queer-owned bookstores, clothing shops, bathhouses, and bars. So why do we only talk about The […]

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More Than HIV: Trump’s Cuts Shatter Kenya’s Health Care System

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After two years of living with tuberculosis (TB), 38-year-old Selina Kimuto’s condition is worse than ever. A single mother living in Kibera—Nairobi’s biggest slum—Kimuto had been receiving medication to treat her infection. But in June, her hospital told her that they wouldn’t be able to give her any more until October, due to severe shortages caused by the sudden pull-out of U.S. foreign aid. Since then, Kimuto’s condition has rapidly deteriorated. “I’ve really tried, but I can’t do it alone, to wash even my own clothes by myself,” Kimuto told Uncloseted Media. “Even the housework, I’m not doing it by […]

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Lawsuit challenges EEOC’s failure to investigate anti-transgender discrimination

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FreeState Justice, a legal-services nonprofit in Maryland, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s failure to investigate anti-transgender job discrimination. Under the Trump administration, the EEOC has abandoned trans workers, says the suit, in which FreeState Justice is represented by Democracy Forward and the National Women’s Law Center. It was filed in U.S. District Court in Maryland and names the EEOC and Acting Chair Andrea Lucas as defendants. The EEOC, established in 1965 by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, is tasked with investigating all forms of workplace bias. Filing a discrimination complaint with the EEOC is a precondition to filing […]

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Back-to-School Mental Health Support: Foundation for California Community Colleges Join Forces with Crisis Text Line

For more than four years, the Foundation for California Community Colleges has partnered with Crisis Text Line to help spread mental health awareness and to support students in their time of need. Crisis Text Line is a nonprofit organization that provides free, 24/7, confidential text-based mental health support in both English and Spanish. Anyone—students, faculty, and staff— seeking support can text COURAGE to 741741 to reach a live, volunteer Crisis Counselor.  Crisis Text Line data shows that school-related stress or anxiety is quite common, as 30% of texters (among the ages 18 through 24) discussed this issue. When discussing school-related stress, texters talked specifically […]

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Pride Bowling League Meeting Happens Tuesday, August 26 – All Are Welcome

League Start & Sign Ups Sign-Up Night A week before the league begins, we are hosting an informational and sign-up night. On Tuesday, August 26th, at 6:30 pm, anyone interested in the league, seeking more information, or ready to sign up is invited. We will assist people with the sign-up process and answer any questions. Additionally, we will discuss the rules and accept nominations for league officer positions. The official league positions are: President Vice President Secretary  Sergeant at Arms Social Media Coordinator Games Coordinator We will officially vote on the new positions on the first night of bowling on September 2, 2025. […]

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More than half of Chinese citizens support LGBTQ+ rights, poll suggests

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More than half of citizens in China believe LGBTQ+ people should be treated with dignity, which flies in the face of some of the country’s restrictive laws. Responding to a survey on attitudes towards LGBTQ+ people in China, 53 per cent said queer people should be accepted in society. A similar number felt same-sex couples should be able to marry, while 46 per cent said they would personally attend a same-sex wedding. 48 per cent believed gay couples would make capable parents. Published by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, the study also showed that respondents who knew […]

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Saint Lucia High Court Decriminalizes Same-Sex Conduct

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In a landmark victory for human rights, Saint Lucia has decriminalized consensual same-sex conduct. The High Court’s decision strikes down laws that criminalized intimacy between same-sex partners, which are discriminatory and inconsistent with international human rights standards. Until this ruling, Saint Lucia’s Criminal Code punished “buggery” and “gross indecency” with up to 10 years in prison. Although rarely enforced, this vague law and similar ones in other Caribbean countries enabled discrimination and legitimized social stigma and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. These statutes were imposed during British colonization, yet post-independence governments have been loathe to repeal them. A 2018 Human Rights Watch report documented […]

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Germany’s parliament banned the Pride flag. It backfired spectacularly.

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Germans turned out in huge numbers for Berlin’s Christopher Street Day Pride celebration on Saturday, a rebuke to rising far-right anti-LGBTQ+ activists who have cast a pall over many of this year’s commemorations of the Stonewall Riots and the fight for LGBTQ+ equality. The turnout was also a warning to German lawmakers hoping to assuage far-right voters by dialing back their support of the LGBTQ+ community. In May, Bundestag President Julia Klöckner of the Christian Democrat party announced she would ban the rainbow flag from flying atop Germany’s Parliament building for Pride, calling it a “political demonstration,” according to Le Monde.  […]

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