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A reminder of the ripples of the Orlando massacre across the world.
My school until this day no matter what important LGBT celebration would not fly the pride flag they would use the excuse that it was a political symbol.
After an extend weekend we came back to with the flag flying and that an Australian school in Adelaide to pay respects to the Orlando
This has shown how level of support that is pouring out around the world and the deaths of innocent LGBT people are being honoured regardless politics disregarding opinions but in the compassion of humanity. This is not the case everywhere politicisation of LGBT people life’s still is occurring globally, But I can say seeing this has made me nothing but proud to be who I am and go to my school.
The Australian State of Queensland has finally took action to bring it’s state law on age of consent for anal sex into line with that of vaginal sex. It is the last state which differentiate between vaginal and anal sex in it’s laws. Currently, the age of consent for vaginal sex, and…
Thought I’d spread this! Really great to see they have already almost sold out in such a small amount of time!
“All profits to Equality Florida’s Pulse Victims’ Fund and disbursed directly to the victims and their families with the assistance of the National Center for Victims of Crime and the City of Orlando”
express, express, express, that is the best way to heal. grieve if you need to, yell and scream if you need to, cry, laugh, be outward, let things out if keeping them to yourself will hurt you. you don’t have to be apathetic, you can be as expressive as you need to be for as long as you need.
LOVE CONQUERS HATE: Ellie Goulding shows her love and support to the LGBT+ community and the victims of the Orlando shooting on stage during the Delirium World Tour in Maryland (June 13, 2016) - Photos by multayply
Submitting again because I love attention; but I also want to say that if you are a trans girl and you have a body, you have a girl body. Additionally, if you are a trans boy, your body is a boy’s body. Whatever body you have, can not invalidate whatever gender you experience.
19 years old, she/her, So Called California, So Called United States.
The actress joined members of Congress to demand reforms in data collection
to be spread about transgender people because we don’t have actual data about who trans people are and our lived experiences,” Cox said Thursday during a news conference on Capitol Hill. “LGBT people exist, we are a vital part of the fabric of this country and we just want to be counted.”
Cox and several Democratic members of Congress had gathered to show their support for the LGBT Data Inclusion Act, which was proposed late last month by Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva. It would require federal surveys, including the census, to ask voluntary questions about Americans’ sexual orientations and gender identities, along with questions that respondents are already being asked about demographics such as race, age and income.
This comes at a time when a federal working group with representatives from 21 agencies, led by the Office of Management and Budget, is researching how to best collect this kind of data, considering issues like privacy concerns and what terminology to use. Some federal departments, such as Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics are already implementing plans to add such questions to certain questionnaires.
“If you’re not on paper, you’re invisible when it comes to the federal government,” said California Democratic Rep. Xavier Becerra. Like Cox and several other members of Congress, he argued that having this information is critical for understanding disparities in areas like health and poverty, as well as for allocating billions of dollars in federal funds to address those disparities.
Several speakers also acknowledged that they had little hope the legislation would be put up for a vote in a Republican-controlled Congress.
“It’s a matter of life and death,” Cox said, noting that a non-government survey had found 41% of transgender people attempt suicide, in part because they feel unwelcome or invisible in society. “On a systemic level we’re often told we don’t exist.”
Though transgender Americans have become more visible than ever, the question of how many Americans are transgender remains unanswered. The most commonly quoted estimate is about 0.3%, or about 970,000 Americans, but that is an educated guess made by researchers at UCLA’s Williams Institute—largely based on two state-level surveys. Studies have estimated that anywhere from 0.1% to 2% of people are transgender, which is the difference between a political constituency of thousands and several million.
The Census Bureau has said there are no plans at this time to add questions about sexual orientation or gender identity to its hallmark survey or the American Community Survey, a longer form accounting of Americans’ lives that some advocates believe is the more important one to update.
Daily tracking by Gallup, which fields a survey to 1,000 Americans each night, has found that an estimated 4% of Americans are LGBT, though demographic experts say that number could be as high as 10%, depending on the wording and parameters of the question.
“Through darkness comes light, through fear comes love and through pain comes triumph.
This is the triumph of the human spirit; it is not in a select few, it is in every one of us.”
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Australian landmarks lit in Rainbow lights last night from centre left clockwise: Sydney Town Hall, NSW; Sky Tower, Auckland NZ; Melbourne Town Hall, VIC; Story Bridge, QLD; Sydney Harbour Bridge, NSW; Perth Council House, WA; Melbourne Arts Centre Spire, VIC; Adelaide Oval, SA
