• FBI’s Los Angeles Office Urges Victims To Report Hate Crimes

    (CNS) – The FBI’s Los Angeles field office launched a multi-lingual campaign Wednesday to raise awareness about hate crimes and encourage victims to report them. The FBI considers hate crimes to be criminal offenses against a person or property that is motivated at least in part “by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, […]

  • Cinema Diverse Filmmaker on Gender Identity in “Dress Code”

    [bc_video video_id=”6273020578001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”rJpklujDf” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” playsinline=”” picture_in_picture=”” max_width=”640px” mute=”” width=”100%” height=”100%” ] Melanie Notinger wrote and directed the short film “Dress Code” as a way to understand gender identity.  The result is a poetic look on representation and finding your truth.  I spoke with Notinger about the making of her film on […]

  • California Requires Reporting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in COVID Data

    [bc_video video_id=”6176444368001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Doctor Mark Ghaly, the California Health and Human Services secretary announced that laboratories and health providers must now include sexual orientation and gender identity in COVID-19 testing reporting data. In addition to the collection of this new data, this also calls for the improvement […]

  • Virginia governor signs bill banning conversion therapy for minors

    (CNN) — Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has signed into law a bill banning the controversial practice of “conversion therapy” for minors, according to a release from his office Tuesday. The legislation, House Bill 386, adds the commonwealth to a growing list of states that have issued similar bans on the widely discredited practice, which attempts to forcibly […]

  • Utah bans conversion therapy for LGBTQ children

    Utah is now the 19th state to outlaw conversion therapy for minors after a new rule from its governor went into effect late Tuesday. The ban issued by Gov. Gary Herbert, a Republican, comes a year after an effort to end the practice in the conservative state stalled in the legislature. Conversion therapy is an attempt […]

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