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Jul 10 2024
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Former Charleston councilmember, LGBTQ advocate Robert Sheets dies at 73
Charleston Gazette-MailJul 17 2024
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Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation champions healthy minds, hearts for LGBTQ+ communities
Named in memory of Hugh “Huey” Lane, the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation was founded in 2017 to improve the health of the LGBTQ+ and HIV communities. Huey lived during a time where being out and openly talking about HIV were highly stigmatized. In his honor, the Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation strives to address both LGBTQ+ and HIV bias across the many intersections of our communities. The goal is
New Pittsburgh CourierJul 17 2024
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Appeals court upholds block on expanding Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s block on a new Biden Administration rule that would expand Title IX discrimination protections for gay and transgender students in Tennessee and five other states. The ruling comes as judges in nearly a dozen states have blocked the Department of Education rule from taking effect on Aug. 1. Attorneys general from
The TennesseanJun 06 2024
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9 LGBTQ+ Authors on the First Books They Saw Themselves In
While certain elements of Pride Month can feel dissonant, at best (for example: why am I enjoying a rainbow flag display in the domestic terminal at Newark when many trans and gender-nonconforming people still can’t get health care?), one of the best parts of June’s annual celebration of all things rainbow-colored is enjoying the best that the LGBTQ+ literary community has to offer. With that
VogueJul 17 2024
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DC LGBTQ nonprofit founder Ruby Corado pleads guilty to wire fraud
As part of a plea agreement, Ruby Corado, 53, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Wednesday to a wire fraud charge that stemmed from accusations she stole the emergency relief funds for personal use, according to a news release from the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Corado’s nonprofit received more than $1.3 million of taxpayer-backed funds from the Paycheck
WTOPJul 17 2024
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These Sacramento nonprofits offer mental health, suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ youth
At home, Shalimar Boulous worried about backlash against their identity constantly. Boulous is genderqueer, uses they/them pronouns and came out in their late 20s. When navigating their identity, they faced intense episodes of depression and anxiety and struggled with gender dysphoria. But through finding a community of other lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, Boulous
The Sacramento BeeJul 16 2024
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SpaceX Will Leave CA Over Ban On Forced Outing Of LGBTQ Students: Musk
HAWTHORNE, CA — Elon Musk announced Tuesday he would be leaving California, and he was taking SpaceX and his social media company X with him to Texas in protest of a state law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that prevents California schools from notifying parents if their children identify as transgender. Musk posted on X Tuesday that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to
Patch.comJun 29 2024
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State Department hosts meeting on LGBTQ rights and foreign policy
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday hosted a group of LGBTQ activists and politicians from around the world at the State Department. The event — described as a “Convening on U.S. Foreign Policy: National Security, Inclusive Development, and the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons” — took place before the State Department’s annual Pride Month reception. Participants included: • Jessica
Washington BladeJun 29 2024
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Queer musicology: Singer explores LGBTQ+ history in 'Sapphism in Song'
Sapphic songs soothe with sound in Jen Lamont’s curated musical presentation of queer art songs in "Sapphism in Song." As a continued part of this year’s Queer As Faust Festival, Lamont’s "Sapphism in Song: A Lecture Recital of English Art Songs by LGBTQ+ Women Composers from 1900 to the Present" will be presented at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 13. By all accounts, Jen Lamont, an opera singer who
Tallahassee Democrat