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Nov 1, 2024 | 
gaysonoma.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
Opinions/ Perspectives/ Top Stories The Reagan Administration was determined to ignore the AIDS epidemic.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
lgbtqnation.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
The Reagan Administration was determined to ignore the AIDS epidemic. As the death toll climbed across the country, Reagan refused to even say the word “AIDS,” waiting until 1985 to name the deadly illness. It wasn’t until 1987 that he formed a task force to address the disease, and his administration did not implement a single one of its 597 recommendations. In response, a group of four gay men in Minneapolis came together to form the Philanthrofund Foundation, or PFund for short, in 1987.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
lgbtqnation.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
At the start of 2023, the wait time for new patients at the Children’s Minnesota Hospital’s Gender Health Program was nearly a year long. When neighboring states began banning gender-affirming care for trans youth, the program’s call volume increased 30 percent. At one point, the wait time was as long as 18 months, which placed immense stress on trans youth, their families, and the doctors and staff trying to serve them.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
Jared and Taylor would be living an idyllic life if it weren’t for their state legislature. Their home is four blocks from their son Ben’s elementary school. (All of their names have been changed to protect their identities.) They have friends within walking distance, and Jared’s parents are just a few miles away. “We live in a great neighborhood. We moved here right before the start of the pandemic,” Jared told The Daily Beast.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
lgbtqnation.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
It’s the middle of the school year, and Florida is short at least 4,000 teachers, according to data from the Florida Education Association (FEA) released in January. In the report, FEA President Andrew Spar says teachers are “being forced out of the state or the profession entirely due to low pay and untenable working conditions because of bad policy.” But this hasn’t stopped the Florida legislature from introducing another bill targeting teachers, this time during teacher preparation courses.
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Dec 24, 2023 | 
gaysonoma.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
Features/ Top Stories/ Transgender / Transsexual Kansas City, Missouri – the home of bebop jazz and the self-proclaimed “Barbecue Capital of the World” – also has some of the most LGBTQ+-friendly laws in the country, according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). For the third consecutive year, HRC gave Kansas City on its Municipal Equality Index, which measures LGBTQ+ equality in municipal laws, policies, and services. Residents have been working for LGBTQ+ equality for years and made major...
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
lgbtqnation.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
Kansas City, Missouri – the home of bebop jazz and the self-proclaimed “Barbecue Capital of the World” – also has some of the most LGBTQ+-friendly laws in the country, according to the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). For the third consecutive year, HRC gave Kansas City on its Municipal Equality Index, which measures LGBTQ+ equality in municipal laws, policies, and services.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
xtramagazine.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn |Scott Moe
“Almost fully automated trans rights,” Transpapers announces when you visit their website. Transpapers is a new resource created by two trans women in Michigan to help guide trans people through the process of changing their legal name and gender marker on their legal documents. Users enter their information into the fields, then the site generates the necessary legal documents and a personalized guide on how to file them.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
lgbtqnation.com | Jeff Fuentes Gleghorn
In April 2023, residents in Douglas County, Colorado, a region 45 minutes south of Denver known for pastoral landscapes, state parks, and an annual Renaissance Festival, rallied as conservative activists launched an increasingly common book-banning campaign against the county library. Jessica Fredrickson, a former Douglas County Public Library employee, first found out about the book challenges on Facebook a few days before the library’s Board of Trustees meeting.
