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Fab Jab: LGBT Community Steps Up To Get Vaccinated At Pride Centre

Fab Jab: LGBT Community Steps Up To Get Vaccinated At Pride Centre | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

A dedicated pop-up vaccination clinic set up this week at the newly opened Victorian Pride Centre on Fitzroy Street is hoping to break those last barriers and get the LGBTQI community vaccinated.

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The American Association of University Women, Santa Maria Public Library, and LGBTQ-plus nonprofits partner on panel

The American Association of University Women, Santa Maria Public Library, and LGBTQ-plus nonprofits partner on panel | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

After a family member faced a lack of understanding of their gender identity from the community, Lata Murti decided to create an LGBTQ+ educational opportunity for Santa Maria’s residents.

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Imperial Valley’s LGBT Center gears up to celebrate PRIDE

Imperial Valley’s LGBT Center gears up to celebrate PRIDE | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The LGBT center is hosting its PRIDE event on Saturday at 5 pm at Stark Field in El Centro. 

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Huntington Beach raises LGBTQ flag for the first time

Huntington Beach raises LGBTQ flag for the first time | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The City Council voted earlier this month to fly the flag in honor of LGBTQ Pride Month.

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Cal Poly staffer behind this year's Central Coast Pride 'changed' the university's relationship with broader LGBTQ+ community

Cal Poly staffer behind this year's Central Coast Pride 'changed' the university's relationship with broader LGBTQ+ community | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

When Sam Byrd first arrived at Cal Poly three years ago to take over as the lead coordinator for LGBTQ-plus campus life...

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NJ councilman pushes LGBTQ issues in Montclair with plans for Pride Festival, new laws

NJ councilman pushes LGBTQ issues in Montclair with plans for Pride Festival, new laws | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Montclair councilman Peter Yacobellis has turned his traumatic experiences as a young gay man into a passion for creating safe spaces for members of the LBGTQAI+ community.

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Black Tie Dinner Kicks off 40th Annual Fundraising Year

Black Tie Dinner Kicks off 40th Annual Fundraising Year | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Nation’s largest one night LGBTQ fundraiser announces 2021 beneficiaries.

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Kansas City's LGBTQ Commission

Kansas City's LGBTQ Commission | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

LGBTQ commissioners on the issues they want to address, Missouri Governor Mike Parson's solution to Missouri's labor shortage and how a century-old trial resonates today.

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Stonewall memories: Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive looking for photos, stories

Stonewall memories: Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive looking for photos, stories | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

As the fate of the Lehigh Valley’s last gay club remains uncertain, a group of activists and historians are collecting photos and memories. The Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive — a joint program of Allentown’s Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center and Muhlenberg College — has launched the Stonewall Memories Project, which will preserve photographs, stories, and more from Stonewall Lehig

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Atlantic City LGBTQ program coordinator plans for pride month, new initiatives

Atlantic City LGBTQ program coordinator plans for pride month, new initiatives | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

As Atlantic City’s first LGBTQ program coordinator, Judah-Abijah Dorrington is focused on creating a happier, healthier and more equitable community.

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Memphis mother-son duo make Black-led LGBTQ advocacy group

Memphis mother-son duo make Black-led LGBTQ advocacy group | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

In 2014, the mother and son duo didn’t see many Black-led organizations supporting the LGBTQ population in Memphis. So, they decided to start their own.

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LGBTQ Center has new director, and could soon have a new location

LGBTQ Center has new director, and could soon have a new location | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Carlos Torres, in a recent interview, said he wants to relocate The Center from its longtime home in Retro Row, next to the Art Theatre, in an effort to consolidate the organization’s service…

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Miami-Dade County LGBTQ Advisory Board elects Patricia Hernandez as new vice chair

Miami-Dade County LGBTQ Advisory Board elects Patricia Hernandez as new vice chair | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The Miami-Dade County Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Advisory Board, under the Office of Community Advocacy, elected a new vice chair during its Apr. 7 board meeting. Vice c…

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Get to know the Rainbow Center for LGBTQ+ Center Awareness Day

Get to know the Rainbow Center for LGBTQ+ Center Awareness Day | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The University of Connecticut Rainbow Center encourages students to show their pride or support of the queer community this LGBTQ+ History Month by supporting the actual student center, located on the fourth floor of the Student Union.

