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Comic Cons Draw Lgbt Film Junkies, Gaymers, and More! local name global coverage July 25, 2018 vol. 9 // issue 30 FREAKSCOMIC CONS DRAW LGBT FILM AND JUNKIES, GAYMERS, AND MORE! Pages 9, 24 GEEKS SOUTHFLORIDAGAYNEWS @SFGN SFGN.COM NEWS local SouthFloridaGayNews.com Photo by Carina Mask. @SFGN July 25, 2018 • Volume 9 • Issue 30 2520 N. 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Food: Do the Hokey Poke Visit SFGN.com to stay up to date on all the news across the web! Twitter.com/SFGN Facebook.com/SouthFloridaGayNews 4 • 7.25.2018 NEWS international Benjamin netanyahu. Photo: Facebook GAYS GO ON STRIKE IN ISRAEL Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reneges on pledge to support gay fathers Associated Press housands of Israeli LGBT advocates police said two people were detained and and their supporters went on then released. Tstrike across the country Sunday, The protest has grown into a general protesting the exclusion of gay men from call for equality, following other recent a recently passed surrogacy law. controversial legislation that appeared to Protesters marched in Tel target Israeli liberalism. Aviv and other Israeli cities on The protest has generated Sunday, waving rainbow flags The protest widespread support and and briefly blocking a major hundreds of employers said highway. has generated they would allow employees The community is outraged widespread support to observe the strike without that after Prime Minister penalty. Benjamin Netanyahu pledged and hundreds of A major rally in Tel Aviv’s to pass legislation supporting central Rabin Square is surrogacy for gay fathers, employers said scheduled later in the day. he then voted against it, they would allow Israel has emerged as one of apparently under pressure the world’s most gay-friendly from his ultra-Orthodox employees to travel destinations in recent Jewish coalition partners. observe the strike years, in sharp contrast to the Hundreds protested near rest of the Middle East where Netanyahu’s residence in without penalty. gays are persecuted and even Jerusalem. killed. Eyal Lurie Pardes, a In Israel, homosexuals protester draped in a rainbow flag, serve openly in Israel’s military and chanted: “We will not remain silent!” parliament, and many popular artists and “Look me in the eyes and tell me I don’t entertainers are homosexual. deserve to be a father!” he said. However, leaders of the gay community Footage aired on Israeli TV later showed say Israel still has far to go in promoting police pushing him into a police car. Israeli equality. 7.25.2018 • 5 LGBTQIA bites By Hope Benson Lesbian L N Non-binary 32-YEAR-OLD STUDY ON CHILDREN WITH LESBIAN ‘STEVEN UNIVERse’ CreATOR REBECCA SUGAR PARENTS CHALLENGEs ‘trADITIONal’ beLIEFS COMES OUT AS A NON-BINARY WOMAN Rebecca Sugar via Twitter Rebecca Sugar, the creator of the non-binary women,” Sugar said. “They The longest study on children of sexual male parent to develop correctly, which prominent LGBT-friendly cartoon “Steven wouldn’t think of themselves as women, minorities has released a new report on was especially prominent in 1986 when Universe,” came out as a non-binary but they’re fine with being interpreted that the now adult subjects, finding that their the study began, lead author Dr. Nanette woman in a recent podcast interview with way amongst humans. And I am also a non- mental health is the same as children Gartrell said to the Williams Institute. NPR 1A. binary woman, which has been really great raised by lesbian parents. “These findings demonstrate that Gems, the alien characters that make up to express myself through these characters Other spheres of life were also claims that it is harmful for children to be much of the show’s cast, take female forms because it’s very much how I have felt examined — relationships, education raised by same-sex couples are completely but are not necessarily female themselves. throughout my life.” and job experience, behavioral and unfounded,” co-author Dr. Henny Bos This structure was inspired by Sugar’s own Recent episodes of “Steven Universe”have emotional health — and the U.S. National concluded. “There is no justification gender experience. made history by including a same-sex Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study found to restrict child custody or placement, “To make a show about a young boy proposal and wedding between two of the no difference between the two groups in or access to reproductive technologies, who was looking up to these female-coded major characters, Ruby and Sapphire.
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