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Most Pride nights all use the same formula of creating a commemorative item to give away and fly the rainbow flag everywhere for this one night. For this year’s event, there had been a lot of talk within my circle of friends that the ticket prices were higher and that many queer, trans, and gender nonconforming folks, especially who are people of color, cannot afford a $50 nosebleed ticket. I was surprised to see the event was sponsored by Blue Shield and still cost so much for one night of Pride. Perhaps being an ally might include

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Scauzillo reported that Lopez, Along with the proclamation, the elected in November 2020, spoke on city lit up the outside of the building numerous occasions from 200 to at the Civic Centre that houses 201 before the state legislature and the Council Chambers in rainbowin media reports against gay rights, colored L D lights as part of its same-sex marriage, the teaching “celebration of diversity and support of contributions from gay, lesbian, for the LGBTQ+ community.” bisexual and transgender Americans Montclair’s Mayor John Dutrey in California public schools, and presented the proclamation to protections for transgender the ev. Maggie Burbank of the individuals.

Monte Vista nitarian niversalist Thuan Nguyen, a long-time Congregation, a LGBTQ-a rming Montclair resident and doctoral denomination and congregation. student in sociology at SC who had According to the San Gabriel Valley asked for the city to recognize and Tribune’s journalist Steve Scauzillo, celebrate LGBTQ Pride recognition at Burbank was a last minute substitute a previous meeting, said he struggled after gay, lesbian, bisexual, with the decision not to accept it. He transgender and non-binary asked Lopez to apologize for past members from LGBTQ+ groups from statements and positions he took in and around the city refused to while working for the now defunct accept it.

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The Sacramento Bee reported last week that the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom is now estimated to be nearly $215 million according to a report compiled by the California Department of Finance based on data from the state’s 58 counties.

That’s more than the $200 million local public health o cials requested from Newsom in this year’s budget to help them recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future challenges, the SacBee noted.

The estimate comes as state agencies prepare for the expected recall election, which has not been scheduled. ecent polling from the niversity of California’s Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies found support for recalling the governor stands at .

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AIDS was a cruel thief On April 13, 1982, Rep. Henry Waxman, then chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment convened the first congressional hearing on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

Waxman’s district included the still unincorporated gay haven of West Hollywood and he went to where the gays were — the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center on Highland Ave. in Hollywood. Years later, in presenting Waxman with an award, NIH’s Dr. Anthony Fauci recalled that event.

According to an account in the Washington Blade, Rep. Waxman did not mince words. “‘I want to be especially blunt about the political aspects of Kaposi’s sarcoma,’ Rep. Waxman said. ‘This horrible disease afflicts members of one of the nation’s most stigmatized and discriminated-against minorities.’ He continued, ‘There is no doubt in my mind that if the same disease had appeared among Americans of Norwegian descent, or among tennis players, rather than among gay males, the responses of the government and the medical community would have been different.’ He noted that the outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease a few years earlier appeared to have received greater attention and funding for research and treatment than did the latest outbreaks of Kaposi’s sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among gay men.”

Five months later, on Sept. 24, 1982, Waxman and Rep. Phillip Burton introduced legislation to allocate funds to the CDC for surveillance and to the NIH for AIDS research.

Dr. James Curran, head of the CDC’s Task Force on Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections, estimates that tens of thousands of people may be affected by the disease. Bobbi Campbell, a San Francisco nurse who came out Dec. 10, 1981 in the San Francisco Sentinel as the first KS patient to go public, also testified. The self-proclaimed “KS Poster Boy,“ was asked to translate “cold data into flesh and blood and tears,” and to speak “of the men, my brothers, who have Kaposi’s sarcoma and other illnesses.”

Gottlieb was there but he doesn’t remember much — just that his friend Steve Schulte was there and he met Tim Westmoreland, the gay man who staffed and organized the hearing for Waxman. And he remembers the Center as a broken-down old motel with the meeting held outside. It didn’t get much press coverage.

Gottlieb does remember his friendship with Ivy Bottini, an artist turned AIDS activist. Bottini’s old friend from Long Island, Ken Schnorr, had collapsed and died in 1982. “After Ken died, something said to me there is more to this than we see,” Bottini told the Blade. “So, for some reason, I just picked up the phone and called the CDC. I had never done that before. ‘Look, this just happened to my friend. Do you have any answers? The hesitancy at the other end of the line, the hemming and the hawing before they would say anything — I just knew it was bad.”

The CDC official explained that the bruises on Ken’s body were Kaposi sarcoma, usually found in elderly Jewish men. “And that was the explanation,” she said. “I got off and thought, ‘no, this doesn’t make sense because Ken was one of three first guys diagnosed with Kaposi in town, in West Hollywood, in LA, and that started me on working to find out what the hell was going on. It was just horrible.”

Waxman’s hearing was held shortly after Schnorr’s death. Bottini was there.

“We all met in the lobby and under the stairs on the first floor,” she said.

“Waxman’s basic message was spread the word: Nobody really knows how it’s passed.”

“Thousands of deaths and no one cares! No one cares – except us,” an emotional Bottini told Andy Sacher of the Lavender Effect about that time. “That was inhuman what was really happening to gay men. It was inhuman how they were demonized.”

