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monkeypox, or MPV.With vaccine supplies limited, a Seattle man told a local TV station he and friends traveled to the Canadian province of British Columbia to receive the vaccine and found the process “seamless.”“King County [which includes Seattle] health was being very slow with the uptake of access to dosing and communicating in general,” Seattle gay man Justin Moore told broadcaster KING. “It became apparent to me that I was going to have to seek out other places to get it,” he added.So he and his friends went across the border, and it took about 15 minutes for them to get vaccinated against MPV, whose most recent outbreak has been concentrated in men who have sex with men.

Some members of the neo-nazi cult Patriot Front are finally facing charges for planning to storm an Idaho Pride event this June — but does their punishment fit the attempted crime?Idaho police pulled over a U-Haul en route to a Pride in the Park event after an anonymous tipster witnessed the Patriot Front members loading up inside.The caravan of 31 uniformed men armed with riot gear and smoke grenades inside were all zip-tied, unmasked, and arrested for conspiracy to riot.Though the men were all originally charged and held on just over $300 bail, only six will now be facing the charges in court.Related: Patriot Front member’s mom tells him to find new home after Pride arrestIn addition to only affecting a fraction of the planned rioters, the crime they’re charged with is only a misdemeanor. The charge carries a maximum sentence of a fine and five years in prison.While police intervening on behalf of the queer community is a nice surprise, the fact is that most of this violent militia gathered from across the country to target an LGBTQ+ event is being let off largely scot-free, with just a handful of them facing low-level sentencing.The planned descent on the Idaho Pride event was just one of many attacks on queer events this past June; while legislators railed hard against queer people as “groomers“, right-wing Proud Boys tried to break up Drag Queen Storytime events across the country.Related: White supremacists destroyed a Pride mural. The video they made got them arrested.Two of the aforementioned Patriot Front members were also recently arrested for defacing a mural dedicated to Pride in Olympia, Washington; they were taken in after their own recording of the event was discovered by police.In addition to these two,

Above: People pray on the steps of the Supreme Court as the case over school football coach Joseph Kennedy's public prayers is heard.  Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe ruling on abortion rights, which overturned Roe v. Wade, isn’t the only concerning one to come out of the U.S.

Thirty-one members of the racist, neo-Nazi Patriot Front, including the group's founder, were arrested in the city after police stopped a U-Haul truck filled with the suspected would-be rioters. The members are being charged with conspiracy to riot — a misdemeanor offense.According to White, a tipster called authorities around 1:38 p.m.

A gay man running to be the first out person of color on the San Jose City Council and a gay married mother seeking to become the first female Sonoma County superintendent of schools are one step closer to being elected.Omar Torres placed first in his race for San Jose's 3rd council district seat on Tuesday's primary ballot. He received 40.66% of the vote, according to the unofficial returns Wednesday.Since he did not surpass the 50% threshold to clinch the seat outright, Torres will face off on the November general election ballot against the second-place finisher, Irene Smith.

Twenty-seven months after he set fire to a dumpster behind a Seattle gay bar, Kalvinn Garcia has pleaded guilty to one count of committing a federal hate crime. According to a news release issued May 26 by the United States Department of Justice, on February 24, 2020, Garcia, 25, of Sedro Woolley, Washington, set fire to the contents of a dumpster behind Queer/Bar, a popular club in Capitol Hill, Seattle's LGBTQ neighborhood.

Hagerstown, Md.Brayden prays and reads his Bible as a Christian. Friends of his family who teach and have kids at Grace Academy suggested the nondenominational Christian school in Washington County to Brayden and his parents, who decided to apply.Last week, Stratton and Dane, a disabled veteran and CEO of the LGBTQ+ veterans' advocacy group Modern Military Association of America, told Brayden that he wouldn't be able to attend school with his friends. Grace Academy rejected him because his parents are gay, they told him.Brayden tells The Advocate he's sad and doesn't understand why some religious people mistreat others. "My moms are gay, and that does not make me gay, but it doesn't matter because we are all normal," he says. The Advocate obtained a letter signed by Grace Academy upper school principal Mark H.

A 16-year drought of LGBTQ representation on the council of the Bay Area's largest city could come to an end this year. It is up to the voters in San Jose's 3rd council district to decide if the South Bay city will have its second out councilmember in its history.In 2000, Ken Yeager was elected as the first gay councilmember of California's third largest city.

A post shared by Zeb Saint One (@zebadiahsaint)Independent professional wrestler Zeb Saint recently came out. The Washington state-based wrestler will help diversify his hard-hitting sport.In a recent tweet, Saint wrote, “Self discovery update: I’m not straight.

Tuesday night Washington state’s Liberty Lake City Council voted 4-2 to not force the local public library to remove a popular, award-winning LGBTQ book, “Gender Queer,” from its shelves. It was the second loss for Erin Zasada, a local realtor, KREM reports.

