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Raising LGBTQ issues in a positive way was Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), the first out lesbian elected to the U.S. Senate, who asked Levine about improving LGBTQ health equity. In response, Levine said data collection is key, noting under her watch Pennsylvania became the first state to collect data on whether #070+")*76-'9".*%+.-'*8%+.*;1'"-'(QL5K3 “It is critically important that we include questions about sexual orientation "+8' :%+8%7' *8%+.*.1' *+' 067' 8"."' #0&&%#.*0+<F' (%)*+%' -"*83' E5$".' D06&8' *+#&68%' many studies done by health and human services in the CDC. And I think that "-'D%':%.'/07%'8"."'.$"+'D%'6+8%7-."+8'/07%'"=06.'.$%-%'$%"&.$'8*-9"7*.*%-' "+8'.$%+'D%'#"+'8%)%&09'.$%'"997097*".%'90&*#*%-'*+'078%7'.0'"887%--'.$%/3F Other Republicans during Levine’s confirmation hearing didn’t bring up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”

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The House approved the Equality Act on a largely party-line vote last Thursday with little bipartisan support. Three Republicans voted for the Equality Act, compared to the eight who voted for the legislation in 2019.

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D+47)38)>( 8-9=( 8;)( M90=)( +3( 0( <5)L+-7>( +38)5L+):( 8;08( %)>-75,)( D)38)5( !0802-5->( and other organizations in the U.S. helped him find housing and legal assistance for his 0>1972(,0>)@(D+47)38)>(09>-(573>(%0+3J-:(M5+=/)(">1972(&))I)5>'(0(<5-/502(8;08(;)9<>( Q6M#R(0>1972(>))I)5>(+3(!0802-5->@ %0+3J-:( M5+=/)( 573>( 0( >;)98)5( 4-5( Q6M#R( 0>1972( >))I)5>( 03=( 2+/5038>( 8-( :;+,;( D+47)38)>( J5-7/;8( 8;)( M90=)( -3( &0875=01@( %0+3J-:( M5+=/)( 09>-( :-5I>( :+8;( %)>-75,)( D)38)5( !0802-5->( 8-( <5-L+=)( Q6M#R( 0>1972( >))I)5>( 03=( 2+/5038>( 0,,)>>( 8-( ;)098;( ,05)(<5-L+=)5>(03=(90:1)5>(:;-(,03(;)9<(8;)2(:+8;(8;)+5(,0>)>@ D+47)38)>( 8-9=( 8;)( M90=)( 8;08( Q6M#R( 0>1972( >))I)5>( 03=( 2+/5038>( +3( !0802-5->( 5)20+3( L793)50J9)( 8-( <)5>),78+-3( 03=( L+-9)3,)( 8;08( +3,97=)>( 2)2J)5>( -4( 8;)( 6794( =57/( ,058)9( :;-( 4-5,)( 8503>/)3=)5( :-2)3( +38-( >)*( :-5I@( D+47)38)>( >0+=( I+=30<<+3/>( 09>-(80I)(<90,)(+3(!0802-5->'(098;-7/;(8;)5)(05)(3-8(0>(2031(0>(+3(#+S7030(03=(-8;)5( !)*+,03(J-5=)5(,+8+)>@ #;)(&808)(T)<0582)38(75/)>(?@&@(,+8+U)3>(3-8(8-(850L)9(8-(!)*+,-V>(#02079+<0>(>808)(+3( which Matamoros is located because of “crime and kidnapping.”

“Organized crime activity — including gun battles, murder, armed robbery, carjacking, I+=30<<+3/'(4-5,)=(=+>0<<)0503,)>'()*8-58+-3(03=(>)*709(0>>0798(.(+>(,-22-3(09-3/(8;)( northern border and in Ciudad Victoria,” reads the advisory.

D+7=0=(W+,8-5+0(+>(#02079+<0>V(,0<+809(,+81@ “Criminal groups target public and private passenger buses as well as private 078-2-J+9)>( 850L)9+3/( 8;5-7/;( #02079+<0>'( -48)3( 80I+3/( <0>>)3/)5>( ;->80/)( 03=(

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=)203=+3/( 503>-2( <012)38>@( X)0L+91( 052)=( 2)2J)5>( -4( ,5+2+309( /5-7<>( -48)3( <085-9(05)0>(-4(8;)(>808)(+3(205I)=(03=(73205I)=(L);+,9)>(03=(-<)508)(:+8;(+2<73+81( particularly along the border region from Reynosa northwest to Nuevo Laredo,” adds the State Department advisory. “In these areas, local law enforcement has limited capability to respond to crime incidents.” #;)(903=(J-5=)5(J)8:))3(!)*+,-(03=(8;)(?@&@(5)20+3>(,9->)=(8-(3-3)>>)38+09(850L)9( J),07>)(-4(8;)(<03=)2+,@ D+47)38)>(;0=(<9033)=(8-(9+L)(:+8;(03(73,9)(+3(Q0>(W)/0>(-3,)(;)(5),)+L)=(0>1972'(J78( ;)(3-:(<903>(8-(>801(+3(#)*0>V(%+-(6503=)(W099)1@ “I have people now,” Cifuentes told the Blade. “I now have a plan.”

