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LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK NORTH AMERICA Returns April 20-26

Lesbian Visibility Week North America (#LVW26), powered by The Curve Foundation, kicks off on Monday, April 20 and runs through Sunday, April 26 with a diverse range of coordinated events built on a simple but powerful truth: visibility boosts belonging and safety. The yearly celebration ensures that LGBTQ+ women’s and nonbinary people’s lives, culture, and communities are visible in public, social, and cultural spaces through intergenerational programming and community building. This year’s Lesbian Visibility Week embraces the theme Health & Wellbeing through activities spanning high-profile receptions, civic proclamations, cultural festivals, wellness gatherings, sports events, and more. With hundreds of events planned across cities […]

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Carlson To Launch Own Imprint With “Ex-Gay” Book

The Guardian reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is set to launch his own imprint and publish books by the likes of Russell Brand and “alt-right” commentator Milo Yiannopoulos. The imprint, Tucker Carlson Books, will be part of the US-based publisher Skyhorse. Among the titles set to be published by Carlson’s imprint is Brand’s How to Become a Christian in Seven Days,described by Skyhorse as a “testimony and guide to a timeless, yet zeitgeist-capturing, grounded, yet psychedelic encounter with Christ”. Carlson’s imprint will also publish Yiannopoulos’s book, Ex Gay. Yiannopoulos has previously been shunned by publishers, with one insider calling his 2017 memoir,Dangerous, a […]

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LGBTQ+ people have always made history. But students are only just starting to learn that.

There has never been a time when LGBTQ+ people did not exist in classrooms, but for most of the history of American education, they were invisible. In addition to closeted students and teachers, classes could move through years of history, literature, and health classes without encountering queer people in any direct way. In practice, that often meant students would never hear the word “gay,” let alone any other queer identities.  Curriculum decisions have always determined which histories are treated as central and which are left out. For LGBTQ+ people, this is a particularly potent problem in K–12 schools, where discussions […]

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Trump’s Education Department ends agreement to protect trans students

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The Trump administration has backed out of an agreement to protect trans students in five district schools and a college. AP reported that the Education Department terminated the agreements, which were previously negotiated by the Obama and Biden administrations under Title IX, on 6 April. Title IX is a civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools and other education programmes that receive funding from the federal government. The previous administrations interpreted the law to include protections for LGBTQ+ students, particularly trans students. The original agreement pledged to help protect trans students by setting a federal obligation for the schools to run measures like faculty training […]

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Trump Admin Settles Lawsuit By LGBTQ Groups, Will Allow Pride Flag To Return To NYC Stonewall Monument

The federal government agreed on Monday that the rainbow Pride flag could fly at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, reversing its decision to remove it and dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives. The removal of the Pride flag in February from the monument, which is in Greenwich Village, drew fierce backlash from L.G.B.T.Q. people across the country and state and local elected officials in New York, who saw it as an attack on the symbolic heart of the gay rights movement. The agreement, which was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, settled a […]

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New report shows affirming adults are critical to the success of LGBTQ+ students

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Glisten, the LGBTQ+ education advocacy group, has a new report out detailing what it’s like to be an LGBTQ+ student today, “at a time when their identities are being weaponized against them.” Those identities “are being debated and restricted,” said the group’s CEO, Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, and “this study speaks truth to a menacing power.” Speaking the truth in this year’s report were the students themselves; for the first time, Glisten conducted focus groups to hear the kids describe their answers in their own words. Key findings paint a layered portrait of LGBTQ+ youth who “are whole people with complex lives that defy the […]

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Attacks on abortion and gender-affirming care are inextricably linked

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What does a person seeking abortion care have in common with a young trans person seeking gender-affirming care? More than most people think. The campaign to restrict gender-affirming care follows a well-worn and ultimately successful playbook designed by anti-abortion advocates. That success has emboldened them to target intersecting issues and groups who face the steepest barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health care, like young people.  Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. Now, the movements to restrict gender-affirming care and abortion care are evolving together […]

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South Carolina man faces hate crime charges after shooting into Myrtle Beach LGBTQ+ nightclub

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A South Carolina man has been charged under a local hate crime ordinance after authorities say he fired multiple gunshots into a well-known LGBTQ+ nightclub in Myrtle Beach, according to The Sun News. Timothy James Truett, 37, was arrested Thursday and charged with assault or intimidation based on political opinions or the exercise of civil rights, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and discharging a firearm into a dwelling, Myrtle Beach police told the outlet. The charges stem from a Wednesday morning shooting at Pulse Ultra Club, an LGBTQ+ nightclub that has served the community for nearly 15 years. The venue is not affiliated with Pulse […]

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TV judge slams homophobic father who sued his gay son for conversion therapy costs

Shortly after this discovery, Gregory spent $6,000 to send his son to conversion therapy, which Michael ended up running away from due to the toxic and cruel conditions at the establishment. Michael only agreed to attend conversion therapy out of fear that his parents would disown him and throw him out of the house. At first, Gregory tried to gaslight the situation into making the son responsible for not “fulfilling his promise” of attending conversion therapy, which Judge Williams quickly denounced in the viral clip. “You’ve gaslit this young man for far too long. He’s still a youth and he’s […]

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Texas wants Bibles in public classrooms as another way to bully, harm, and exclude LGBTQ+ kids

I went to a Catholic school for eight years, so I had no choice when it came to learning about the Bible. I remember being confused by scripture on many occasions. As a child, I could not comprehend how Noah got all those animals onto a small boat. It was around the same time I began to wonder how Santa could carry presents for all the children in the world on his small sleigh. Nevertheless, I came to respect the Bible and what it stood for. Some might say it was eight years of brainwashing, but I prefer to think of […]

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