A Russian court has denied an appeal from WNBA player Brittney Griner’s appeal of a nine-year prison sentence on drug charges, according to NBC News. Griner had been hoping for a reduction to the sentence after
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SF Pride honors changemakers
San Francisco Pride honored community changemakers at its second annual Ken Jones Awards program October 20.
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Marriage equality now legal throughout Mexico
Same-sex couples can now legally marry across Mexico after lawmakers in Tamaulipas state on Wednesday approved a marriage equality bill. Mexico City in 2010 became the first jurisdiction in the country to allow same-sex couples to legally marry. The Mexican Supreme Court in 2015 ruled state laws that ban same-sex marriage are “discriminatory.” Lawmakers in […]
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LGBTQ candidates on the ballot in all 50 states for first time
The LGBTQ Victory Fund, the only national organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ leaders to public office, released its 2022 Out on the Trail report Wednesday. This is the only annual report on the number and diversity of LGBTQ candidates who ran for office in 2022. At least 1,065 openly LGBTQ people ran or are running for offices with elections in […]
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Election 2022: La’Tasha Mayes is ready for Harrisburg
In January 2023, La’Tasha Mayes, who is running unopposed for Pennsylvania’s 24th state house district, will join only a handful of openly LGBTQ elected officials in Harrisburg. She’ll also become the first out lesbian to serve in the General Assembly. Mayes grew up in West Philadelphia and went to college in Pittsburgh, where she has […]
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Leslie Jordan dies in Hollywood car crash
Beloved Out actor and comedian Leslie Jordan has died in a single-car crash Monday morning in Hollywood after suffering an unspecified medical emergency, a Los Angeles Police Department source said. The news of his death was first broken by entertainment gossip news website TMZ. The 67-year-old saw a resurgence of fame with his viral and hilarious videos […]
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LGBTQ+ HISTORY MONTH Podcast sheds light on forgotten murders of gay men in Montreal
This article first appeared in Windy City Times and is republished with permission. When people ask about or Google the murders of gay men in Montreal in the ’90s, it all leads to the podcast “The Village: The Montreal Murders.” LGBTQ+-rights advocates encouraged me to listen to the podcast.
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Odessa Kelly looks to make history in Tennessee House race
Odessa Kelly is the archetype of a grassroots community advocate turned politician. Her long, wavy locs frame the kind of smile that will lend you a cup of sugar or invite you to an impromptu backyard barbecue just because. Kelly speaks like someone who has been in the trenches, can relate to all our struggles, […]
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Political Notebook: Santa Claran Becker aims to be Bay Area’s first big city gay mayor
In such a liberal region as that of the Bay Area, it seems improbable that there has never been an LGBTQ person elected to a full-term as mayor of a large city. Since 2012 the Napa County city of Calistoga, population 5,346, has been led by Chris Canning, a gay man who will depart this […]
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Pennsylvania candidates — and their stances on LGBTQ issues — take the national stage
With mere weeks till Election Day, more than ten percent of Pennsylvania voters remain undecided in two of the most critical races in the country: John Fetterman and Mehmet Oz for the U.S. Senate, and Josh Shapiro and Doug Mastriano for governor. Whoever wins Pennsylvania’s Senate race could determine which party holds a majority in […]
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POLITICS Guide to the LGBTQ+ candidates in the state/local Nov. 8 elections
Please see https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/POLITICS-Guide-to-the-LGBTQ-candidates-in-the-state-local-Nov-8-elections/74125.html .
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PGN’s General Election Endorsements (11/8/22)
For more on our endorsements, see this week’s editorial. The post PGN’s General Election Endorsements (11/8/22) appeared first on Philadelphia Gay News.
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GOP introduces bill some view as national version of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law
Congressional Republicans introduced what some are calling a national version of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill also called the “Don’t Say Gay” measure, according to NBC News. On Oct. 18, U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana
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Transgender woman deported from U.S. murdered in Honduras
A transgender woman who the U.S. deported to Honduras earlier this year has been murdered. Reportar sin Miedo, the Washington Blade’s media partner in Honduras, reported a group of “hooded subjects” shot Melissa Núñez in Morocelí, a municipality in El Paraíso department in eastern Honduras, on Tuesday night. Initial reports indicate Núñez, 42, died from a gunshot […]
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13 of the biggest LGBTQ+ film festivals in the U.S.
Fall is LGBTQ+ film festival season and no matter where in the U.S. you are, there is bound to be one near you. Even if not, all of these have virtual festivals going on, too! You can enjoy the latest in queer film from the comfort of your living room. Frameline Location: San Francisco Next […]
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Racial-equity symposium in Andersonville on Nov. 5
Andersonville Chamber of Commerce (ACC), in partnership with Dynamic Cooperative, will host “Re-imagining Health, Safety and Racial Justice in Andersonville” a free, one-day collaborative learning environment to explore the meaning of
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Newly processed DNA evidence surfaces in 1987 D.C. lesbian murder
Using updated DNA testing technology, D.C. police lab technicians recently developed a full DNA profile of an unidentified male suspect from tissue samples taken from the scene of the May 1987 murder of a lesbian whose body was found in the Capitol Hill apartment of her girlfriend. Police said the victim, Greta Denise Rainey, 35, […]
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More than 20K attend Slovakia vigil after LGBTQ bar shooting
A vigil held Friday evening in the Slovakian capital city to honor the two victims killed and a third who was badly wounded in a shooting outside of the Tepláreň bar, a popular LGBTQ establishment in the old city, was also attended by the nation’s president and the European Parliament’s vice president. Organized by the […]
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Tagg Scholarship Fund joins the Wanda Alston Foundation
Lives change for the better when our community unites to help LGBTQ+ people in need. This is the spirit in which the Tagg Scholarship Fund is joining the Wanda Alston Foundation this fall. The move opens an exciting new chapter of potential growth for both organizations, which support LGBTQ+ youth. For Tagg Magazine Editor-in-Chief Eboné […]
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‘Beyond Ed Buck’ to kick off Black Alphabet Film Festival on Nov. 5
Black Alphabet a nonprofit committed to promoting equity awareness on behalf of the Black LGBTQ+ community through the use of media and the arts announced the 9th Annual Black Alphabet Film Festival (BAFF) will kick off with the