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Elm City Montessori's GSA students and staff, with local artist Kwadwo Adae, at a recent Friday meetup.
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Finishing up Elm City Montessori's new GSA-backed school mural.
Gender-neutral bathrooms. Thoughtful and caring educators. A Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) for middle schoolers. And a school mission statement that loudly and proudly supports LGBTQ students.
Those were just a handful of ideas that came to mind for the members of Elm City Montessori’s GSA when asked to dream up their ideal school.
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Karen Ponzio |
Jan 20, 2023 9:13 am
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Jules Larson introduces Carol at Best Video.
Best Video filled every seat in the house and then some on Thursday, the inaugural night of Queer Film Club, a new series in collaboration with East Rock House, New Haven Pride Center, and Hamden Pride that aims to share queer-centered films in a safe and friendly environment.
The New Haven Pride Center has lost its tax-exempt nonprofit status and has replaced its executive director after failing to file multiple years’ worth of tax forms.
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Laura Glesby |
Sep 12, 2022 4:23 pm
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The flag marks PRIDE New Haven, eight days of LGBTQIA+ events.
A rainbow burst through the Monday afternoon fog in the form of a Pride flag newly raised over the New Haven Green, marking the start of a week of LGBTQIA+ celebrations amid growing resistance towards transgender rights in the state and across the country.
“Put me on a pedestal, and I’ll only disappoint you!”
The College Street Music Hall crowd scream-sang along with Courtney Barnett.
“Tell me I’m exceptional; I promise to exploit you!”
In the pit, a teenage girl with winged eyeliner looked around to make sure she wasn’t the only one letting loose. Near her, a white-haired man in a ponytail thrashed his arms to the beat. Toward the center, rowdy 20-somethings tossed their bodies against one another; if there were ever a time to mosh, it was now.
“I think you’re a joke, but I don’t find you very fu-u-u-u-u-nny!” the Aussie rocker continued from the state, as two middle-aged women crooned the line to two middle-aged men.
In fact, at that moment, there wasn’t a single person in the hall who didn’t sing along.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
Jun 19, 2022 11:01 am
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Jhah Cook and Farrah Mohammed collecting pride pins at a Bi+ table.
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Moms Madeleine and Jessica with daughter Emma Brunson.
It was all sunshine and rainbows on Saturday, as hundreds of folks filled Hamden’s Town Park Center with queer joy and loving community in celebration of the town’s largest-ever Pride festival.
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Maya McFadden |
Nov 23, 2021 9:56 am
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The Board of Education has approved a new policy that will provide school staff with professional development in transgender sensitivity and protect transgender and gender-non-conforming students’ identity, dress code, bathroom, and other rights.
Alder Ellen Cupo, Hunter Ian Cupo Dunn and Alli Warshaw at Saturday’s cleanup.
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Dominic Warshaw wanted to meet their neighbors.
Roughly 30 people came out Saturday to Lyon Street and William Street for a “gayborhood” cleanup, with a dual focus on beautifying the blocks and meeting fellow LGBTQ neighbors.
Magnet School Assistant Program Coordinator Michele Bonanno: The grant came through.
New Haven Public Schools have a much-contested $3 million in hand, officially ending the fight between the city and the federal government over the rights of transgender athletes.
New Haven Public Schools and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights have come to a tentative agreement that would allow transgender athletes to continue to play on teams of their choice — without the city losing millions of federal dollars.
Local officials have grown more optimistic that they will be able to head off a $3 million hit to school budgets and still allow transgender athletes to compete in school sports. If they are not successful, the cost of taking a lawsuit against the federal government to the U.S. Court of Appeals could cost up to $99,000 — though New Haven would have help paying the tab.
These are the latest updates from the New Haven Public Schools Board of Education, which convened for a special meeting on the subject Monday night.
Lifeline operator Karleigh Webb: Trans people under siege.
The federal government may withhold key dollars for New Haven’s magnet school program if New Haven does not agree to ban transgender athletes from their chosen sports teams.
The New Haven Board of Education Wednesday night vowed to fight what it called strong-arm tactics, in court if necessary.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 21, 2020 3:14 pm
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Drag artist Loosey LaDuca records a virtual drag story hour video.
Video-recorded drag queen story hours to promote LGBTQ+-friendly children’s books.Online safe spaces for queer youth to share stories and get advice about sheltering in place at home.Advocacy for the repeal of a decades-old federal policy that discriminates against gay man who want to donate blood.
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Oct 24, 2019 12:03 pm
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In the first photo, the two people in the image are coming in close, breathless, passionate, ready for a kiss. The intention is completely serious, even formal. It makes the next picture feel almost jarring. It’s the same couple, but where there was tension, there’s now relaxation. Where their brows were furrowed, there’s now laughter. Are the pictures separated by a minute or an hour? How long does it take for the mood to change? How long does it take for the photographer’s subjects to let their guard down?
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Christopher Peak |
Sep 29, 2019 3:23 pm
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endawnis Spears, with other speakers at forum.
Teachers feel unprepared to buck the way schools have taught about race and culture, gender and sexuality. But they can start with small changes as they push the district to do more, activists said.
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Christopher Peak |
May 14, 2019 1:35 pm
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Kathleen Rooney to Board of Ed: I should be learning about LGBTQ+ rights from administrators, not just from my kids.
In eighth grade, a transgender boy’s standardized test scores tanked after his former name appeared on every window on the computer-based test — a former name he’d wanted to keep secret from his classmates.
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Christopher Peak |
Apr 10, 2019 8:09 am
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Samuel Smith, 20 and living with HIV, testifies.
A change in state law won’t come soon enough to have protected Samuel Smith from contracting HIV during his senior year at Wilbur Cross High School. He told state lawmakers about that — in the hopes that they’ll make the fix for other kids soon.
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Allison Park |
Jun 12, 2018 1:56 pm
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IV Staklo addresses DeLauro and the roundtable.
When IV Staklo started working in the food service, they faced not only threats of physical and sexual assult by coworkers but also hourly cuts by their employers, all because of their identity as a non-binary person.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Nov 21, 2017 9:04 am
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Trans activists and allies gather on the Elm Street courthouse
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Merlot: No more names.
Chardonnay Heather Charlene Merlot said she’s tired. Tired of the list of trans men and women that seems to grow longer with each Transgender Day of Remembrance.
“I’m tired of saying them,” she said. “Because I’m afraid and I’m scared that one day one of those names could be mine.”
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Lucy Gellman |
Jul 17, 2017 8:02 am
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Kiki Lucia at this weekend’s “Dragapalooza” fundraiser.
Climbing the 168 York Street stage, Kiki Lucia pulled at a noose hanging low around her neck, looking out at the audience with long-lashed, saucer-sized doe eyes. She jerked backward. The noose loosened, and she broke free.
Kiki Lucia ripped open her blouse, exposing a heaving chest and two bright, sweat-slicked nipples, along with a message written in black: Trans rights now.
