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Sacramento Bee – Californians on Gorsuch: ‘eminently qualified,’ ‘an...
BEE CAPITOL BUREAU Here are some reactions from California groups and politicians to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein,...
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President Trump has said he does not intend to rescind President Obama’s LGBT nondiscrimination executive orders. At the same time, draft executive orders have been circulating that would cut large...
View ArticleSenator Wiener Introduces EQCA-Sponsored LGBT Seniors Long-Term Care Bill of...
Senator Wiener Introduces EQCA-Sponsored LGBT Seniors Long-Term Care Bill of Rights
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Bay Area Reporter – Wiener unveils LGBT seniors bill
Published 02/02/2017 by Matthew S. Bajko m.bajko@ebar.com State Senator Scott Wiener LGBT seniors and HIV-positive people living in long-term care facilities throughout California would be protected...
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Salon – On LGBT rights, Trump seems willing to anger Christian right — but...
THURSDAY, FEB 2, 2017 01:58 AM PST MATTHEW SHEFFIELD Donald Trump shakes the hand of Peter Thiel (Credit: Getty/Drew Angerer) The jury’s still out on Donald Trump and LGBT issues, but so far he has...
View ArticleDesert Sun – Heads Up: Anti-gay bullying persists in schools
By Karen Ocamb, special to the Desert Sun In the 1950s and early 1960s, being punched, shoved into lockers and toilet bowls, and being called “sissy” were just a part of growing up. Even the wholesome...
View ArticlePlus – California May Require Insurance Companies Cover Lipodystrophy for Poz...
By David Artavia FEBRUARY 02 2017 1:00 PM EST Many long-term HIV survivors who took highly toxic medications ended up receiving a condition known as lipodystrophy, which causes changes in body fat...
View ArticleFresno Bee – What it’s like to go to the doctor if you’re both undocumented...
BY ANDREA CASTILLO acastillo@fresnobee.com Luis Ojeda dreads going to the doctor. He is undocumented, and health care can be expensive without insurance. Plus he identifies as queer, so he often feels...
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SF Weekly – Laws discriminating against people with HIV challenged in new bill
Nuala Sawyer Mon Feb 6th, 2017 5:25pm Assemblymember David Chiu, District 8 Supervisor Jeff Sheehy, Senator Scott Wiener, and Assemblymember Todd Gloria at a press conference Feb. 6 2017. (Nuala...
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Bay Area Reporter – Time to amend CA HIV penal codes, say lawmakers
by Matthew S. Bajko m.bajko@ebar.com San Diego Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D) speaks Monday, February 6 at Strut during the announcement of legislation to amend HIV criminalization laws. Behind him is...
View ArticleEQCA Statement on DOJ Failure to Defend Transgender Student Guidelines
Los Angeles–In response to a Justice Department announcement that it is withdrawing its request for a stay of an injunction on enforcement of Obama-era guidelines protecting transgender students,...
View ArticleRaleigh News and Observer – California opened its restrooms; NC can, too
BY JESSE LIPSON So it had to come to this: The NCAA has announced that, barring repeal of controversial, anti-LGBT House Bill 2, it will hold its championships elsewhere for the next six years. That...
View ArticleStat – California looks to roll back penalties for HIV transmission
By LEV FACHER @levfacher FEBRUARY 13, 2017 At the height of the AIDS epidemic, California’s state government was unified in its response. The state legislature decided in 1988 that somebody who...
View ArticleEquality California Endorses Asm. Jimmy Gomez for Congress
Equality California Endorses Asm. Jimmy Gomez for Congress
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NBC News – Court Rulings Raise Number of Legally Non-Binary Californians to...
by MARY EMILY O’HARA Non-binary petitioners in San Francisco court. L-R: Attorney Toby Adams, Xin Farrish, Char Crawford, David Strachan, Char’s mom Nancy, David’s husband Peter. Intersex and...
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