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GLAAD Poll: Supermajority of Americans Support Brands Participating in Pride; Reject Political Attacks on Transgender People

GLAAD is releasing the results of a new poll showing registered voters’ top concern remains rising costs and inflation. Voters overwhelmingly believe politicians are using transgender issues to distract from these urgent priorities. U.S. adults were also asked about corporate support of Pride through sponsorships, employee engagement, and merchandise. The results are abundantly clear: Americans, including registered voters, support LGBTQ people, support politicians who support LGBTQ people, and back brands that support LGBTQ people including at Pride and beyond. Registered Voters Care Most About Costs, and Freedom The poll, conducted by MRI-Simmons between March 16 and April 2, 2026, reveals: Poll graphics […]

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New Africa “charter” attempts to impose Christian nationalist ideology across the continent

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In Ghana last week, participants from 20 African nations advanced the latest iteration of the African Inter-Parliamentary “Family, Sovereignty and Values” Charter, a document African rights activists say threatens to dismantle protections for women, girls, and LGBTQ+ people in service of a Christian nationalist worldview. Attendees at the annual conference have set an ambitious goal to realize the document’s illiberal agenda: ratification of the charter by the African Union General Assembly. Organizers hope to take it to the pan-African governmental body next February, where it would be put to a vote. “It is a license to oppose, regress on, or […]

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Delaware strengthens legal protections for LGBTQ+ families as other states move the opposite way

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As conservative lawmakers across the country target transgender rights and revisit long-settled questions about LGBTQ+ equality, Delaware moved in the opposite direction. On Tuesday, Gov. Matt Meyer, a Democrat, signed legislation modernizing the state’s parentage laws, expanding legal protections for children and families formed through assisted reproduction, surrogacy, donor conception, and other paths to parenthood commonly used by LGBTQ+ people. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. The updated Delaware Parentage Act may lack the political flash of debates over bathrooms, sports, or marriage equality — but for many LGBTQ+ families, advocates say, few laws […]

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General Dynamics Protest June 24 in Windsor

The letter General Dynamics Out of Sonoma County sent to the landlord of General Dynamics, Foss Creek Partners, demanding they terminate their lease was ignored! Bob Fraser, Mark Davis, and Kelly McManus, the owners of Foss Creek Partners, are materially supporting a tenant who profits from weapons, genocide, and contracts with DHS / ICE right in our backyard. We won’t be ignored! On Wednesday June 24th at 12pm meet up at Windsor Town Green and we’ll march to the office of Foss Creek Partners and demand General Dynamics Out of Sonoma County!

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Mombo’s Pizza: Dine and Donate to Positive Images

Looking for a delicious way to support LGBTQIA+ community this Pride Month?Join Positive Images and Mombo’s Pizza for a Dine & Donate Pizza Party in Santa Rosa on June 25th! When you show our event flyer at Mombo’s, 25% of your purchase will be donated directly to Positive Images, helping us continue providing life-saving support and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ community members.  June 25th |  4:00–8:00 PM Mombo’s Pizza – Santa Rosa1880 Mendocino Ave., Suite B Your purchase counts whether you:• Dine in• Order takeout• Purchase merchandise, including T-shirts and gift certificatesBring your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors—the more people who participate, the […]

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Frameline50: Interview with Brydie O’Connor the director of “Barbara Forever”

Pioneering lesbian filmmaker, former San Franciscan, and Frameline Award winner Barbara Hammer takes center stage in Brydie O’Connor’s Teddy Award-winning debut feature. When Hammer came out as a lesbian in the ‘70s she “took off on a motorcycle with a super-8 camera,” leading to groundbreaking queer and experimental works like Dyketactics (1974) — one of the first-ever lesbian films — and, later, her celebrated first feature, Nitrate Kisses (1992). Throughout her monumental career, Hammer made over 90 moving-image works that often centered on her own life, body, and lovers — a monumental decision when such life-affirming, honest depictions of sapphic people were scarce. Bolstered by exquisitely edited archival […]

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Bangladesh university condemned as students reportedly expelled and handed to police over alleged homosexuality

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Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University has been condemned by advocacy groups for their treatment of students (Image: Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University) A technical university in Bangladesh has reportedly expelled four students and handed two others to police following allegations of homosexuality, prompting condemnation in a statement by JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF). JMBF chief adviser Robert Simon said: “When an educational institution attempts to control private life, personal relationships, and sexual identity, it ceases to be a place of education and humanity and instead becomes an instrument of oppression. This must stop immediately”. JMBF said the incidents […]

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Zelensky Backs New Discussions On LGBTQ Rights

The Kyiv Independent reports: There should be open public discussion about the rights of the LGBTQ+ community in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on June 11, in a rare reference to the topic. Zelensky’s comment came during a cultural event in Kyiv, as legislative efforts to advance LGBTQ+ rights in Ukraine continue to face slow progress, despite growing public support in recent years. Oleksandr Demenko, a veteran and head of an LGBTQ+ military and veterans NGO asked the president whether Ukraine needs cultural products that “normalize LGBTQ+ topic” and help increase public tolerance in the country. “I believe that everything should be […]

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Hakeem Jeffries vows that House Democrats will stand with trans Americans ‘always and forever’

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As the Trump administration continues its unprecedented assault on LGBTQ+ rights, some of the nation’s most prominent queer leaders and allies gathered Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., with a message that was equal parts warning, celebration, and call to action: don’t give up. Bob the Drag Queen hosted Equality PAC’s annual National Pride Gala, attended by members of Congress, activists, celebrities, and donors, packed a ballroom just blocks from the Capitol, where speakers repeatedly returned to a common refrain — that the current wave of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, particularly those targeting transgender people, can be defeated through political organizing, visibility, and persistence. Stay up to […]

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Key West Cancels Arch Due To DeSantis’s DEI Law

The Key West Business Guild writes: The City Attorney has now confirmed what many feared and sadly what we anticipated: Florida’s new Senate Bill 1134 effectively ended the Rainbow Arch project before it could even begin. According to the City’s legal opinion, the Rainbow Art project cannot lawfully proceed because its purpose was to celebrate diversity, inclusion, and the freedom of LGBTQ+ people to live openly and authentically. The attorney concluded that even if the arch had been completed before the law takes effect on January 1, 2027, it would still be subject to the statute because it would require ongoing […]

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