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!"#$%& '($& )*+$%& *,& )(-*.& '($& #-/& -,'$%& 0%123& .133*%'$%.& .'*%2$#& '($& !454& Capitol, the Trump administration officially nixed regulations barring federal grantees in the Department of Health & Human Services from discriminating against LGBTQ people, including in adoption services.

HHS went public last Thursday with the final rule, which rescinds regulations implemented in the Obama administration barring discrimination among HHS grantees with respect to sex, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity. The change also rescinds the Obama-era regulations requiring HHS grantees to “treat as valid the marriages of same-sex couples.”

Although Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which governs federal programs, prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, it doesn’t prohibit anti-LGBTQ discrimination, so the regulation allows considerable discrimination in federal programs against LGBTQ people.

“Given the careful balancing of rights, obligations, and goals in the public-private partnerships in federal grant programs, the department believes it appropriate to impose only those nondiscrimination requirements required by the Constitution and federal statutes applicable to the department’s grantees,” the federal rule .-/.4 Most prominently, the new regulation would allow taxpayer-funded child welfare services to refuse placement into LGBTQ families or discriminate against LGBTQ youth. Religiously affiliated adoption and foster care centers have been pushing for this change in regulation, including Catholic Social Services in Philadelphia, which currently has a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a First Amendment right to reject same-sex couples on religious grounds.

Rachel Laser, CEO of Americans United for Separation of Church & State, criticized the regulation in a statement for allowing discrimination in the child welfare system.

“The federal government should protect our country’s most vulnerable people instead of issuing rules that license discrimination,” Laser said. “People should never be turned away from the services they need. That is especially true for children in foster care and the families who want to provide them with loving, safe homes. Rather than prioritizing the best interests of children and families, the Trump administration’s new rule invites taxpayer-funded foster care agencies to discriminate against them.”

But the proposed regulation will have far-reaching implications in health services, allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination in HIV and STI prevention programs, opioid programs, youth homelessness services, health professional training and substance-use recovery programs.

The finalization of the rule, first proposed in November 2019, was expected.

The Office of Management & Budget, which coordinates the rule-making process among federal agencies indicated on its website it had received the proposed rule and it was scheduled to be made final in the lame duck session before Trump’s exit.

But the Trump administration had already ceased enforcing the nondiscrimination components of the Obama-era rule when it proposed the regulation in 2019, arguing the previous administration didn’t go through the correct rule-making process when it was made final in the eleventh-hour of the Obama administration in December 2016.

The Trump-era rule seeks to justify itself by saying the Obama-era regulations aren’t based on statutes and religious-affiliated groups have complained and filed lawsuits over meeting those requirements. These groups, HHS noted, assert the policy is unlawful under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the First 62$"#2$"'4 “In the statutes establishing certain programs and grants, Congress has specified the protected categories with respect to which discrimination is prohibited,” the rule says. “Congress has not expressly included discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or same-sex marriage status, in any statute applicable to departmental grants.”

HHS had already granted an exemption from the Obama-era rule to South Carolina, which sought to get out of the regulation on behalf of the Miracle Hill Ministries adoption agency.

Laser cited the exemption granted to South Carolina and Americans United’s lawsuit against it in her criticism of the final rule.

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“Discrimination should never be funded or supported by our government, but that’s exactly what this rule does,” Laser said. “Families, senior citizens and children could lose protections against discrimination and suddenly be turned away from taxpayer-funded programs they need. That includes people like Americans United client Aimee Maddonna, who was turned away from helping children in foster care by a government-funded agency solely because Aimee is Catholic – the ‘wrong’ religion according to an evangelical Protestant agency in South Carolina.”

Although the U.S. Supreme Court decision this year Bostock v. Clayton County, which found anti-LGBTQ discrimination is a form of sex discrimination, against anti-LGBTQ discrimination has widespread implications across all areas of federal law, the decision doesn’t apply to federal programs, such as HHS grants, because Title VI doesn’t bar sex discrimination in federal programs.

HHS notes the Bostock decision, which hadn’t yet come down when the rule was first proposed, in the final text of the regulation.

