20 LGBTQ Ugandans Arrested for Allegedly Flouting Social Distancing
Police say the arrestees were violating social distancing orders, but an activist says they were targeted for their identity.
www.advocate.com/world/2020/4/01/20-lgbtq-ugandans-arrested-allegedly-flouting-social-distancing
Lawyer who called judge a “fat f*g” swears he’s “not a bigot” because he has a gay cousin
A lawyer from Colorado insists he’s “not a bigot” despite calling a judge an antigay slur. Instead, he says, he’s “simply not politically correct.”
Robert Abrams just had his law license suspended and has been ordered to participate in sensitivity training after calling a judge a “gay fat f*g” in an email to two of his clients.
According to court documents, Abrams made the homophobic and fatphobic remarks about Judge Phillip Douglass in an email to a couple he was representing in a construction contract lawsuit.
“The judge hates me,” he wrote. “It happens, it’s not the first time. I probably remind him of someone who beat him up [when he] was a fat kid and now that he’s a big fat judge he gets even w/ the bullies. Maybe he just hates Jews, who knows?”
“While I was getting your case dismissed… I was getting yelled at by Fatso. The judge is a gay, fat, f*g, now it’s out there.”
Related: Ohio judge apologizes for calling gay people “savages” who deserve to die of AIDS
This week, Abrams was issued the three-month suspension after disciplinary judge William Lucero determined he had violated Colorado’s Rules of Professional Conduct.
The suspension was stayed, however, pending the completion of an 18-month probationary period, in which the lawyer must enroll in an ethics school and do eight hours of cultural awareness and sensitivity training.
When asked about his use of the antigay slur, Abrams said he is “simply not a politically correct individual, and will never be politically correct.”
“That’s how the bullies talked to the weaklings when I grew up,” he explained. Then he tried arguing that the word “f*g” describes a “sissy” not a “sex preference.”
Abrams also denied having any “bias against homosexuals,” going so far as to ask his gay cousin to testify about their “warm familial relationship” and citing his work representing a gay bar in Denver one time.
“I’m not a bigot,” he declared.
In his ruling, Lucero wrote that Abrams is free to speak however he wants “in his private life,” but when he’s representing clients he “must put aside the schoolyard code of conduct and adhere to professional standards.”
“[L]awyers’ words and deeds reflect on the values and ideals of today’s legal profession,” Lucero continued. “Lawyers are also officers of the court, so their conduct signals to clients the quality of justice and the measure of fairness that can be expected from the legal system as a whole.”
Abrams says he plans to appeal Lucero’s ruling, calling it “just obnoxiously political correctness.”
Related: Homophobic Lawyer Who Cyberbullied A Gay College Student Loses Again
George Takei, Kelly Loeffler, Pete Buttigieg, Kara Swisher, ‘Vogue’, Orville Peck, Florida, Dem Convention: HOT LINKS
FLORIDA. Governor DeSantis orders statewide 30-day stay-at-home order: ‘Under the order, the governor is requiring “all Floridians to limit movements and interactions outside their home to only those necessary to obtain or provide essential services or conduct essential activities.” The order goes into effect Thursday night at midnight.’
JOE BIDEN. Democratic National Convention may be different this year: “We ought to be able to do what we were able to do in the middle of the Civil War all the way through to World War II — have Democratic and Republican conventions and primaries and elections and still have public safety.”
KELLY LOEFFLER. Senator dumped $19 million in stocks ahead of coronavirus disclosures: “The largest transactions — and the most politically problematic — involve $18.7 million in sales of Intercontinental Exchange stock in three separate deals dated Feb. 26 and March 11. Loeffler is a former executive with ICE, and her husband, Jeff Sprecher, is the CEO of the company, which owns the New York Stock Exchange among other financial marketplaces.”
MARCH TOWARD DESTRUCTION. Trump rolling back fuel efficiency standards which were U.S. government’s strongest attempt to combat the climate crisis.
FRIVOLITY AMID CRISIS. Ansel Elgort’s bulge got him trending on Twitter.
CENSUS DAY PSA. Pete and Chasten Buttigieg.
Since it’s #CensusDay2020 we just completed ours! It’s one of the most important things you can do right now to ensure resources and representation for your community.
