Twelve organizations across Maine have teamed up to create a completely virtual Pride Month. The first event is a livestream of a drag queen story hour hosted by the Children’s Book Cellar in Waterville.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Daniel Radcliffe on J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans tweets: ‘Transgender women are women’
Radcliffe wrote a blog post for the Trevor Project, an organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth.
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Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Michigan woman at center of Supreme Court transgender rights case dies
Aimee Stephens’ firing from her post at a funeral home wound its way up to the high court, where justices are considering whether federal civil rights law protects transgender people.
Posted inNation & World, News
Supreme Court agrees to hear case of religion vs. gay rights over foster children
The city of Philadelphia has refused to contract with Catholic Social Services because the group would not place foster children with same-sex couples.
Posted inNation & World, New England, News
Girls sue to block participation of transgender athletes in Connecticut
They argue in a federal lawsuit that including transgender athletes in girls’ sports doesn’t create a level playing field.
Posted inHealth, Kennebec Journal, Local & State, Morning Sentinel, News
Farmington doctor leads by example when it comes to LGBTQ care in rural Maine
Access to quality health care has long been a problem for Maine’s roughly 70,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer residents, officials said.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Hannaford gets perfect score on index of corporate LGBTQ policies
The Scarborough-based supermarket was the only large employer based in Maine to score 100% on the Human Rights Campaign index.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Schools should be safe for all students
An ugly moment last week in Skowhegan shows why transgender students need gender neutral bathrooms.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Taylor Swift, Janet Mock to be honored by GLAAD
Swift has supported the Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination based on sex, gender or sexual orientation. Mock, a writer and director on “Pose,” also wrote a book about her life as a transgender woman.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Rep. Moonen: Inclusivity has been a key value in Maine policymaking in 2019
Bills passed this year have addressed issues such as equal pay, automatic voter registration, state-tribal ties, food insecurity and ending conversion therapy.