“Nothing about the Bostock decision undermines the department’s choice in this final rule to refer to statutory nondiscrimination requirements and state that the department will follow applicable Supreme Court decisions in administering its award programs, rather than delineating the specific protected categories from discrimination in the rule or applying two specific Supreme Court decisions,” the rule says. “If anything, Bostock shows the utility of the Department’s approach in this final rule.”

The Equality Act, legislation Biden has pledged to sign within 100 days after being inaugurated on Jan. 20, would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban anti-LGBTQ discrimination in federal programs specifically as a form of sex #7.)%727"-'7*"4 An HHS spokesperson said in response to the rule the department “respects the dignity of every human being,” but also “protects and enforces the civil rights of all to the fullest extent permitted by the laws as written.”

“LGBT individuals remain fully protected under civil rights statutes and regulations,” the HHS spokesperson said. “If any covered entity subjects an LGBT individual to discrimination on the basis protected under an applicable statutory non-discrimination provision, HHS will protect that individual by vigorously enforcing its non-discrimination statutes and regulations.”

The Trump-era rule is set to go into effect 30 days after the date of publication in the Federal Register. The White House deferred to HHS for comment.

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“In order to be mindful of COVID-19 guidelines there are no public tickets available for the inauguration,” she said. “I know some folks are excited about being in D.C., but we are &#,--?$#*62/&,0(*0$#A#&?2*#$+2$'+,?$"23#$,*)$*2+$+2$+&,A#-$ to D.C.” At least three national LGBTQ organizations, meanwhile, were scheduled to hold their own inaugural celebrations in "2*2&$24$+"#$(*623(*0$8()#*5;,&&('$,)3(*('+&,+(2*F The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, announced it is joining “community @,&+*#&'I$(*$"2-)(*0$,$A(&+/,-$<=8!>$.*,/0/&,-$8,--$2*$7,*F$JD$ called the Power of Unity.

“This not-to-be-missed virtual event will feature musical @#&42&3,*6#'$,*)$'@#6(,-$,@@#,&,*6#'$4&23$#K/,-(+?$-#,)#&'$ ,6&2''$ +"#$ <=8!>$ 32A#3#*+GI$ ,$ '+,+#3#*+$ @&232+(*0$ +"#$ event says. Among the performers scheduled to appear, the '+,+#3#*+$',?'G$('$8(--?$%2&+#&G$+"#$=&,33?G$!2*?$,*)$L33?$ Award-winning actor, singer and activist who stars in the FX hit series “Pose.”

HRC is billing the event as a fundraiser with suggested levels of donations of $400, $250, $175, $100, and $35, with financial supporters having access to an online reception and having their name posted as an official sponsor. But HRC ',?'$@#2@-#$6,*$,-'2$,++#*)$+"#$2*-(*#$.*,/0/&,-$8,--$4&##$24$ 6",&0#$H?$&#0('+#&(*0$(*$,)A,*6#$24$+"#$#A#*+F The Center for Black Equity, the D.C.-based national <=8!>$ ,)A26,6?$ 2&0,*(E,+(2*$ +",+$ 2&0,*(E#'$ +"#$ *,+(2*M'$ Black Pride events, is holding its own virtual inaugural ball on Jan. 20, according to Executive Director Earl Fowlkes.

Fowlkes said some LGBTQ elected officials were expected to speak at the event along with Reggie Greer, who served as +"#$<=8!>$-(,('2*$42&$+"#$8()#*$@&#'()#*+(,-$6,3@,(0*F The LGBTQ Victory Fund, which raises money and provides -20('+(6,-$'/@@2&+$42&$2@#*-?$<=8!>$6,*)(),+#'$&/**(*0$42&$ public office, was scheduled to hold a virtual Inauguration 2021 fundraising event on Jan. 14.

In a statement on its website, the group said the event would celebrate “the queerest U.S. Congress in history!” ,$ &#4#&#*6#$ +2$ +"#$ &#62&)$ */3H#&$ 24$ <=8!>$ 6,*)(),+#'$ #-#6+#)$2&$&#5#-#6+#)$+2$12*0&#''$(*$+"#$JDJD$#-#6+(2*F$N(*#$ U.S. House members and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), were expected to appear at the Victory Fund event.

