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DOJ Investigates MLB For “Anti-Christian” Hat Bias
The Guardian reports: The US Justice Department has launched a civil rights investigation into Major League Baseball after the league criticized three San Francisco Giants players who wrote Bible verses on their hats during the team’s Pride Night. MLB said in a statement on Monday that writing on hats “violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations.” Assistant US attorney general Harmeet Dhillon wrote a letter to MLB commissioner Rob Manfred saying the justice department had referred the league to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to investigate whether the discipline amounts to religious […]
More than two-thirds of LGBTQ+ people in the closet while traveling
New research from Booking.com’s Travel Proud Report has shown that most LGBTQ+ people go back in the closet when they go on vacation. The new report from the travel booking site surveyed 13,300 LGBTQ+ travellers across 19 different countries, and found that only 31 percent of respondents globally said they were “out” while travelling. Forty per cent of LGBTQ+ travellers said they are willing to hide their queer identities in order to experience a bucket list destination. Meanwhile, more than half of all closeted LGBTQ+ travellers surveyed said they don’t feel anxious while travelling, compared to just 30 percent of […]
Rising anti-LGBTQ+ censorship efforts pull directly from the playbooks of modern authoritarian leaders
Across the U.S., a campaign to seclude and suppress queer and trans lives from public visibility is continuing to spread. In public schools, libraries, universities, art galleries, museums, government websites, and national monuments, we are seeing art, books, terms, and symbols of LGBTQ+ identity disappear at a quickening pace. We don’t need to wonder where this is coming from or where it’s going. Wielding state power against LGBTQ+ communities has been a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. In Nazi Germany, LGBTQ+ culture and literature was purged as “un-German.” More recently in […]
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General Dynamics Protest June 24 in Windsor
The letter General Dynamics Out of Sonoma County sent to the landlord of General Dynamics, Foss Creek Partners, demanding they terminate their lease was ignored! Bob Fraser, Mark Davis, and Kelly McManus, the owners of Foss Creek Partners, are materially supporting a tenant who profits from weapons, genocide, and contracts with DHS / ICE right in our backyard. We won’t be ignored! On Wednesday June 24th at 12pm meet up at Windsor Town Green and we’ll march to the office of Foss Creek Partners and demand General Dynamics Out of Sonoma County!
Mombo’s Pizza: Dine and Donate to Positive Images
Looking for a delicious way to support LGBTQIA+ community this Pride Month?Join Positive Images and Mombo’s Pizza for a Dine & Donate Pizza Party in Santa Rosa on June 25th! When you show our event flyer at Mombo’s, 25% of your purchase will be donated directly to Positive Images, helping us continue providing life-saving support and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ community members. June 25th | 4:00–8:00 PM Mombo’s Pizza – Santa Rosa1880 Mendocino Ave., Suite B Your purchase counts whether you:• Dine in• Order takeout• Purchase merchandise, including T-shirts and gift certificatesBring your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors—the more people who participate, the […]
Arts & Entertainment
Occidental World Music & Dance Festival! at Occidental Center for the Arts May 30
Saturday, May 30 from 10 AM to 9 PM:Occidental World Music & Dance Festival! at Occidental Center for the Arts. This joyful, immersive event brings together extraordinary musicians and dancers from around the world for a day filled with exhilarating performances, interactive workshops, and irresistible rhythms. From captivating traditional artistry to innovative contemporary fusion, the festival invites audiences of all ages to experience the beauty of global cultures up close. With food, vendors, community activities, and plenty of space to dance, it’s a feast for the senses and a celebration of unity through music and movement . More Than 40 […]
Frameline50: Interview with Luchina Fisher, the director of “The Dads”
Inspired by the Emmy Award-winning short documentary of the same name (Netflix, 2023), The Dads chronicles fathers of trans and nonbinary children as they are forced to choose between country and family when a new right-wing administration and conservative Supreme Court take hold in the United States. Filmed over the course of a year spanning retreats in rural Maine and Minnesota, protests, family milestones, a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision, and the collapse of gender-affirming care for youth, The Dads captures this national reckoning with remarkable intimacy through vérité footage and interviews with the film’s main protagonists. This is fatherhood as an act of […]
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Frameline50: Interview with Brydie O’Connor the director of “Barbara Forever”
Pioneering lesbian filmmaker, former San Franciscan, and Frameline Award winner Barbara Hammer takes center stage in Brydie O’Connor’s Teddy Award-winning debut feature. When Hammer came out as a lesbian in the ‘70s she “took off on a motorcycle with a super-8 camera,” leading to groundbreaking queer and experimental works like Dyketactics (1974) — one of the first-ever lesbian films — and, later, her celebrated first feature, Nitrate Kisses (1992). Throughout her monumental career, Hammer made over 90 moving-image works that often centered on her own life, body, and lovers — a monumental decision when such life-affirming, honest depictions of sapphic people were scarce. Bolstered by exquisitely edited archival […]
Frameline50: Interview with the Directors and Star of “Mickey and Richard”
Meet Mickey Squires, legendary porn star and notorious alter ego to Richard Bernstein. Diving into the colorful history of gay adult cinema, this intimate documentary portrait from directing duo Ryan A. White and A.P. Pickle (Raw! Uncut! Video!, Frameline45; Big Sur Gay Porn, Frameline47) traces Richard’s evolution from a lanky high school drama nerd to fantasy dream daddy Mickey, charting the joys and tribulations along the way. As Bernstein was catapulted into porn stardom, he had to navigate the spotlight as well as the dark shadow it cast. Grappling with the harsh dichotomy of his personas, Bernstein was confronted with isolation, the death of his partner, drug […]