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Family Research Council President Tony Perkins preached at Westgate Chapel in Edmonds, Washington, Sunday. Following his sermon, Perkins sat down with Westgate’s senior pastor Alec Rowlands for a wide-ranging discussion on the issue of “The Church and Politics.”

An American political extremist accused by the Washington legislature of domestic terrorism is reportedly overseas with dozens of children from Ukraine.

A popular transgender porn star and OnlyFans performer has died at just 30 years old.

Janet Jackson put Justin Timberlake on blast in 2006, then catch up on the latest from Gay TikTok:Marlon Bundo passed away.♬ original sound – GAYGENDA MAGAZINEMichael Schecter was the last couple dancing.Megan Mitchell shared some gender nonconforming fits.Jozea drank Juice.The “gay earring” got decoded.Toddlers attended drag brunch.A gay hiking group conquered Washington state.♬ original sound – NetflixBryan and Chris finished the nursery.James got a new tattoo.And Dr. Eric Cervini talked Tallulah Bankhead.♬ original sound – Dr.

ABOVE: Somehow, splendid Katharine Ross is on her FIFTH husband in Sam Elliott, yet still has had time to be married to him for almost 37 years.

Rachele Sullivan, a leatherwoman who once served on the board of San Francisco-based Folsom Street Events, died January 17, according to the nonprofit that produces the Folsom Street Fair and other activities. She was 54.

Dallas Buyers Club and C.R.A.Z.Y. and first season of the LGBTQ-beloved TV series Big Little Lies, has died at age 58.Vallée, a straight ally, was found dead Sunday at his cabin near Quebec City, The New York Times reports.

Seattle Times reports. He later was flown to Florida for treatment, and his family announced that he died Friday.

Anderson Cooper used one of his 60 Minutes slots on the weekend to explore a tragic death that never should have happened.Sam Martinez was a student at Washington State University. In 2019, he died while pledging Alpha Tau Omega.According to his parents, Martinez had been trying to join the fraternity for the previous two months.

Nine years after telling a gay couple she could not prepare a flower arrangement for their wedding because of her religious beliefs, the owner of a flower shop in Washington state has agreed to pay $5,000 to settle the dispute and withdraw her long-shot bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in her favor.

Nine years after telling a gay couple she could not prepare a flower arrangement for their wedding because of her religious beliefs, the owner of a flower shop in Washington State has agreed to pay $5,000 to settle the dispute and withdraw her long-shot bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in her favor.

March 4, 1955 — September 8, 2021James "Jim" Edward Doherty Jr. of San Francisco passed away at his home on September 9, 2021, age 66.

Pictured: Helen Thornton (at right) and at left with her partner, Marge BrownSame-sex spouses who were ineligible for Social Security survivor’s benefits because of discriminatory marriage laws can now receive them, thanks to court decisions and the federal government’s withdrawal of its appeals of those rulings.The Social Security Administration and the Department of Justice announced Monday that they were ending the appeals. U.S.

guilty of second-degree murder and malicious harassment — a hate crime charge — for strangling Kuhnhausen, who was 17, to death and then burying her remains in a wooded area near Larch Mountain, in a remote part of northeast Clark County, in southern Washington.Kuhnhausen went missing on June 6, 2019 while crashing at a friend’s house. Six months later, on Dec.

convicted in August of second-degree murder and malicious harassment, the latter being a hate crime. Nineteen and a half years is the maximum sentence for second-degree murder, with a 12-month maximum sentence for malicious harassment to be served concurrently, The Columbian of Vancouver, Wash., reports.Kuhnhausen, 17, went missing in June 2019, and her remains were found the following December near Larch Mountain in Washington State.

The Columbian previously reported that Bogdanov had told police, after his arrest, that he first ran into Kuhnhausen in downtown Vancouver, and invited her to join him and his brothers at a bar. He gave her his coat because she was cold, and supplied her with vodka to drink, letting her keep the bottle.Kuhnhausen’s friends claimed she returned to the house where she had been staying, and proceeded to use a friend’s cellphone to access her Snapchat account, where she exchanged messages with Bogdanov, ostensibly because he had promised to get her a cellphone later that morning.

The Columbian reports. Bogdanov, a 27-year-old Vancouver man, will be sentenced September 9.

Canada Soccer reports. “The team is hoping to make history by getting back on the podium for a third consecutive time.”Professionally, Quinn plays for a U.S.

Supreme Court's decision Friday not to hear floral artist Barronelle Stutzman's case leaves freedom of religion and expression in an uncertain state. But one thing is perfectly clear: activists and their powerful legal and corporate allies were ready and able to take down a humble Christian grandmother simply for living her faith.Barronelle is a 76-year-old floral artist in Richland, Washington, whom I represent.

Only three justices were open to hearing the florist’s case but there needs to be a total of four the court to take it on.

remanded the case back to the Washington State Supreme Court for reconsideration, in case the decision might have been clouded by anti-religious bias. The high court had previously found, in a similar case, known as the Masterpiece Cakeshop case, that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission may have acted in a prejudicial manner against a Colorado baker who was found to have violated the state’s nondiscrimination law when he refused to provide a wedding cake for same-sex wedding.But in 2019, the Washington State Supreme Court stood by its earlier decision, finding, once again, that Stutzman had violated the law and finding no evidence of any animus toward religion in general nor towards Stutzman’s personal beliefs.

Supreme Court decided Friday that it would not hear the case of a florist who refused to provide her services for a same-sex couple's wedding. The decision not to hear the case leaves in place an earlier ruling that she violated state anti-discrimination laws.Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have reviewed the ruling, but four justices are needed for the court to hear a case.For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.In 2018, the high court ordered Washington state courts to take a new look at the case involving florist Barronelle Stutzman and her Arlene's Flowers business.

LGBTQ pride flags. The boaters with the pride flags, who rescued the injured from the water, have described the incident as an act of karma.Twitter user @retro_ushi_, who identifies as trans and queer, told the story on social media and said: "These people harassed my family because we were flying gay pride flags in Moses Lake, Washington, by racing around us and shouting gay slurs.

Senate Bill 704 into law on Sunday (May 23).It becomes the 14th state to do so, following in the footsteps: California, Illinois, Rhode Island, Nevada, Hawaii, Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Washington, Colorado, Virginia, and Vermont.Washington DC has also enacted legislation banning the defense.The so-called ‘panic’ defense is used by some people who have murdered members of the LGBTQ community.Those charged with such crimes will sometimes say their victim made a pass at them and they reacted violently in response.

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A virtual memorial for sex workers advocate Margo St. James will be held Saturday, May 1, at 11 a.m. Pacific Time.Ms.

The chef Blaine Wetzel first came to Lummi, a tiny island in the San Juan archipelago of Washington State, in 2010. At age 24, he was fresh off a two-year stint at the vaunted Copenhagen restaurant Noma.

Lady Gaga and Ellen DeGeneres for help.The newspaper Inlander reports Jason Fox was murdered in Newport, Washington last September. Investigators discovered his body in a shallow grave on a nearby ranch about a month later.

statement submitted to the Washington State attorney general.At first the company didn’t disclose how many accounts were exposed in the data breach, but it later revealed that more than 7,700 users were affected in Washington State. Stacy Brandenburg, an attorney representing Manhunt, told Tech Crunch that 11 percent of the app’s users were affected in total.In the statement to the attorney general, Brandenburg wrote, “Manhunt immediately took steps to remediate the threat and secure its systems.

The Associated Press.On the same day, Atomwaffen members sent or delivered posters to the homes of reporters or activists in Arizona and Washington State. One of Parker-Dipeppe’s alleged co-conspirators, Johnny Roman Garza, 20, of Arizona, was previously sentenced to 16 months in jail. A second alleged co-conspirator, Kaleb Cole, a former Seattle resident now residing in Texas, will face trial in September, while a third, Cameron Shea, of Washington State, is expected to plead guilty this week.

passed it in February, as it had two years ago, in the previous session of Congress. In that session, it never received a hearing in the Senate, where Republicans then held a majority of seats.

Congressional Record. “This amendment will ensure that education funding in the bill is properly directed to schools that are focused on COVID response and recovery rather than pushing a liberal agenda.”Democratic Sen.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has declared that this year, Valentine's Day will be "Margo St. James Day" in honor of the sex workers rights advocate who died last month.

Rachel Dolezal first made headlines in 2015 when it was discovered she had been masquerading as a Black woman while serving as president of the NAACP’s chapter in Spokane, Washington. Shortly after that, she came out as bisexual and compared herself to Caitlyn Jenner, who is trans.Since then, Dolezal has changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo (but she still sometimes goes by Rachel), published a book, been charged with second-degree perjury and felony theft by welfare fraud, and more or less fallen into obscurity.Until earlier this week when she reemerged to appear on Tamrom Hall’s show to discuss what her life has been like these past six years.Turns out, it hasn’t been great.

Margo St. James, a noted sex-positive feminist and pioneer of the sex workers' rights movement, died January 12 at age 83. Ms. St. James had been living in a memory care facility in Washington state and was moved to hospice care after a fall, according to her longtime friend Carol Stuart.

Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in America eased its restrictions on blood donation by gay and bisexual men, bringing down the deferral period from one year to three months.

The Williams Institute issued some year end data on the LGBTQ community based on research conducted this year that anyone who loves numbers may find interesting.