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Fighting back in Ukraine Anti-LGBTQ Chechen leader killed in Putin’s War, PAGE 14

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Legislators introduce bill to divest state funds from Russia FROM STAFF REPORTS Senate Majority Leader Mike McGuire and a broad, bipartisan coalition of California State Legislators will be introducing legislation to divest state public funds from Russia and Russian-state entities following the unprovoked war against Ukraine.

While the Federal Government has taken swift and aggressive action advancing unprecedented sanctions against Russia and enhanced action taken by the State could help the people ready beaten-up Russian economy.

“The world is watching the atrocities taking place in Ukraine.

It’s sickening,” Senator McGuire said. “We must stand strong for the people of Ukraine. That’s why we all must mobilize to stop Russia in its tracks. California has unique and remarkable ecoin the world, we must use this power for good. We can help stop Senate Majority Leader McGuire and the legislative coalition will be advancing a bill that will call on all state agencies, includCalSTRS, to divest from any and all Russian assets immediately.

It’s believed California has Russian investments exceeding over $1 billion, primarily in its pension funds. At this point there Russia’s economy, not even in the top 10 of world economies, is one of their big pressure points and California should use its

The delegation will also ask private companies based in California to divest their investments in the Russian economy. In addition, the legislation would block the awarding of state contracts to any company that is conducting business with Russia. alition of Senators and Assemblymembers, including: Senators Umberg, and Susan Rubio; and Assemblymembers Kevin Mul-

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veys.” responsibility to ensure we are not fueling this global crisis that governments follow California’s lead in standing for peace and

to democratic freedoms and global stability. The loss of life to satisfy the ego of a fragile tyrant is unconscionable and there must be consequences. This legislation builds upon the strong and our allies.”

Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Kevin Mullin said: “As the the sidelines while this rise of authoritarianism threatens democracy and freedom around the globe. The aggression of I am in full support of California taking aggressive steps to di-

His attempted conquest of Ukraine is an extreme violation of international law and is creating a humanitarian disaster. We must not allow this destructive invasion — which will have oligarchy. We must divest now.” people. It gives me no joy to sanction Russia, but the terrible mand it. I call on other states and businesses follow suit – we and sisters.”

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HRC launches ‘Reality Flag’ campaign to boost Equality Act

By LOU CHIBBARO JR. | lchibbaro@washblade.com The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, announced it is launching a nationwide multimedia campaign to promote the approval by Congress of the LGBTQ nondiscrimination legislation known as the Equality Act. In a Feb. 23 statement HRC says the campaign, among other things, will include a series of “powerful” video ads for social media and TV created by Emmy Award-winning director Joey Soloway that tell stories of how individual LGBTQ people are adversely impacted by discrimination.

At the center of the campaign as depicted in the videos is legal protections for LGBTQ people that HRC is calling the “Reality Flag.” wall of its headquarters building in D.C. that HRC points out is located just six blocks from the White House.

“The Reality Flag campaign is designed to point out the inequalities LGBTQ+ individuals face every day – in our own voice,” said Joni Madison, HRC’s interim president. “From housing and educational discrimination to denial of government and health services, LGBTQ+ people are confronted by hurdles to simply exist every day,” Madison said in a statement.

“This needs to change,” she said. “The Reality Flag not only

sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity in areas including public accommodations and facilities, education, federal The Congress.gov site adds, “The bill prohibits an individual from being denied access to a shared facility, including a restroom, a locker room, and a dressing room, that is in accordance with the individual’s gender identity.”

Several moderate GOP senators, including Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), have said they support the principle of protections against discrimination for LGBTQ people and would be willing to vote for a revised Equality Act that includes what they call religious rights protections and some changes in the transgender provisions.

Some Republican observers have said enough Republicans pass the Equality Act in the Senate if Democrats agree to the changes proposed by the moderate Republicans.

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for millions of people but stands as a symbol of hope that communities can rally behind to enact meaningful change.”

HRC’s Reality Flag campaign comes at a time when most supporters and opponents believe the bill has no chance of passing in the U.S. Senate any time soon, even though it

Other Republicans, however, including the national LGBTQ GOP group Log Cabin Republicans, have said the Equality Act should be discarded altogether following the landmark U.S.

Observers note that although Democrats have a slim ma-

County. The decision declares that Title VII of the U.S. Civil

President Kamala Harris set to break a tie vote in favor of

hibits employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Equality Act supporters have argued that the legislation is still needed to ensure that LGBTQ people are fully protected from discrimination in other areas such as housing and pub-

Democrats are unable to change means the Equality Act co-sponsors of the Equality Act. Maverick Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia emerged as the sole Senate Democrat saying he cannot support the Equality Act in its current version due, in part, to what Manchin says is its provisions related to transgender nondiscrimination in school sports and school bathroom use.