Fill it out by mail (like we did), by phone, or online at t.co/WouwsJNcVk pic.twitter.com/0Tt4xRoIlZ
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) April 1, 2020
DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN U.S. 2019 pandemic warning went unheeded by White House: “The 2019 study warned otherwise — specifically urging Americans not to conflate the risks of a typical flu and a pandemic. The existence of that warning undermines administration officials’ contentions in recent weeks that no one could have seen the virus damaging the economy as it has. The study was requested by the National Security Council, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
KARA SWISHER. FOX’s fake news contagion: “Thankfully, Mom had not gone as far as claiming the coronavirus is a plot to hurt President Trump — a theory pushed by some at Fox News heavily at first. While she has been alternately appalled and amused by the president, and often takes his side, she is not enough of a superfan to think that he is any kind of victim here. So, she kept going out with friends to restaurants and shopping and generally living her life as it always had been.”
RUSSIA. Putin working remotely after exposure to infected doctor…
CLOSED. Japan bans entry from 49 additional countries: “Japan’s Prime Minister says Japan has banned entry from 49 more countries, including the U.S., Canada, all of China, South Korea and seven Southeast Asian countries.”
BROUGHT IT IN. 28 University of Texas students test positive after partying on spring break in Mexico.
JAIL LOCKDOWN. Federal inmates will be kept in cells for at least two weeks: “In an effort to tamp down the COVID-19 infection rate across the nation’s corrections system, the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced on Tuesday that starting Wednesday, inmates in all of its institutions across the country will be kept in their assigned cells or quarters, effectively putting them in lockdown.”
BOSTON GLOBE. Donald Trump has blood on his hands: “Rather than making the expected federal effort to mobilize rapidly to distribute needed gowns, masks, and ventilators to ill-equipped hospitals and to the doctors and nurses around the country who are left unprotected treating a burgeoning number of patients, the administration has instead been caught outbidding individual states (including Massachusetts) trying to purchase medical supplies. It has dragged its heels on invoking the Defense Production Act to get scarce, sorely needed ventilators and masks into production so that they can be distributed to hospitals nationwide as they hit their peaks in the cycle of the epidemic. It has left governors and mayors in the lurch, begging for help. The months the administration wasted with prevarication about the threat and its subsequent missteps will amount to exponentially more COVID-19 cases than were necessary. In other words, the president has blood on his hands.”
TORCH BEARER OF THE DAY. George Takei. “I am honored beyond belief to have been selected to be the final torchbearer who will light the Olympic Flame in Tokyo in 2021!
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ZOO VISIT OF THE DAY. The Shedd Aquarium penguins visit the Beluga whales.
WATCH: A penguin explores a Chicago aquarium that’s empty of visitors, and makes friends with some curious beluga whales. pic.twitter.com/1EfsPpQYMd
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 1, 2020
(ARCHIVED) LIVESTREAM OF THE DAY. Orville Peck. (starts at 5:35)
RETRO PERFORMANCE OF THE DAY. Madonna “Vogue” from the Blond Ambition Tour.
PIC SWAP OF THE DAY. Matt & Dan.
HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Matias Tchomikian.
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Kathy Kozachenko Proved It in ’74—America Will Embrace Out Candidates
On the eve of National Out to Win Day, Victory Fund CEO Annise Parker urges all LGBTQ people to consider running for office.
The FDA would rather let people die from coronavirus than take blood from gay men
The FDA just cleared the way for hospitals to begin using blood plasma to treat patients with coronavirus. Patients who have recovered from COVID-19 and who now carry the antibody for the virus are being encouraged to donate blood to help others.
There’s just one caveat.
Sexually active gay and bisexual men need not bother donating.
The FDA says it’s upholding its 12-month restriction on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, despite a nationwide blood shortage and a letter signed by 17 Democratic senators urging the agency to revisit its discriminatory deferral policy.
“As such, it is imperative that we move away from discriminatory donor deferral policies that prohibit many healthy individuals from contributing much-needed blood and blood products,” the letter states.
GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis called for the “antiquated ban” to be “immediately lifted.”
“The FDA cannot let an outdated and discriminatory ban on blood donations from gay and bi men get in the way of potentially life-saving treatment for the country’s painful current health crisis,” she says.
“Gay and bi men who have recovered from COVID-19 and want to donate plasma, or who want to help contribute to a nationwide shortage of blood, are banned from doing so as a result of the FDA. Continuing to enforce this antiquated policy is dangerous, irresponsible, and flies in the face of recommendations from medical experts.”
A spokesperson for the FDA says the agency “is aware there has been a significant reduction in blood and plasma donations around the country” and that its “working with the blood banking and source plasma industries” to find a solution.
It’s still not lifting the restriction though. Meanwhile, the U.S. coronavirus death toll just surpassed 4,000 today.
