Award-winning UpRising Bakery and Café (UpRising) in Lake in the Hills faces possible closure March 31 after many months of revenue losses and ongoing anti-LGBTQ+ harassment. This stems from the harassment owner Corinna Sac received when
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Posted inFrom Philadelphia Gay News
City issues trans-affirming guidelines for employees
Celena Morrison called it “affirming” to have the City of Philadelphia put forth guidelines to support transgender city employees. Morrison, who has served as executive director for the Office of LGBT Affairs since 2020, is the first openly trans person to lead a government office. “I always say it is great when you have the Read More
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Protesters respond to anti-drag legislation
Protesters at the pro-drag rally. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) About 100 protesters gathered in Main Street Gardens at noon on Saturday, March 18, in response to bills in the Texas Legislature attacking drag performers. The protest followed by march was organized by someone only identified as Victoria. Speakers included drag performers Classy Misdemeanor and Walter Lee, Read More
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Md. House of Delegates approves transgender rights bill
The Maryland House of Delegates on Saturday approved a bill that would require the state’s Medicaid program to cover gender-affirming treatment for transgender people. House Bill 283, or the Trans Health Equity Act, passed by a 93-37 vote margin. The measure now goes before the Maryland Senate. “Proud that the MD House of Delegates passed the Read More
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Stacey Stevenson is using her past for a brighter future for lll LGBTQ+ families
After experiencing discrimination from her parents, school, adoption agencies, and too many others, Stacey Stevenson has formed a happy family and found a home working for acceptance for all LGBTQ+ families like hers. Stevenson had what she calls “COVID clarity” in 2020, taking stock of what she really wanted out of life and ditching her Read More
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Wiener bill would protect LGBTQ foster youth from non-affirming homes
A California lawmaker announced a bill Friday would limit the ability of prospective foster parents who aren’t affirming of LGBTQ youth identity to become resource families.
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Whitman-Walker Health’s Enterprising Women
Every year, Tagg Magazine‘s Enterprising Women spring issue features LGBTQ+ women making a difference in their communities and industries. We’ve profiled over 65 queer women from across the country. This year’s issue focuses on the enterprising women of Whitman-Walker Health, a non-profit organization offering affirming community-based health and wellness services to all with a special Read More
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Arkansas governor signs anti-trans medical malpractice bill
Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law a measure that makes it easier to sue providers of gender-affirming care for children, ABC News reported. This move, involving a law that will take effect this
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Vt. school banned from state sports events for anti-transgender policies
A Christian school that chose to forfeit a girls’ basketball tournament game rather than play against a team with a transgender player has been banned from Vermont school sporting events, VTDigger reports. The Vermont Principals’ Association, which oversees school athletics in the state, said the Mid Vermont Christian School in Quechee will no longer be Read More
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“Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls” had me wishing I was a queer kid
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine myself wanting to return to middle school. But all that changed when I watched Julianna Notten’s feature debut Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls, a queer comedy that follows a middle school student as she devises a plan to have her first kiss at prom. Based on a Read More
Posted inFrom Dallas Voice
State rep proposes bill allowing minors to sue drag queens
State Rep. Steve Toth, crusader against drag In yet another effort to turn time back more than a century or so and create what some folks are calling “a bounty hunting culture,” Texas state Rep. Steve Toth — a Republican, believe it or not — has filed a bill that would allow anybody who saw Read More
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Study: Outcomes for children similar regardless of the LGBTQ+ identity of the children’s parents
NEW YORK — This week a new report was released by BMJ Global Health examining outcomes between LGBTQ+ families and families headed by heterosexual couples. The report, a literature review and synthesis of dozens of academic
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Pence targets Buttigieg with homophobic remarks at D.C. event
Former Vice President Mike Pence made homophobic remarks about U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, D.C. Saturday night, a source familiar with the matter told The Washington Blade. Per tradition, headliners from both parties deliver remarks meant to be humorous during the dinner. Pence represented the Republicans while Read More
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Political Notes: CA LGBTQ 2024 US House races begin to take shape
With less than a year until the 2024 primary election in California, the U.S. House races in the state with LGBTQ candidates are beginning to come into focus.
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As SF moves to end travel ban, gay legislator stands by state policy
With San Francisco officials moving to repeal their restriction on taxpayer-funded travel to conservative states, the author of California’s travel ban policy has no plans to follow suit.
Posted inFrom Dallas Voice
Fort Worth’s YesterQueer hosting Gay History Happy Hour with Carolyn Miles
Carolyn Miles in 1995 in front of The Oasis (also known as Cowgirls Oasis) and Miles in 2022 in front her former bar’s current incarnation, The Chat Room Lounge. In celebration of Women’s History Month, YesterQueer: The Fort Worth Gay History Project continues its series of Gay History Happy Hours with this month’s topic, “Where Read More
Posted inFrom Tagg Magazine
5 insightful memoirs by queer and trans women
Women’s stories are powerful and reading about the lives of these women in their own words will open your mind to life lessons you’d never thought of before. These five queer and trans women have shared their insights with their autobiographies in these pages and we recommend you pick up each of these books. Read More
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Police say no evidence of hate crime in Oakland stabbing death
Oakland police are investigating the stabbing death of a man but said there is no evidence yet that it was a hate crime.
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They’re banning the Rainbow Flag. Why should we care?
Across America, the conservative backlash escalates. Now they are systematically forcing towns and school districts to ban the Rainbow Flag, our global symbol of LGBTQ+ liberation and diversity. Since last summer, they’ve already claimed anti-queer victories in more than twenty towns and school districts across America by successfully prohibiting display of the Rainbow Flag on Read More
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Attorneys general say DeSantis is violating transgender students rights
In a letter sent Friday to Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a coalition of attorneys general from 15 states and D.C. notified the governor that it is their belief that he and his administration are violating the privacy and rights of university age transgender students. The letter’s lead signatory, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Read More