Kirsten Gillibrand to Bring Trans Navy Officer to State of the Union
The presence of Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann is meant to be a statement on Trump’s transgender military ban.
www.advocate.com/transgender/2019/2/04/kirsten-gillibrand-bring-trans-navy-officer-state-union
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Super Bowl Winning New England Patriots Player Duron Harmon Won’t Go To Trump’s White House But Thinks It ‘Would Be Dope To Meet Obama:’ WATCH
New England Patriots player Duron Harmon said that he won’t visit President Trump’s White House to celebrate the team’s Super Bowl win according to The Hill.
“Speaking to TMZ Sports after the Patriots’ win against the Los Angeles Rams, Harmon said he wouldn’t join his teammates for a visit. ‘They don’t want me in the White House,’ said Harmon, who plays safety for the Patriots.”
Harmon told CBS News that it “would be dope” to meet former President Obama, like the Golden State Warriors did earlier this year.
“We love you over here, man,” Harmon said, referring to Obama.
The last time the Patriots won the Super Bowl in 2017, a number of players, “including Harmon, refused to visit the White House, some citing lack of support for Trump said The Hill.
The Hill points out that “Trump is known to be a fan of the Patriots and is friends with quarterback Tom Brady, head coach Bill Belichick , and owner Robert Kraft.”
“People love to come to the White House,” Trump told CBS News in an interview on Sunday.
“So the Patriots were here two years ago, and I’m sure they’ll be back.”
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Prince Charles Once Joked He Could ‘Go Gay’ Before Marrying Diana
A new British documentary about the lives of the Queen’s four children has made public some very funny anecdotes about the royals.
A frustrated Prince Charles jokingly asked friend “shall I go gay?” as he struggled to find a wife says News Australia.
The claims come in a new British documentary about the private lives of the royal heirs, fronted by UK TV presenter Jeremy Paxman, reports The Sun.
In Paxman on the Queen’s Children to be screened on Tuesday night, the no- nonsense TV presenter speaks to friends of Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward.
One of Charles’ friends said he made his “go gay” comment before he had met his future wife Diana, reveals the Mirror.
“We all roared with laughter and moved on…They had a lot of fun.”
Discussing an old newspaper story about “potential brides” for the heir, Broderick Munro-Wilson tells Paxman: “I thought the only possibility was Caroline of Monaco.”
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Prince Charles Once Joked He Could ‘Go Gay’ Before Marrying Diana
GLAAD Responds to Trump Administration Pledge to End HIV Transmissions by 2030
GLAAD CEO on Trump’s HIV Pledge: “Unfortunately, President Trump’s announcement has already been undermined by his own Administration’s record and rhetoric.”
ICYMI: “Six People Have Resigned From Trump’s HIV/AIDS Advisory Council Because He ‘Doesn’t Care’”
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today responded to reports that President Trump will call for an end to HIV transmissions by 2030 during the State of the Union Address tomorrow night in Washington, D.C.
The Trump Administration’s HIV pledge follows as many as eight attacks on HIV and AIDS research or people living with HIV and AIDS, including the disbanding of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS and discharging two service members in the Air Force after they disclosed they were living with HIV.
“Unfortunately, President Trump’s announcement has already been undermined by his own Administration’s record and rhetoric, and there is no reason for LGBTQ Americans or anyone else to see this as anything more than empty rhetoric designed to distract from what’s really happening behind the scenes every day,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO at GLAAD.”
President Trump’s pledge to end HIV transmissions comes as his administration has unleashed more than 92 attacks against LGBTQ Americans in policy and rhetoric. GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project (TAP) has catalogued every anti-LGBTQ action by this administration, available at www.glaad.org/trump.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Trump Administration’s History of Harming HIV and AIDS Research or People with HIV and AIDS
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www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-responds-trump-administration-pledge-end-hiv-transmissions-2030
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#AM_Equality Tipsheet: February 4, 2019
MORNING MUST READ — “WE’RE COUNTING ON NANCY PELOSI TO ADVANCE THE EQUALITY ACT”: HRC President Chad Griffin (@ChadHGriffin) and National Center for Transgender Equality Executive Director Mara Keisling (@MaraKeisling) write today in The Advocate, “Our community has waited far too long for [the Equality Act]. Without [it], countless LGBTQ people and families remain vulnerable to discrimination in the workplace, in the ER, in a leasing office, and at the restaurant around the corner. And without them, the Trump-Pence administration’s dangerous plan to erase LGBTQ people from federal protections could succeed.” Today, half of all LGBTQ Americans live in the 30 states without explicit, uniform legal protections from discrimination. More from Advocate.
