Connecticut - Hartford Police Department LGBTQ Liaison Accused of Insensitivity

Len Bestoff
NBC News 30

Hartford, CT

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lead story - The (transgender) kids are all right

Ben Hohenstatt
Juneau Empire

Juneau, AK

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Vermont - Christine Hallquist plugs into a new source of power

Kevin O'Connor
VTDigger

Brattleboro, VT

Hubbard Park Observation Tower

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lead story - Transgender inmate found dead in Rikers Island cell

Larry Celona, Stephanie Pagones
New York Post

New York City, NY

Rikers Island

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civil rights - Federal judge: EVSC violated transgender student's civil rights

Tori Fater
Courier & Press

Evansville, IN

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West Virginia - Another WV school year without transgender student bathroom rights

Ryan Quinn
Charleston News-Gazette

Charleston, WV

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lead story - Detroit man charged in deaths of gay men, transgender woman

AP
FOX News

Detroit, MI (1942)

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Kansas - Retiring After 28 Years, Transgender North High Teacher Looks Forward To Next Chapter

Carla Eckels
KMUW

Wichita, KS

Wichita North High School

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lead story - Dallas LGBTQ leaders could hold key to solving transgender killings, police say

Karma Allen
ABC News

Dallas, TX

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civil rights - Fifty Years After Stonewall, the Real Fight for LBGTQ Rights Is Local

Alex Myers
Common Dreams

Stonewall riots, 1969

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Ohio - Families call for better school practices to battle suicide rates among transgender teens

Lisa Rantala
ABC News

Cleveland, OH

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lead story - Trump's transgender ban is cruel, medically unethical and damaging to the US military

Robert H. Goldstein
USA Today

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, MA

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Donald Trump - Ex-Trump aide Hicks agrees to give campaign documents to Congress

Steve Holland, David Morgan
AOL

Hope Hicks

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France - Paris court sentences man to six months for assaulting transgender woman

Press
France 24

Paris, France

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ezs note:  Gee, I hope the judge wasn't being too harsh on the poor guy.

Riiiiiight.

civil rights - WHY ARE TRANS WOMEN DYING IN ICE DETENTION?

Jack Herrera
PacificStandard

civil rights march, ca. 1957

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Utah - Scott D. Pierce: CNN episode focuses on LDS and LGBTQ in Utah. And, no, it’s not a hit piece.

Scott D. Pierce

The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake City, UT

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lead story - 'We are concerned': Dallas police chief says of second transgender woman's death in less than a month

Janelle Griffith
NBC News

Dallas, TX

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ezs note:  If you live in Dallas or the immediate area, and you have information on the murders of either Chynal Lindsey or Muhlaysia Booker, please call Dallas police at 214-671-3661.  Thanks. 

Donald Trump - 2 epically cringeworthy moments from Jared Kushner’s Axios interview

Aaron Rupar
Vox

ezs note:  Jared Kushner, being all intrepid n' shit.

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Estonia - Estonia’s five best Eurovision finalists – chosen by the LGBT community

Press
Estonian World

Tallinn, Estonia

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civil rights - The Catastrophist, or: On coming out as trans at 37

Emily Todd VanDerWerff
Vox

Los Angeles, CA

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New Hampshire - A Conversation With Transgender Granite Staters

Press
NHPR

Concord, NH

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ezs note:  Please take note of the conversation streaming, almost an hour.  It's well worth it.  

lead story - Transgender asylum seeker dies after six weeks in ICE custody

Ben Kesslen
NBC News

El Salvador

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civil rights - ACLU again sues state over transgender-related services

Michaela Ramm
The Neighbor

Iowa

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Washington (state) - Bainbridge to consider 'all gender' bathroom sign ordinance

Nathan Pilling
Kitsap Sun

Bainbridge Island, WA 

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lead story - Biden: Fastest way to end transgender violence 'is to end the Trump administration'

Caroline Kelly
CNN

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lead story - TRUMP PRAISES ‘LGBT’ PRIDE MONTH, BUT IS CRITICIZED FOR ADMINISTRATION'S TREATMENT OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE

Scott McDonald
Newsweek

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North Carolina - The man in the maternity ward

Anna Douglas
The Charlotte Observer

Charlotte, NC

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lead story - LBGTQ icons will be the first transgender people to get statues in the US

Lauren M. Johnson
CNN

Marsha P. Johnson

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civil rights - Yes, the Civil Rights Act does protect gay and trans Americans

Evan Wolfson
The Hill

US Capitol (interior)

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Alabama - LGBTQ Visibility Isn’t Just Educational, It Is Vital Education

Gary Wright II
BamaPolitics

Montgomery, AL

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civil rights - Three transgender women challenge portion of Pennsylvania’s name-change law

Valerie Russ
The Inquirer

Harrisburg, PA

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Donald Trump - Mueller speaks about the Russia investigation (among many, many others)

Meg Wagner, Amanda Wills, Brian Ries
CNN

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Romania/US - U.S. Embassy awards seven Women of Courage in Romania

Press
Romania-Insider.com

Bucharest, Romania

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civil rights - The Democrats’ Neglect of Transgender Rights

Casey Quinlan
The New Republic

Mahoning County Courthouse

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Maine - Maine officially bans gay conversion therapy

Aris Folley
The Hill

Farmington, ME

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ezs note:  ♩Another one bites the dust... ♬ (Yay!)

lead story - New Gillette ad shows dad teaching transgender son how to shave

Aimee Picchi
CBS News

Gillette ad, 1953

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lead story - The World Health Organization Will Stop Classifying Transgender People as Having a 'Mental Disorder'

Suyin Haynes
Time

WHO smallpox eradication (1980)

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Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico Activists Criticize Religious Freedom, Conversion Therapy Bills

Michael Lavers
PrideSource

San Juan, PR

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civil rights - Donald Trump Campaigned as a President for LGBTQ Americans. But He Keeps Rolling Back Protections for Them

Abby Vesoulis
Time

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Arizona - How a transgender character changed when a trans actor was hired for the role

Kerry Lengel
AZcentral

Phoenix, AZ

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lead story - These transgender soldiers are still allowed to serve. They want to prove their detractors wrong

Emanuella Grinberg
CNN

Colorado Springs, CO

Peterson AFB

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Coming Out The LGBT Cultural Revolution before Stonewall (video)

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

Renato Mariotti
Politico

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

Noelia Esquivel
Voice Of Guanacaste

Monrovia, Liberia

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

Hannah Rappleye etc.
NBC News

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ezs note:  Oh, loverly.  It seems that Donald Trump and Barack Obama have bloody hands on this one.  (Though to his credit, Obama did ban the use of solitary confinement for juveniles)  But it's not damned enough.  I think that there so many abuses, it's time to abolish solitary confinement altogether. Please, if you agree with me on this, send an e-letter to your Congressperson and both of your Senators.  (Remember, on the federal level, you have two.)  

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

Robert Kekaula
KITV

Honolulu, HI

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

Anna Nawaz
PBS News

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

David R. Lurie
The Daily Beast

ezs note:  Deja vu, all over again...

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please press:  www.thedailybeast.com

Kenya - Kenya: Court Upholds Archaic Anti-Homosexuality Laws

Press
Human Rights Watch

Nairobi, Kenya

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

Nick Reisman
Spectrum News

Albany, NY

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