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26 May 2019

Coming Out The LGBT Cultural Revolution before Stonewall (video)

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Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qcddyFHmFw ezs note: Short, but very good. See it if you can.

Donald Trump - Why Trump’s Stonewalling Legal Strategy Will Keep Failing

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Renato Mariotti Politico Credit: http://www.never-nervous.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/16650773_10202529738082539_621309430_o.j...

Liberia/Costa Rica - From the Street to the Classroom: How Two Trans Women Relaunched Their Studies

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Noelia Esquivel Voice Of Guanacaste Monrovia, Liberia Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Downtown_Mo...

civil rights - Thousands of immigrants suffer in solitary confinement in U.S. detention centers

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Hannah Rappleye etc. NBC News Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/Dachau_Solitary_Confinement.jpg ple...

Hawaii - Hawaii's Remarkable Women: Hinaleimoana Kwai Kong Wong

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Robert Kekaula KITV Honolulu, HI Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/First_Hawaiian_Center_Tower_in_H...

lead story - Why violence against transgender Americans is a crisis that’s under reported

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Anna Nawaz PBS News Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/SIG_Pro_by_Augustas_Didzgalvis.jpg please pre...

25 May 2019

Donald Trump - Trump’s Public Enemies List Is an Impeachable Offense

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David R. Lurie The Daily Beast ezs note: Deja vu, all over again... Credit: https://mikemcclaughry.files.wordpress.com/2015/...

Kenya - Kenya: Court Upholds Archaic Anti-Homosexuality Laws

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Press Human Rights Watch Nairobi, Kenya Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Co-operative_Bank_of_Keny...

civil rights - Cuomo Blasts Trump Admin’s Rollback Of Transgender Health Care Protections

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Nick Reisman Spectrum News Albany, NY Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Albany_Institute_of_History...

Kentucky - Kentucky City Rejects Anti-Discrimination Ordinance

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Press WUKY Bowling Green, KY Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Disc_golf_course_Bowling_Green_Kentu...

lead story - Protesters demand end to killings of transgender women, Trump rollbacks

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Daniel Trotta Reuters New York City, NY Washington Square Park Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/...

24 May 2019

Rhode Island - Safe Zones In Rhode Island Helping LGBTQ Community

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Press WLNE Providence, RI Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/ProvidencePerformingArtsCenter.jpg ...

lead story - ‘Henry Danger’ Actor Reveals He’s Transgender, Transitioned 20 Years Ago

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Bruce Haring Deadline Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5d/Henry_Danger_logo.png please press: deadline.c...

23 May 2019

Donald Trump - Trump talks 'Crazy Nancy' Pelosi and treason at wild press conference

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Jonathan Allen NBC News Washington DC Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN0ea6Gnhrs (video) please press: www.n...

civil rights - While the Trump administration backtracks, Colorado is plowing forward on transgender rights

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Jennifer Brown Colorado Sun Denver, CO Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/University_of_Denver_campu...

Oregon - Parents sue Woodburn schools after teacher educates son about being transgender

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Whitney Woodworth Statesman Journal Woodburn, OR Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/OR_Woodburn_squa...

lead story - HUD proposes rule critics say would roll back protections for transgender homeless

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Veronica Straqualursi CNN Washington DC HUD building Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Department...

22 May 2019

civil rights - Remembering a transgender activist who taught Iowans to live authentically without fear

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Rekha Basu Des Moines Register Des Moines, IA Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/DesMoinesBotanicalC...

Montana - Political commissioner ends year-old complaint against Montana Family Foundation

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Tom Lutey Ravalli Republic Helena, MT Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/20030826CarrollCollegeFromM...

lead story - Dallas police looking into similarities in cases of 2 transgender women fatally shot, third stabbed

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Ryan W. Miller USA Today Dallas, TX Cedars Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Dallas_Police_Depart...

21 May 2019

Florida - Miami Springs Now Has Florida's First Transgender Lutheran Pastor

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Joshua Ceballos Miami New Times Miami Springs, FL Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Glenn_H._Curtis...

lead story - Two transgender women of color killed in same weekend, one arrest made

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Janelle Griffith NBC News Philadelphia, PA President's House (Washington/Adams) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wi...

20 May 2019

Algeria/UK - The Artist Kader Attia Mocks Colonial History, then Heals Its Effects

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Heba Elkayal Al-Fanar Media Algiers, Algeria Notre Dame d'Afrique Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common...

