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19 March 2021

Joe Biden - Biden urges Congress to pass hate crime legislation in response to violence against Asian Americans

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Hannah Miao CNBC Chinatown Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/CNY3.jpg please press: www.cnbc.com ezs note: Pl...

18 March 2021

archive -Attendees to 5th Annual AIDS Benefit - ca. 1982-86

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To see 'Attendees to 5th Annual AIDS Benefit', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, paintings, sculp...

Mississippi - Mississippi gov signs bill limiting transgender athletes

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Emily Wagster Pettus ABC News Gov. Tate Reeves Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Tate_Reeves_2019.jpg please pre...

lead story - Kansas Senate passes bill banning transgender athletes in girl's, women's school sports

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Staff KMBC Girard, KS Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Crawford_County_Courthouse%2C_Kansas_9-2-2012.JPG please...

Georgia shooting - Cherokee County, Georgia, Sheriff's spokesperson allegedly posted a photo of a racist, anti-Asian Covid-19 shirt on Facebook

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Paul P. Murphy, Jamiel Lynch, Amanda Watts CNN Acworth,GA Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Downtown_Acworth%2C_...

17 March 2021

archive - Poster for a Drag Show at Café LMNOP - 198x

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To see 'Poster for a Drag Show at Café LMNOP', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, paintings, scul...

Kentucky - U.S. Protestant pastors see gender change as immoral (critique)

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Aaron Earls Kentucky Today Briceville, TN Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Briceville-community-church-tn4.jpg ...

lead story - Missouri dad urges lawmakers not to pass student-athlete bill with moving speech about transgender daughter

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Caitlin O'Kane CBS News Kansas City, MO Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Kansas_City_Skyline_2.JPG please ...

Atlanta shootings - Atlanta spa shootings: US on alert over possible anti-Asian American motive

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Miranda Bryant The Guardian Atlanta, GA Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Peachtree_St_in_Midtown.jpg please pre...

16 March 2021

archive - 10th Annual Be All Weekend - June 6-10 1990

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To see '10th Annual Be All Weekend', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, paintings, sculptures, ar...

Kansas - Kansas lawmakers consider measure to bar transgender youth from girls sports

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Katie Bernard, Sydney Hoover The Kansas City Star. Louisburg, KS Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Little_Round_...

lead story - Actor Elliot Page wants to advocate for other transgender people

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Jamie Knodel NBC News Elliot Page Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Elliot_Page_2015.jpg please press: www.nbc...

US/Mexico border - Southwest border crisis leaves Biden vulnerable on all sides

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Stephen Collinson CNN US/Mexico border Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Border_USA_Mexico.jpg please press: w...

15 March 2021

riots - Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot

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Spencer S. Hau, Peter Hermann The Washington Post South River, NJ (Brian Sicknick's birthplace) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org...

14 March 2021

archive - 10th Anniversary Be All - June 10-14 1992

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To see '10th Anniversary Be All', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, paintings, sculptures, art prin...

Michigan - Michigan bill bans high school transgender athletes from playing under gender identity

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Dave Boucher Detroit Free Press Brighton, MI Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Downtown_Brighton_Homes_-_panoram...

lead story - HRC Mourns Diamond Kyree Sanders, Black Transgender Woman Killed in Cincinnati

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Madeleine Roberts HRC Cincinnati, OH Roebling suspension bridge Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Roebling_Suspe...

budget - How Trump’s team amassed a $1 trillion war chest for Biden to deploy

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Victoria Guida Politico One dollar (reverse) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/US_one_dollar_bill%2C_reverse%2C_...

13 March 2021

archives - April To Star - February 14 1970 (newspaper)

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To see 'April To Star', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, paintings, sculptures, art printings, ...

Nebraska - Proposed Nebraska health standards would teach school children about gender identity

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Joe Dejka Kearney Hub Geneva, NE Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Geneva%2C_Nebraska_1.jpg please press: kear...

lead story - Record number of state bills in 2021 impact transgender rights, advocacy group says

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Meredith Deliso ABC News Pickens, SC Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Hagood-Mauldin_House%2C_104_N._Lewis_St.%...

Andrew Cuomo - Humility won’t rescue Gov. Cuomo’s career, but it could rescue him

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Christian Sagers Deseret News Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Andrew_Cuomo_2019.jpg p...

12 March 2021

archive - Gender Expressions - October/November 1989 (highly recommended)

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To read 'Gender Expressions', go to here. There is one piece which I HIGHLY recommend. The author is Harry Browne, 'How I Fou...

