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Transgender therapist jailed for allegedly stealing $940,000 in taxpayer funds

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Jacob Rostovsky, the 33-year-old transgender male CEO of Queer Works — a nonprofit dedicated to mental health care access for transgender, gender nonbinary, and intersex (TGI) individuals — has been indicted on 53 felony counts for allegedly stealing over $940,000 in taxpayer money from the city of Palm Springs, California. Rostovsky has pleaded not guilty on all counts. Rostovsky surrendered himself to the local district attorney’s office on October 17 and posted a $944,000 bail. He faces charges of fraudulent claims, grand theft, misappropriation of public funds, insurance fraud, perjury, and money laundering, according to the district attorney’s office . Related Author of “Don’t Say Gay” law stole $150,000 in COVID funds. He’s going to jail. He said opponents of the anti-LGBTQ+ law want to “sexualize your 6 year olds.” He was stealing government funds at the same time. In July 2021, Riverside County awarded grants to Queer Works to fund programs to help homeless individuals
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Gay writer of viral real-life ghost story says he was paid nothing for film of his work

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Adam Ellis, a gay cartoonist whose viral August 2017 “real life” ghost story was adapted into a feature length horror film named Dear David , recently revealed that he received no payment for the film. The film was based on a Buzzfeed article entitled “My Apartment Is Being Haunted By The Ghost Of A Dead Child And I’m Not Sure What To Do.” Related “Ghost” screenwriter comes out as gay at age 81 His wife has known for almost 50 years, and they’re still married. “The first time I saw him, I was experiencing sleep paralysis and saw a child sitting in the green rocking chair at the foot of my bed,” Ellis wrote. “He had a huge misshapen head that was dented on one side…. Right before he reached my bed, I woke up screaming.” Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The first time I saw him, I was experiencing sleep paralysis and saw a child sitting in the green rocking ch
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Trans student leader kills self in campus library

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Serenity Birdsong, a transgender student at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), killed themselves on Monday inside the campus’ James E. Walker Library. Birdsong was vice president of MTSU’s student LGBTQ+ organization MT Lambda. The school canceled classes and closed the library on Tuesday but resumed normal operations on Wednesday. Additional details about Birdsong’s suicide have neither been made publicly available nor reported by the media. Related Anti-trans laws cause increase in suicide attempts according to massive new study Trans youth in states that enacted anti-trans laws had up to a 72% increase in suicide attempts. “Serenity was more than an officer to us; many of us considered Serenity our friend, and her ability to light up a room, paired with her wholesome demeanor, made her welcome anywhere, but especially in Lambda where we are burdened by the darkness of existing in a world so often cruel to us. And it is this darkness that snuffed out Serenity’s light,
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Latino voters are more likely to oppose politicians who use the term “Latinx”

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Hispanic and Latino people are less likely to support politicians who use or are associated with “Latinx,” the gender-inclusive term referring to Hispanic and/or Latino populations, according to a new study from Georgetown and Harvard Universities. The term — which challenges the Spanish language’s masculine-leaning gender binary and increases awareness of non-binary Latinos — has become used more publicly since 2015, increasingly appearing in internet searches, academic and media language, and speeches by Democratic Party politicians. After analyzing cross-referenced datasets from seven surveys of Hispanics and Latinos, the study’s co-authors wrote, “Our evidence shows when (Democratic) politicians — who are usually more pro-LGBTQ+ than their (Republican) political opponents — use gender-neutral group labels like ‘Latinx,’ they experience backlash from Latinos who would have otherwise supported Democratic party politicians but are negatively predisposed against LGBTQ+ people.” Rel
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Can restorative justice principles heal the divide between Israel & Palestine?

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The history of the Middle East – and especially between Palestinians and Jews – abounds with blame, recrimination, retaliation, and an ever-escalating cycle of mistrust and violence. There is indeed plenty of justifiable blame to go around on all sides, but as we blame and blame and blame, attack and attack and attack, react and react and severely overreact while all the time expecting different results, we are certainly left with the insanity perpetuating ever-increasing tensions, violence, death, and the reality of an ever-widening breakout of war and destruction. Related The stakes are just as high for Congress this election as they are for the presidency The results of these races will determine if the next four years is filled with lots of progress or lots of pain. The fact is that both Palestinians and Jews are indigenous to what we call “The Middle East,” and Jews (Israelites) have existed there continually from when the area was known as “the land of Canaan” from around
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Police are searching for fugitive convicted of murdering transgender woman

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A Georgia man convicted of murdering a transgender woman is on the run after jumping bail during his trial. Davonte Fore, 26, was convicted along with accomplice JaQuan Brooks, 25, on October 4 of Malice Murder, two counts of Felony Murder, Aggravated Assault, Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, and Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Felony for the June 2021 murder of 25-year-old Skyler Gilmore. Related Anti-trans murderer makes history as first convicted under federal hate crime law His girlfriend called him an anti-gay slur when she discovered his relationship with a trans woman. That upset him… According to a press release from the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office, DeKalb County Police officers found Gilmore unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the torso in her Stone Mountain, Georgia, apartment in the early morning hours of June 4, 2021, after receiving a 911 call from a female friend reporting that the 25-year-old had been shot. Stay co
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Unhinged anti-LGBTQ+ GOP candidate runs away when shown her own extreme tweets

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Michele Morrow, a QAnon candidate for North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction, fled this way, that way, and finally found the exit after being asked to sign a tweet calling for the execution of Barack Obama on pay-per-view. “I was wondering if I could grab your autograph,” comedian Jason Selvig of The Good Liars – a comedy duo – asked Morrow in the lunchroom of an unidentified school building. Related GOP candidate slammed for saying the “+” in “LGBTQ+” means pedophilia She has called for major Democrats to be executed in the past. “Oh, you’re so kind,” Morrow replied graciously. “Yeah, yeah. Sure.” Your LGBTQ+ guide to Election 2024 Stay ahead of the 2024 Election with our newsletter that covers candidates, issues, and perspectives that matter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today “This is one of your tweets,” Selvig explained. “It said, ‘Obama did it. Hillary did it. Schiff did it. Comey did it. Holder did it.’ And it says, ‘death to traitors’ on there.” As Se
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