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chairperson, Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council; Lynnette McFadzen, president, BiNet USA; Nicole Murray Ramirez, International Court System U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico; Sean Coleman, executive director, Destination Tomorrow; and Thomas Tonatiuh Lopez, International Indigenous Youth Council. When the June 11 march was announced earlier this year, Doster said that representatives from Pride groups seemed to be supportive of the new event, although some feared it could detract from their local Pride celebrations. George Ridgely, executive director of the San Francisco LGBT Pride
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Sex offender registry
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He also said that California is one of only four states where all sex offender registrants are on the list for life. “Federal law requires states to have a tiered approach,” Wiener said. “California continues to flagrantly violate that federal law.” Removal from the registry wouldn’t be automatic. People in the first two tiers would have to petition a court to be removed from the list at the end of their registration period. The courts would be able to deny petitions under certain circumstances, and the district attorney would be allowed to request hearings to oppose petitions. Local law enforcement agencies could still inform their communities about offenders in any tier under some circumstances. Originally, as previously reported, the bill was known as Senate Bill 695 and was authored by gay state Senator Ricardo Lara (DBell Gardens) and Senator Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles). Tuesday, Lara’s spokesman told the Bay Area Reporter that with Lara’s full portfolio of legislation, including single-payer health care legislation and other important criminal justice reforms, “he is glad that Senator Wiener has introduced SB 421 to champion the effort.”
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Out in the World
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The researchers noted that Indonesia has a national anti-discrimination law that was enacted in 1999, however, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression aren’t included as protected classes in the law. Also, some LGBT Indonesians might not have their own identification cards because those are usually obtained through their families or don’t match their gender identity. Physical assault leads to problems accessing health care because some doctors and nurses are prejudiced against the gay community, Luther said. If it’s not the threats of the outside world there’s the internal world that leads to health issues, such as the high prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men, he noted. “There is considerable stigma
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ADAP
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department, “will continue to provide real-time 24/7 access to medications, including a 30-day supply for existing clients who experience access issues at the pharmacy,” the health department report says. Spokespeople for the agency didn’t respond to emailed questions about the data breach and other ADAP issues. Boggs CEO Clarke Anderson didn’t respond to an interview request Wednesday morning. Courtney Mulhern-Pearson,
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Celebration Committee, said in a statement to the B.A.R. this week, that it’s “unclear whether the D.C. march will have any impact on our attendance. We are seeing a lot of excitement and interest in this year’s SF Pride event and nearly 100 contingents have already signed up for the Parade.” Longtime gay activist Cleve Jones had planned a community meeting for Wednesday, April 26, to discuss a “Resist” contingent for the San Francisco parade, but last week he canceled the room reservation at the Women’s Building and indicated he was no longer involved. While Jones has declined further comment, Facebook messages by community grand marshal Alex U. Inn were critical of him. “Then you just totally side step me
as this is the Grand Marshal’s contingent,” Inn wrote. “A group of us have been meeting and planning with Folkz at Pride for over a month. Some weeks almost daily. Where have you been?” Ridgely and Pride board President Michelle Meow sent an email to Jones April 22 apologizing for the “breakdown” in communication and taking “full responsibility.” Ridgely told the B.A.R. that there are no “significant changes” planned for this year’s Pride celebration June 24-25. Organizers are expecting a large turnout” and “remain focused on producing an engaging and inclusive array of speakers, entertainment, and community gathering spaces, along with the parade and march,” he stated. t
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to register as sex offenders for life even though their convictions are now decades old and the law and its enforcement have changed, and the basis for many of these arrests was due to anti-LGBT discrimination and police entrapment.” Spokespeople for San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón didn’t provide comment Tuesday on whether he supports the bill. San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi’s office is in favor of Wiener’s legislation. “The proposed bill is a win-win,” Deputy Public Defender Sandy Feinland, who heads the agency’s unit dealing with sex cases, said in response to an email from the B.A.R. “It allows law enforcement to focus its resources on serious offenders who pose a real risk. At the same time, it eliminates the lifetime banishment from society for minor offenders who turn their lives around.” Marc Klaas, whose young daughter, Polly, was kidnapped and murdered more than 20 years ago, was one of the handful of people who spoke against SB 421 at Tuesday’s hearing. “The real victims here seem to have no voice,” Klaas said, and “this whole idea of victimizing sex offenders” who decided to harm others is “offensive in every way.” The bill next goes to the Appropriations Committee. t
SB 421’s sponsors include Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, and the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. At Tuesday’s hearing, Brad McCartt, who’s with the Los Angeles DA’s office, said that in its current form, the registry “has become meaningless. ... We need to have the purpose of the list restored” so that authorities can “quickly find suspects” and try to prevent children from being harmed. McCartt added that someone’s shortened registration period wouldn’t begin until after they’re released from custody, so that if someone gets out of prison after serving a 15-year sentence, they would still have to be on the registry for 20 years if they were on the second tier. Equality California is also sponsoring SB 421. In a letter to Wiener, EQCA Executive Director Rick Zbur said the statewide LGBT advocacy group “is co-sponsoring this bill to address in particular the unfair circumstance of LGBT people who were targeted and often entrapped on charges that required registration as a sex offender when their actual actions hurt no one, including for simply engaging in same-sex contact when that action was criminalized in the past. These members of the LGBT community were required attached to being homosexual in Indonesia,” said Badgett. There is even more stigma around HIV-positive people in Indonesia, Hasenbush explained. Hasenbush, an attorney with a master’s degree in public health who is a Jim Kepner Law and Policy Fellow at the Williams Institute, said that it is common practice for new employers to demand a health screening before hiring, and therefore, that limits many LGBT and HIV-positive people from applying for jobs. “That may be preventing people who don’t identify as healthy or who may be perceived as unhealthy because of living with HIV ... that may be something stigmatizing,” said Hasenbush. “And could cause barriers for people to actually go through and obtain that employment.” Those who push forward find that co-workers might be uncomfortable
director of state and local policy at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, said she hasn’t heard of clients still experiencing trouble with enrollment and eligibility. “The office had extended eligibility through the end of June, so any existing clients shouldn’t have any problems anyway,” MulhernPearson said, adding, “I think there are technical issues they’re working out with the system, but it so far appears like the system works better. We won’t really know until” people’s eligibility determinations happen. Mulhern-Pearson said she’d like
working alongside them. If they are discovered, they experience harassment and there’s no protection from being fired for being gay. Furthermore, “LGBT people won’t have any recourse because they are more afraid of their families finding out or getting outed further,” she said.
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However limited the research findings, Pawestri, an Indonesian women’s rights activist, expressed gratitude at having the report to utilize in her work. “Lee and the team have provided us with a very comprehensive data,” said Pawestri. “This effort to have this analysis on the economic exclusions on the LGBT is very good.”t
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for the Office of AIDS to put “an ongoing list” of what it’s working on and the status of its work online. She also said that 94 clients’ data had been breached, one more than the office reported. “I have not come across anyone who was among those clients,” she said. The Office of AIDS also announced in its report that Sandra Robinson has been named ADAP branch chief. Robinson, who started April 17, most recently served as the chief of Healthy Aging Programs with the state’s Chronic Disease Control Branch. t
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