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John J. Sweeney, The Growg Alliance between Gay and Unn Activists, Social Text, No. 61, Out Front: Lbians, Gays, and the Stggle for Workplace Rights (Wter, 1999), pp. 31-38

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Gay nurse and former unn lear Jennifer Esteen officially lnched her mpaign Monday to ot om office Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who will be seekg a seventh four-year term on the primary ballot next March. But after Assemblyman Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) cid not to seek reelectn, Shawn Kumagai, a gay man then servg on the Dubl Cy Council, and labor lear Liz Ortega, who is straight, jumped to the ntt to succeed him and survived the primary.

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Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still crimalized.From homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100,000 people says is unr nstant threat.“Every LGBT person terviewed by Human Rights Watch said they wished to leave the untry immediately or had envisned their future abroad,” the report stated.In St. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean regn.While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.“The laws still have an impact,” said Jhua Bardoo, an ternatnal human rights lawyer om St. “People feel embolned to discrimate or be vlent.”In July 2019, two gay men om St.

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Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. “The (LGTBQ) muny the untry is very, very margalized and vulnerable.”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.A 58-year-old bisexual man relled how someone h him the head wh a bottle an attack that cracked his skull and put him a a.

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm.Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici.Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

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It is hard for me as a gay this untry.”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Vcent Prime Mister Ralph Gonsalv was not returned.Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people. That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

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Crics have said Disney has not done enough phg back agast Florida's Parental Rights Edutn act, more monly known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill. A unn central Florida has urged his members not to participate the planned boytts of the pany over the "Don't Say Gay" bill.

Clton ma siar ments on Twter, postg that boyttg the pany bee of the Don't Say Gay bill would e wh moary nsequenc for some. "If you are makg lls to #BoyttDisney over the Don't Say Gay bill, jt remember that you are impactg thoands of Cast Members the LGBTQ+ muny who will lose hours, wag, and gratui bee of your lls. There are other ways to ph for change, " he webse, which lls out Disney for s "apathy the face of the bigoted 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill put forth by the FL state legislature, " has a schle and walkout stctns for employee walkouts to prott the bill.

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