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Sunday on PBS News Weekend, as recovery from Helene and Milton continues, why the economic toll of these massive hurricanes can reach far beyond the storm’s path for months to come. Then, how laws targeting transgender people affect the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth. Plus, why overdose deaths involving ...
... sent half of them into the water. It was on Sapelo Island, where a celebration of a community of slave descendants was being held.Still to come on PBS News Weekend, the effect anti-transgender legislation is having on LGBTQ youth and the complex connection between antidepressants and overdose deaths.
... effect last year. It is the first time Texas has tried to enforce the law, said Harper Seldin, a staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project. He also said he was not aware of other states that have tried to enforce similar bans. “Today, enforcement begins against those ...
... used in the past to target other women such as Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama, and to categorize movements such as feminism, abortion rights and LGBTQ+ rights. Conceptualizing female candidates through the “Jezebel spirit” is dangerous, said Tamura Lomax, author of the book “Jezebel Unhinged” and associate professor of religious ...
... it that way. “It’s clearly homophobic because you are degrading a person with an insult of sexual and negative connotation,” said Andoni Bello, an LGBTQ+ activist and outspoken critic of the chant who played for Mexico in amateur soccer tournaments organized by the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association ...
... go in a different direction” and focus on in-person campaign stops. Robinson already had a history of inflammatory comments about topics like abortion and LGBTQ+ rights that Stein and his allies have emphasized in opposing him on TV commercials and online. Stein spokesperson Morgan Hopkins said Tuesday in a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is embracing perhaps Hollywood's most memorable drill sergeant to portray his vision of a hardened military and mock the Biden administration's embrace of the LGBTQ+ community serving openly. Trump's recent rallies have featured a video with clips of R. Lee Ermey as Marine ...
... Ohio Dept. of Youth Services) that she was denied a promotion because she is heterosexual and her former boss, a gay woman, instead advanced two LGBTQ+ people. Marlean Ames, an Ohio government employee, challenges a court-imposed requirement that “majority” Americans raising discrimination claims must demonstrate “background circumstances,” such as ...
... home in Rio de Janeiro’s metro area and warnings that she would suffer the same fate as city councilwoman Marielle Franco, a champion for LGBTQ+ rights who was gunned down in 2018. That threat prompted the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to demand that Brazil provide Briolly protection ...
... it wants to regain credibility and relevance. Luc Sels suggested that opening up greater roles for women — including the priesthood — and being more welcoming to LGBTQ+ Catholics would be a good place to start. Francis heard a similar call from the French-speaking campus, where students staged a reading of ...
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