The Biden inauguration was scheduled to take place two weeks after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots in which hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol building in a siege that took the lives of five people, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

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It says the display will include “approximately 191,500 U.S. flags of varying sizes, including flags representing every state and territory, and 56 pillars of light.” The display will be widely televised and available for viewing online, the statement says, adding that Americans are being invited to become a symbolic sponsor of the flags in exchange for a donation that the inaugural committee will arrange for nonprofit 6233/*(+?$2&0,*(E,+(2*'$+2$&#6#(A#$+2$"#-@$+"#3$6,&&?$2/+$ their mission of helping people in need.

“Those flags are being sponsored by folks who helped us build our flag page and make a suggested donation,” Gay told the LGBTQ Zoom briefing. She was referring to a page on the inaugural committee’s website. “If your organization ('$-('+#)$2*$+",+$@,0#$?2/$6,*$'/H3(+$,$)2*,+(2*$42&3$,*)$ your network of people can donate directly to your group,” '"#$',()F In addition to the swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol, +"#$(*,/0/&,-$6233(++##$",'$,**2/*6#)$2*-?$+"&##$2+"#&$(*5 person events on Jan. 20, with all three involving the military.

Following the swearing-in ceremony and Biden’s inaugural address, then President Biden, the new first lady, then 9(6#$ %&#'()#*+$ ;,&&('$ ,*)$ "#&$ "/'H,*)G$ 6,--#)$ +"#$ '#62*)$ gentleman, will participate in a Pass in Review, a longstanding military tradition in which Biden will review the readiness of 3(-(+,&?$ +&22@'G$ ,662&)(*0$ +2$ ,$ '+,+#3#*+$ &#-#,'#)$ H?$ +"#$ (*,/0/&,-$6233(++##F “Every branch of the military will be represented in this #A#*+GI$+"#$'+,+#3#*+$',?'F According to the statement, Biden, Harris and their spouses will next participate in a “Presidential Escort” from 15th Street, N.W. to the White House one block away. Similar to the Pass in Review at the Capitol, every branch of the military will also @,&+(6(@,+#$(*$+"('$#A#*+$H?$#'62&+(*0$+"#$@&#'()#*+$,*)$A(6#$ president in a walk to the White House with a U.S. Army Band performing along with the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard and Fife and Drum Corps.

The inaugural committee statement makes no mention of how Biden and Harris and their spouses will travel from the Capitol to 15th Street, but it’s presumed they will be traveling H?$@&#'()#*+(,-$32+2&6,)#F The inaugural committee statement says at some point during the day of the inauguration the new president and vice president and their spouses will go to Arlington National Cemetery for a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. They will be joined by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, and former President Bill Clinton and former first lady Hillary Clinton.

Due to COVID-related restrictions there will be no in@#&'2*$(*,/0/&,-$@,&,)#G$+"#$(*,/0/&,-$6233(++##$'+,+#3#*+$ says. However, the committee says a Virtual Parade Across America will take place on Inaugural Day that will “highlight Americans from all walks of life in different states and regions.” It will feature musical acts, local bands, poets, and ),*6#$+&2/@#'GI$+"#$'+,+#3#*+$',?'F %,+#-$ ',()$ +"#$ (*,/0/&,-$ 6233(++##$ (*A(+#)$ H,*)'$ ,*)$ 2+"#&$ 3/'(6,-$ @#&42&3#&'$ +2$ ,@@-?$ +2$ H#623#$ @,&+$ 24$ +"#$ virtual parade, which was being organized by professional producers.

The Biden-Harris inaugural committee has said it was working closely with the U.S. Secret Service, D.C. police, and a Capitol Police force with new leadership to ensure the security and safety of all those participating in the few inperson inaugural events.