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To make sure that safety regulations are still adhered to at events, N C Pride will “transition to providing increased community-based security and first responders, while simultaneously taking steps to reduce N PD presence at events.”

Police o cers being banned from participating in Pride parades and festivities is not an unfamiliar conversation to LGBTQ advocacy and activist groups in North America. In 2018, Capital Pride in D.C. announced that uniformed o cers would not be allowed to march in the Pride parade. In 2019, Pride Toronto announced that uniformed police o cers would not be permitted to attend any Pride Toronto events.

The announcement was preceded by a voting session that took place among Pride Toronto members. Global News, a Canadian news platform, reported a final result of 1 1 1, disallowing police participation in Pride Toronto events.

Global News also reports that Pride Toronto committed to using their $1.25 million federal grant to examine the LGBTQ community’s feelings regarding police, and to forge a way 6,&4*&(>$ In solidarity with the BlackLivesMatter movement, Vancouver Pride Society announced in 2020 that police o cers were no longer welcome to march and exhibit during any of Vancouver Pride Society’s festivities.

“The roots of Pride are in righteous anger, riot and uprising against police brutality. These riots against the violence of the police were led by Black and Brown trans women and queer people. The Stonewall iots propelled gay movements from assimilationist tactics towards unapologetic Pride. These riots worked,” reads Vancouver Pride Society’s statement.

The organization also pledged to ensure public safety by participating in calls to defund the police and “commit to learning and convening community dialogues about what these alternative forms of managing public safety look like.”

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“After many interactions between the police and LGBTQ community locally, including the passive aggressive moves between the N PD and peaceful protestors in ashington Square Park last year, we have to look at the history,” said Andr Thomas, N C Pride co-chair. “The ability to welcome Black, Brown, and trans Americans at our events is an even higher priority than for someone to be able to wear police uniform in a parade.”

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Mapping Police Violence reports that in 2020, Black people constituted 28 of those killed by the police despite only constituting 1 of the country’s population. The 2015 .S. Transgender Survey also reports that Black transgender people were 50 more likely to report that their interactions with police o cers as suspecting them of soliciting sex work and leading to an arrest. In addition, the Movement Advancement Project reports in a 201 study that nearly 0 of incarcerated girls identify as LGB and 85-90 of incarcerated LGBTQ youth are LGBTQ youth of color. ith this in mind, N C Pride’s goal is to make their events harm-and-fear-free for members of the LGBTQ community.

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It’s been five years since the families and friends of those taken that night have heard their laughs, seen their smiles, or held their hands. It’s been five years that the survivors have had to relive their trauma of that fateful night. Last Saturday marked five years since this deadly attack and it is a time we can reflect on the lives lost, those injured, the progress made since the attack, and what we all can do to fight for commonsense gun reform to make our country a safer place.

This tragedy struck at the heart of the LGBTQ community, both in Orlando and around our country, happening right in the middle of Pride month. hile this is a somber anniversary that we must honor and remember the tragedy, it is also a time to reflect on what our community has accomplished as a result of this horrific event. hile we grieve for those we lost, today there is hope. Out of the tragedy, a movement was born in the LGBTQ community to fight for gun reform, led by groups such as the Pride Fund to nd Gun Violence, which was established within days of the shooting. It includes Pulse survivors, family members of those killed in the attack, and key stakeholders. orking at the state and federal level, this new generation of activists is mobilizing and advocating for change to honor those lost with action. Through political action, advocacy, and recruiting new activists to the gun reform fight, the Pride Fund, other groups, and the LGBTQ community as a whole are honoring the legacy of the Pulse victims through meaningful action. The mission of Pride Fund is year round, working daily to enact gun reform, elect gun safety champions at the state and federal level, and advocating for change all over the country.

As we look back over the last five years there have been some significant accomplishments that reflect the hard work that has been done since the tragedy.

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Second, we have witnessed many of those personally impacted by the tragedy, the survivors, the family members and friends of those killed, and key stakeholders like the owner of Pulse, become national activists in this cause.

Third, Democrats have seized on the issue and made it one of their top priorities in their campaigns and in elected o ce. The 2018 election was the first time gun reform was a key issue, not only on the campaign trail, but by voters. ith Democrats winning the House of epresentatives, bills started to finally pass to address gun reform, however the Senate stopped its movement. Now with Democrats controlling the House, Senate, and hite House, we are in the greatest position to enact change. President Biden, has announced a series of initial actions and subsequent items have taken place. Most recently, the ATF has issued a proposed rule to stop the proliferation of “ghost guns,” and in his budget request for next year, he has included a $2 2 million increase in funding for the DOJ and HHS to tackle gun violence.

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Amos’ brisk but informative film takes us on a tour of Tatchell’s career, bolstered by plenty of archival footage much of which only exists because Tatchell saved the VHS tapes himself and given perspective through evocative interviews with the likes of activist Angela Mason, actor Stephen Fry, and Tatchell himself, who also engages in an ongoing conversation with actor and fellow LGBTQ activist Ian McKellen about what motivates his lifelong fight for equality. Along the way, we get insights into Tatchell’s personal life, in particular his relationship with his deeply religious mother. The film culminates with his riskiest crusade yet, the disruption of 2018’s FIFA orld Cup in Moscow to draw attention to the persecution of LGBTQ+ people in ussia and Chechnya.

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