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Nota del editor: Tremenda Nota es el medio socio del Los Angeles Blade en Cuba. Esa nota salió en su portal el 12 de octubre.

HOLLYWOOD – In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2020, Project Angel Food and the University of Southern California (USC) Keck School of Medicine announced Monday the organizations had launched a two year collaborative study into the affects of diabetes among native Americans living in Southern California.

SANTA CLARITA – The North Los Angeles County Freedom’s Way Baptist church, known for its anti-LGBTQ and anti-women’s reproductive rights viewpoints, posted a picture on Facebook a few days ago of a grey metal container with a taped sign that read “Official Ballot Drop Box.”

WASHINGTON – A first-of-its-kind medical journal study published on Sept. 24 shows that as many as 3,217 intended donations of corneas from the eyes of gay and bisexual men in 2018 that could have restored the vision of blind people through cornea transplant surgery were disqualified under an “outdated” U.S. Food and Drug Administration policy aimed at preventing HIV infection.

‘Found in Transition’By Paria Hassouri, MDc.2020, New World Library$25.95/215 pages

LOS ANGELES – There’s a certain comfort in those friendships in one’s life that transcend work, or even some familial relationships with others who one deems close. A friendship where if separated by even distance and time you can still pick a phone- call, and the thread of conversation seemingly picks right up as though time itself hadn’t been interrupted.

SANTA ANA, El Salvador – La Iglesia Episcopal Anglicana de El Salvador (IAES) siempre se ha caracterizado por ser una iglesia inclusiva y de puertas abiertas, desde la creación del Ministerio de Diversidad Sexual en el año 2009, el cual es una pastoral que reúne tanto a personas LGBTQ como también aliados de la misma comunidad, volviéndose un espacio en el que todas y todos pueden vivir su fe, libres de discriminación.

BRUSSELS — A lawmaker in Belgium last week became Europe’s highest-ranking transgender politician.

LARAMIE – Twenty-two years ago today a University of Wyoming freshman left the Fireside Bar in downtown Laramie just after midnight and was found hours later tied to a fence outside of town badly beaten and left to die. The reason for the attack was simply because he was gay.

LOS ANGELES – A spokesperson for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) told the Los Angeles Blade Tuesday that detectives are investigating the stabbing attack on a transwoman at MacArthur Park Sunday as a hate crime.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump returned to the White House Monday evening after spending three days of Coronavirus treatment at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. After walking off Marine One, the presidential helicopter, which had landed on the South Lawn, the president walked up the stairs leading to the South Portico where he turned to face a small assembled group of staffers and immediately removed his mask.

Viachaslau Bortnik wrote this op-ed. He served as a Belarus country specialist at Amnesty International USA from 2012-2019.

“Our first and second commandment for ourselves as we ministered with people with AIDS,” Fr. Bernard Lynch, an openly gay, Irish Catholic priest, author, activist and founder of the first AIDS ministry in New York City in 1982, said in a FaceTime interview, “was thou shalt not bullshit anyone!”

WILMINGTON – The campaign for Democratic nominee former Vice-President Joe Biden released a statement Friday morning from Biden’s Doctor announcing that he and his wife Dr. Jill Biden had tested negative for the coronavirus.

By Rob Watson | HOLLYWOOD – It is the old story about the scorpion and the frog. The two needed each other to cross a river to survive.

Dear Soraya,

LOS ANGELES – The executive director of Christopher Street West/LA Pride, (CSW/LAPride) has departed the organization announced Tuesday via a press statement. Madonna Cacciatore was appointed to that role on July 1, 2018 and had previously worked for Los Angeles area LGBTQ nonprofits starting out at at AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) in 2006 and then as the Director of Special Events for the Los Angeles LGBT Center, 2012 until joining CSW/LA Pride.

Among the many compelling reasons to make sure that Donald Trump and Mike Pence are not reelected on Nov. 3, perhaps the 26 most compelling are the transgender Americans—most of them trans women of color—known to have been murdered this year.

WASHINGTON – In the flag filled White House Rose Garden courtyard Saturday evening, President Donald Trump announced that he has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the current vacancy on the nation’s highest court left by the death of former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has selected Amy Coney Barrett, a federal appellate judge and a favorite among religious conservatives, as his choice to replace progressive champion Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court.

PALM SPRINGS – Tim Hoeffgen did a quick google search of his Scruff date as he headed over to meet him. Tim was living in Nevada in early 2013, and the guy he had been chatting with on the dating app looked a lot like the man who was on the cover of the LGBTQ newspaper in Las Vegas that week.

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation is looking for highly talented independent instructors to bring valuable expertise to the community and provide an opportunity for others to learn new skills, stay active and healthy, and have a great time. Recreation and enrichment classes promote personal well-being among the various communities of the county and improve the lives of Angelenos.

WASHINGTON – The Senate voted 54-42 Wednesday to confirm Jocelyn Samuels, the Executive Director of the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law, to a Democratic seat on the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. This action came one day after the Senate confirmed Andrea Lucas and Keith Sonderling to Republican seats on the commission.

Whether you’re spending your time alone or with your honey, you might be looking for ways to spice up hanky panky time in the bedroom. It’s no wonder then, why sex toys are more in demand than ever before — sometimes you need that extra va va va voom!

Charles Chan-Massey (left) and Joseph Chan (right) courtesy of The Personal Stories Project

Hurricane Maria damaged the door of AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s clinic that had been under construction in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans with HIV/AIDS remain vulnerable three years after the hurricane devastated the U.S. commonwealth. (Washington Blade photo by Michael K. Lavers)

Ellen DeGeneres addresses a virtual studio audience as the show returns for its 18th season.

Dan Levy, Catherine O’Hara, and Noah Reid in ‘Schitt’s Creek.’ (Photo courtesy Pop TV)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg said same-sex marriages under DOMA were like “skim milk.” (Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

From left: Then-U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Ted Osius with his son Tabo, the late-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Osius’ husband, Clayton Bond, with their daughter Lucy. (Photo courtesy of Ted Osius)