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‘Nobody’s Boy’ Navajo filmmaker’s fiction and reality intersect, PAGE 02

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Beginning first with short films, his skills with a camera grew with each new film eventually evolving into more mature dramatic film shorts.

After high school he went to a technical college, a film school in neighboring Phoenix, to polish his craft and he also made more films — hundreds of them. He created a YouTube @-$22'&"%-$%"1'*E'1"$1"$2"8)%&'%"$2+"$"1-85#$1'"78*"-61"#62'=$%6#"7$*'A Bahe often grabs friends and will arrange impromptu film sessions. OThey’d literally be hanging out at my house and suddenly find themselves in front of my camera for a new film or idea,” he said. With a small or no budget and utilizing only one camera, Bahe and his merry band would be off to create in the very definition of the term ‘guerilla film making.’ !&%-8)(-">$E$98"M8'"F6&=1"-$1"$"=8+'1%"$=8)2%"87"1)31#*63'*1"5-'2"#8=.$*'+"%8"8%-'*" !"!"!#$%&'!()*!+,+(!"!'-.#/01'1.2'#3145-6

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His first passion though is film and his latest directorial effort, the result of several years of writing, reworking the script, and finding the perfect moment has produced a remarkable short film.

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Unlike his character, Estrada was brought up in an affirming household coming out as a 08)2("%''2$('*A"H'"5*0&0"28%'+"%-$%"5-6&'"-61"=8%-'*"<2'5,"-61"7$%-'*"%88<"$"36%"&82('*"%8" #8='"$*8)2+"3)%"285"61"1)..8*%6E'"%8"2'$*&0"%-'".862%"87"3'62("8E'*4.*8%'#%6E'A"ON'"#$*'7)&" he tells me now,” Estrada said.

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!"#$%&#'()*%&#'+),'-#%.%'/).0(#).0$()1##2)3%$)%'%(%0.)4,&/#() request to Congress in the first year of his administration, called for ramping up funds to beat the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States, signaling he’d continue the PrEP-centric initiative that began in the previous administration.

In the preliminary budget request for fiscal year 2022, known in Washington parlance as the 5skinny budget” in anticipation of broader request at a later time, Biden seeks an increase of $267 million for Ending the HIV Epidemic, building on the more than $400 million Congress has appropriated for the program since 2019.

As it was launched in the Trump administration, the initiative sought a 90 percent decrease in new incidents of HIV infections across the United States by 2030, although Biden campaigned on beating that goal by five years and ending the domestic HIV epidemic by 2025.

Carl Schmid, executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, hailed in a statement the proposed increased funds for the initiative, but said it falls short of the amount advocates in the fight against HIV/AIDS were seeking.

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5While it falls short of what the community has requested, if this funding is realized it will continue the momentum already created and make further progress in ending HIV in the U.S. Efforts to end HIV will help eradicate an infectious disease that we have been battling for the last 40 years and help correct racial and health inequities in our nation,” Schmid said.

Counterintuitively, Trump had sought more funds to beat HIV/AIDS in his final year in office than Biden has in his first year in office. Last year, President Trump’s budget called for an increase of $412 million for the second year of the initiative for a total of $716 million while Congress settled on an increase of approximately $137 million.

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WH defers to Justice Dept. on legal action against anti-trans laws White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said last week that President Biden would continue to advocate for equal justice under the law for LGBTQ people amid a flurry of new state laws against transgender youth, but stopped short of committing to legal action against them.

Psaki, in response to an inquiry from the Washington Blade on whether Biden would reach out to the attorney general on the anti-transgender laws, deferred to the U.S. Justice Department on the matter.

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“I can’t stand here and predict legal action,” Psaki said. “Obviously, that would be a decision that would be made by the Justice Department and the attorney general.”

But Psaki, who has previously stated transgender rights are human rights, reaffirmed Biden’s advocacy for LGBTQ people, including transgender people.

“What I can say is that the president’s view is that all persons should receive equal treatment under the law no matter their gender identity or sexual orientation,” Psaki said.

“That’s fundamental to how he will make laws — advocate for laws, I should say — how he will communicate about his views on the rights of transgender individuals in the country,

and certainly what his view is as it relates to the actions by the government.”

Asked by the Blade in a follow-up question why Biden shouldn’t reach out to the attorney general on legal action, Psaki replied, “He certainly can. I don’t have anything to predict for you at this time.”

Transgender advocates are looking to the courts to strike down the rash of antitransgender laws in the states, including a measure in Arkansas criminalizing transitionrelated care for transgender youth, including hormones and puberty blockers. The Arkansas Legislature enacted the measure into law this week by overriding a veto by Gov. Asa Hutchison, although legal advocates have threatened to sue to seek relief.

The Justice Department under the Obama administration had initiated lawsuits against anti-trans laws and discrimination. Under former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, the Justice Department in 2015 filed a lawsuit against Southeastern Oklahoma State University for allegedly discriminating against a professor for being transgender and retaliating against her when she complained. Later, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch in 2016 filed litigation against North Carolina over House Bill 2, which prohibited transgender people from using restrooms in government-owned buildings consistent with their gender identity.

In related news last month, the Defense Department announced an updated policy to fully reverse President Trump’s transgender military ban, allowing for enlistment regardless of gender identity and access to transition-related care through the U.S. military’s health care system.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the new policy in the form of two instructions would “restore the department’s original 2016 policies regarding transgender policies,” which harkens back to the implementation of open service during the Obama administration before Trump reversed it by tweet in 2017.

“They provide a means by which to access into the military in one’s self-identified gender, provided all appropriate standards are met,” Kirby said. “They provide a path for those in service for medical treatment, gender transition and recognition of one’s self identified gender and seek to protect the privacy of all service members and to treat them with dignity and respect at all times.”

Kirby said the new policies would take effect in 30 days, but in the meantime, the interim guidance issued by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at the start of the Biden administration prohibiting the discharges of troops for being transgender would remain in effect.

“The secretary of defense strongly believes that the all volunteer force thrives when it is composed of diverse Americans who can meet the high standards for military service in an inclusive force that strengthens our national security posture,” Kirby added. !"#$%&'(")%() !"#$%&'!'#(!$)'*+",-.-$/01!-234-5652-. *+

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