Patel and Carrie Gay, another inaugural committee official, told the LGBTQ representatives at the Jan. 12 online briefing ,H2/+$,+$-#,'+$+"&##$A(&+/,-$(*,/0/&,-$#A#*+'$+",+$6233/*(+?5 H,'#)$ 2&0,*(E,+(2*'G$ (*6-/)(*0$ <=8!>$ 0&2/@'G$ 62/-)$ @,&+(6(@,+#$(*F The two said one of the events scheduled for Jan. 18 was being organized in conjunction with the annual Martin Luther King Jr. National Day of Service. Community organizations throughout the country, including LGBTQ organizations, were H#(*0$(*A(+#)$+2$2&0,*(E#$#A#*+'$,''('+(*0$+"2'#$(*$*##)$+",+$ would be publicized on the inaugural committee’s website, Gay told the briefing. Most of the events were to be virtual.

“Events will focus on COVID-19 relief and address challenges that have been exacerbated by the pandemic, '/6"$ ,'$ @2A#&+?G$ "/*0#&G$ &,6(,-$ (*O/'+(6#G$ "23#-#''*#''G$ 3#*+,-$ "#,-+"G$ ,*)$ #)/6,+(2*,-$ )('@,&(+(#'GI$ ,$ '+,+#3#*+$ &#-#,'#)$H?$+"#$(*,/0/&,-$6233(++##$',?'F “The Presidential Inaugural Committee is asking Americans everywhere to participate in community service and urging them to sign up to volunteer at bideninaugural.org/day-ofservice and encourage their friends, family, and neighbors to join,” the statement says. %,+#-$+2-)$+"#$<=8!>$&#@&#'#*+,+(A#'$@,&+(6(@,+(*0$(*$+"#$ Zoom briefing that the inaugural committee would welcome posting information on its website about their respective organizations participating in the Day of Service events and participation in at least two other official inaugural events.

One of them, scheduled for Jan. 19, is being billed as a nationwide memorial to remember and honor those who have lost their lives to COVID-19. Information released by the inaugural committee says it will take place mostly virtually beginning at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, with a D.C. ceremony featuring a first-ever lighting around the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool.

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!"#$%& '()*+',-.& /-0-& 0123,45& 0-41-)-(& /3-6& ,3-& 7890-:-& ;*80,& 3'6(-(& down Bostock v. Clayton County this past June, '& +'.-& ,3',& -<,-6(-(& ,3-& 90*31=1,1*6& '2'16.,& (1.+01:16',1*6& 16& -:94*5:-6,& ,*& 16+48(-& (1.+01:16',1*6&='.-(&*6&.-<8'4&*01-6,',1*6&'6(& gender identity. And with the most LGBTQfriendly President-elect in U.S. history poised to take office in a matter of days, our community has even more reason to be hopeful.

Despite these positive developments, however, the Supreme Court poses a grave danger to the LGBTQ community. As the +*80,& 8.3-0.& 16& '& 6-/& -0'& *>& +*6.-0)',1)-& dominance—with anti-LGBTQ justices holding a 6-3 supermajority—the fragile judicial coalition *6&/31+3&,3-&:*)-:-6,&>*0&-?8'41,5&3'.&0-41-(& is at significant risk of being cast aside.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s recent confirmation to the court is deeply concerning.

Justice Barrett has defended Justice Roberts’ dissent in Obergefell, indicating that the issue *>& :'001'2-& -?8'41,5& .3*84(& =-4*62& ,*& .,',-& legislatures. She has repeatedly used transphobic and homophobic language, and even argued that Title IX does not protect transgender people. Her extremist positions will embolden the anti-LGBTQ conservative justices on the court – Justices Kavanaugh and Alito recently held an inappropriate private meeting with an anti-gay activist who had filed briefs in pending cases — and other Trump-appointed judges, as well as state legislatures to take anti-LGBTQ stances. With equality hanging in the balance, the LGBTQ community cannot afford a Supreme Court that stands to crush any progress made. #$%%&$'()(*+$,&-.: In October, the Supreme Court denied certiorari to a case involving Kentucky woman Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

