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California becomes 1st state to ban ‘gay cure’ therapy for teens

breakingnews:

NBC News: California has become the first state in the nation to ban therapy that tries turning gay teens straight. Gov. Jerry Brown says he signed Senate Bill 1172, which prohibits children under 18 from undergoing ‘sexual orientation change efforts.’ The law goes into effect Jan. 1.

The bill was sponsored by Sen. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, who says unethical practices by mental-health providers to try changing a young person’s sexual orientation have caused psychological harm.

(via oldfilmsflicker)

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I can’t recommend We Were Here enough, especially for anyone interested in LGBT history—which hopefully is everyone, since it’s human history, after all. (Woah, preachy right out of the gate—sorry!) Young people today don’t know what it’s like to see all of their friends and lovers dying left and right. Try to imagine it, if you can; envision all of the people you love best—BFF’s, roommates, girlfriends, boyfriends—being ripped away from life by a merciless scourge. Then imagine this also happening in your neighborhood, to the people you see every day—the cute guy who brings the paper, the hawt girl at Starbucks—what it would be like if those people were all dead or dying too? Then on top of that, think about the celebrities you love the most, and what it would be like if Tom Hiddleston & Benedict Cumberbatch were sick and dying as well as all these other people. Now you have some idea of what it was like to be a gay man in the 1980’s. The fact that any at all have survived to tell the tale is miraculous. One of the saddest moments I had with my friend Jamie was when he told me that everyone he had ever loved was dead. Some of his survivor guilt passed to me when he died, but part of how I deal with that is to make sure the younger generation know what we went through…because some of us were there.

I can’t recommend We Were Here enough, especially for anyone interested in LGBT history—which hopefully is everyone, since it’s human history, after all. (Woah, preachy right out of the gate—sorry!)

Young people today don’t know what it’s like to see all of their friends and lovers dying left and right. Try to imagine it, if you can; envision all of the people you love best—BFF’s, roommates, girlfriends, boyfriends—being ripped away from life by a merciless scourge. Then imagine this also happening in your neighborhood, to the people you see every day—the cute guy who brings the paper, the hawt girl at Starbucks—what it would be like if those people were all dead or dying too? Then on top of that, think about the celebrities you love the most, and what it would be like if Tom Hiddleston & Benedict Cumberbatch were sick and dying as well as all these other people. Now you have some idea of what it was like to be a gay man in the 1980’s. The fact that any at all have survived to tell the tale is miraculous.

One of the saddest moments I had with my friend Jamie was when he told me that everyone he had ever loved was dead. Some of his survivor guilt passed to me when he died, but part of how I deal with that is to make sure the younger generation know what we went through…because some of us were there.

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Gay Pride Events in Uganda

“The importance of this Pride event cannot be understated. The fact that these brave activists could pull this off in this milieu of persecution is a great victory for the community. Visibility like this notes the ongoing legacy of late activist David Kato, it defies the export of American Evangelical hate, and it helps ensure defeat of the Bahati Bill. It shows leadership for all of Africa, and above all it shows that the LGBT people of Uganda simply refuse to give up their right to exist and to live their natural born sexual orientation.”

you can read the full article here

Their bravery is inspirational. 

I’m waving my little rainbow flag in solidarity with these courageous people.

(Source: spaceofficial, via macabrestanwyck)

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delgrosso: THESE GIRLS. RIGHT HERE. I loved this, yet felt so conflicted—I wanted both the US and Japan to win! Still, I held it together until I saw Megan Rapinoe getting her medal, & then I lost it. Just like I hope one day athletes like Oscar Pistorius will be so commonplace that no-one discusses them being differently-abled, maybe someday there will be so many out gay athletes that it’s not considered worthy of comment. Given how horrific the attitudes remain in Russia, however, I doubt that there will be much of that in the next Olympics.

delgrosso:

THESE GIRLS. RIGHT HERE.

I loved this, yet felt so conflicted—I wanted both the US and Japan to win!

Still, I held it together until I saw Megan Rapinoe getting her medal, & then I lost it. Just like I hope one day athletes like Oscar Pistorius will be so commonplace that no-one discusses them being differently-abled, maybe someday there will be so many out gay athletes that it’s not considered worthy of comment. Given how horrific the attitudes remain in Russia, however, I doubt that there will be much of that in the next Olympics.

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Nothing like starting the day all teary-eyed...

I already talked to one of these guys on Twitter & told him how much this means to me as a First Class Girl Scout (the feminine equivalent of an Eagle Scout)—amazingly, he thanked me, when all the props in the world are due to him & his fellow Eagle Scouts for standing up this way. The fact that nearly all these guys are straight and are standing up for their gay brothers…wow. I would give anything for my friend Jamie to have lived to see this moment.

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