Cifuentes conceded it will take time for the Biden administration to fully undo MPP and -8;)5(0><),8>(-4(+8>(<5)=),)>>-5V>(;05=9+3)(+22+/508+-3(<-9+,+)>@(D+47)38)>(3)L)58;)9)>>( >0+=(;)(5)20+3>(;-<)479(0J-78(;+>(47875)(+3(8;)(?@&@ “I keep believing that it is doing its job,” he said, referring to President Biden and his administration. “I know that it is not easy.” !"#$%&'()*('%+&,-(

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identifies as queer, added this decision was deliberate.

“Most of the openly gay people in Myanmar are makeup artists and cross-dressers. #;)1(=-(3-8(>803=(-78(+3(8;)(,5-:=>(:;)3(8;)1(:)05(4)209)(,->872)>'(J78(>-2)-3)( with drag costumes will,” said Khant Zin. “This is my intention.”

“We want people around the world to know about the LGBT community’s contributions for the fight for democracy,” added Khant Zin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“We have to be cautious because we look different and are easily noticeable,” Maung Soe told the Blade. “We are worried we might be targeted by the police forces and counter protesters.”

“We are all coming to the protests to support the greater cause,” added Maung

&-)@ Khant Sithu, a Burmese college student in New York who identifies themselves as Q6M#R'(+>(02-3/(8;->)(:;-(;0L)(/08;)5)=(+3(45-38(-4(8;)(?@O@(8-(<5-8)>8(8;)(,-7<@ “Regardless if you are gay or straight, we all vote for the political parties we like,” Sithu told the Blade. “People in Myanmar have overwhelmingly voted for Aung San &77(Y1+V>(OQT(<0581@(O-:'(8;)(2+9+8051(=+>9+I)>(8;)(>+8708+-3(03=(=)80+3)=(8;)(,+L+9+03( leaders.” #;)( ,-7<( 8-<<9)=( &77(Y1+( 03=( ;)5( /-L)532)38(9)>>( 8;03( 8;5))(2-38;>(048)5(;)5( O08+-309( Q)0/7)( 4-5( T)2-,50,1( <0581( 85-73,)=( 8;)( 2+9+8051V>( ?3+-3( &-9+=05+81( 03=( Development Party in Parliamentary elections.

Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, was under house arrest for nearly G_(1)05>(738+9(;)5(5)9)0>)(+3(FBGB@(&77(Y1+(+3(FBG`(J),02)(!103205V>(>808)(,-73>)9-5'( :;+,;(+>(5-7/;91()[7+L09)38(8-(<5+2)(2+3+>8)5@ &77( Y1+'( :;-( ;0>( 40,)=( /9-J09( ,5+8+,+>2( -L)5( ;)5( 5)><-3>)( 8-( 8;)( <9+/;8( -4( 8;)( %-;+3/10'( ;0>( J))3( ,;05/)=( :+8;( +99)/0991( <->>)>>+3/( :09I+)K809I+)>@( #;)( ?@&@( +>( 02-3/(8;)(,-7385+)>(8;08(;0L)(+2<->)=(>03,8+-3>(0/0+3>8(8;)(M752)>)(2+9+8051(-L)5( 8;)(,-7<@ D-3>)3>709( >02)K>)*( >)*709( 5)908+-3>( 5)20+3( ,5+2+309+U)=( +3( !103205( 73=)5( &),8+-3(Aaa(-4(8;)(,-73851V>(D5+2+309(D-=)@ Activists said Suu Kyi’s government made an unofficial pledge to amend or repeal Article 377 and other anti-LGBTQ laws during its second term in office that would ;0L)()3=)=(+3(FBF_@ !"#$%&'()*('%+&,-(.(+"#/0,(!%123

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While Matheny-Willard is not necessarily for “depleting the police budget,” she #1&68/&34((#$9&"8/*&"8$*+&(87%/0&28""4$#(+&1*/I#2*1&$**0*0&(8&)*.3&3*83.*&#$& 2/#1#1H& Matheny-Willard said she saw this need first-hand as both a public defender and %1&%&"8()*/&7)81*&18$&7%1&)841*0&#$&()*&:8/68.;&2#(+&\%#.&04/#$9&()*&)*#9)(&86&()*& COVID-19 pandemic and is currently in a state mental hospital.