Sources familiar with the Senate told the Washington other Democratic senators from swing states would likely join Manchin in withholding support for the Equality Act due

the Equality Act calls for prohibiting “discrimination based on

Representatives of both sides have said negotiations have been taking place over possible changes in the Equality Act since at least the beginning of last year, but nothing has emerged from those reported negotiations as of this week.

Many LGBTQ advocacy organizations, including HRC, have said the GOP suggested changes to the Equality Act related to “religious freedom,” which the bill’s supporters say means a right to discriminate against LGBTQ people based on rebusiness open to the public, are unacceptable.

Most LGBTQ advocacy groups have also declared as unacceptable GOP proposals to weaken or remove protections for transgender people in the legislation, saying such pro-

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posals are being promoted by people who have been misled or are themselves misleading others to believe cisgender women in sports and in public restrooms as well as in school bathrooms and showers would be adversely impacted by the current version of the legislation.

With both sides in what most Capitol Hill observers consider to be a complete deadlock, Senate Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), have not indicated a willingness to bring the Equality Act up for a vote in the Senate this year. last week asking whether Schumer would consider bringing next year if Democrats retain control of the Senate in the With that as a backdrop, David Stacy, HRC’s Government passage of the Equality Act remains a high priority for HRC and the LGBTQ+ community.

“Getting any legislation through the U.S. Senate is not easy,” Stacy said. “In the meantime, support continues growing for the bill, and we believe the Reality Flag campaign will continue to generate the awareness and education needed to continue growing support and pressure for action,” he said.

“We’ve already seen since our launch people coming out saying they had no idea LGBTQ+ people didn’t already have these protections, and that’s what we aim to do here: educate people and inspire them to take action at the grassroots level across the country – call their senators and make it clear that it’s time we need this done,” Stacy said. “Some people may be ready to give up. We are not,” he said.

In its three-page statement announcing the launch of its Reality Flag campaign, HRC says the campaign is being produced in partnership with a team of advertising and public and communications company giant WPP. “While the campaign seeks to galvanize public support for the Equality Act and driving audiences to take action at RealityFlag.com, it also underscores the importance of lifting up and showcasing the real stories and lived experiences of LGBTQ+ people impacted by discrimination,” the statement continues.

It says the stories about individual LGTQ people will primarily be featured in “video vignettes” created by TV writer and director Joey Soloway, the Emmy Award-winning creator vision comedy-drama series about a transgender woman non-conforming.

pressions during launch, including TV, print, display, video, audio, cinema, OOH, social, and search,” the HRC statement says.

Access to some of the video ads slated for the HRC Reality

NATIONAL

Biden nominates Brown Jackson to Supreme Court

By CHRIS JOHNSON | cjohnson@washblade.com In a ceremony in the Great Cross-Hall outside of the Blue Room at the White House last Friday, President Joe Biden formally announced Ketanji Brown Jackson, currently a judge on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, as his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court. The presi-

Jackson addressed her past work with the school mation process for

Joni Madison, interim president for the Human Rights Campaign, hailed the choice of

response to questions from Sen. Rich-

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Baptist Church was limited and she was unaware of its position statement.

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President Biden named KETANJI BROWN JACKSON as his choice for the U.S. Supreme Court last week. (Photo public domain)

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tion process for her current seat on the D.C. Court of Appeals.

The mission statement urged students to uphold a “Christian character,” which among

contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death.”

preme Court justice.

my opinion, her lifelong commitment to equality more than outweighs any concern that

Fla. Senate committee approves ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill “The world is watching. Do not erase our community. Do not erase our history,” Joe

identity that are not “age-appropriate” in schools — though it is not clear what is consid-

Monday.

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Biden renews call to pass Equality Act in State of the Union echoed in speech

By CHRIS JOHNSON | cjohnson@washblade.com In a State of the Union address front-loaded with calls to challenge Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, President Biden on Tuesday called for assistance from Congress in enacting his domestic agenda — and renewed his call for passage of the Equality Act to advance LGBTQ rights.

Act to my desk,” Biden said, making his strongest push yet for legislation

PRESIDENT BIDEN renewed his call to pass the Equality Act in his State of the Union speech.

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Echoing remarks he made in his speech to Congress last year in supin state legislatures, many of which seek to restrict access to transition-related care for youth and to keep transgender kids out of school sports.

“The onslaught of state laws targeting transgender Americans and their families is wrong,” Biden said. “As I said last year, especially to our youngDespite Biden’s renewed call to pass the Equality Act, the legislation is nents have twisted the measure as a threat to sex-segregated spaces for paign highlighting the patchwork of legal protections for LGBTQ people Biden incorporated the Equality Act in a speech where he included numerous items from his domestic agenda, such as elements of his Build child care tax credit. The Build Back Better legislation is also dead in Conpackage still have a shot.