However, the denial of certiorari came with warning signs: Justices Alito and Thomas wrote a section that cast doubt on the constitutionality of Obergefell, the landmark Supreme Court case in which Justice Kennedy’s opinion that held that marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed to same-sex couples by the Constitution. In the certiorari denial, Justice Thomas /0*,-@& A#5& +3**.162& ,*& 901)14-2-& '& 6*)-4& +*6.,1,8,1*6'4& 0123,& *)-0& ,3-& 0-4121*8.& 41=-0,5& interests explicitly protected in the First Amendment, and by doing so undemocratically, the Court has created a problem that only it can fix. Until then, Obergefell will continue to have ‘ruinous consequences for religious liberty.’” While broad majorities of the American people .899*0,&:'001'2-&-?8'41,5&'6(&*99*6-6,.&*>&1,&:123,&6*,&3')-&,3-&)*,-.&*6&,3-&7890-:-& Court to overturn the precedent, it is nonetheless a troubling sign that two Justices would sign onto discrimination against our fellow citizens. /&01%&2&3$-&43: The currently pending case before the Supreme Court about discrimination is Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. The case emerged from circumstances in 2018: The city of Philadelphia had hired a number of agencies for foster care service.

When the city learned that two agencies denied same-sex couples as foster parents, B314'(-4931'&,30-',-6-(&,*&.,*9&8.162&,3-&'2-6+1-.&864-..&,3-5&'20--(&,*&6*6(1.+01:16',1*6& requirements. While one of the agencies complied, the other, the Catholic Social Services (“CSS”), sued the city in federal district court. The federal district court found in Philadelphia’s favor, which the Third Circuit then unanimously affirmed. Nonetheless, the Supreme Court granted certiorari.

The CSS claims that because the city looks to several factors, including religious and racial factors, in spite of anti-discrimination law, it cannot at the same time prohibit the agency >0*:& +*6.1(-0162& ,3-& .-<8'4& *01-6,',1*6& *>& >*.,-0& 9'0-6,.& 86(-0& ,3-& 281.-& *>& A0-4121*8.& belief.” If Philadelphia makes exceptions to its anti-discrimination laws in foster placement, it must also allow religious agencies an exception as well. If Philadelphia does not do so, it violates the First Amendment. The city claims that it can choose not to provide government contracts to organizations that do not adhere to its nondiscriminatory requirements. For the court to decide otherwise, it would mandate that the city discriminate.

The stakes are high, in part because a ruling against equality in Fulton could provide cover for undermining Bostock, which extended Title VII protections to LGBTQ employees. An

-<9'6.1*6&*>&,3-&0-4121*8.&41=-0,5&,*&(1.+01:16',-& could eat away at Bostock. Even a 5-4 court with Justice Kennedy ruled against LGBTQ rights in Masterpiece Cakeshop. Now, with a 6-3 conservative supermajority, Fulton could strike a big blow against equality.

5($,-6) 1$%() $37) 8$2&,.: If the Supreme Court strikes down the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in California v. Texas, health care 90*,-+,1*6.& >*0& ,3-& !"#$%& +*::861,5& /*84(& be eliminated. Section 1557 of the ACA is the law’s non-discrimination provision, which ='6.& (1.+01:16',1*6& 16& 3-'4,3& +'0-& *6& ,3-& basis of sex. The Obama administration’s rule interpreted Section 1557’s ban on sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

In addition to Section 1557, the ACA as a whole has been enormously important for the LGBTQ community. The uninsured rate for lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans fell dramatically due to the ACA and LGBTQ adults have become more likely to report having regular access to health care. For transgender Americans, who are more likely to live in poverty or be unemployed and to face enormous challenges and have negative experiences accessing health care, the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and provision of individual health insurance through the marketplaces are critical. The 6-3 conservative supermajority on the court makes the end of the ACA significantly more likely, with disastrous consequences that will disproportionately affect the LGBTQ community.

