Cured, a documentary screening online April 22-28 as part of
aGLIFF’s
Queer Spectrum series, covers a particularly prescient if sometimes overlooked tale from the LGBTQIA history books: the 1973 activist campaign to remove homosexuality from the
American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental illnesses. Demonstrators gathered in Albany, New York, in 1971 to demand gay rights and to declare that Homo Is Healthy. (Credit: Richard C. Wandel Photographs, The LGBT Community Center National History Archive)
Focusing on this specific moment in queer history started from a reverential place for the film’s co-director
Bennett Singer, who said that after his directing partner
2020, Not rated, 80 min. Directed by Bennett Singer and Patrick Sammon.
Queer Spectrum Series: The doc takes viewers inside the campaign that ultimately led the American Psychiatric Association to remove “homosexuality” from its list of mental illnesses in 1973. Don t miss the post-screening Q&A on Thu., April 22, between the filmmakers, Transgender Education Network of Texas Executive Director Emmett Schelling, aGLIFF Artistic Director Bears Rebecca Fonté, and others.
Screening & live Q&A: Thu., April 22, 7pm; screening period: Thu.-Wed., April 22-28. Members, free; nonmembers, $12.
Trans rights in the crosshairs
Apr 16, 2021 |
Texas Legislature considers numerous bills targeting transgender Texans
By JAMES RUSSELL | Contributing Writer
A pack of school yard bullies is back in session, and this time, making life hell for transgender people is still atop their agenda.
The LGBTQ community is once again playing defense as the 87th session of the Texas Legislature continues. Equality Texas, the statewide pro-LGBTQ advocacy group, is following more than 40 bills that either target or support the LGBTQ community.
The negative bills include religious exemptions for licensed professionals who think their religious beliefs should exempt them from performing services for LGBTQ people, state pre-emption of municipal nondiscrimination ordinances, HIV criminalization and multiple attacks on transgender people trans youth in particular.
Trans Advocates Warn Legislators: ‘Kids Are Going to Die’
Gender Infinity’s Andrea Segovia discusses the dangerous impact of the anti-trans legislation. (OutSmart Magazine) A slew of anti-transgender bills are moving quickly through the Texas Legislature, and the consequences could be deadly, according to trans advocates.
Senate and House committees have already approved two bills that restrict trans children’s access to gender-affirming sports and health care. On Thursday, April 15, the House Public Health Committee passed out HB 1399 authored by Rep. Matt Krause (R-Tarrant County), which seeks to “intimidate parents and doctors into denying life-saving care to trans children,” according to the Transgender Education Network of Texas (TENT).
NCAA will not hold events in states that discriminate against trans students
By (0) Inclusion and fairness can coexist for all student-athletes, including transgender athletes, at all levels of sport, the NCAA said in a statement. Photo by Edwin Locke/UPI | License Photo
April 13 (UPI) The National Collegiate Athletic Association Board of Governors said it will only hold college championships in states where transgender student-athletes can participate without discrimination.
The Monday warning sets the stage for a political fight with multiple states, including Texas, that are considering bills in their legislatures that would require students to play sports with only teammates who align with their biological sex.