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Donate Now to the National Center for Transgender Equality to Protect Trans Rights

It’s a pivotal time for the trans community. Anti-trans lawmakers have rushed to restrict trans rights at every turn. By mid-May, 110 anti-trans bills had advanced for votes in state legislatures across the country.    NCTE helped to defeat 66 of them.    Pride is a time to celebrate these wins, to remember our collective strength, and to joyfully resist queer and trans oppression.    Trans people have always been here. We’ll always be here – no matter how hard our opposition tries to change that. In the face of threats to our rights and safety, we will protect each other.    This Pride month, we’re fundraising for trans rights in the lead up to Give […]

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Summer Camp for LGBTQ+ Adults Celebrates 25th Anniversary

‘Camp’ Camp, America’s premier summer camp for LGBTQ+ adults, is hosting its milestone 25th Anniversary Season this August 20-27. Since 1997, queer travelers searching for a unique all-inclusive vacation have found relaxation, excitement, and new life-long community at a week-long summer camp experience that many attendees have continued to declare the “best time ever!” for over two decades. Twenty-five years ago, few LGBTQ+ vacations existed, and those that did were cruises or resorts that largely revolved around the party scene. The intention was for ‘Camp’ Camp to be a place that would foster true connection and community-building among queer folx of […]

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Maryland governor signs executive order protecting gender-affirming care

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As GOP-led states continue to ban medically necessary care for trans youth and some adults, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) has signed an executive order protecting gender-affirming care. “In the state of Maryland, nobody should have to justify their own humanity,” Moore saidwhile signing the order at a Pride event. “This order is focused on ensuring Maryland is a safe place for gender-affirming care, especially as other states take misguided and hateful steps to make gender-affirming care cause for legal retribution. In Maryland, we are going to lead on this issue.” Lt. Gov. Aruna Miller said the order shows that “this administration is […]

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Pro Fisherman Loses Sponsor After Backing Death for LGBTs Ugandan Law

Newsweek reports: Canyon Club Brewery in California announced on Monday that it was cutting ties with a professional fisherman after he expressed support for a new anti-gay law in Uganda. “We learned of Mr Dyer’s view this morning and immediately severed our relationship with him. We could not disagree more strenuously with Mr. Dyer’s view and the abomination that is going on in Uganda,” the Canyon Club Brewery in California said in response to a tweet that shared screenshots of Blake Dyer’s support of the new law. Dyer’s Twitter account has been deleted, but screenshots posted on social media showed him […]

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The Southern Poverty Law Center Labels Anti-LGBTQ Moms for Liberty a Hate Group

USA Today reports: The Southern Poverty Law Center is for the first time labeling Florida-headquartered Moms for Liberty and 11 other right-wing “parents’ rights” groups as extremist groups in its annual report, released Tuesday. Moms for Liberty and the other organizations are being designated as “anti-government extremist groups,” based on longstanding criteria, explained SPLC Intelligence Project Director Susan Corke. Corke said the grassroots conservative groups are part of a new front in the battle against inclusivity in schools, though they are drawing from ideas rooted in age-old white supremacy. The Florida-headquartered Moms for Liberty has hit the headlines across the country […]

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ACLU sues Idaho for “unprecedented” gender-affirming care ban

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a lawsuit challenging Idaho’s gender-affirming care ban for transgender youth.  The organization is suing alongside other groups and law firms on behalf of two families who believe the law violates the U.S. Constitution. It is the eighth lawsuit filed by the ACLU and its affiliates against trans health care bans, according to the Los Angeles Blade. Lawsuits have also been filed in Arkansas, Nebraska, Montana, Oklahoma, Indiana, Tennessee, and Kentucky.  “This law is a dangerous intrusion upon the rights and lives of Idaho families,” said Amy Dundon, a Legislative Strategist with the ACLU of Idaho. “Our […]

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‘Pride Is More Than a Parade’ Says Human Rights Campaign

The Human Rights Campaign has kicked off Pride Month with a powerful video calling for LGBTQ+ people and allies to “fight back with Pride.” In the clip, actresses Sheryl Lee Ralph and Alexandra Billings tell viewers that the march toward racial, queer, and reproductive justice is not over. “Just because you have rights today does not mean that you will have rights tomorrow,” Lee Ralph says in the video. Billings emphasizes that Pride emerged from protests. “You come from a family of revolution,” she says. “That is the foundation from which you were born. You literally come from human beings who […]

OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival Happening This Weekend at Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol

OUTwatch – Wine Country’s LGBTQI Film Festival will happen Friday, June 9 through Sunday, June 11 as part of Sonoma County Pride’s Calendar of Events. After a three-year pandemic pause, OUTwatchreturns to showcase three entertaining narrative films and two thought-provoking documentaries. Rialto Cinemas in Sebastopol will again play host to the festival.  The schedule is: Friday, June 9, 7 p.m. Maybe Someday During a cross-country trip, Jay, a 40-something photographer, ponders her life after her separation from her wife but a stop in her hometown sees the return of her high school crush and her gay bestie who keeps her laughing.  Saturday, June 10, 4 p.m. WildhoodWhen Link discovers […]

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Marriage Equality Gets a Boost in South Korea

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Lawmakers in South Korea have introduced legislation that would extend the right to marry to same-sex couples. This important legislation would finally enshrine the rights of same-sex couples in the country. The bill would amend the gendered definition of marriage in the country’s civil code, allowing same-sex couples to marry and extending them the same rights and benefits afforded to heterosexual married couples. Meanwhile, the National Assembly is also considering legislation that would create civil partnerships as an alternative to marriage for both same-sex couples and heterosexual couples. In the absence of partnership recognition, same-sex couples in South Korea are […]

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Trans Woman Inmate Reaches Landmark Settlement with Minnesota Prison System

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The legal team of a transgender woman incarcerated in Minnesota on Thursday announced she will be transferred to a women’s prison as part of a landmark settlement with the state’s Department of Corrections. The settlement also guarantees affirmative medical care and appropriate housing for other trans prisoners. Christina Lusk, 57, sued the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC) last year when they denied her gender-affirming medical care and housed her in a men’s prison after she pled guilty to a drug charge in 2019. Lusk came out as transgender and started hormone replacement therapy in 2008, and legally changed her name in 2018. At the time of […]

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