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CHP Worked with Neo-Nazis to Bust Anti-racist Demonstrators

Newly revealed documents show that California Highway Patrol officers asked neo-Nazis to help them identify anti-racist activists who attended a counter demonstration against white nationalism last June. The Guardian reports that CHP officers worked with Derik Punneo, a member of the neo-Nazi-aligned Traditional Workers Party, and showed him photos of anti-racist activists to see if he could identify them. “We’re pretty much going after them,” officers told Punneo. “We’re looking at you as the victim.” The officers wanted the anti-racist activists identified as part of an investigation into violence that broke out during a neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento last June, […]

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Judge Rules for Bakery Can Continue to Refuse to Make Same-sex Wedding Cakes

On Monday Kern County Superior Court Judge David Lampe ruled that owner Cathy Miller can continue to refuse to make wedding cakes for same sex couples. “The State cannot succeed on the facts presented as a matter of law. The right to freedom of speech under the First Amendment outweighs the State’s interest in ensuring a freely accessible marketplace,” Lampe wrote in his ruling. “The right of freedom of thought guaranteed by the First Amendment includes the right to speak, and the right to refrain from speaking. Sometimes the most profound protest is silence.” The case, which has received national […]

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Coachella Co-owner Charitable Filing Shows support for Anti-LGBTQ Groups

Coachella co-owner Philip Anschutz has once again come under scrutiny for bankrolling right-wing, anti-LGBTQ organizations at odds with the progressively minded music festival. A new tax filing shows The Anschutz Foundation donated at least $325,000 between Dec. 2015 and Nov. 2016 to organizations with an explicit anti-LGBTQ mission, which was first reported by Pitchfork. Anschutz, 78, owns Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) and AEG Live, which is the second most-successful live-events promoter in the world. The company is responsible for a wide array of touring acts via AEG Presents including Elton John, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran, Billy Joel, Lorde […]

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Documenting LGBT American Indian Organizing

Regarded as the first organization of its kind, Gay American Indians (GAI) was established in San Francisco in 1975 at the height of gay liberation. Founded by Barbara Cameron (1954-2002) and Randy Burns, GAI initially was a social club for queer American Indians who often felt unwelcome in the LGBTQ community due to prejudice and in American Indian organizations due to homophobia. The group went on to reclaim tribal traditions honoring two-spirit people who embraced mixed gender identities and roles. The archives of the GLBT Historical Society hold a small number of collections of organizational records and personal papers documenting […]

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Dare to Bare – Clothing Optional Resorts Next Frontier in Gay Travel

Looking for something new and exciting to try in 2018?  The next frontier for adventurous travelers is vacationing in the buff. Yes, we’re talking full monty!  At least that’s what’s happening in Palm Springs where a growing string of clothing optional resorts are popping up, hoping to lure in the uninhibited among us. Inndulge Resort is one of the original clothing optional resorts in Palm Springs and with its epic mountain views and legendary kidney-shaped swimming pool, it still ranks among the area’s most popular.  It first opened 21-years ago and caters to a gay clientele. Jon Jackson and his […]

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LA Same-sex Couple Suing State Department for Denying Recognition of the U.S. Citizenship of One of Their Twin Sons

  Monday, Immigration Equality filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department for refusing to recognize the valid marriage of Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks, a same-sex couples living with their twin sons in Los Angeles, and for disenfranchising their son Ethan by denying recognition of his rightful U.S. citizenship at birth, while granting his twin brother’s citizenship. Andrew is a U.S. citizen who grew up in Santa Monica. He moved to Israel to work and study, and it was there that he met Elad, his future husband. Andrew and Elad knew they wanted to marry and have a family, but […]

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AHF TV Ad Blasts Bill that Curtails Nonprofit Hospitals’ Participation in the 340B Program

Drug pricing advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) have rolled out a new TV and radio ad campaign in the San Diego market blasting Congressman Scott Peters (D-CA 52nd District) for sponsoring a bill that would severely curtail nonprofit hospitals’ participation in the 340B program, a federally-administered drug discount pricing program created to extend the lifeline of care and services that safety net hospitals and providers are able to deliver. Peters, a San Diego Democrat, co-sponsored the bill with Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN). Days before the December Congressional Recess and with little to no public input or scrutiny, he and […]

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Police Investigate Whether Killing Of Student Blaze Bernstein Was A ‘Hate Crime’

Investigators are working to determine whether the slaying of 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student Blaze Bernstein was a “hate crime,” officials said Wednesday. Samuel Lincoln Woodward, a 20-year-old former high school classmate of Bernstein, was charged Wednesday with his murder, as well as a sentence enhancement for using a knife, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced at a news conference. Police discovered Bernstein’s body, which had been stabbed over 20 times, buried in a shallow grave Jan. 9 in a park in Lake Forest, California, roughly 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The discovery came nearly a week after his […]

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Equality California 2017 Legislative Scorecard Demonstrates Impact of Advocacy of Sacramento and Washington, D.C.

Equality California’s Legislative Scorecard for 2017, rates lawmakers in both Sacramento and Washington, D.C. on how they voted on Equality California’s highest priority legislation. “For the first time ever, our scorecard shows the strength of our advocacy not only in the California Legislature, but also in Congress,” said Rick Zbur, executive director of Equality California. “We aren’t allowing the threats of the Trump Administration to go unanswered and will use these scores to educate our community about legislators’ stances on LGBTQ issues and hold them accountable for their votes in the upcoming 2018 elections. Despite the barriers we face, particularly in […]

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Exhibition Highlights Radical History of Black Lesbian Scholar Angela Davis

Angela Davis (center, no glasses) enters Royce Hall at UCLA for her first philosophy lecture in October 1969. Kendra Alexander (right, with glasses) A new exhibition at the GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th St., San Francisco, drawing on rare posters and ephemera from a private collection will highlight the journey of black lesbian activist Angela Davis: from radical scholar, to political prisoner, to revolutionary icon, to public intellectual. Curated by collector Lisbet Tellefsen and historian Amy Sueyoshi, “Angela Davis: OUTspoken” considers some of the roles Davis has played in the American political imaginary and explores the complexity and impact of her […]

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