The National LGBTQ Task Force is starting its third annual sex-ed leadership project this week to help teach advocates at the local level how to push for policy changes.
The project will consist of 10 virtual sessions and is designed for people aged 15-28. Sessions begin March 3 at 3 p.m. Pacific Time.
Signing up was free, but the ability to apply to be part of the cohort has closed, according to Taissa Morimoto, a queer person who is leading the sex-ed project and who is a senior policy counsel with the task force. We have about 30-40 people participating this year throughout the nation and one person outside the U.S., which is exciting, Morimoto told the Bay Area Reporter February 24. They are tuning in from Ireland.
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Moran started in the post February 20.
A 25-year veteran of the force, Moran, 50, told the Bay Area Reporter February 22 that she thinks she s the first woman to lead the station, which was subsequently confirmed by Matt Dorsey, a gay man who is the communications director of the SFPD.
Mission Station is Moran s home away from home, she said. I was an officer at Mission Station for approximately 10 years, Moran said. I was a lieutenant for 21 months, moved to SVU for a year and a half and now I m back. As far as having a home in the department, Mission Station is home for me.
Jamaica is known as the most homophobic place on earth, but that might soon begin to change, much to the excitement of LGBTQ advocates and queer Jamaicans who hope the Caribbean country will truly become one love.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has found the Jamaican government responsible for violating multiple rights of a gay man and a lesbian, and urged an immediate repeal of the country s homophobic laws. The decision was reached last September but only made public February 17, according to a news release from the Human Dignity Trust, which brought the case.
IACHR s recommendations are nonbinding, but a Jamaican supreme court decision in a forthcoming case seeking to decriminalize homosexuality will be binding.
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