HRC FOUNDATION TO HONOR OLYMPIAN ADAM RIPPON AND SCHOOL COUNSELOR BRIAN COLEMAN WITH UPSTANDER AWARDS: At Time to THRIVE, Coleman and Rippon will join other special guests, including LGBTQ advocate and mother of Ellen DeDeneres Betty DeGeneres; President and Founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation Dolores Huerta; parent-advocate, founder of FreeMomHugs and subject of an upcoming Jamie Lee Curtis project Sara Cunningham; transgender trailblazer Jazz Jennings and her mother Jeanette Jennings; Los Angeles Rams cheerleader Quinton Peron; and others. HRC previously announced that it will honor advocates E.J. Johnson and Judy and Dennis Shepard with an Upstander Award during the Time to THRIVE conference. More from HRC.
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HRC is excited to announce that Adam Rippon (@Adaripp) will receive an Upstander Award at @HRC Foundation’s #TimeToTHRIVE Conference in Anaheim, CA Feb. 15 – 17.t.co/RlQ5JXYESW
PS: There’s still time to register! t.co/oUZJAH5Vol pic.twitter.com/GVZn5l7AEa
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) February 1, 2019
VICTORY! — NEW JERSEY BECOMES FOURTH STATE TO ALLOW GENDER-NEUTRAL OPTION ON BIRTH CERTIFICATE: “Having a gender-neutral option will now give thousands of people in the state of New Jersey the power to self-identify,” said Amanda Babine (@ababine), director of policy and programs at the New York Transgender Advocacy Group. More from NBC.
MUST WATCH MONDAY — ELLEN PAGE ADVOCATES AGAINST HATE CRIMES, HIGHLIGHTS RISE MOTIVATED BY TRUMP-PENCE ADMIN: “This is what happens,” Page said during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “If you are in a position of power and you hate people, and you want to cause suffering to them — you go through the trouble, you spend your career trying to cause suffering — what do you think is gonna happen?” More from Vanity Fair.
ICYMI — ACTOR AMANDLA STENBERG TALKS BLACK, QUEER REPRESENTATION AT HRC GREATER NEW YORK GALA: “Had I had more representations of black gay women growing up, I probably would have come to conclusions around my sexuality earlier, because I would have had more conceptions of what is possible, and okay,” Stenberg said. More from Pink News.
HRC FOUNDATION CELEBRATES ITS HBCU PROGRAM DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH: More from HRC.
This #BlackHistoryMonth we celebrate @HRC Foundation’s #HBCU Program, which empowers #LGBTQ young people to lead effectively at the intersections of race, religion, gender identity, class and sexual orientation on their campuses and in their communities. t.co/1U8phifJzD
— Human Rights Campaign (@HRC) February 1, 2019
NC DMV REVISES PROCESS FOR CHANGING GENDER ON DRIVER’S LICENSE OR ID CARD: No longer will applicants have to procure a court order or letter from a physician. The revisions also eliminate a requirement that a person undergo surgery before correcting their license. Partners at Equality North Carolina worked on the change for years. More from Herald Sun.
AWFUL — USA POWERLIFTING TO BAN TRANSGENDER ATHLETES: The organization’s position stands in stark contrast to other major sports organizations, including the International Olympic Committee, USA Hockey, the NCAA and Crossfit. More from Compete Network.
GLOBAL EQUALITY NEWS
GAY IRAQI MAN SPEAKS OUT ABOUT FLEEING IRAQ, STARTING IRAQ’S FIRST LGBTQ ORGANIZATION : “Iraq has a lot of great achievements and positive points, but for LGBTI people, our identities are the equivalent of a death sentence,” said Amir Ashour, founder of IraQueer (@IraQueer). More from Gay Star News and Hornet.