“I can list a hundred things that I’ve done on behalf of my (older) son,” she said, #$2.40#$9& *I*/+()#$9& 6/8"& 14/I*#..#$9& )#1& 3)8$*& %$0& *"%#.<& (8& 9*((#$9& (/%$12/#3(1& of his confession to a police officer, to fighting so he wouldn’t be housed with "4/0*/*/1& 7)#.*& 5*#$9& #$2%/2*/%(*0& 68/& 3*((+& .%/2*$+H& JD)*/*& %/*& ()#$91& ()%(& [>I*& already done in my personal life that I would do for people in the community.” [(&7%1&()/849)&()#1&%2(#I*&"8$#(8/#$9&%$0&3%/*$(#$9&86&)*/&2)#.0/*$&()%(&1)*&684$0& 84(&%584(&()*#/&1*@4%.&8/#*$(%(#8$&%$0&9*$0*/&#0*$(#(+H& “Before (Vetreal) told me, I found out his first year in college when he was about 19,” she explained. “I went through his phone and email.”

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Now, she said it’s time for them and other social service organizations to have a *I*/+8$*& %(& ()*& (%5.*<& #$2.40#$9& ()*& BCADE& %9*$2#*1& 1)*& 7*$(& (8& 68/& )*.3& 7)*$& )*/& 3/8"#$*$(&1*%(&%(&()*&(%5.*<&3%/(#24.%/.+&(8&)*.3&BCADE&3*83.*&86&28.8/&7)8&%/*&2%49)(& 8.0*/&18$&7%1&#$&2/#1#1H& 43&#$&()*&2/#"#$%.&\41(#2*&1+1(*"H& “I am deeply committed to partnerships,” Matheny-Willard said. “I’ll put them in the “It’s a village approach that would go a long way toward crime prevention,” Matheny/88"& (89*()*/& O& 38.#2*& %$0& BCADE& 1*/I#2*& %9*$2#*1H& B*(>1& (%.;& %584(& ()#1H& !$0& $*@(& (#"*&()*+&1**&*%2)&8()*/&#$&()*&28""4$#(+<&()*+>I*&(%.;*0H&D)*+&;$87&*%2)&8()*/H&D)%(>1& Willard said. “Once everyone is at the table, we can understand each other.”

“I appreciate you a lot,” Jai said to his mom during the call, after thanking her for all restorative justice. We need to talk.”

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The place is filled with balloons.

They’re floating near the ceiling, strings just out of reach for now, some on the floor. The lights seem to be on a “twinkle” setting and there are candles carefully nestled in centerpieces, so the entire room sparkles from corner to corner. The guest of honor isn’t there yet, but you are and in “Let’s Get Back to the Party” by Zak Salih, you already wish you hadn’t come.

Sebastian Mote hadn’t seen Oscar Burnham in a decade, not since they were kids, but the guy across the room at the wedding reception sure looked like Oscar.

If it was, Sebastian wondered if Oscar would he remember him, or their once-close friendship, or afternoons together in the basement and the things they did to one another?

Oscar Burnham was truthfully more interested in a cruising app than he was in rekindling a boyhood friendship. Sebastian was every bit as boring as Oscar remembered; he was probably one of those queens whose only focus, now that gay marriage was legal, was to have a husband and a bunch of obnoxious kids. It irritated Oscar that he was forced to exchange phone numbers with Sebastian, and lame promises to hang out soon.

Soon. More like not-soon, since Oscar was busy with someone he met when an app-date didn’t show up. Sean Stokes was an older man, a writer, and though Oscar professed to dislike reading, he was captivated by Sean’s explicit tales of queer life before Oscar was even born. He couldn’t get enough of Sean – and vice versa, apparently, because Sean asked for Oscar’s stories and it eventually became clear that Sean’s next book would be about Oscar.

There was no denying that Oscar’s ghosting hurt Sebastian, but he rather expected it. Instead, he threw himself into a friendship with a young student at his school, daring to let himself become obsessed with 17-year-old Arthur. It was painful, hopeful, and something he could never admit to anyone else.

Least of all, his boyhood pal, Oscar.

At first browse, “Let’s Get Back to the Party” can seem long and wordy. It hangs on the lives of two men who are mostly not very likable, to themselves or to one another, and how they hold on to their history with fingernails on one hand, pushing each other away with the other hand. You’ll want to shake them, but the thing is, it’s hard not to want to watch them make their own lives worse: this novel is a little schadenfreudey, but with a degree of sympathy.

The sympathy wins, as author Zak Salih shows sides of both Sebastian and Oscar that neither character would admit, and reasons why each becomes contemptuous with the other.

The truth, for one of them, is a devastating shocker that slams the brakes on the tale but alas, getting there takes a while; you’ll want to ride that wave to this book’s fitting end.

