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The Elder LGBT Long Term Care Bill of Rights to fight against discrimination in Philadelphia.

October 13, 2017 compassq Comments Off on The Elder LGBT Long Term Care Bill of Rights to fight against discrimination in Philadelphia.

Gigi Nikpour needs conversations about the city’s LGBTQ community to focus more on its aging population. People’s lives depend on it. Through the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs’ LGBTQ Elders Committee, the Community Legal Services paralegal is creating an Elder LGBT Long Term Care Bill of Rights to fight against discrimination older queer and trans adults face in the surrounding area.

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Sponsors line up behind this Olympic hopeful.

October 13, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Sponsors line up behind this Olympic hopeful.

Coming out as an openly gay Olympic freestyle skier has been great for Gus Kenworthy as a person, since he can be his true self. It’s also been great for Kenworthy in terms of visibility and endorsements, as Sports Business Journal found.

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Transgender senator a first in Uruguay.

October 12, 2017 compassq Comments Off on Transgender senator a first in Uruguay.

Michelle Suarez became Uruguay’s first transgender senator on Tuesday, October 10. The 34-year-old lawmaker, who was sworn in as a senator for the Communist party, hopes to pass an anti-discrimination law that would expand and protect the rights of transgender people. In 2013, Suarez helped draft a same-sex marriage bill that later legalized gay marriage.

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While not illegal, Indonesian police are still cracking down on LGBT communities.

October 12, 2017 compassq Comments Off on While not illegal, Indonesian police are still cracking down on LGBT communities.

In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, homosexuality is legal and the state largely stays out of issues of private morality. But as conservative religious groups become more prominent in political life here, police are increasingly finding other ways to crack down on LGBT communities.

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St. Louis celebrates its LGBT history.

October 12, 2017 compassq Comments Off on St. Louis celebrates its LGBT history.

On a map of the city, researchers at Washington University have placed 800 dots. They represent pieces of gay history, stitching together a story arc that has been told only in snippets. There on the interactive map are the nightclubs, the bookstores, the places of worship where those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer came together, safe harbors in a Midwest city resisting what was not considered normal.