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Mounting the Assault on Big Gay and Other Drivel From SDSU’s Minimum Wage Scrooge

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A congressional hearing on the economic consequences of a $15 hourly minimum wage was cancelled this week due to revelations about bigotry penned under the guise of satire by one of its primary witnesses, San Diego State University economist Joseph Sabia.

The House Education and Workforce Committee was ready to feature testimony asserting poverty wages are in the national interest.

Sabia, an economist who penned a paper titled Minimum Wages: A Poor Way to Reduce Poverty, was to be their star witness until his past came back to haunt him.   [Read more…]

The Urgency of Transgender Safety, Legal Protections

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Local ACLU joins suit against El Cajon Crunch Fitness Center

It is hard, if not impossible, to maintain awareness and then do something about the constant erosion of civil rights of minority populations in our country. The Trump administration never sleeps when it comes to undermining current laws or attempting to supplant them with cruel new ones, the Constitution be damned.

Recent news, both locally and national have underscored the degree to which transgender women and men sustain some of the worst weaponized bigotry and intolerance imaginable. They are paying with their lives, their employment opportunities and their ability to simply exist in society–you know, the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness guaranteed to each one of us.   [Read more…]

‘Listen’, trans teen short film | Video Worth Watching

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Jake Graf, actor, director and activist, in recognition of GLAAD’s Transgender Awareness Week, November 12 – 19 has released a new short video. Featuring young trans actors in trans roles, ‘Listen’ honestly and frankly depicts some of the myriad struggles experienced daily by trans children and teenagers, giving a much needed voice to this often maligned section of the community. In an interview with HuffPost, Jake stated his hope that it inspires viewers to “listen to our trans and queer youth”.   [Read more…]

Transgender Americans #WontBeErased By The Trump Administration | Video Worth Watching

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From the Now This YouTube web page:

The Donald Trump administration is reportedly planning a policy that will define a person’s gender by their genitalia at birth. Transgender people and allies nationwide are speaking out against this anti LGBTQ policy. 1.4 million transgender people are standing up and declaring that they will not be erased. The hashtag #WontBeErased has become a rallying cry for the transgender community.

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Being Trans in America Was Already Scary. San Diego #WeWontBeErased Protest Set for October 27

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By Robin Carver / OtherWords

I’m a trans woman, and I’m terrified.

Already, on any given afternoon, I’m regularly and publicly catcalled, mocked, laughed at, and treated as an object of social disgust. Trans women are one of the most assaulted and murdered demographics in the United States, especially when they’re non-white.

We’re the frequent and favorite target of even liberal-leaning culture outlets like Saturday Night Live. Even Democratic darling Kamala Harris repeatedly fought to deny life-saving medical treatment to incarcerated trans women when she served as California’s attorney general.

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LGBTQ+ Activists Dress As Pride Flag at the World Cup in Russia | Video Worth Watching

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There were no Gay Pride events in Russia this week, but activists attending the world Cup events managed to send a message of support by displaying the Pride Flag colors while out in public. Now This presents video documentation of the group displaying the “Hidden Flag” at various locations around the city and interviews Mateo Fernández of Columbia who describes his participation in the event.   [Read more…]

San Diego Celebrates Pride 2018 | Video Worth Watching

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For folks that weren’t able to attend this year’s Pride Festival, here are some highlights courtesy of our local newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, now under new ownership.   [Read more…]

Persisting With Pride – H.B.I.C. | Video Worth Watching

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Sometimes persisting with pride entails asserting one’s legitimate authority when challenged. At any rate, that’s how I’m taking this. [NSFW – language]   [Read more…]

Voices from Stonewall, the Riot that Sparked the Gay Rights Movement | Video Worth Watching

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In order to make a movie more palatable to the public, Hollywood often glosses over or contradicts key historical elements. In this short video The Real Queens and Kings of Stonewall, Matt Baume provides a reality check regarding the commercially released Hollywood version of the riots: Stonewall.

And here are some more voices of actual participants in the groundbreaking historic Stonewall riot: Stonewall Veterans Talk About the Night That Changed The World – Stonewall: Profiles of Pride.   [Read more…]

Rewriting the Culture War with Music: Diversionary Theatre’s ‘The Loneliest Girl in the World’

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The world premiere of The Loneliest Girl in the World is a creative and moving work that looks at an early period of the gay rights movement by paralleling the lives of two figures, Anita Bryant and Thom Higgins (just Tommy in the musical).

The show opens with the press conference in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1977, where Tommy threw a pie in Anita’s face. The next two scenes take the audience back to the 1959 Miss America pageant, where Anita was the second runner-up. A young Tommy watches the pageant on TV while baking a pie with his mother. These scenes sets Tommy’s fixation on Anita, who, in his imagination, sings and dances with him.

The rest of the musical alternates between Anita and Tommy, capturing key events and experiences in their lives: Anita’s marriage to the former disc-jockey Robert Green, who becomes her manager; Anita’s appearances in commercials; her thriving career in the music industry. Tommy’s moving to a new city; his growing awareness of his sexuality; his first awkward encounter with Kyle, his future boyfriend, highlighted by a musical number “Twin Bed.”   [Read more…]

In Narrow Ruling, Supreme Court Sides with Baker Who Refused Cake to Same-Sex Couple | Video Worth Watching

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Amy Goodwin and Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now! speak with Ria Tabacco Mar, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project and counsel of record for Charlie Craig and David Mullins in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Ria explains why this ruling is not likely to set a precedent.   [Read more…]

Protests in Brazil After Politician Marielle Franco Shot Dead | Video Worth Watching

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Tens of thousands of Brazilians have protested across the country to mourn the apparent assassination of a well-known police critic.

Marielle Franco, a councilwoman from Rio de Janeiro, was shot along with her driver on Wednesday night.

The 38-year city councillor had become a voice for gay and black rights, as well as fighting against police violence in poor areas of the city.   [Read more…]

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