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World AIDS Day 2016
Much has changed since the World Health Organization declared December 1 as World AIDS Day in 1988. Recent years have seen the development of new tools and knowledge that have transformed HIV into a...
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A Time of Promise and Peril
By Brad Lundahl, Program Associate In the 35 years since its discovery, over 35 million people have died from AIDS. In 2016, despite numerous advances in treatment, an estimated 2.1 million people...
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New America Weekly – Creating Equity by Teaching Equity
By Sabia Prescott DEC. 1, 2016 Imagine you’re a ninth grade student in a public high school. Everyone you know is straight and you’re not. There are no resources at school for you. The school doesn’t...
View ArticleEquality California Thanks Leno and Gordon for Years of Service
Los Angeles — In honor of the final week in the California Legislature for two heroes of the LGBT community, Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Asm. Rich Gordon (D-Menlo Park), Equality California...
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Equality California Congratulates Xavier Becerra on Appointment as Attorney General Los Angeles — In response to the appointment by Gov. Jerry Brown of Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles) to serve as...
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Fortress California in Trump’s America
By Karen Ocamb, contributing journalist Election night 2016 might have seemed like the punch line to a bad joke but it’s no laughing matter when the president-elect of the United States casually tweets...
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From football to taxes: How California’s ban on travel to bathroom-bill...
BY ADAM ASHTON aashton@sacbee.com California cops and tax auditors can follow their investigations wherever they lead, but the Bruins and Golden Bears may need to think twice before scheduling an...
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Bay Area Reporter – New CA laws take effect in 2017
by Seth Hemmelgarn s.hemmelgarn@ebar.com State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law several LGBT-supportive bills this fall that are set to take effect in...
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Santa Rosa Press Democrat –‘All-gender’ bathroom era to begin in Sonoma County
PAUL PAYNE THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | January 3, 2017, 8:19AM A sign of the political gulf between Sonoma County and California and the rest of the country will soon be hanging on the bathroom door....
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MMA Fighting – Amanda Nunes, Nina Ansaroff talk being role models for LGBT youth
by Marc Raimondi@marc_raimondi Dec 30, 2016, 6:30pm EST Amanda Nunes (left) and Nina Ansaroff at a UFC 207 media lunch in Los Angeles. Esther Lin, MMAFighting.com LOS ANGELES — Amanda Nunes and Nina...
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Bay Area Reporter – CA bans travel to 4 states
Published 01/05/2017 by Matthew S. Bajko m.bajko@ebar.com California has banned most taxpayer-funded travel to four states that have adopted anti-LGBT laws. In addition to the three Southern states...
View ArticleThe Advocate – California Bans Travel to 4 States With Anti-LGBT Laws
BY DANIEL REYNOLDS JANUARY 07 2017 3:26 PM EST California has banned state-funded and state-sponsored travel to North Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Kansas. The ban is the result of Assembly...
View ArticleEquality California: Confirmation of Jeff Sessions Presents a “Grave Threat”...
Los Angeles–In advance of U.S. Senate confirmation hearings for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama) as U.S. attorney general, Equality California Executive Director Rick Zbur issued the following statement:...
View ArticleEquality California Letter to Senators on Rex Tillerson Hearings
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