Lawsuits challenging the Obama administration’s interpretation of Section 1557, particularly in regard to its ban on discrimination on the basis of gender identity, have been percolating in the federal courts for years. The Trump administration has attempted to reverse those protections, but it is widely expected that the Biden administration will revert to the Obama-era rule. Even if the ACA survives, this line of litigation could undermine critical protections for transgender individuals in the health care system. While the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County last term interpreting similar language in Title VII (discrimination on the basis of sex) to cover gender identity should be definitive, the 6-3 conservative supermajority could decide to distinguish these cases and allow for discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in health care. Since so many of the nation’s hospitals are affiliated with religious organizations such as the Catholic Church, the court could seize on Justice Gorsuch’s language in Bostock suggesting that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) could trump Title VII to require broad religious exemptions from non-discrimination in health care.

9%$30'(37(%)%&'6-0: In addition to the massive blow that a gutted ACA could have for transgender rights, other cases about transgender rights percolating in the lower courts may someday make their way to the Supreme Court. In Saba v. Cuomo, for example, a transgender, nonbinary resident sued the state of New York for refusing to allow Mx. Saba to obtain a driver’s license that accords with Mx. Saba’s gender identity. In August, a lower court preliminarily enjoined Idaho’s law that barred transgender women from participating on women’s sports teams. That decision is currently being appealed.

Just this past year, the Fourth Circuit and the Eleventh Circuit considered whether school bathroom policies violated transgender students’ rights. Though both circuits ruled in favor of the students, the Grimm case briefly reached the Supreme Court in 2017 before being sent back to the lower court. In 2019, the Supreme Court rejected certiorari in a case involving transgender bathrooms, leaving a lower court’s trans-affirming decision in place.

But it only takes four votes for the Court to take a case, and with a 6-3 supermajority now firmly in place, there is no telling the havoc it could wreak on transgender rights.

As we celebrate the end of the Trump era, and as we prepare to work with the incoming #1(-6&'(:161.,0',1*6&,*&0-.,*0-&0123,.&,3',&3')-&=--6&(-.,0*5-(&*)-0&,3-&9'.,&>*80&5-'0.& while advancing the case for equality, the LGBTQ community must pay attention to the danger posed by anti-LGBTQ justices, and we must advocate forcefully for judicial reforms such as court expansion and term limits that rebalance the stolen, illegitimate court. ! "#$ %& "'()* )+, '-, ./)012)3430)* )$, 5 6"'7(& '89, :#; <& = ) *) ! "

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Since our LGBTQIA community is more susceptible to loneliness and depression, we have to make more effort to fight it. Data shows when COVID-19 began, loneliness overall shot up 20-30 percent, so a higher percentage with us.

According to Whitman-Walker Health, loneliness can appear in difficulty sleeping or oversleeping, lack of joy, negative self-talk and physical pain. When we feel alone, our minds wander and play the false-narrative tapes of being broken/not belonging.

With the help of a WWH therapist, I’ve discovered a surprising solution that’s been to focus, give permission and act on what’s fulfilling. By connecting with my strengths and authentic self, I feel more linked to people and friends. My therapist has helped me be more proactive and identify meaningful activities, and connections.

This journey from the pit started after April’s D.C. retail closings. I’ve worked from home for many years and sitting at home 24/7 wasn’t the plan. I abruptly discovered I’d relied on Logan’s coffee houses for significant interaction and meet-up space. I’d made friends and acquaintances at Peet’s tables. Then, like latte steam, some connections #,*1/+*2#-$3&2"$2"#$%'/)5+#)8 My therapist helped me to see and celebrate the snowball effect of every step, no 0*22#+$"/3$)0*''8$ With his encouragement, I became religious about going outside each day/night, rain or shine. What started as two-three-mile walks has evolved to bicycling 15-20 miles.

Hearing the tire tread on the MVT (Mount Vernon Trail) is a joy ride into nature and away from my work, politics, and COVID-19 concerns. The exercise has been an antiCOVID-19 rock with better sleep, more energy and higher libido.

I’ve also found an escape from the phone apps and technology by reading fiction and novels. I’ve learned about other LGBTQIA people, immigrants, cultures and countries and chatted with authors. What started as one book, then a second, became one-done weekly. In the process, I’ve made friends at Kramerbooks.

It can seem small, but during lockdown, even trips to Trader Joe’s or Union Kitchen have landed connections. You see the same shoppers and get to know the staff. These shops have become neighborhood communities. A community is where you make it.

