April, 2019 News (49 Articles with 73,811 total views)
On the cover of the print edition for April, 2019 Bobby Jo Valentine, who is performing at the Bel-Aire on Friday, April 12 as part of Drenched Fur. Also, Ryan Casatta at E3 Musician, activist, public speaker, writer, filmmaker, and actor. Ryan Cassata performs at E3 Youth LGBTQA Summit on April 12.
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Local and Regional News
Local LGBT History Project seeking artifacts for exhibit
The E3 Youth LGBTQA Summit converges April 12-13
Behrend's Gender Conference "Engendering Cyberspace: Bullying, #MeToo, and More" April 17-18
Wuvable Oaf artist and writer Ed Luce to speak at Behrend
Bobby Jo Valentine in concert on April 12
6th Annual Pride Prom Buffalo on April 27
Pride Weekend at the Peak March 29-31
Drenched Fur 15: A Groovy Good Time
Grand Opening of Traveling History Exhibit at State Capitol
Deadline for April 2019 print edition (issue # 281) of Erie Gay News is Friday, March 15
Entertainment and Travel
A Special Reading of Your Healing Is Killing Me by Virginia Grise: a fundraiser benefiting Dreams of Hope on March 30
Pride Journey: Provincetown/Cape Cod
Political, Activism and Legal
HRC: Senate Must Join House in Reauthorizing VAWA
Groundbreaking New Report Details Unique Challenges, Rewards for An Estimated Three Million or More LGBT People Who Call Rural America Home
Victory Fund Endorses Adrian Rivera-Reyes for Philadelphia City Council
Palm Center Applauds House Passage of Measure Supporting Transgender Military Service
HRC Scores Pennsylvania Companies' LGBTQ-Inclusive Workplace Policies in New Corporate Equality Index
Lesbian Mayoral Candidates Poised to Make History in April; Number of Lesbian Top 100 Mayors Could Triple
Commission on the Status of Women Agrees Inclusive Conclusions Despite Backlash
HRC Partners With Award-Winning Directors Dustin Lance Black and Paris Barclay on Star-Studded "Americans for the Equality Act" Public Education and Advertising
Homophobic Attack Targets Lori Lightfoot in Chicago Mayoral Race
Palm Center Responds to Presidential Candidate Cory Booker's Pledge to Immediately Lift Trump Transgender Ban
TODAY: Historic, Bipartisan Equality Act to be Reintroduced in Congress With Unprecedented Support
National LGBTQ Task Force Action Fund Applauds Introduction of "Equality Act"
Equality CA Transgender Military Ban Lawsuit Plaintiff, Responds to Administration's Unlawful Plan to Implement Ban in Defiance of Nationwide Injunction
WASHINGTON - March 12, 2019 - Equality California, the nation's largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization and the organizational plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the ban on transgender military service (Stockman v. Trump), released the following statement from Executive Director Rick Zbur in response to the Department of Defense's release today of guidelines for implementing the ban, which would take effect April 12: