Anti-AIDS worker sentenced to 5 years in a Cameroon prison for homosexuality
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTrights #humanrights #LGBTQrights #homophobia #Africa #Cameroon #AIDS #Anti-AIDS
Anti-AIDS worker sentenced to 5 years in a Cameroon prison for homosexuality
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTrights #humanrights #LGBTQrights #homophobia #Africa #Cameroon #AIDS #Anti-AIDS
Queers and racialized people ‘don’t have the privilege of hiding’
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTrights #humanrights #LGBTQrights #France #Caribbean #art #queer #queerart
Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ advocate-activist, York University professor Nick Mulé (he/they) speaking eloquently at CBRC Summit 2024
https://www.instagram.com/p/DHTgc6Ysi1D/
I had the pleasure of meeting Nick - a long-time Toronto Queer rights activist - at that Summit.
Outstanding work!
Increasingly desperate, Haiti and its LGBTQ+ citizens face U.S. aid cuts
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTrights #humanrights #LGBTQrights #Haiti #USAID @RealDonaldTrump
#Trump wants to ban #Trans people from the military, and he wants to reinstate the ban on gay people in the military too.
But.
He also wants a bunch of wars all over the globe. So after he's done, all the #CisHet people will be dead, and the #LGBT folk will inherit #America. Who says he's doing nothing for #LGBTRights?
Trump’s ‘gag order’ again bars doctors from giving pregnant patients the facts
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTrights #humanrights #LGBTQrights #abortion
Bonjour à tous! Je suis à la recherche d’ #associations défendant les #droits des personnes #lgbtq ia+ dans le sud est de la France ( en particulier dans la Drôme et en milieu rural ) ? Je vous remercie pour vos conseils ! #lgbtqia #lgbt #associations #lgbtrights #conseils
Trump's trans executive order 'a direct assault on LGBT Americans'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/21/a-direct-assault-on-lgbtq-americans-trumps-cruel-anti-trans-executive-order-condemned/ì
#ExecutiveOrders
#Trans
#LGBT
#LGBTQIA
#LGBTRights
#LGBTQIARights
#TransRights
#Trump
The Spectacle of Carnage: Preparing for #Trump 2.0
(co-published w Irish Examiner)
#TrumpInauguration #Migration #AsylumSeekers #ClimateChange #WomensRights #LGBTRights #Ukraine #NATO #Gaza
See also: [thread 1/x] Transgenocide
[thread 1/x] Transgenocide
Transphobia and Transgenocide
https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide
#TitleIX #TransRights #LGBTrights
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #antiLGBT #Project2025 #transphobia #sexism #misogyny
#ChristianRight #ParentalRightsMovement #Christofascism #transgenocide #hated #discrimination #genocide #homophobia
[thread] Title IX
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113801832628239656
* evisceration of Title IX and Biden's executive order enhancing 2SLGBTQIA+ protections
* see that thread for updates
#TitleIX #TransRights #LGBTrights
#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #authoritarianism #antiLGBT #Project2025 #transphobia #sexism #misogyny
#ChristianRight #ParentalRightsMovement #Christofascism #transgenocide #hated #discrimination #genocide #homophobia
[2016] San Francisco will not do business w. states w. anti-LGBT laws
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2016/09/29/san-francisco-anti-lgbt-states.html
* S.F. will not do business w. companies based in states that forbid civil rights protections for 2SLGBTQIA+ citizens
* author: Supervisor Scott Wiener
* pressures on North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi ...
[2023] San Francisco repeals boycott of anti-LGBT states
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1172407847/san-francisco-boycott-anti-lgbt-texas-florida
* ineffective/increased city costs 20%
Gay Democrat Scott Wiener introduces bill to protect trans people’s privacy
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/gay-democrat-introduces-bill-to-protect-trans-peoples-privacy-as-donald-trump-takes-office
https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/transgender-court-records-trump-scott-wiener
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59
* Sen. Scott Wiener (D-CA)
* SB59, Transgender Privacy Act: protect trans people’s privacy
* retroactively seals court records re: someone’s gender transition in CA
* ensure gender transition records that refer to the person by dead name/sex assigned at birth sealed
[thread] Scott Wiener
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Wiener
* (D-CA) California State Senate 2016+
* advocate, California housing construction
* Wiener is gay, Jewish
* 2SLGBTQIA+ advocate
* 2016 introduced bill (passed) barring San Francisco f. doing business w. companies based in states with anti-2SLGBTQIA+ policies
* 2022 "trans refuge bill"
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB107
* 2025 Transgender Privacy Act
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB59
Digital platforms that empower 2SLGBTQIA+ voices to confront hate/racism
https://xtramagazine.com/power/exploring-digital-platforms-that-empower-2slgbtqia-voices-to-confront-hate-and-racism-270091
* developing community-based tool to track/report anti-2SLGBTQIA+ online hate
Reporting Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ Online Hate: Feasibility Study
https://odlan.ca/research-report-2023
Ensuring Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ communities grow/thrive in digital age thru safe, accessible, incl. digital spaces
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113686763672934747
#Canada #LGBT #2SLGBTQIA+ #ODLAN #advocacy #LGBTrights #TransRights #SafeSpace #DigitalSpace
Ensuring Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ communities grow/thrive in digital age thru safe, accessible, inclusive digital spaces
https://xtramagazine.com/power/activism/ensuring-2slgbtqia-voices-can-be-heard-and-empowered-in-a-digital-world-269993
Ontario Digital Literacy & Access Network
* vision: advance safe, accessible & inclusive access to digital spaces for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities
* tech subsidy helps volunteers/advisors participate fully in work they do
https://www.odlan.ca
https://www.facebook.com/ODLANCanada
#Canada #LGBT #2SLGBTQIA+ #ODLAN #advocacy #LGBTrights #TransRights #SafeSpace #DigitalSpace
"First, anyone using the word
'#woke' should begin not with a caricature or pejorative but with its original definition: to be aware of political or social issues, as in 'Stay Woke'.
Next, let’s agree a starting point that the quest for #CivilRights is positive — even essential — for the welfare of a society and those who live in it, and not something to be derided as 'extreme' or 'radical'"
More Than Ever, The US Needs “#Woke Politics”
(co-published w The Journal)
#CivilRights #WomensRights #LGBTRights #Immigration #AsylumSeekers #Environment
Owner of Siberian gay club charged with ‘extremism’ and placed under house arrest
Catholic leader in Ghana criticizes anti-LGBTQ+ bill: ‘You criminalize them for what? For just being what they are?’
https://76crimes.com/2024/10/29/ghana-you-criminalize-them-for-what-for-just-being-what-they-are/