Getting outside and saying hi to shops’ staff and being proactive are empowering tools against anxiety. Showing kindness to others is also an easy way to release healthy #4-/+1"&4)8$ I’ve tried building a safe hookup community. Funny, even over 10 months, I found hookups are less important than I’d envisioned. I’m no prude, and I like sex; but for the time and effort to coordinate a safe hookup, I’ll just handle it myself.

What I’ve found surprising was how often I encountered guys’ fears and emptiness.

We’re in a pandemic with more isolation, and instead of men trying to make emotional connections, they want a quickie. An orgasm’s short-term fun won’t heal the loneliness.

Another side is when you’re on anti-depressants, the hookup physiology may not work.

So, by minimizing the loneliness, you can diminish the depression and have better sex.

It’s understandable that cuddling under the sheets can be an easy go-to. Yet, assuming you live through a bout of COVID-19, who wants a virus-related stroke, loss of smell or life-long respiratory illness?

Think twice and consider the warmth from being connected to yourself. Even a weighted blanket, a hot shower, music or scented candle will make a difference.

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“I just keep thinking about all the times I walked through the Capitol,” my friend George 1",0%4/%62%/=27%452%>5/#2%/#%!"#$%R$ ?4%+"1%452%"3427#//#%/3%!"#$%&$%C#%,#1977284,/#%+"1%4"I,#.%>-"82%"4%452%;$<$%H">,4/-$%C%6/A'% incited by Donald Trump and his false claims of election fraud, chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” "#0%M<4/>%452%<42"-S%+"1%12,F,#.%452%H">,4/-$ George has worked with Republicans and Democrats in the White House and in H/#.7211$%O2J1%I#/+#%3/7%5,1%12#12%/3%596/7%T%#/4%3/7%A2,#.%/=278/62%+,45%26/4,/#$%K94'% .-920%4/%452%#2+1'%52%+"1#J4%U/I,#.%45"4%0":$ Since then, queer or not queer, we’ve been reeling! If you’ve been to the Capitol even /#82'%:/9%72626A27%452%"+2%45"4%:/9%32-4%+52#%:/9%2#42720%452%A9,-0,#.$ The mob failed in its aim. Though the insurrectionists caused the Electoral College count to be delayed, Congress reconvened, and confirmed that President-elect Joe Biden won 452%()()%>721,02#4,"-%2-284,/#$ V24'% 452% ,#1977284,/#,141'% "% 6/A% 392-20% A:% A2-,231% ,#% +5,42% 19>726"8:% "#0% A"12-211% 8/#1>,7"8:% 452/7,21'% 8"62% >27,-/91-:% 8-/12% 4/% "85,2=,#.% ,41% ./"-$%@5/9.5% 452% 7,/4271% 5"0% >-"##20%452,7%7"6>".2%/#%452%H">,4/-%/#%452%0"7I%+2A%"#0%1/8,"-%620,"'%452%H">,4/-%G/-,82% offered little resistance to their entering the building. One of the officers was photographed taking a selfie with one of the rioters.

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As Sam Sanders, host of the NPR podcast “It’s Been a Minute” writes in an essay on NPR. org, it’s a lie to say that the armed insurrection of the Capitol on Jan. 6, “isn’t America!”

(Sanders is Black and gay.)

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It’s good that, as the Blade reported, LGBTQ rights groups from the Human Rights Campaign to PFLAG condemned the siege of the Capitol. “Trump and those who aid and abet him have a clear pattern ... of attacking people of color,” Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, deputy executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality told the Blade.

But this isn’t enough. We who are LGBTQ need to reflect on, examine, and call out our community. Trump won 28 percent of the LGBTQ vote in the 2020 election, according to Edison Research exit polling. We need to ask ourselves why more than one in five of us voted for Trump despite his racism, anti-immigration stance, and anti-LGBTQ rights "06,#,147"4,/#$ C1%?%+7,42'%@796>%5"1%U914%4/-0%72>/74271%45"4%5,1%726"7I1%4/%452%,#1977284,/#,141%A23/72%452:% 14/7620%452%H">,4/-%+272%M4/4"--:%">>7/>7,"42$S When will LGBTQ Republicans condemn Trump for his incendiary remarks?