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LGBT Center Opens in South Sac

LGBT Center Opens in South Sac | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The Marsha P. Johnson Center South, the Sacramento LGBT Community Center’s new location in South Sacramento opened recently in June.

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Fire Island: Relaxed island embraces unique ‘small-town ambiance’ with something for everyone

Fire Island: Relaxed island embraces unique ‘small-town ambiance’ with something for everyone | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Dig your feet into the sand within sight of New York City.

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Hermosa Beach to paint lifeguard tower for Pride Month

Hermosa Beach to paint lifeguard tower for Pride Month | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The idea, from a Hermosa Beach teen, comes in response to the destruction of Long Beach's Pride tower.

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Diverse & Resilient offers support, safe spaces for Northeast Wisconsin’s LGBTQ community

Diverse & Resilient offers support, safe spaces for Northeast Wisconsin’s LGBTQ community | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Diverse & Resilient‘s Appleton office opened in 2019. “We work with people who are surviving violence, any type of violence,” Kathy Flores, Dir. Of Anti-Violence Programming explained. “It could be community or hate violence, it could be intimate partner violence, sexual violence, bullying in the LGBTQ community. And our youth programs […]

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Lack Of LGBTQ Protections Has Some Young West Virginians Ready To Leave

Lack Of LGBTQ Protections Has Some Young West Virginians Ready To Leave | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Casey Johnson lives in Pittsburgh’s North Shore, a couple of blocks from one of the most colorful buildings in the nation, Randyland, a utopian-esque public art installation with walls, chairs, and trinkets in every possible shade and hue.When apartment shopping in the Steel City, Johnson, who is pansexual, gender non-binary and uses non-gendered pronouns, searched to find a neighborhood that was the “most accepting.” North Shore, they said, fits the bill.

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Orange County’s LGBTQ Center is turning 50; here’s what’s changed over the years

Orange County’s LGBTQ Center is turning 50; here’s what’s changed over the years | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Men and women who have shaped the center and the community it serves describe challenges and growth.

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Napa's LGBTQ Connection expands into American Canyon

Napa's LGBTQ Connection expands into American Canyon | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

With a branch recently opened in American Canyon, LGBTQ Connection aims to build community.

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OutFront Minnesota became LGBTQ rights powerhouse under departing leader

OutFront Minnesota became LGBTQ rights powerhouse under departing leader | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Monica Meyer is leaving OutFront Minnesota at a very different time for the cause of LGBTQ equality than when she took over the organization more than a decade ago. It was 2010, amid a growing push across the country to ban same-sex marriage. Nearly 30 states had done so by statewide vote in the preceding few years. "They were just passing everywhere," Meyer recalled. Then, ten years ago nex

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MUSC has new plan for LGBTQ+ health care overhaul in SC

MUSC has new plan for LGBTQ+ health care overhaul in SC | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

“We need to really do our work to ... bring us to a space where LGBTQ folks know that they’re going to be accepted,” said Chase Glenn, MUSC’s new LGBTQ+ health services director.

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A gay man was targeted for his rainbow house idea. Dozens responded by helping him paint the colorful stripes

A gay man was targeted for his rainbow house idea. Dozens responded by helping him paint the colorful stripes | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

Hairdresser Mykey O’Halloran said no one would bully him out of his rainbow island getaway.

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Philadelphia LGBTQ crime tracker: City launches innovative new tool

Philadelphia LGBTQ crime tracker: City launches innovative new tool | #ILoveGay | Scoop.it

The system isn’t perfect, but it’s more than most cities have.

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