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Reel Pride Kick Off Party is this Wednesday! Don’t miss out!

Please join us this Wednesday evening at Fresno Reel Pride’s KICK-OFF PARTY!   Appetizers, beverages and an amazing silent auction awaits! Fresno Reel Pride’s 24th Annual Film Festival KICK-OFF PARTY Wed. Aug. 21st • 6-9 PM Cal Arts Severence • Tower District • Purchase of membership or sponsorship required to attend this event.• Memberships levels

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Lessons Learned From a Bigot

Yesterday, my husband and I took a bus to the Washington Ethical Society, a local progressive church, to hear Holocaust survivor Estelle Laughlin give a talk about her childhood before, during, and after her internment in the Majdanek and Czestochowa concentration camps. We boarded the bus a block from home and filed to the back,

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Final word on Prop 8

Today Marriage Equality USA celebrates the California Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss the Proposition 8 proponents’ last ditch effort to deny loving, committed same-sex couples the freedom to marry in California. “Today’s ruling means that two Supreme Courts, the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court, agree that all loving, committed couples should have the freedom

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Social Security to Limit Payments to Couples in Marriage Equality States

The Social Security Administration is limiting payment of claims for same-sex married couples currently to those couples who were married in a state the allows same-sex couples to marry and are “domiciled,” or live, in a state that recognizes same-sex couples’ marriages. The decision means claims from same-sex couples married where such couples can legally

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Gov. Brown Signs Transgender Bill

Assembly Bill 1266, authored by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, is the first of its kind in the country, and requires that California public schools respect students’ gender identity and makes sure that students can fully participate in all school activities, sports teams, programs and facilities that match their gender identity. We commend Governor Brown for standing

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