DISGUSTING — BERLIN MONUMENT HONORING LGBTQ VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST VANDALIZED: More from ArtNews.
DISNEYLAND PARIS TO HOST FRANCHISE’S FIRST-EVER OFFICIAL LGBTQ PRIDE EVENT: More from Queerty.
MEXICO BORDER CITY PROVIDED ASSISTANCE TO LGBTQ MIGRANTS: More from The Washington Blade.
Have news? Send us your news and tips at [email protected]. Click here to subscribe to #AM_Equality and follow @HRC for all the latest news. Thanks for reading!
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LGBTQ World News Digest: 14 International Stories You Need to Know About
Angola, the UK, Iran, Poland, India, Jamaica, Turkey, Spain, Cuba, Pakistan, France, Canada, Nigeria, and Japan all make this week’s big global LGBTQ round-up.
ANGOLA. Government decriminalizes gay sex: “Taking things one step further, the government has also prohibited discrimination against people on the basis of sexual orientation. And so anyone refusing to employ or provide services to individuals based on their sexual orientation may face up to two years in prison. The changes came on January 23 as Angola’s parliament adopted its first new penal code since it gained independence from Portugal in 1975 and removed the provision, inherited from its Portuguese colonizers.”
UNITED KINGDOM. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) issues new guidelines on Obscene Publications Act: ‘Until the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) issued new guidelines on the Obscene Publications Act 1959 yesterday, individuals could be prosecuted for distributing ‘obscene’ pornography. Acts that were banned that can now be represented in pornography include spanking, bondage, female ejaculation and sadomasochism.’
IRAN. Man hanged on charges of homosexuality: ‘The unidentified man was hanged on January 10 in the southwestern city of Kazeroon based on criminal violations of “lavat-e be onf” – sexual intercourse between two men, as well as kidnapping charges, according to ISNA. Iran’s radical sharia law system prescribes the death penalty for gay sex. The ISNA reported that the 31-year-old kidnapped two 15-year-olds. The opaque inner workings of Iran’s judicial system create enormous difficulties for journalists and human rights advocates to examine judicial cases.’
POLAND. Poland’s first openly gay politician Robert Biedron launched the “Spring” party: ‘Biedron vowed to enforce a strong separation of church and state in the heavily Catholic country where the clergy still wields considerable influence. He also promised equal pay for women, easier access to abortion, recognition of gay partnerships along with a string of generous social spending measures including a new universal old age pension. He also vowed to “close all coal mines” by 2035 in a bid to stem chronic smog in the coal-dependent country that experts say causes an estimated 50,000 premature deaths per year in the country of 38 million people.’
INDIA. First Mumbai LGBTQ Pride march since homosexuality was decriminalized.
JAMAICA. Tourism head says gay tourists are welcome: “I do believe that we make our best effort every time to ensure that everybody that comes to Jamaica, whoever you are, that you have the same experience. And we don’t ask at the airport who you are and what you do. We expect that you will be here, and like everybody else, have a great vacation, and we want to ensure that we provide you with that vacation. And so, from that perspective, there is absolutely no attempt or obstruction or programme that is aimed at or intended to cause any uneasiness for anybody who comes to Jamaica.”
TURKEY. Plaintiff wins victory in ‘Gay Garbage Truck Case’: ‘Three drivers of the garbage trucks owned by the Kağıthane Municipality in Istanbul were fired by their employer after it was alleged last year that they were in a gay relationship with a 27-year-old garbage collector. The garbage collector, identified only as M.Ş., had told the authorities that he had engaged in sexual relationship “from time to time” with the three truck drivers. The drivers, aged between 43 and 51, had sued the municipality and its subcontractor in April 2018, citing what they described as unjust termination of their contract.’
SPAIN. Thousands protest against vandalism of Barcelona LGBTI Center one week after opening (article in Spanish) One more.