Related: The FDA said he couldn’t give blood because he’s gay… so he donated a kidney in protest
A Second Miami Beach Winter Party Attendee Has Died of Coronavirus
Ron Rich, a volunteer at the Winter Party in Miami Beach which took place in early March, has died from COVID-19, making him the second attendee to succumb to complications from the coronavirus.
RELATED: 40-Year-Old Winter Party Attendee is First COVID-19 Fatality in Miami-Dade County
Wrote the National LGBTQ Task Force on Facebook: “The National LGBTQ Task Force is mourning the passing of a loyal volunteer, Ron Rich, who succumbed to COVID-19 over the weekend. Ron was a familiar face to the guests who attended the Task Force Gala, Winter Party Festival and our Fort Lauderdale house parties over the past five years as his big smile and warmth had him mostly serving on our hospitality team. Ron also volunteered with the Outshine Film Festival and Lambda Legal. He will be missed. We extend our condolences to his family and friends.”
Vin Kruger, a close friend of Rich’s, told Local 10: “‘They’re putting me on a ventilator’ was the last thing he wrote me, and that was Friday morning. He was just, for me, he was like my security blanket.”
Israel Carreras, a 40-year-old gay Miami man who died last week, was the first coronavirus-related fatality recorded in Miami-Dade County.
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A Second Miami Beach Winter Party Attendee Has Died of Coronavirus
Afraid, like everyone, and facing an extra layer of worry
No matter who or where you are in this uncertain time, it’s hard not to feel worried. For many Latinx and LGBTQ people nationwide, an added element of fear haunts their days and nights.
There’s the COVID-19 pandemic to contend with and then, for many, there are worries about accessing health care or going into detention if they are undocumented and or trans or queer. Add to that, the anxiety many of us feel about family, friends, and loved ones who may be too afraid to access medical care. NewNowNext shared this heartbreaking story of a young queer asylum seeker from Honduras sick with the corona flu but sleeping in his freezing cold car for fear of infecting others.
So many of LGBTQ people are reeling from the loss of beloved community members such as prolific playwright Terrence McNally and Nashom Woodden, who was well known as drag queen Mona Foot, and so many others. Even as we celebrated Transgender Day of Visibility, the national trans Latinx community and, indeed, the entire Latinx LGBTQ community was heartbroken over the death of Lorena Borjas, who died a few days ago in New York of COVID-19 related health issues.
Lorena, pictured above at the Latinx Institute at Creating Change, which she helped organize, (center right in the cap and red top) was revered for the way she fought to save the lives of transgender women, immigrants, Latinas, people living with HIV, formerly incarcerated people and sex workers. She was honored for her accomplishments by dozens of leaders and organizations and loved by many. Watch this video to learn more about this amazing leader.
Queens Stories: The Story of Lorena Borjas: The Transgender Latina Activist from Queens Public Television on Vimeo.
Trans leaders joined this week to remember Lorena:
We lost a champion, a hero, someone who fought like hell for her community. Rest in power Lorena Borjas. t.co/fVdMVYgKW1
— Janet Mock (@janetmock) March 30, 2020
It is with a heavy heart I have to inform that this morning at 5:22 AM. Lorena Borjas, mother of the Trans latinx community of Queens passed away. Rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/LvuPJfH3iF
— Cecilia Gentili (@CeciliaGentili) March 30, 2020
Latinx LGBTQ leaders also report worrying about a disproportionate economic impact on Latinx workers, including those whose incomes support families. As you may have read, thousands of children separated from their parents are still living in shelters and, according to reports, some are testing positive for COVID-19. Millions of other kids, whose immigrant parents are documented, depend on now-shuttered schools as not merely a place to learn but a place to eat their meals because of food uncertainty. “The Doubled Fears of the Undocumented During the Coronavirus Shutdown” in the New Yorker, paints a picture of what life is like right now for many Latinx families.
LGBTQ people in so many communities are strongly impacted by the health crisis. Here is a list of some of ways we have been affected by COVID-19:
GLAAD joined the National LGBT Cancer Network’s open letter calling on U.S. public health officials and media to address the heightened vulnerability of LGBTQ people to COVID-19. GLAAD also joined an open letter organized by AIDS United which calls on Congress to recognize the increased vulnerability of people living with HIV to COVID-19.
We probably don’t have to say this, because we know ours is a generous and loving community—but reach out to your friends, including your Latinx and or immigrant friends or acquaintances. They may be feeling more vulnerable and afraid than you realized.
www.glaad.org/blog/afraid-everyone-and-facing-extra-layer-worry
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