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WEALTH GAP PERSISTS AMONG QUEER COMMUNITIES by Teddy MacQuarrie SGN Staff Writer Despite decades of social and political progress, Queer people in the US continue to experience disparity in wealth and income compared to cisgender and heterosexual people. Research conducted by several sources in the last decade identifies an overall gap: Queer people earn $0.90 for every $1.00 earned by cisgender and heterosexual people. These disparities vary further according to racial and ethnic background, as well as between Queer cisgender people and Transgender people.
see WEALTH GAP page 11
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Glossily charming Red, White & Royal Blue is not a crime” wins a satisfying electoral “Voguing Seattle’s ballroom community honors the life of O’Shae Sibley rom-com victory Red, White & Royal Blue – Photo courtesy of Amazon Studios
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN Staff Writer RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE Amazon Prime Alex Claremont-Diaz (Taylor Zakhar Perez) is the dashing son of President Ellen Claremont (Uma Thurman) and confi-
dently stoic First Gentleman Oscar Diaz (Clifton Collins Jr.). He is in England for the wedding of Prince Phillip (Thomas Flynn), the heir to his grandfather, King James III (Stephen Fry), when he unintentionally gets into a ridiculous row with the monarch’s younger brother, Prince Henry (Nicholas Galitzine).
see ROYAL BLUE page 13
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by Lindsey Anderson SGN Staff Writer On Friday, August 4, 2023, hundreds of protesters gathered at the 76 gas station on Broadway on Capitol Hill with flowers and signs to mourn the brutal murder of O’Shae Sibley, a Black Gay man stabbed to death at a gas station in New York City. Sibley was stabbed in the chest by an unidentified
17-year-old boy on the night of July 29. He was pronounced dead when he arrived at the hospital. He was only 28. While the gathering may have seemed familiar to onlookers — members of marginalized communities mourning the loss of yet another Queer Black person — it was anything but.
see 76 STATION page 7