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Meet Penn Medicine’s first ever medical director for LGBTQIA+ health
31Oct By adminNo Comments
Health

Meet Penn Medicine’s first ever medical director for LGBTQIA+ health

The new role of Penn Medicine's medical director for LGBTQIA+ health The new role of Penn Medicine's medical director for LGBTQIA+ health 02:13 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Penn Medicine has a new medical director for LGBTQIA+ health. The appointment is aimed at improving care and access.This newly created role highlights Penn's focus on decreasing health disparities that exist in the LGBTQIA+ community."They aren't getting the preventative care they need," Dr. Kevin Kline s...
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Network CEO Reacts To Candace Cameron Bure’s LGBTQ Stance
26Oct By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Network CEO Reacts To Candace Cameron Bure’s LGBTQ Stance

The CEO of Great American Family has made an effort to distance the network from Candace Cameron Bure’s controversial claims regarding LGBTQ+ content, but nonetheless stopped short of a complete rebuttal.Bure in 2022 left the Hallmark Channel, where she’d appeared in numerous films for more than a decade, to join Great American Family as its chief creative officer. In a November interview with The Wall Street Journal discussing her new position, she said the network’s emphasis on “traditional marriage” meant that viewers shouldn’t expect to see LGBTQ+ storylines in its movies.The “Full House” star’s comments were swiftly condemned by fellow actors as well as LGBTQ+ advocacy groups. Speaking to Variety in an interview published Wednesday, Great American Family CEO Bill Abbott emphasized th...
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Gavin Newsom Bolsters Protections For LGBTQ People In California
25Sep By adminNo Comments
Politics

Gavin Newsom Bolsters Protections For LGBTQ People In California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills Saturday aimed at strengthening the state’s protections for LGBTQ+ people, a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates.The new laws include legislation that focuses on support for LGBTQ+ youth. One law sets timelines for required cultural competency training for public school teachers and staff, while another creates an advisory task force to determine the needs of LGBTQ+ students and help advance supportive initiatives.A third requires families to show that they can and are willing to meet the needs of a child in foster care regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.“California is proud to have some of the most robust laws in the nation when it comes to protecting and...
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‘Cassandro’ Is A Real-Life Superhero Film
22Sep By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

‘Cassandro’ Is A Real-Life Superhero Film

Watch any Batman film and you might get a sense of why Roger Ross Williams considers “Cassandro” to be a superhero movie.Just as Bruce Wayne dons his iconic outfit to become the Caped Crusader, Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal) wears flamboyant wrestling garb and makeup to transform into Cassandro, a much more powerful figure than Armendáriz is in his daily life.That transformation is at the heart of “Cassandro,” out Friday on Amazon Prime Video. The film is based on the true story of Armendáriz. who created his alter ego in the early 1980s while living in Texas and crossing the Mexican border to take part in lucha libre wrestling.While the movie is Williams’ narrative feature debut, he is by no means new to filmmaking. In fact, he was the first Black director to receive an Academy Awa...
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Gretchen Whitmer Bets Big On Abortion, LGBTQ+ Rights
20Aug By adminNo Comments
Politics

Gretchen Whitmer Bets Big On Abortion, LGBTQ+ Rights

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) has been promoting her state as a place that respects freedom ― as in, the ability to control what happens to your body, who you love, or how you identify yourself.Now Whitmer is taking that message directly to some states where those freedoms are under assault. Last week, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) launched a digital ad campaign touting the state’s commitment to inclusiveness and personal liberty. Its target is a half-dozen mostly Southern states where Republicans are in charge and have passed laws restricting abortion, LGBTQ+ rights or both.MEDC is a public-private partnership that works with the governor’s office to boost in-state business ― in this case, by appealing to high-skilled workers who tend to cherish those personal...
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Wyoming Head Librarian Fired For Refusing To Remove Books
15Aug By adminNo Comments
Politics

Wyoming Head Librarian Fired For Refusing To Remove Books

In late July, the board of the Campbell County Public Library system in Wyoming voted 4 to 1 to terminate Terri Lesley, its longtime director. For two years, the library board, with the assistance of conservative community members, had been trying to get Lesley to remove books they alleged were sexually inappropriate for minors. But Lesley refused — for fear of getting sued and her strong belief that a diverse collection of books is integral to a successful library. “I believe the community is harmed by not having access to a wide variety of information,” Lesley said.Lesley is adamant that LGBTQ-themed books belong in the library — even if certain parents don’t want their children reading them. She was also worried about being sued for violating the First Amendment which prohibits governm...
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Why Emma Seligman Decided to Make a Movie About a Queer Fight Club
14Aug By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Why Emma Seligman Decided to Make a Movie About a Queer Fight Club

The Canadian director Emma Seligman was only twenty-four when she shot her first feature film, the 2020 comedy “Shiva Baby.” In the movie, which is based on a short that Seligman submitted as her thesis project in N.Y.U.’s film program, an adrift college student named Danielle, played by Rachel Sennott, attends a pressure cooker of a shiva for a family member. There, she is forced to simultaneously contend with her pushy Jewish parents, her poised and successful ex-girlfriend, and her hot-and-cold sugar daddy (not to mention his wife and baby). Despite being produced for the relatively minuscule budget of two hundred thousand dollars, “Shiva Baby” gained digital-screening momentum during the pandemic, becoming an audience favorite when it was finally released in theatres in the spring of ...
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Voguing as Vigil for O’Shae Sibley
9Aug By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Voguing as Vigil for O’Shae Sibley

On a recent evening, hundreds of people converged at the northeast corner of Coney Island Avenue and Avenue P, in Midwood, Brooklyn, to remember O’Shae Sibley, a dancer who had been stabbed to death at that spot a few days earlier. They shouted, “Say his name!,” and then said his name over and over, in different ways, sometimes chanting its four syllables, sometimes almost singing. “O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o’Shae! O-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o’Shae!” The sound echoed off the glass front of the apartment building across the street and got louder as more people showed up. The name filled the intersection, ringing with unity and power, but you could hear the keening of absolute bereavement underneath.Sibley and a few friends—dancers, like him, who specialized in the drag-queen-influenced, pose-striking dance st...
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