New Mexico - Pandemic cuts services to the transgender community in NM

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Kyle Land Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque, NM (ca. 1880s) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Albuquerque_%281880%...

lead story - Opponents call 'Fairness in Women's Sports Act' anti-transgender discrimination

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Viktoria Capek ABC 7 Mountain View, AR Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Downtown_Mountain_View%2C_AR_021.jpg pl...

Joe Biden - Joe Biden Is a Transformational President

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David Brooks The New York Times Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Distribution_of_detritus.png please press: w...

11 March 2021

archive - TVIC Journal - January 20 1979

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To see 'TVIC Journal', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, paintings, sculptures, art printings, or...

Europe - European Parliament declares EU an ‘LGBTIQ Freedom Zone’

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Muri Assunção Daily News EU Parliament Building Brussels, Belgium Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Parlement_r%...

Wyoming - Teton commissioners declare county a ‘hate free zone’

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Billy Arnold Casper Star-Tribune Jackson, WY Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Teton_Theater%2C_Jackson_Wyoming....

lead story - NEW MONTCLAIR-BASED TRANSGENDER SUPPORT ORG’S FIRST PRIORITY: AFFIRMATION

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Andrew Garda Montclair Local Upper Montclair, NJ Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Street_in_Upper_Montclair%2C_...

relief bill - On Covid Relief, Democrats Deserve a Victory Lap

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Editorial Board The New York Times Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Ludovic_and_Lauren_%288425515069%29.jpg pl...

10 March 2021

archive - 17th Be All - June 2-6 1999

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To see '17th Be All', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, paintings, sculptures, art printings, or ...

lead story - Transgender Youth, Organizations Testify Against NH Sports Bill

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Kathy McCormack NBC Boston Haverhill, NH Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Haverhill_NH_town_hall_5.JPG please p...

Merrick Garland - Garland Confirmed As Attorney General 5 Years After Thwarted Supreme Court Bid

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Carrie Johnson NPR AG Merrick Garland Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/2016_March_16_Merrick_Garland_by_The_Whi...

09 March 2021

archive - 12th Annual Fantasia Fair - October 17-26 1986

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To see '12th Annual Fantasia Fair', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, paintings, sculptures, art ...

Louisiana - Students share research during annual Undergraduate Research Symposium

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Press Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University Ruston, LA Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Hale_Hall...

lead story - South Dakota Passes Bill Restricting Transgender Girls From Sports Teams

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Lee Strubinger NPR Onida, SD Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/SULLY_COUNTY_COURTHOUSE%2C_ONIDA%2C_SD.jpg please...

Derek Chauvin - Jury selection begins in trial of ex-cop in Floyd’s death

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Amy Forliti AP George Floyd (1973-2020) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9c/George_Floyd.png

08 March 2021

archive - Chrysalis Quarterly - Summer 1991 (highly recommended)

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To see 'Chrysalis Quarterly', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, or newspaper clippings and wish...

South Carolina - Our View: Stand up to South Carolina’s shameful anti-transgender agenda

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Editorial Press Charleston City Paper Charleston, SC Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Charleston%2C_SC%2C_water...

lead story - Bangladesh's first transgender news presenter makes word-perfect debut

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Agence France Presse France 24 Dhaka, Bangladesh (1924 map) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Dhaka_during_Briti...

Roy Blunt - Republicanism changed under Roy Blunt’s feet, leaving him no place to stand

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Dave Helling The Kansas City Star Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Roy_Blunt%2C_Official_...

07 March 2021

archive - A Headstone for Billie - February 21 1997 (newspaper)

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To read 'A Headstone for Billie', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, scrapbooks, or newspaper clippings and wi...

Texas - UTEP Quench Series discusses LGBTQIA+ Texas legislation

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Victoria Reyes The Prospector El Paso, TX (1880) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/El_Paso_c1880.jpg please pres...

lead story - 'Catastrophic' number of state bills target transgender youth, advocates say

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Meredith Deliso ABC News Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Target_223_Savage_10FP_25_shot.jpg please press: ab...

Joe Manchin - Manchin wants to make filibuster 'painful' to use

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Nick Niedzwiadek Politico Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Senator_Manchin.jpg please p...

06 March 2021

archive - Gender Quest - Winter 2000

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To see 'Gender Quest', go to here. If you have pamphlets, magazines, posters, or newspaper clippings and wish to donate them to a ...

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