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Former employees of Rainbow Health, a local health and social care provider, are seeking explanations from the board of directors following the organization’s abrupt closure last week.Rainbow Health, which has served and supported the Twin Cities’ LGBTQ+ community for more than 40 years, notified about 80 employees on Thursday that it was closing immediately, and union members said Monday that few reasons have been given since then.”Nobody was prepared,” Ash Tifa, former legal services program coordinator for Rainbow Health, said Monday.According to a news release from the Rainbow Health union, which is represented by SEIU Healthcare of Minnesota and Iowa,…
A new PJ Media report reveals that many rural school districts in Alaska are following their urban counterparts in adopting rules that keep students’ so-called “gender transitions” secret from their parents. According to an article published by an online news outlet earlier this month, seven school districts acknowledged that their transgender policies were inspired by the Alaska Association of State School Boards (AASB), a primarily taxpayer-funded and increasingly left-leaning organization that trains school board members across the state and provides them with funding and resources to implement policies based on its ideology. AASB membership is made up of more than…
Kim Burrell apologized to the LGBTQ community while accepting the Aretha Franklin Icon Award onstage at the Stellar Awards over the weekend, saying she hopes the awards will be an opportunity to “build bridges” in the call for peace. “I want to apologize to the LGBTQ community,” she began, “and give them a big round of applause. I want them to be empowered and know in their hearts that we must all strive to embrace all of God’s people and show God’s love to all. I hope that this award and this moment will be the beginning of building bridges…
Cleo Jones, 24, from Lilongwe, Malawi, recalls feeling more comfortable around girls than boys as a child. Jones came out as queer and non-binary at the age of 15, but her decision was met with harsh rejection from her father, as well as societal attack and prejudice, which led to the couple falling into depression.Since then, Jones has developed a passion for helping others through community work, but one of the toughest challenges they face is a lack of access to healthcare.”When you go to a hospital, discrimination starts at the door, especially for LGBTQ people,” they said.Jones is one…
TS Eliot wrote that the world will not end explosively, but quietly. The unstoppable wave of consumer spending may end with a sudden hit to retailers rather than a complete slamming on the brakes. Consumers may become more open-minded as they realize their savings alone are not enough to keep up with spending and debt puts added pressure on them. And it’s lower-income consumers who may offer the clearest indication of retailers’ future, especially in discretionary spending categories like beauty and apparel. As PYMNTS Intelligence has found and highlighted in a recent column by Karen Webster, 10% of U.S. consumers…
Vice President Kamala Harris. Flickr/Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson Sign up for the Gay City News email newsletter to get news, updates and local information delivered straight to your inbox. Since announcing her presidential candidacy, Vice President Kamala Harris has garnered support from LGBTQ leaders and groups, some of whom are reminded of her work on queer issues during her previous tenure. The Vice President’s illustrious public career, which included serving as San Francisco district attorney, California attorney general and U.S. senator before becoming vice president, is inextricably intertwined with the trajectory of LGBTQ rights in recent decades.…
Civil rights groups in New Hampshire say they are prepared to go to court to challenge a law that would impose new restrictions on transgender students’ ability to participate in sports, their right to gender reassignment surgery and classroom discussions of gender and sexual orientation.The laws, signed by Gov. Chris Sununu on Friday, ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports in middle and high schools, ban some gender reassignment surgeries for those under 18 and require schools to notify parents before offering instruction on gender identity or sexual orientation.”We are hearing from affected families and are exploring all options,”…
Fashionistas in one Toronto neighbourhood will have one less option for trendy clothes as a local Urban Outfitters store has closed for good. For nearly a decade, Urban Outfitters at Yonge and Eglinton streets has been a destination for local shoppers looking for the latest internet trends and trendy trinkets, from records to reissues of nostalgic gadgets like Tamagotchis. By Saturday, July 20, the Philadelphia-based fast fashion retailer had stores in three locations in the city, at Queen West, Yonge & Eigg and Yonge & Dundas, as well as Square One in Mississauga. However, Toronto Urban’s store count has fallen…
Scouted selects products independently and if you buy something from our posts, we may earn a small commission.Not to brag, but I’m not a huge fan of sunscreen. I’m indoors most of the time (waiting for the cloudy fall weather to arrive!), but when I do venture out into the sun, especially on vacation, sunscreen is an important step in my skin care routine. The last time I got a tan in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, it left spots on my back that lasted for months. Lesson learned.I’ve never been a huge sunscreen fanatic, so I’ve never had a favorite sunscreen.…
Get Urban Milwaukee’s top stories delivered to you every day Gov. Tony Evers tours a microbiology lab at MATC. Photo by Sophie Borich on July 22, 2024. In early July, state officials celebrated the award of a $49 million federal grant to the Wisconsin Biohealth Tech Hub, which promises to create thousands of new jobs over the next decade and boost the economy across the state. On Monday, those same officials visited Milwaukee to meet with students who are poised to fill burgeoning positions in the personalized medicine and biohealth fields and play key roles in their development. “Simply put,…