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On April 13, Donald Trump was in tiny Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, population 3,800, in Lehigh Valley, rallying white MAGA voters with a range of racist tropes, personal grievances and invented historical narratives featuring Gettysburg, Confederate Army leader Robert E. Lee, Lincoln and himself.

Delivering a keynote address at the Human Rights Campaign’s Equality in Action event Friday, First lady Jill Biden warned former President Donald Trump is “a bully” who is “dangerous to the LGBTQ community.”

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to lift its ban on sperm donations from men who have sex with men, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The report also says the FDA would simultaneously lift the ban on donations of other tissues and organs from gay and bisexual men.

According to my grandmother, it’s time — time for spring terms like trowel, transplanter, cultivator, and tiller. For condo dwellers, there are containers, and for owners of large homes, it’s portions of their backyards. My grandmother advised us never to plant seeds until after Easter, when the chance of frost has vanished, so here we are in the season of the green thumb. If you really do get an A for effort, then I am at the top of my class when it comes to gardening.

Mercury 

Accounting for seven percent of the general youth population, young LGBTQ people are overrepresented in Atlanta’s homeless population.

Two new films by out directors are on tap now, both well worth the audience’s time. In the new, “Problemista,” Julio Torres (who also writes and directs the feature) stars as Alejandro, who is from El Salvador, but now lives in New York. He wants to make toys for a living, but is having a problem sustaining a work visa — and the only solution he can come up with is working with Elizabeth (Tilda Swinton), an art critic on a mission.

On a formerly gray and drab, now sun-drenched weekday morning, I sat down with Nayra to discuss one of my favorite topics, interior design. Nayra is a Brazilian American interior design student studying to get her BFA at Georgia State University. She brings a uniquely Brazilian, secondhand, and community-focused perspective to all her design projects and design opinions. She spoke with Georgia Voice about her design inspirations, her favorite and least favorite trends, sustainability, and more. Quotes have been edited for clarity. What are the main

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President Joe Biden on Friday honored Sunday’s Transgender Day of Visibility observance with a statement highlighting his administration’s work advancing the rights of trans Americans and fighting back against harmful anti-LGBTQ state laws.

A new Gallup poll finds LGBTQ identification in the U.S. expanding annually with 7.6 percent of U.S. adults now identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or some other sexual orientation other than heterosexual. This latest percentage is up a full two percent from 5.6 percent four years ago and is more than double the 3.5 percent of 2012, Gallup’s first year of surveying sexual orientation and transgender identity.

In the days following the Feb. 28 shooting of Righteous Torrence “TK” Hill, 35, a well-known and beloved Atlanta LGBTQ salon owner, details surrounding what led an unnamed gunman to open fire, shooting Hill multiple times in the front entrance of his East Point home resulting in his death, were non-existent until now.

Atlanta Pride has launched its newest philanthropic initiative, Pride Across the Peach State. The grant program will provide funding of up to $5,000 to support local Pride organizations in hosting festivals and events that promote LGBTQ arts, culture, history, and music, as well as those that facilitate community connection and raise awareness of LGBTQ issues.

For every queer person, coming out is a process. There is no one-and-done conversation that renders a queer person fully formed or comfortable, no singular reveal that instantly erases the internalized trauma that follows coming to terms with their identity.

Oh, Countée Cullen — Harlem boy meteor whose star climbed to the highest, brightest apogee, and then gradually faded.

Two new ATL shows feature LGBTQ characters prominently. The world premiere drama, “Furlough’s Paradise,” by playwright A.K. Payne, has just premiered at the Alliance Theatre. It’s part of the Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, now in its 20th year.

The Movement Advancement Project (MAP) has created an interactive map to show which states in the U.S. are the safest for LGBTQ+ people to live and work. MAP also tracked those with declining levels of safety. New Jersey and New York were in the safest category, Delaware in the second safest, but Pennsylvania ranked in the third of five categories, as only fair, with 20 states plus Washington, D.C. ranking higher.

Cabbage Patch is a local drag show for all ages, one of the only local places where young kids can experience the colorful and exciting magic of drag through age-appropriate storytelling.

Gay men as old as me can truthfully say that in the last 50 years, our freedom to love has expanded far beyond what we imagined. We sat on the beds of our lovers as they died from AIDS while congressmen advocated corralling all of us into concentration camps. Indeed, it was still illegal to have sex with other men in most places. True, Bill Clinton allowed us to serve in the military but only as long as we stayed in the closet. Many people regarded the long-unthinkable notion of gay marriage as our priority.

The struggles and challenges faced by LGBTQ communities around the globe continue to be a pressing issue, despite strides toward equality and acceptance in various societies. Researching and writing essays on these topics raises awareness and contributes to a deeper understanding and empathy towards the LGBTQ community. Here are five compelling essay topics that shed light on the problems faced by LGBTQ individuals, offering a blend of historical context, current challenges, and the push for rights and recognition.

In his book “My Bondage and My Freedom,” Frederick Douglass said, “To an ignorant observer, spirituals appeared to be simple hymns, retelling biblical stories and themes. But the songs held deeper meaning for the people who sang them, acting as coded messages that passed along information about how one might escape and serving as much-needed reminders that freedom was possible.” As long as Black people have been in America, music has been important to us. Music

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Legacy media has called Donald Trump’s win in the Iowa Caucus a “landslide victory” and a “historic win.” Theoretically both statements are true: Trump did beat his two closest opponents, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Trump’s own former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley by nearly 30 points. And the win was historic in the sense that no other failed president has chosen to run again after being voted out of office.

Since you’re old, I’m sure you remember reading, amid the tales of hometown heroes and gynecology, the monthly essay in Reader’s Digest magazine entitled “Laughter is the Best Medicine.” By the time I could read, I understood that humor provided relief from the insanity and cruelty of the world. This was mainly due to my mother, easily the funniest person alive. Unfortunately, though, her humor was mainly sarcasm that could also hurt like hell whether intended or not. Imagine that – a mother who at once terrifies her son and teaches him to laugh.

As we head into 2024, we must set ourselves up for success. Here are a few tips on how to do exactly that.

A recently published academic journal article by two University of Indiana researchers reports on problems faced by LGBTQ+ older adults living in the nation’s nursing homes and recommends actions nursing homes should take to ensure LGBTQ+ residents are treated equitably and without bias.

Director Steven Spielberg’s 1985 version of Alice Walker’s classic, “The Color Purple,” has always been heavily debated. Many knock it for being too tidy and toning down the lesbian love story at its heart. Others, though, consider it a classic and a film that has withstood the test of time a lot better than the movie it lost the Best Picture Oscar to, “Out of Africa.”

Fitness usually tops New Year’s resolutions, and this year is no exception. Entering a gym for the first time can be completely intimidating, regardless of gender identity. However, gyms can exacerbate feelings of dysphoria or generally feel unsafe for gender-nonconforming individuals.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his nomination of Judge Melissa DuBose to serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, where she would be the first person of color and the first LGBTQ judge.

The U.S. has removed Uganda from the list of nations eligible to benefit from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) because of their enactment of the “Anti-Homosexuality Act.”