Also highlighted in Biden’s speech were measures already signed into

navirus pandemic. Not everyone in Biden’s audience in the joint session Critics have said Biden’s moves have worsened the economy and instifrom gasoline to groceries. Biden, however, made a point to include inrising prices.

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feel. I get it. That’s why my top priority is getting prices under control.” sanctions, including an announcement the United States would join othdefend allied nations in NATO, pledging to “defend every inch of territory of NATO countries with the full force of our collective power.” ing to the moment, and the world is clearly choosing the side of peace and security,” Biden said. “This is a real test. It’s going to take time. So let us continue to draw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people.”

ors on their lapels to show American solidarity with the country under Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO of the LGBTQ group GLAAD, said in a statement after Biden’s speech his words in support of LGBTQ people come at crit-

“President Biden has delivered on commitments to include LGBTQ citizens in the promise of America,” Ellis said. “Every lawmaker at every level of government must commit to do the same, especially for LGBTQ families and children under attack. The state of our union is only as strong as our action and commitment to ensure no marginalized person is left

Concerns for LGBTQ Ukrainians mount as war drags on

By MICHAEL K. LAVERS | mlavers@washblade.com

Situation for LGBTQ Ukrainians ‘dire’ A Budapest Pride supporter protests outside the Russian Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb. 24.

(Photo courtesy of Budapest Pride/Twitter)

Groups around the world rally behind LGBTQ Ukrainians

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Magomed Tushayev died during military clash One of the top warlords and close adviser to Chechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov was killed Saturday in the battle for Antonov Airport, also known as Hostomel Airport, an international cargo airport and testing facility northwest of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

By MICHAEL K. LAVERS | mlavers@washblade.com

Sources with Russian-based human rights or-

limkhanov, was abducted from a subway station

was killed during a skirmish with the Ukrainian

Selimkhanov was questioned by Chechen security operatives, working for Tushayev, seeking information on human rights activists and inde-

dent Volodymyr Zelensky.

Tushayev’s death came as Kadyrov, an ally of

caped returning to Moscow.

Ukraine and urged Ukrainians to overthrow their

MAGOMED TUSHAYEV (left) and RAMZAN KADYROV (Photo via Illia Ponomarenko, defense reporter, The Kyiv Independent)

ther action.

es and said Russian forces could easily take large Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, but that their task was to avoid loss of life.

in the Kadyrov regime, including Tushayev sources

one single casualty, or wounded, not a single man

tention facilities for days, humiliated, starved and tortured them, in what has been dubbed Chechn-

what he said were false reports of casualties from Ukrainian sources.

Tushayev, who was one of three top advisers and military commanders for Kadyrov, prior to the Ukrainian invasion by Russian forces, was directly involved in the campaign of

who carried out the attack, but it took place against the backdrop of Russian troops’ continued advance towards Kyiv.

napping of Selimkhanov, which in late August

Muslim-majority region.

Additional reporting by Brody Levesque and Illia Ponomarenko

the eastern part of the country.

Sharyhina on Tuesday posted to her Facebook page a video of a Russian missile strike a regional administration building in Kharkiv that is on the city’s Freedom Square.

Sharyhina in the same Facebook post pleaded with Russia to stop shelling Kharkiv. if it gains control of their country. destruction of Kyiv’s main TV tower. Shevchenko, who lives in Kyiv, in another Facebook post 14 • MARCH 04, 2022 • LOSANGELESBLADE.COM

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Shevchenko lives in Kyiv, Ukraine.

LGBTQ Ukrainians will do our best to resist Russia Today I woke up at 5 a.m. because of the massive attack on our cities from Russia. Nobody in Ukraine can still believe it is happening right now. I got dozens have any answers. It took us few hours to collect members of our LGBTQI+ communities there.

I think the international community needs to realize start of a huge international crisis and possible war all sanctions anymore. He will continue and never stop.

We are living in very interesting times in which

located in eastern Ukraine. We started to collect names of those who must be relocated immediately.

So why it is so dangerous for LGBTQI+ people to stay under possible occupation?

Russia is coming with its “traditional values” and will empire. I heard they already have lists of activists who activists are on those lists.

Russia occupied our territories and many people were forced to leave their homes. Many of them were and some were killed or disappeared.