El feixisme colpeja de nou #Barcelona. Fa uns mesos l’@APSarria va ser cremat per un atac feixista. Aquesta vegada, el #CentreLGTBI ha despertat amb pintades i vidres trencats. Tenim clar que no són casos aïllats sinó mostres d’una estructura que permet aquestes manifestacions pic.twitter.com/aXcsLC3t3F
— Crida LGBTI (@CridaLGBTI) January 28, 2019
Les vostres fòbies no ens fan por feixistes! Més que mai dempeus per combatre la vostre odi! Som una ciutat de vida! #ProuLGBTIfobia #TreulaPloma #NoPassaran pic.twitter.com/3MOKjf1yq0
— Atzagaia (@atzagaia) January 28, 2019
CUBA. Evangelicals push back against same-sex marriage: ‘A Cuban government push to legalize gay marriage has set off an unprecedented reaction from the island’s rapidly growing evangelical churches, whose members are expected to widely reject a state-proposed constitutional reform in a nationwide referendum this month.’
PAKISTAN. Trans Action Pakistan reports transgender woman shot to death: “We can’t hold the tears back. It wasn’t fair that her life had to end. We will always keep her in our heart. Rest in peace our sister.” FirstPost: ‘The incident occurred in Jattak Ismail Khel area of restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa late on Tuesday night when three transgender people from Peshawar were returning after attending a wedding ceremony. While they were on their way back, the unknown assailants fired at their vehicle, killing one and injuring another, police said. The deceased transgender person was identified as Jahangir while the injured was identified as Mushtaq. The injured was shifted to the hospital for treatment, police said.’
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FRANCE. Disneyland Paris is first Disney park to hold official LGBTQ Pride event. ”Although Gay Days has been celebrated at the Disney parks for decades, ever since the first one in 1991 (right here in Orlando!), Disneyland Paris has just made history by becoming the first to organize an official LGBTQ Pride event, finally acknowledging openly that pink money pays their bills, too. Magical Pride happens June 1, 2019, and will include a “Magical March of Diversity” parade, as well as several different music performances. Inspired by Orlando’s and Anaheim’s massive Gay Days parties, the first – though it was unofficial – Magical Pride took place at Disneyland Paris in 2014. Now it’s getting the nod from the park.
CANADA. Inclusive Labrador and Newfoundland beard and mustache club MerB’ys pose in fish tails for 2019 calendar in attempt to battle toxic masculinity: “Violence Prevention Newfoundland & Labrador will be the main recipient of the funds we raise this year. We wanted to help them continue their very important work of changing attitudes and breaking down stereotypes. Their goal is to challenge negative attitudes of masculinity, and empower men to become meaningfully engaged in violence prevention.”
They add: “Formed in 2017, the Newfoundland and Labrador Beard & Moustache Club (NLBMC) is a social club for community minded, good humans who just happen to appreciate facial hair. We organize regular volunteer events to help various community organizations and support social causes we believe in. Inclusion is our jam. Humans of all genders, ethnicities, faiths, abilities and ages are welcome. Good people, doing good things, having fun the whole time – that’s who we are. Ability to grow facial hair is irrelevant – it’s the beard inside that matters most.”
NIGERIA. Police chief Dolapo Badmos tells gay people to leave the country: ‘The message was posted on her personal Instagram account – which is set to private but has around 125,000 followers…“If you are homosexually inclined, Nigeria is not a place for you. There is a law (Same-Sex Prohibition Act) here that criminalises homosexual clubs, associations and organisations with penalties of up to 15 years in jail,” Badmus wrote. “So, if you are a homosexual in nature, leave the country or face prosecution. But before you say, ‘does this matter?’ Kindly note that anything against the law of the land is criminal and all crimes will be punished accordingly no matter how small you think it is.” She added: “Anyone convicted of entering into a same-sex marriage contract or civil union faces up to 14 years imprisonment. All LGBT candidates in Nigeria should beware.”
JAPAN. Chiba becomes first city to recognize LGBT couples, common law marriage: “In a first for Japan, the city of Chiba held a ceremony Tuesday to issue certificates recognizing the partnerships of sexual minority and common-law couples. According to the city located to Tokyo’s east, the system of recognition introduced for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender couples as well as mixed-gender common-law couples is the first of its kind in Japan.”
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LGBTQ World News Digest: 14 International Stories You Need to Know About
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