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Extra! Extra!: Amidst COVID-19, 62% of Black Trans Women Surveyed Are Also Living with HIV
This week’s Extra! Extra! takes a look at the latest criminal justice news in the wake of more police brutality and the Chauvin ruling, more perspectives on capitalist exploitations after the failed Bessemer union vote, LGBTQ+ news and, of course, the pandemic.
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Extra! Extra!: What’s Changing – and Staying the Same – in Minneapolis After George Floyd’s Death?
This week’s Extra! Extra! takes us back to the state where George Floyd died to check on the progress towards justice. We take a look at some of the implausible stories concocted by the same people who ask us to believe them when their body cams mysteriously fall off. We look at what’s happening — or what’s not happening, as the case maybe — on addressing corruption, police brutality and immigration. And, of course, a look at how the virus continues to impact our lives.
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Sunday Funday Spent Thanksgiving Riding a Motorcycle with Her Queer Girl Gang and Madonna, So
Madonna spent Thanksgiving at the Ali Forney center, a historic Anglican bishop is overseeing a historically gay occasion, rainbow laces are the new thing in rugby, the Swedes are doing it right again, and more good gay news!
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Trump Loses Latinx Support After Immigration Speech; We Gain Taco Trucks, Maybe
Trump’s hateful immigration speech is costing him support; major Supreme Court decision that restores voting rights to North Carolina, Britain still isn’t sure how to accomplish Brexit and more.
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Black Trans Woman Jazz Alford Killed in Alabama, the 22nd Trans Person Killed This Year
Jazz Alford is the 22nd trans person to be killed this year, the man who shot a teen lesbian couple in South Texas is charged with capital murder, Polish women shut down an abortion ban, and more news.
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What We Know About the Pulse Shooting in Orlando So Far
Links, updates, and further reading on the Pulse shooting, the aftermath, the victims, the gunman, gun control, politics, some resources and centering queer Latinx voices.
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Black Trans Woman Assaulted by Guard in DC Restroom, Proving Bathroom Bill Fight Is Far from Over
Mexico’s President is pushing for marriage equality, what happened at the Dem convention in Nevada, the first openly gay secretary of the US Army, and more.
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Democrats Sit In Over Gun Legislation while SCOTUS Releases Rulings Left and Right
So much news today! The Democrats’ sit-in in the House over gun legislation, SCOTUS rulings on affirmative action, the status of many undocumented people in the US, the Dollar General case, as well as rulings related to Freddie Gray’s death and trans kids using bathrooms at school, and more.
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LGBT Youth Get New GSA Name and Tagline; LGBT Elders Get Left Out of Key Legislation
The GSA is now more inclusive of all genders and sexualities but the Older Americans Act isn’t inclusive of LGBT elders; Islan Nettles’ killer will go to prison for 12 years; progress on Merrick Garland’s confirmation, a congresswoman crusading against online harassment and more.
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Mississippi Passes US’s Most Sweeping Anti-LGBT Rights Bill with HB1523, Strikes Fear into Hearts
Mississippi makes anti-LGBT history with HB1523, police who killed Jamar Clark won’t be charged, new studies about Islamophobia, surveillance and more, and lots on the aftermath of HB2 in North Carolina.
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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal Listens to Large Corporations, Vetoes Anti-Gay Law
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal will veto a “religious freedom” bill; a trans woman is sexually assaulted at Stonewall Inn; the ACLU and Lambda Legal are suing North Carolina officials; Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager, was charged with battery and more news.
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Spike Reported in LGBT People Reaching For Guns In Wake of Orlando Shooting
There’s been a spike in memberships for a LGBT pro-gun rights group and a new surge of Gays Against Guns; Black Lives Matter temporarily shuts down Toronto Pride, the UN voted to create a position dedicated to LGBT rights around the world, married lesbian parents can now be on their child’s birth certificate and more news stories.
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Tennessee Jumps Back on the Anti-Trans Bandwagon, Resurrects Dangerous Bathroom Bill
Tennessee has resurrected its bathroom bill that would hurt trans teens, what really happened with the judge’s verdict on Kesha’s lawsuit, new statistics about sexual assault, and more.
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The Movement to Save Sarah Proves “Praying Away the Gay” Still a Real Danger
How her extended family is trying to save Sarah from a Christian “pray away the gay” camp, new ads in NY affirming trans people’s bathroom rights, a lesbian chef attacked in Charlotte, NC, and more.
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The Other Shoe Drops: North Carolina and Mississippi Both Face Federal Lawsuits for Anti-LGBT Laws
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says some truly awesome words to trans people and against North Carolina’s HB2, The ACLU of Mississippi is challenging the state’s “religious freedom” law, a group of parents and students filed a federal lawsuit because they believe they’re being discriminated when a trans girl uses the correct facilities at their school and more news.
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Oxford, Alabama Takes Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills to a New, Dire Level
One city in Alabama has drawn a new line in the sand with bathroom bills, organizing against police violence, a bill about counselors in TN that’s dangerous for LGBT people, and more.
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11 States Sue Obama Administration Over Bathroom Guidelines for Trans Kids in Collective Tantrum
The lawsuit in response to the Obama administration’s guidelines on trans bathroom usage in schools, Desmond Tutu’s daughter can’t officiate as a priest after marrying her wife, backlash against the Safe Schools Coalition in Australia and more.
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Indiana Aims to Restrict Abortion Access Even More Than It Does Now With Horrific New Bill
Indiana’s abortion bill might be the most restrictive in the nation, if that’s fathomable, it’s another Super Tuesday so here’s what you should look out for, the White House appoints its first transgender LGBT liaison, LGBT advocates in Oklahoma blocked 27 anti-LGBT bills this session and more news!
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Kentucky Legislator Wants to Defeat Marriage Equality with the Power of “Matrimony”
A KY legislator thinks he’s cracked the code on how to stop marriage equality; how and why anti-LGBT sentiment is ramping up in Indonesia, the big abortion case the SCOTUS just heard, and more.
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Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal Makes Missouri History Attempting to Filibuster Anti-LGBT Bill
A heroic attempt to filibuster for LGBT rights in Missouri, lots of new data from police violence to environmentalism, a terrifying transphobic Tennessee law, and more.