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The protests stem from the news that three former players had filed a Title IX complaint claiming the school violated their federal rights by allowing a transgender athlete to compete, per NBC Bay Area. The three players are demanding that the school be stripped of its federal funding and a sex verification screening program be implemented, per the Press Democrat. The former players also claim the coach benched them after they complained about the trans player's presence, per Sacramento's KCRA.

My home used to be a carefully curated museum of a life I wasn't actually living. The clothes I wore were a uniform, the decor was a decoy, and the entire space felt like a stage set for a character I was exhausted from playing. Coming out of the closet was the curtain call. The most tangible, cathartic part of the process was the great purge that followed - dismantling that set piece by piece.

The third annual Petaluma Pride festival this year coincides with National Coming Out Day, on October 11. That's when, from noon-5 pm, there will be live music, food, drinks, and more at the Petaluma Fairgrounds, 175 Fairgrounds Drive, which is just a little over an hour away from San Francisco. This year's theme is "Pride Is Power, and Joy Is a Riot!"

Notably, these figures exclude the Met Police due to a change in the way in which the force's data is recorded, hence its numbers are excluded from year-on-year comparisons. Because the Met Police covers the UK's largest LGBTQ+ population (London), its exclusion likely under-represents national totals for LGBTQ+ hate crime. It's also important to note that recorded hate crimes reflect police‐recorded / reported incidents only and not necessarily the true prevalence of hate crime.

"I'm just incredibly humbled and honored for this opportunity," Faria told The Advocate in an interview following her appointment. "I've been here at SAGE, working in close partnership with Michael Adams and other members of leadership for the last 10 years, which is about half of his tenure. Before that, I had been in the movement, working at the Empire State Pride Agenda during the marriage fight and the marriage win. I've admired SAGE for a long time, and I'm just so blown away by what Michael has built."

I do think there's been some ignorance around people thinking that Buck is now a gay man, because since his coming out we've seen him with Tommy, and that's it. And not that he has to now go run off and be with a woman just to balance that out or anything. But there just needs to be conversations to help educate an audience. Not in a heavy way, not in a beating anybody over the head with it, but to delve deeper into it.

Who did James Baldwin love and how did those relationships shape his work? Author and scholar Nicholas Boggs set out to answer these questions in a remarkable new biography of the late American writer. Baldwin: A Love Story centers Baldwin's queer relationships alongside his relationships with family and friends in order to better understand the creative process behind classics such as Giovanni's Room and The Fire Next Time.

Pavement markings such as decorative crosswalks, murals, or markings conveying artwork or other messages are prohibited on travel lanes, shoulders, intersections, and crosswalks unless they serve a direct traffic control or safety function. This prohibition includes the use of symbols, flags, or other markings conveying any message or communications,

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According to the victim's father, a student began hurling transphobic slurs and insults before physically attacking them. The student, who had faced bullying over their gender identity for years, had recently moved to the area and hoped to avoid further abuse. "We were hoping this year, new school, hopefully a new crowd of people, and somehow the second week of school, this kid found my child and caught them in the hallway and openly sideswiped them and started assaulting them," the father told Boston25 News.

"Miss Major is at home on hospice," Beck Witt Major said in a Facebook post Saturday. "She is comfortable and surrounded by love."

As a teenager back in 2020 Robert posted a photo to his social media accounts of a rainbow hanging high some grassy plains with a grey sky in the background. And given that his Instagram handle is @robertirwinphotography, we have to hand it to the now-21-year-old, he captured a beautiful image. The picture was accompanied by the caption: "Proud to be an ally of the LGBTQIA+ community this #comingoutday "

Every person's sexual journey fluctuates. Try not to think of your relationship needs or your ability to tolerate different types of sexual unions in a finite way. Your needs as you are experiencing them now may well change in the future; at a certain time you might become less ambivalent and find some clarity and a comfortable path or not. At some point you might meet someone who provides a transformative opportunity for you by

Before they become historical documents, diaries start out as ordinary ledgers, a frame-by-frame accounting of the moments and events of a person's days. With the help of time, scholarship, and critical interest, they become history in miniature, an up-close look at how a life was formed and shaped by the times the diarist lived in. One could read Randy Shilts's monumental 1987 history And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic to learn about the infuriating and chaotic early history of the crisis:

A Freedom of Information request from QueerAF, What the Trans? and Claire's Trans Talks has shown that, as of March 2025, 48,000 people were waiting for their first appointment at one of the UK's 15 gender clinics, and for every person seen in 2024, four more people joined the list. In addition, demand for services such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prescriptions increased by 12.5 per cent from the previous year.