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Margaret Cho to perform in Bellevue and you shouldn’t miss her SEC 2 PG 1
Amanda Kirkhuff’s “Everything is Hard” at Gallery 4Culture SEC 2 PG 1
Seattle Gay News S E AT T L E ’ S L G B T Q N E W S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T W E E K LY
Governor Jay Inslee signs legislation protecting LGBTQ youth in Washington state from dangerous “conversion therapy”
Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee signs a bill banning licensed therapists from trying to change a minor’s sexual orientation. – Photo by Rachel La Corte / AP
by MK Scott SGN Contributing Writer On Wednesday, March 28, with HRC President Chad Griffin in attendance,
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee signed into law SB 5722 – legislation protecting LGBTQ youth in Washington
see LGBTQ YOUTH page 11
LAMBDA LEGAL AND OUTSERVE-SLDN:
Send the bigoted Transgender military ban to the dustbin of history
Pulse shooting survivors & family lead hundreds of HRC members in #MarchForOurLives
Parkland, Florida shooting survivor Emma Gonzalez stood silently at Saturday’s rally to mark the time it took the shooter to go on his killing spree. – Photo by Alex Brandon / AP
WASHINGTON – [On March 24], Pulse Nightclub shooting survivors and family members led hundreds of members and supporters of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – the nation’s largest
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization – in the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC.
see DC MARCH page 13
Scenes from Seattle’s March For Our Lives on March 24, 2018
Plaintiff Cathrine Schmid (second from l) listens as attorney Natalie Nardecchia speaks in front of federal court in Seattle after proceedings in one of the ongoing legal challenges to policies on Transgender service members. – Photo by Elaine Thompson / AP
SEATTLE – Lambda Legal and OutServe-SLDN argued [on March 27] before a federal district court that the Trump administration’s plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the US Armed Services is so clearly unconstitutional that it should be permanently
blocked. It was the first such argument among the four lawsuits challenging the ban and came just five days after the White House released its so-called ‘plan’ for implementing the discriminatory and harmful ban.
see TRANS BAN page 12
The young people of Seattle’s March For Our Lives – Photo by Nate Gowdy
see SEATTLE MARCH page 4