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2 weeks ago | 
gaytimes.com | Sam Donndelinger
Uncloseted Eighty-three percent of queer women reported birthing complications. From systemic bias to outdated medical policies, lesbians face a maternal health system that was never designed with them in mind.
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2 weeks ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Nico DiAlesandro |Spencer Macnaughton |Sam Donndelinger
In President Donald Trump’s first 100 days since taking office for a second term on Jan. 20, he has signed a litany of anti-trans and anti-Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) executive orders (EOs) and has ramped up his anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. These orders represent a solidification of his campaign, where he and the GOP spent roughly $215 million on anti-trans ads, more than five times the amount they spent on ads focused on the economy.
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2 weeks ago | 
oregonlive.com | Sam Donndelinger
In January, a lesbian couple from New Jersey had a labor playlist picked out, electronic candles ready to go and an “atmosphere” they wanted to create during their first child’s birth. They were eager and not at all worried. But Amy and Jessica say their plans for a smooth birth went out the window when a routine checkup turned into a harrowing eight-day hospital stay. “It was awful. It was horrendous,” Amy, the birthing mother, told Uncloseted Media.
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2 weeks ago | 
theemancipator.org | Sam Donndelinger
This article originally appeared on Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outlet. In January, a lesbian couple from New Jersey had a labor playlist picked out, electronic candles ready to go and an “atmosphere” they wanted to create while birthing their first child. They were eager and “not at all worried.”But Amy and Jessica say their plans for a smooth birth went out the window when a routine checkup turned into a harrowing eight-day hospital stay. “It was awful.
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3 weeks ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Sam Donndelinger
In January, a lesbian couple from New Jersey had a labor playlist picked out, electronic candles ready to go and an “atmosphere” they wanted to create while birthing their first child. They were eager and “not at all worried.”But Amy and Jessica say their plans for a smooth birth went out the window when a routine check-up turned into a harrowing eight-day hospital stay. “It was awful. It was horrendous,” Amy, the birthing mother, told Uncloseted Media.
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1 month ago | 
gaytimes.com | Spencer Macnaughton |Tom Sayers |Sam Donndelinger
Uncloseted Biblically responsible investing is a key factor driving American companies away from their DEI efforts.
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1 month ago | 
msmagazine.com | Sam Donndelinger
Since 2001, the arrival of each new Republican president has been met with apprehension by advocates of global sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). Every Republican administration since the Reagan era has denied funding to foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide abortion services, counseling and referral or lobby for liberalization of abortion laws, even if done with non-U.S. government funds.
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2 months ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Sam Donndelinger
This story was produced in partnership with the Chicago Sun-Times, a nonprofit newspaper that was founded in 1948. Rylee Schermerhorn, an 18-year-old from Indianapolis, Indiana, is spending her final high school days pet-sitting in the afternoons and is planning to go to college to study dental hygiene. But as a trans woman, she’s worried about President Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to ban gender-affirming care for patients under 19 through legal action and withholding of federal funds.
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2 months ago | 
msmagazine.com | Sam Donndelinger
This story was originally published in Uncloseted Media, an LGBTQ focused investigative news outletOn a summer afternoon in August 2021, Athena Schaffner scrolled the Chipotle menu as she rode the New York City C train. When the train dipped into a tunnel, a man in baggy sweatpants and a disposable facemask stood up from the orange plastic seats and peered at the subway signs above Schaffner, a lesbian college student who was 20 at the time.
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2 months ago | 
unclosetedmedia.com | Sam Donndelinger
On a summer afternoon in August 2021, Athena Schaffner scrolled the Chipotle menu as she rode the New York City C train. When the train dipped into a tunnel, a man with baggy sweatpants and a disposable facemask stood up from the orange plastic seats and peered at the subway signs above Schaffner, a lesbian college student who was 20 at the time. As he loomed over Schaffner’s short, spiky hair, she got nervous and looked up. Before she could blink, the man punched her squarely in the forehead.