19 May 2019

Colorado - One of the Colorado school shooters is a transgender boy

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Alex Bollinger LGBTQ Nation Highlands Ranch, CO (CDP) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Highlands_R...

lead story - Trans dads tell doctors: 'You can be a man and have a baby'

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Julie Compton NBC News Louisville, KY Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Churchill_Downs_1901.jpg ...

18 May 2019

Connecticut - ‘Gay panic defense’ would end under proposed CT law

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Lisa Backus CT Post New Haven, CT Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Second_meeting_house%2C_new_haven%2C...

lead story - Fertility Practices, Coverage Lacking for Transgender People

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Shira Stein Bloomberg Law Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/Cryopreservation_USDA_Gene_Bank.jpg ple...

17 May 2019

Rhode Island - Because Transgender is Beautiful

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Press Rhode Island Providence, RI Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/ProvidenceCityHall1881.png ...

lead story - Transgender people know the Equality Act won't end transphobia. But it will still protect us.

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LaLa Zannell NBC News Credit: https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/media/39241/equality-act-2010/large/ed_eqact2010.jpg please press...

16 May 2019

lead story - Study shows increased risk of breast cancer in transgender women

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Press EurekAlert! Credit: https://www.aicr.org/assets/cancer-site-matrices/premenopausal-breast.png please press: www.eureka...

15 May 2019

civil rights - There’s A Growing Rift On The Religious Right About How To Deal With LGBT People

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Dominic Holden BuzzFeed News Baikal Rift Zone Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Baikal-2.png pl...

New Jersey - New Jersey Joins Sister States in Opposition to Transgender Military Ban

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Press Insider NJ Trenton, NJ Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Old_Barracks%2C_South_Willow_Street%2...

lead story - This opera singer says the ‘hype’ should be on her voice, not her transgender identity

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Chloe Veltman PRI Don Giovanni Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Don_Giovanni_0202_Michelides.jpg ...

14 May 2019

civil rights - Trump opposes federal LGBTQ nondiscrimination bill, citing 'poison pills'

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Tim Fitzsimons NBC News Credit: http://www.magmacom.it/lostatodellasatira/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/donald-trump-cartoon-kamensk...

Nebraska - Survey: Majority Of Nebraskans Support LGBT Non-Discrimination Workplace Laws

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Brandon McDermott NET News Lincoln, NE Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Detroit-Lincoln-Denver_Hig...

lead story - Zeta Phi Beta: There is no ‘ban’ on transgender women

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Michael K. Lavers Washington Blade Zeta Phi Beta Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/ZetaPhiBeta.jpg p...

13 May 2019

Donald Trump - Trump Is Angry That the FBI Won’t Endorse His Theory of Victimhood

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David Frum The Atlantic Credit: https://claytoonz.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/cjones08012016.jpg please press: www.theatlan...

Russia - Cannibal doctor killed, cooked lover after discovering she was transgender: Cops

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Brad Hunter The Kingston Whig-Standard ezs note: Ah, Russia, such a civilized country... Credit: https://www.madabouthorror....

civil rights - Op-Ed: Speak up for trans sailors, sound off for justice

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Benjamin Chiacchia Navy Times James Manning (1738-1791) Brown University Providence, RI Credit: https://upload.wikimedia....

Vermont - Supreme Court could push transgender or gay employees into the closet

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Guinevere Downey The Commons Putney, VT Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Putney_VT_-_Sacketts_Broo...

lead story - In a pivotal year, Danica Roem uses her spotlight to boost other Virginia Democrats

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Antonio Olivo The Washington Post Del. Danica Roem Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/2017.07.26_Pro...

12 May 2019

Donald Trump - Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country

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Alex Thompson Politico Kermit, WV Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Kermit-from-High-wv.jpg ple...

Mexico - Mexico’s Supreme Court grants new birth certificate to transgender citizen

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Reiss Smith Pink News Guadalajara, Mexico Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Guadalajara%C2%B4s_Cath...

civil rights - California votes to overhaul sex ed guidelines for public schools to include LGBT issues

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AP CBS News Anaheim Hills, CA please press: www.cbsnews.com

Idaho - Two Singers Play One Transgender Character in Opera Idaho's 'As One'

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Lex Nelson Boise Weekly Boise, ID Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Hyde_Park_Boise.jpg please p...

lead story - Western States Has New Rules for Transgender Athletes

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Stephanie Case Outside Credit: http://www.mychicagoathlete.com/wp-content/uploads/runners-billboard-1.jpg please press: www...

11 May 2019

Donald Trump - Trump hits retweet button 60 times in massive Twitter spree

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