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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
HRC releases hard-hitting video San Francisco proclaims highlighting Mike Pence’s “Leather and LGBTQ Cultural dangerous record on District” HIV and AIDS
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Video is the latest in the organization’s groundbreaking “Real Mike Pence” campaign exposing the Vice President’s long history of anti-LGBTQ amicus [On Friday, April 27,] the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) released a powerful new
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video calling attention to Vice President Mike Pence’s history of failures in protecting Americans from HIV and AIDS. “Mike Pence has spent his career putting people in danger by denying them
see REAL MIKE PENCE page 11
By Mike Andrew SGN Staff Writer San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors unanimously proclaimed a “Leather and LGBTQ Cultural District” on May 1.
The new Cultural District takes in several blocks on either side of Folsom Street in the South of Market area of the city. Site of the world-renowned Folsom Street Fair, the area is also home to a number of
see SAN FRANCISCO page 5
San Francisco Dykes on Bikes HRC, EQUALITY KANSAS, AND ACLU OF KANSAS LAUNCH Full-page ad featuring mourns passing of founding business opposition to Kansas member Soni S.H.S. Wolf anti-LGBTQ adoption bill ®
Chad Griffin, Human Rights Campaign President, speaks to reporters during a news conference, Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Topeka, Kan. – Photo by Mitchell Willetts / AP
Full-page ad in Topeka Capital-Journal and Wichita Eagle features business opposition to legislation enabling taxpayer-funded discrimination against LGBTQ people in child welfare services Soni Wolf – Photo by Katharine Saunders / San Francisco Dykes on Bikes®
see SONI WOLF page 6
TOPEKA, Kan. – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbi-
an, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, joined Equality Kansas, and the ACLU of Kansas in launching a full-page ad – “Keep Kansas Open To All” – today in the Topeka Capital-Journal and tomorrow in the Wichita
see KANSAS page 11