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marchs participants screamed to break their silence.
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PORTLAND Elected ocials in Oregon are considering a conversion therapy ban, the
Statesman Journal, a Gannett paper, reports.
House Bill 2307 would apply only to licensed mental or social health care professionals,
and only to therapy given to those under 18.
Rep. Rob Nosse (D-Portland) sponsored the bill. He told the committee that he was
thankful that he didnt gure out he was gay until he was 23.
Im lucky as a kid I was never subjected to this kind of therapy, Nosse said at the
hearing according to the Statesman Journal.
Conversion therapy is opposed by a number of medical, social and educational
organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric
Association, the American School Counselor Association and the National Association of
Social Workers.
Mental health clinicians are venturing outside the appropriate boundaries of their
scope of practice if they attempt to change a clients sexual orientation, Richard Yep, chief
executive ocer of the American Counseling Association, said in written testimony.
Earlier this month, President Obama came out in support of bans on conversion
therapy for children. California, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., already have banned
conversion therapy for minors, and more than a dozen states have similar legislation
pending.
However, similar bans recently failed in Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland and Virginia.
Opponents say the state shouldnt interfere in family and religious matters, the Journal
reports.
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way, said Jayson Graves, head of the Colorado counseling organization Healing for the
Soul, who says conversion therapy worked on him. Were not celebrated in this culture.
We dont have television shows about us saying look how great it is to be ex-gay, Graves
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Wednesdays judgment comes after an oer to give blood by Georey Leger, a
Frenchman, was rejected by a doctor in Metz in northeastern France in April 2009 because
Leger had had sexual relations with another man. French law permanently barred men
from donating blood on those grounds. Leger challenged the decision.
The European Court of Justice said that lifetime bans for men who have had sexual
relations with another man may be justied if a prospective blood donor is at a high risk
of acquiring severe infectious diseases and there are no eective techniques for detecting
those diseases, USA Today reports.
It returned the case to the court in Strasbourg, which originally handled Legers case, to
determine whether in France there is a high risk of acquiring severe infectious diseases
that can be transmitted by blood in the case of a man who has had sexual relations with
another man.
French Health Minister Marisol Touraine in March said it was unacceptable that sexual
orientation is seen as an exclusion criterion, as politicians prepared to vote in a new health
bill to allow gay men to give blood. She reiterated her stance after the ruling, the USA
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The world is now focused on the civil unrest in Baltimore. In recent years, an alarming
number of African Americans have been killed
by law enforcement ocers around the country. The murder of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old
African-American man, by the Baltimore police is not the sole reason that people are so
outraged, hurt and upset. Rather, its the proverbial straw that broke the camels back.
Many African Americans, particular those
who are low-income, have been trapped in
the cycle of poverty, lack of opportunity, police brutality and systemic racism for generations. In Baltimore, African Americans have
been repeatedly targeted and abused by the
police without any repercussions against the
ocers. According to a 2014 report by the
Baltimore Sun, Baltimore has paid about
$5.7 million since 2011 over lawsuits claiming
face. We cannot allow the media and others who lack empathy for the plight of lowincome African Americans to make this story
about looting and rioting.
Members of marginalized groups should
all be concerned when other marginalized
groups are oppressed. As Martin Luther King
said, Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere. You do not have to be African
American or low-income to understand that
brutality against Freddie Gray impacts all of us.
The LGBT community, regardless of race or
socio-economic status, should be concerned
that too many police forces across the nation
use excessive force against young, black men.
After all, Im sure that more seasoned members of the LGBT community can recall the
Stonewall Riots. The similarities between the
two events cant be overstated. Both events
began after the police targeted members of
a marginalized community. Both events have
been categorized as riots (and rioting denitely occurred), yet legitimate protests against
systemic discrimination were the primary focus of both acts of civil disobedience.
The Stonewall Riots and the LGBT community unication and organizing that followed
are often seen as the bellwether of the modern
gay rights movement. Thus, it is disheartening
when I hear LGBT people making hateful comments about those engaging in civic unrest in
Baltimore (including the peaceful protesters),
while praising those who engaged in rebellious acts at the Stonewall Inn in the late 1960s.
and the more general ramications of being transgender in America were critically
examined and sympathetically portrayed.
ABC isnt the only one bringing these powerful personal stories to light. Over the past few
weeks, NBC has produced a smart series about
transgender children and their families, which
have aired on MSNBC and the Nightly News.
Transparent, the ctional portrayal of
what its like to come out as trans later in life
appeared on Amazon this fall to mostly positive reviews.
And transgender icon and actress Laverne
Cox not only appeared at the see-and-be-seen
White House Correspondents Dinner (as the
Blades guest, by the way) but was one of the
stars of the night, even appearing in a muchshared picture with Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia.
This could be the transgender moment
and despite this weeks same-sex marriage
rallies during oral arguments outside the Supreme Court, this is an historic time that the
Ls, Gs, and Bs should embrace and accept as
belonging to all parts of the acronym.
Transgender issues are somewhat new to
of our American population is not a media fabrication, and how they deserve the same basic
rights even those of us in the gay community
have come to take for granted.
So Sawyer deserves kudos for her interview
with Jenner, as well as her ability to break down
dierences between gender identity and sexual orientation. (Naturally, well-informed D.C.
progressives might have rolled their eyes and
interpreted Sawyers slow-talking as condescending. But just imagine how eye-opening
her report was for those in rural America who
have hardly heard of the word transgender,
let alone met a trans person for themselves.)
I hope everyone who attended the marriage rallies this week enjoyed them. But dont
sit down on your couch in front of the replace with a glass of Pinot Noir just yet. Dont
assume that because you wore a T-shirt with
an equal sign on it, your work or anyone elses
is nished.
This is the transgender moment, and marriage equality supporters have a new responsibility to keep the momentum going.
Its the next battle to invigorate our community.
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The Art League Gallery. Bits & Pieces.
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703-683-1780. theartleague.org.
Arts Club of Washington. May Art
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8 p.m. The show consists of a reading in
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The Trevor Project hosts A Night Out
for Trevor at Hotel Palomar (2121 P St.,
N.W.) tonight from 7-9:30 p.m. There will be
a performance by Alex Newell from Glee,
bar and hors doeuvres. General admission
tickets are $100, NextGen tickets for guests
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healing touch, meditations sessions and
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information and to purchase tickets, visit
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Lambda Links LGBT Golfers hosts
its Presidents Cup team competition at
Cross Creek Golf Club (12800 Bay Hill Dr.,
Beltsville, Md.) at 11:04 a.m. Singles will
be paired or teams can sign up together.
Non-members admission is $45. For
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Guests are encouraged to dress in fancy
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SMYAL (410 7th St., S.E.) hosts a Rap
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Nellies Sports Bar (900 U St., N.W.)
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