In 2014 we opened a shelter for LGBTQI+ internally displaced persons in Kyiv. This time it seems we do not have any place to go and we want to protect our

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Overturning Roe also puts LGBTQ equality at risk The Supreme Court has made a series of dangerous decisions that appear to be aimed at undoing the constitutional right to abortion. If the Court continues in its after a rape can be critical for their fundamental right to abortion. upon a series of U.S. Supreme Court cases concerning the

undermine abortion access for put millions of peoples’ rights,

right of married couples to use contraception. These longstanding decisions form the legal foundation of critical constitutional protections against discrimination and gender

green light to other states seeking to enact similar restrictions. And if the Supreme Court accepts

enabled the Supreme Court to

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Gay musician brings latest tour to California

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Deep-dive docuseries reveals the ‘Warhol’ you never knew You’ll like him for the human being he turns out to have been hiding all along

ANDY WARHOL and JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT in ‘The Andy Warhol Diaries.’

By JOHN PAUL KING

You might think that more than three decades after his death, there would be no need for another documentary about Andy Warhol. as his artwork, is so familiar to us that we take his fame for granted – and that’s exactly why we need it. Our familiarity leads us to assimilate the surface details of his life without pondering what lies beneath – something that the aggressively shallow artist himself almost certainly intended. After all, as we are deftly and elegantly reminded by the Ryan Murphy-produced “The Andy Warhol Diaries” (which begins streaming on

entries over the phone for his longtime friend and collaborator Pat Hackett to type up. After his death, she compiled them with minimal notation and published them – something that Warhol had always planned. As Hackett (continuing her role as his er than anyone expected.

When it hit the stands, response to the book was largely lukewarm. Poring through the minutiae of Andy’s daily life for scandalous tidbits about the galaxy of celebrities with whom he surrounded himself, readers with a hunger for gossip may have come curtain of his carefully cultivated public image found themselves sorely disappointed.

There were plenty of pithy observations, maybe, and glimpses into the workings of his mind through his thoughts and feelings about people and things, perhaps – but there was no deeper discussion of his inner life, nor any exploration of how it may have expressed itself in the creation of his art.

This seeming dearth of personal revelation was not the only thing going against the his earlier work, had developed a dismissive attitude toward all things Warhol, brandfame, and his seeming refusal to address the AIDS epidemic – even as so many other queer artists were driven to activism – had disillusioned many of his fans. All these nothingness from a man for whom lack of substance was the cornerstone of a career.

That was 33 years ago, however, and in the intervening time appreciation for Andy Warhol has exploded beyond anything he ever experienced during his lifetime. The

In the new six-episode miniseries, written and directed by Andrew Rossi, we don’t see or hear much about the “Factory Era” that cemented Warhol’s place as an architect of pop culture; those days were long over by the time he started the diary. Instead, the after which the artist said he was always experiencing his life as if he were “watching referenced in the diary but supplemented by “now-it-can-be-told” illumination from Hackett and a collection of other surviving members of Warhol’s inner circle, who are all on hand to provide their own insights, reactions, and personal reminiscences. It’s time, the true Andy peeking out at us – and he is surprisingly, heartbreakingly human.

The Warhol we meet here is the one he kept hidden during his life. Though he was never “in the closet,” he wasn’t exactly “out,” either, cultivating an image of asexuality that lingers to this day – yet in the diary his gayness is refreshingly on display. Moreover, though he elides and omits details that might be too revealing for all parties inlong-term relationships – three if you count Jean-Michel Basquiat – that had profound impact on both his life and his work. Though his sometimes glib, often insensitive comments about AIDS may shock us, they are mitigated by his frequent and obsessive complaints about his age and his health, which speak volumes about the omnipresent fear of mortality that haunted him and kept him moored to the Catholic beliefs of or and the distance at which he seemed determined to keep himself, the heartfelt provide proof of the deep connections it was possible for him to form with others.

As one might expect from a life as well documented as Warhol’s, much of the diaarchival embellishments; and to make things truly immersive, the diary excerpts are read to us by Andy himself – or rather, by a cutting-edge AI voice reconstruction layered over the voice of gifted performance artist Bill Irwin. question the authenticity of a documentary that leans so heavily into such elaborate

the irresistible force of a glacier, so much that it is perhaps impossible to trace all the interconnected currents that have tangentially sprung from it back to their source.

wish he was a machine, and there is something about hearing his words through the fusion of mechanism and artistry that lends his words – which are delivered, in true Warhol style, with as little emotion as possible – an augmented sense of meaning. Just like a soup can, their banality is transcended through duplication and presentation.

And what does “The Andy Warhol Diaries” tell us about the artist’s work? Does it offer a key that at last will allow us to decode his creative process and understand how the forces of the turbulent inner life at which it hints revealed themselves in his art?

Is such a thing even possible?

see things with a widened perspective – and suddenly, Andy’s musings are a lot more revealing than most of us thought.

turns out to have been hiding all along.

ing” through which he launched or elevated the careers of countless other legendary

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