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20 Years of Trans Awareness Month Brings 20 Years of Remembering Fallen Transgender Loved Ones.

In West Virginia, several vigils will be held through out the state; Huntington, Charleston, and in Princeton, WV., an openly Gay City Council Candidate James Adkins will be assisting S.W.A.T. (a local trans support group), in reading of the names. At West Virginia University’s LGBTQ Center, will be hosting a Friendsgiving dinner, followed with a vigil to honor the Trans lives lost in acts of unjust hate.

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Democrat Candidates Discuss Historical Issues @ LGBTQ FORUM

“We’ve got a crisis of belonging in this country,” Buttigieg said. Speaking to the LGBTQ community directly, he said, “We have the power to reach into our own experience: Belonging to a part of America that also cuts across all of the other different categories,” and that as “the only minority that exists in equal proportion across every ethnicity family and income group. We could help be that glue.” – Mayor Pete Buttigieg

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TMP Seeks Essays For New Book Trans and Allies Needed

We are seeking trans people of any transitional status, non-binary, allies, parents of trans people, advocacy organizations and medical/mental staff familiar with treating trans and non-binary persons. The project would consist of a wide range of diversity within our community, in a narrative essay style, min 1000 to 3000 words max. We’re asking for your work to be non-fictional, but will not rule out outstanding fictional work.

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Southern WV/VA Inaugural Trans Support Meeting.

So why another support group and why in Southern West Virginia and Virginia area? Currently in the state of West Virginia there are few, if any protections of trans and non-binary persons. In southern WV/VA, there isn’t any outlets for trans people to converse, make friendships or navigate resources in an area that still deem […]

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Nazis disrupt Pride in Detroit, Hungary and Poland

Members of the Detroit Police Department are being criticized for accompanying a group of self-described Nazis over the weekend at the city’s Pride parade. Activists reacted in alarm on Saturday after being informed that the Nazi group had been given a permit to protest at the Pride event. According to The Detroit News, police were […]

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