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HBO Max and HBO Latino premiered the darling of the film festival set, “Lupe,” on Feb. 26.

The film opens with a beautiful panorama of farmland in Cuba and a young boy calling out for his caretaker and older sister. He is looking for her.

“Looking for her” becomes the theme of the film, and it also became the theme in the lives of many associated with this cinematic gem.

Rafael, the lead character, absorbs the toxic masculinity of his Cuban village, comfortable under the care of his sister Isabel (portrayed by Lucerys Medina). Then one day, she is missing. He (portrayed by Rafael Albarrán) has embraced his machismo as a trained boxer and sets out to New York “looking for her.”

His search for Isabel is merely the journey for him on a wholly other adventure in which he discovers that the “her” he is looking for, is the woman within himself. Along the way, (adjusting pronouns) they find their sister’s companion Elsa (portrayed by Christine Rosario Lawrence) who helps them think back on their Cuban roots, a boxing student, Arun (portrayed by Kadeem Henry, who shows them that life in authenticity can come with bitter rejection and a transgender woman Lana (portrayed by Celia Harrison), who helps them envision and embrace the future.

The film is tender, poignant and ultimately affirming. The scenes are simple, sometimes austere, and often deeply beautiful. Albarrán displays magnetism throughout, drawing us into the emergence of the inner life of Rafael to an external expression – often quietly with just the look in their eyes.

To quote the RuPaul franchise, “If you are only watching the surface production, you are only seeing half of the story” rings true to the full story behind the realization of the movie. While a transgender journey is portrayed on screen, another has played out behind the scenes.

The film was written, and directed by two white New Yorker cisgender men, André Phillips and Charles Vuolo, telling the story of a transgender woman. What could go wrong?

As it turns out — nothing. Even though the production work started six years ago, well before transgender artist voices were raised asking that their stories actually include them in the making, Phillips and Vuolo already knew what they did not know. They did not know the transgender experience.

They were looking for “her”: she who would take ownership of the transgender experience.

They found her in Celia Harrison. They wrote a framework of the story, and turned to Celia to guide them on the real life experience that she knew to be trans.

They cast Albarrán, a gay Latino man, after his second audition. Rafael was sensitive, vulnerable, and yet also brought a strong “street fight” charisma to the part. They also turned to Celia to play his best friend, even though she was not a trained actor.

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beating with the same heart, and a deeply similar journey. He told me recently, “I was not prepared for was to what I was about to discover of myself. At the minute when we were on set, and I got the part and I got cast in it, I immediately understood the weight and responsibility that I had. Six years ago I identified myself as a gay man. I start to realize how ignorant I was in the themes of trans and, and all the topics that embark the trans umbrella. And all of a sudden here I am going on a journey in a movie with the characters covered in their femininity and her femininity, and how it looks like, and how it feels like. To the point that six years after the process started, I no longer consider myself, or refer to myself as a gay man. I am a non-binary human – that process started and the discovery of myself through this character.”

Looking for her.

In 2017, the production team recruited and brought on an executive producer, Kerry Michelle O’Brien, who was well established and famous for her production work, and had only recently identified herself as trans. She told me, “Sharan reaches out to me, shows me this piece. Even in its rough cut state, we could see what an amazing piece of work the boys have done, Raphael’s acting is just unbelievable. It just spoke volumes off the screen. It was amazing and beautiful to actually see a film in which we’re represented not as a sociopath, or serial killer, or on the game, you know, we’re actually reflected as human beings, sort of just fumbling and stumbling along and trying to find our way. We just want to be loved and be genuine and to see that evolve in Raphael to Lupe’s characters is just beautiful.”

The impact did not stop with Kerry in the post-production room. She carried it on into her own life, in her own quest for her own authenticity. “I actually took it upon myself to actually become genuine with my family in the UK so I reached out to my children. Last weekend, I came out as transgender to them. I wasn’t dressed, but they were very accepting and the real beautiful point of that was my eldest took it upon herself to come out to me as bisexual at the same time. So, you know nothing but good things are coming from discussions around this movie. That was the level of impact it was me — to finally admit to myself, ‘I’m OK being the Kerry Michelle that I am, and I’m now ready to tell my family about it.”

Looking for her.

As Rafael Albarrán sums up, “In the end, it is not just a story about trans, about being a woman or a man — it is a story about authenticity. And I feel like that is something each one of us struggles with on our journey.

Regardless of our gender or sexual orientation, it’s about being authentic with you and empower yourself however that might look like.”

“Lupe” airs on HBO Max. (Rob Watson covers LGBTQ lives, culture, and politics as a contributor to the Los Angeles Blade and is the host of the Hollywood-based weekly radio podcast RATED LGBT RADIO.)

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