A 41-year-old female Russian LGBTQ activist was found stabbed to death in front of her home last week.  She had been listed on a website advocating for the hunting and torture of LGBTQ people. 

In gay-friendly St. Petersburg, Florida, a candidate for mayor said that he believes homosexuality is a choice. 

Locally, the San Francisco International Airport celebrated the opening of Harvey Milk Terminal 1, the first airport terminal in the world named after an LGBT icon.

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(Photo: Harvey Milk Terminal - Gregory Varnum,  Own work [CC BY-SA 4.0])

The new viral social media app that allows users to change a picture of their face to either age or be younger has raised concerns of some LGBTQ people about privacy after learning the app has strong ties to Russia. 

Here in California the Department of Justice released hate crime data from 2018 that shows a slight decrease in report hate crimes against LGBTQ people after two years of increases. 

Another popular steak-house restaurant in the Castro neighborhood is closing its doors after 12 years of business.

(Photo: Eureka Restaurant & Lounge in San Francisco, CA – via Google Street View)

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This October, the United States Supreme Court will hear a potential landmark employment discrimination case that will determine if sexual orientation and gender identity apply to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.  A group of republican law makers believe it does and have filed a brief in support of protecting LGBTQ people from employment discrimination under this act. 

The CDC released a new report that 40% of Americans have never had an HIV test, including 30% of those who are at high risk for an infection.

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Monday, July 15, 2019

A catholic priest has been indicted in Texas for allegedly exposing himself to a 15-year-old boy during confession when the young victim confessed to being gay. Earlier this month, a catholic bishop urged parents to keep their children away from Pride events because they were “harmful” to children. 

As part of Pride celebrations in Illinois, the governor signed an executive order to help protect transgender students in the state’s schools.

Here locally, San Francisco’s 49th annual pride parade was halted early on when protesters blocked the parade route for over an hour.

(Photo: Manuel La Rosa-Lopez - City of Conroe Police Department)

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