The law bans rules requiring school staff to disclose a student’s gender identity or sexual orientation to any other person without the child’s permission.
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Prom event gives gay elders a do-over on teen tradition
Last week, the Los Angeles LGBT Center held its 27th annual Senior Prom event, which invites members of the LGBTQ+ community over age 50 to celebrate being gay – something many of them were ashamed of as teens.
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A San Francisco store is shipping LGBTQ+ books to places where they are banned
Beginning last May, she started raising money and looking for recipients. Becka Robbins’s books have gone to places like a pride center in West Texas and an LGBTQ-friendly high school in Alabama.
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Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex ban
The president’s use of his pardon powers is occurring during Pride Month and his action comes just days before he is set to hold a high-profile fundraiser with LGBTQ donors in New York on Friday.
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Portland Pride festival gets complaints about accessibility after failing to secure ASL interpreters
The chair of Pride Portland! tells the Press Herald: ‘We want to issue a public apology.’
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The shooter who killed 5 at a Colorado LGBTQ+ club pleads guilty to 50 federal hate crimes
Anderson Lee Aldrich again declined to apologize for the slayings on Nov. 19, 2022, or say anything to the victims’ families.
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Crowds pack downtown Portland for annual Pride parade
The festivities, which concluded in Deering Oaks on Saturday, continue a city tradition that began in 1987.
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This Portland print shop has pride in purpose
June is Little Chair Printing’s busiest month – because of all the T-shirts owner Hope Rovelto prints for the growing number of Pride celebrations across Maine.
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Towns boosting Pride Month awareness in their own backyards
Yarmouth is among the towns stepping up events as a sign of support and to show they are welcoming communities.
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Pride Month: Midcoast plans celebrations in budding festivals
Pride festivities kick off this weekend in the Brunswick area, marking a growing interest in the historic celebration in the Midcoast.