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20 April 2019
19 April 2019
Donald Trump - Warren calls on House to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump
Myanmar - Toilets with threatening auras
Labels:
auras,
Kandawgyi Park,
Myanmar,
Naypyidaw,
Nyo Ma,
public restrooms,
threatening,
toilets
Location:
Naypyitaw, Myanmar (Burma)
civil rights - Queer-owned consulting firm wants to help your workplace support transgender employees
Labels:
Caitlin Whyte,
consulting firm,
help,
queer-owned,
support,
transgender employees,
wants,
workplace
Location:
Rochester, NY, USA
Kentucky - Kentucky BBQ truck grilled for changing 'LGBTQ' meaning on Trump T-shirts
Labels:
BBQ truck,
changing,
Donald Trump,
grilled,
Kentucky,
LGBTQ meaning,
Lucas Aulbach,
T-shirts
Location:
Williamstown, KY, USA
lead story - Charlize Theron confirms daughter Jackson is transgender
18 April 2019
Read and search the full Mueller report
Labels:
full,
read,
report,
Robert Mueller,
search
Location:
Washington, DC, USA
lead story - Naval Academy to ban transgender students beginning in 2020
17 April 2019
Donald Trump - Stephen Colbert Applauds France’s Response To Donald Trump’s Notre Dame Cathedral Fire Fighting Advice
Labels:
advice,
applauds,
cathedral,
Donald Trump,
fire fighting,
France,
Notre Dame,
response,
Stephen Colbert
Location:
Washington, DC, USA
Brazil - A Transgender Volleyball Star Stirs ‘Unfounded’ Criticism In Brazil
Andrêa Martinelli
HuffPost
HuffPost
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Arcos_do_Jardim_Bot%C3%A2nico_do_Rio..jpg
please press: www.huffpost.com
civil rights - Illinois parents drop lawsuit challenging transgender bathroom access
Press
KMOV
KMOV
Oh, shazam...
please press: www.kmov.com
ezs note: It's nice that the parents had the sense to drop the suit. It would have been nicer if they had put it in the trash to begin with...
Kentucky - Bowling Green rejects anti-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBTQ residents
lead story - The biggest thing critics continually get wrong about transgender athletes competing in women's sports
Labels:
Alan Dawson,
biggest,
competing,
continually,
critics,
thing,
transgender athletes,
women's sports,
wrong
Location:
Prague, Czechia
16 April 2019
New York - Five harsh facts of transgender life in New York City
Zach Williams
New York Nonprofit Media
New York Nonprofit Media
New York City, NY
Rockefeller Center
please press: nynmedia.com
lead story - Man was offered $200 to beat transgender woman: cops
Aftermath of Notre-Dame (VIDEO)
Credit: ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohqojil0yo8
Labels:
aftermath,
Notre-Dame
Location:
Paris, France
15 April 2019
14 April 2019
Donald Trump - Could Bernie Sanders really be elected president? There's a narrow but plausible pathway
Matthew Rozsa
Salon
Salon
ezs note: Sure, Bernie's a bit of a longshot... but Trump does something colossally stupid every... single... day. I have great faith in his oafishness.
please press: www.salon.com
Labels:
Bernie Sanders,
Donald Trump,
elected,
Matthew Rozsa,
narrow,
pathway,
plausible,
president
Location:
Washington, DC, USA
Zimbabwe - LEAD Reclaims People’s Revolution
Press
ZimEye
ZimEye
Harare, Zimbabwe
please press: www.zimeye.net
ezs note: Things may be too early to tell... but it looks like life will be a little better...
civil rights - Transgender Rights Activist Sarah McBride to Give Talk at Rutgers–Camden
Stefanie Charles
Rutgers-Camden News Now
Rutgers-Camden News Now
Camden, NJ
Rutgers-Camden University
please press: news.camden.rutgers.edu
Virginia - Transgender Bathrooms: A Local Matter?
Dan Brendel
Alexandria Gazette-Packet
Alexandria Gazette-Packet
Alexandria, VA
Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Alexandria_%26_GW_Masonic_Memorial_Fall_2015.jpg
please press: www.alexandriagazette.com
lead story - Police determining if assault on transgender woman a hate crime
13 April 2019
Mississippi - Woman sues McDonald's, alleges discrimination because she's transgender
Labels:
alleges,
discrimination,
Jackson,
Joselyn Kelly,
McDonald's,
Sarah Fowler,
sues,
transgender,
woman
Location:
Jackson, MS, USA
lead story - Everything you need to know about the transgender military ban
12 April 2019
Paraguay - Paraguay's LGBT community feels outcast amid conservative shift: 'We are forgotten'
Labels:
amid,
conservative,
Daniela Desantis,
feels outcast,
forgotten,
LGBT community,
Paraguay,
shift
Location:
Asuncion, Paraguay
civil rights - BETSY DEVOS SAYS SHE KNEW OF POTENTIAL HARMS—LIKE ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, LOWER TEST SCORES—WHEN SHE RESCINDED OBAMA-ERA PROTECTIONS FOR TRANSGENDER STUDENTS
Labels:
Alexandra Hutzler,
anxiety,
Betsy DeVos,
depression,
harms,
knew,
lower test scores,
potential,
rescinded
Location:
Washington, DC, USA
Maryland - Baltimore City schools board passes policy protecting transgender students
lead story - Stop pretending the transgender ban isn’t a ban
Diane H. Mazur
Politico
Politico
Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Maryland_National_Guard_%2817285160576%29.jpg
please press: www.politico.com
11 April 2019
Donald Trump - Trump’s sister quietly retired in February, and it’s actually a really big deal
Italy - WCF Verona: Where the 'Wind of Change' Marked a Sea Change in Hate Group's Strategy
Labels:
hate group,
marked,
natural family,
sea change,
strategy,
strategy shift,
WCF Verona,
wind of change
Location:
Verona, VR, Italy
civil rights - Attorneys: Honduran transgender migrant unlawfully detained
New Hampshire - HB 446: Allow trans, non-binary people to correct birth records
Labels:
allow,
birth records,
correct,
Dover,
HB 446,
NH Department of Motor Vehicles,
non-binary,
Palana Belken,
people,
trans
Location:
Dover, NH, USA
lead story - Trump’s Transgender Ban Brings Chaos and ‘a Lot of Fear’ to Troops’ Families
Labels:
chaos,
Donald Trump,
families,
fear,
Samantha Allen,
San Antonio,
transgender ban,
troops
Location:
San Antonio, TX, USA
10 April 2019
LIVE - Donald Trump's brain!
(ummmm... or a black hole)
Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Black_hole_-_Messier_87_%28cropped%29.jpg
Labels:
brain,
Donald Trump,
live
Location:
207 Sewell St, Goodwell, OK 73939, USA
Donald Trump - Trump’s ‘truly bizarre’ visit to Mt. Vernon
Eliana Johnson, Daniel Lippman
Politico
Politico
Bizzarro
ezs note: Can Connecticut go to another country? Please? We'll be good...
please press: www.politico.com
Cuba - Cuba begins distributing PrEP through pilot program
Michael K. Lavers
Washington Blade
Washington Blade
Havana, Cuba
Credit: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/Cuba_LaHavana_Street_%28www.pixinn.net%29.jpg
please press: www.washingtonblade.com
civil rights - DeVos defends controversial guidance on transgender students
Rhode Island - Vella-Wilkinson bill would extend benefits to gay, transgender veterans without honorable discharges
lead story - 'Very Important Precedent:' Russian Court Rules Transgender Woman Was Fired Illegally
Press
RFE/RL
RFE/RL
St. Petersburg, Russia
please press: www.rferl.org
ezs note: In North America and Western Europe, this is somewhat routine, but in Russia this is HUGE. Congratulations, Ms. Grigoryeva!
Labels:
fired,
illegally,
important,
precedent,
rules,
Russian court,
St. Petersburg,
transgender woman,
very
Location:
St Petersburg, Russia
09 April 2019
Brunei - Brunei’s death by stoning, anti-LGBTQ law sparks outrage, boycotts
Lucy Martirosyan
PRI
PRI
The Stoning Of An Adulteress
Abu'l Hassan Ghaffari (abt. 1853-1857)
please press: www.pri.org
ezs note: If you have any heart at all, you'll email http://www.bruneiembassy.org/contact-us.html and contact the Ambassador and send a polite but FIRM message. If you have no heart, please pick one up on the way out.
ezs note: If you have any heart at all, you'll email http://www.bruneiembassy.org/contact-us.html and contact the Ambassador and send a polite but FIRM message. If you have no heart, please pick one up on the way out.
Location:
Kampong Bukit Beruang, Brunei
civil rights - HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow to Testify at Congressional Hearing on the Bipartisan Equality Act
lead story - Trump’s Transgender Troop Ban Marks the Dark Return of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
08 April 2019
Donald Trump - Secret Service director out less than 24 hours after DHS secretary resigns
Bosnia and Herzegovina - 'Door, please!': Sarajevo to host Bosnia’s first-ever LGBTQ pride parade
civil rights - How Tasmania is going from worst to best on transgender human rights
Vermont - John Killacky: Out in the Legislature
lead story - Although transgender workers face steep barriers, corporate America wants to hire them
07 April 2019
Donald Trump - Whatever Trump Is Playing, It Isn’t Golf
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