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“There’s still a cis-het person sitting behind the [casting] table,” Samy Nour Younes Figaredo told the Washington Blade during a discussion about his experiences as a gay trans male actor who identifies as nonbinary. “Even in 2018, I had been on an audition, and I had that I was trans on my resume, and I could hear people behind the table whispering, ‘What am I supposed to do with that?’ even as I am walking in.”

Baltimore-area actor and firefighter Alicia Horton, also found herself stuck hiding her developing breasts and wearing “a really funky wig” early in her transition in order to find work auditioning for cis-male roles.

“I had to audition for ‘Dream Girls’ my junior year of college in 2011,” Horton said while soothing her dog Zuko, a pit bull mix she rescued from a shelter in August. “I was on hormones and my hair was super long and they put it in a really funky wig to try to make me look more masculine. The girls showed me how to pin-curl my hair so it would fit under the wig. I wish I had a picture of it — it just looked so bad.”

Despite the visibility and growing support for awardwinning nonbinary and transgender performers, including Sam Smith and Eddie Izzard to name two, Figaredo and Horton are not alone in their challenges finding affirming work and building careers since coming out.

A landmark 2013 survey of more than 5,000 Screen Actors Guild members found that while 80 percent of respondents agreed transgender actors should be considered for cisgender roles, the industry’s “economic imperative” to reach a “broad market” could “create potential risks for casting LGBT actors in roles that the viewing public may not accept.”

However, SAG-AFTRA also notes public and industry support for gender diverse actors has been steadily increasing in the past eight years.

“The last few years have seen a growing acceptance of trans and non-binary actors accompanied by open discussions of the challenges they may still face,” a representative told the Blade in an email. “The encouraging response to ‘The Umbrella Academy’s’ transgender star, Elliot Page, including a supportive statement from Netflix, is a sign of the industry moving in the right direction.”

Still, Figaredo says he’s had little success with television casting auditions since transitioning in 2010.

Figaredo is a Lebanese-Puerto Rican actor and a queer person of color activist who now lives and works in New York City, though he got his start in the D.C. area. He is an experienced stage performer who had a brief role on Amazon’s “Transparent” and appeared with his partner in Citibank’s trans-inclusive ad campaign.

He said a major problem for him, as an out transgender actor who includes his gender identity and his proper pronouns on his resume, is not only does he have to convince casting personnel that he is an experienced professional, but “that I am a person” as well.

“People did not know what to do with me or how to cast me,” Figaredo said. “Casting directors adhere to types, based on a preconceived conception of the role when the gender doesn’t necessarily have to do with the story.”

Figaredo, who did community theater work early on, found himself cast in a lot of female roles “when people didn’t know how to address me or assumed I was a boyish woman,” including the role of “Juliet” in a University of Maryland production of Shakespeare’s play.

Though that director who cross-gender cast him later became his friend, he said the

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She said this should happen more often.

While the role was male, whether it was “I think we need to have more trans cis or trans didn’t matter to the storyline, stories,” she said. “More diverse trans so Figaredo played it as trans. He said the stories. We see the sex workers and how racial, cultural, sexual and gender diversity he or she feels so terrible and about of those working both on and off-camera being born in the wrong body, but what encouraged an open and authentic else is there? Can we get a love story or environment that elicited better on-screen something where being trans is the least performances. important part of the story?”

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He said he said he has experienced “major strides” in In December, Gottmik, a high-femme drag artist, was trans casting in the past two years particularly, and noted the announced as the first transmasculine contestant on season Citibank ad campaign he was a part of.

13 of RuPaul’s ‘Drag Race,’ and follows season 9’s Peppermint, “Citibank unrolled an ad campaign of trans people and a trans woman and the first transgender performer cast. couples due to their preferred name campaign,” he said. “I Figaredo said he looks forward to more diversity in trans was cast with my partner who identifies as cis-male and uses representation as the industry grows and becomes more he/him pronouns.” inclusive.

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