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local name PALM BEACH global coverage EDITION january 30, 2019 vol. 10 // issue 5 THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF LALA BEGINS ON PAGE 28 TEN YEARS AGO, MICHAEL BROWN, A BELOVED BAR MANAGER AND ACTIVIST WAS MURDERED. EVEN THOUGH HIS LIFE WAS CUT SHORT, HIS SPIRIT LIVES ON THROUGH FRIENDS, H.G. ROOSTERS AND COMPASS. Michael Brown and Jerry Suarez. SOUTHFLORIDAGAYNEWS @SFGN SFGN.COM NEWS HIGHLIGHT SouthFloridaGayNews.com @SFGN January 30, 2019 • Volume 10 • Issue 5 2520 N. Dixie Highway • Wilton Manors, FL 33305 SCRUFF BANS KISSING IN PROFILE PHOTOS Phone: 954-530-4970 Fax: 954-530-7943 Publisher • Norm Kent The gay app also now blocks hugging and skimpy bathing suits [email protected] Chief Executive Officer • Pier Angelo Guidugli [email protected] Screenshot via @Pup_Amp, Twitter. 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Homeowners Insurance Hurricane Insurance Flood Insurance 1.30.2019 • 3 LGBTQIA BITES BY CAMEREN BOATNER Bisexual B I Intersex UK BISEXUAL PEOPLE FIND IT HARD UTAH TO BAN INTERSEX PEOPLE FROM TO COME OUT AT WORK CORRECTING GENDER MARKERS While gay and lesbian individuals in director of Stonewall, said workers the United Kingdom don’t have much should learn to identify and discuss Utah lawmakers want to make it of ‘phobia’ or hate,” Rep. Merrill Nelson, trouble being out at work, bisexual tackling biphobia. impossible to change your gender on a a Republican, told the Tribune, “but people are finding it harder, according to “Certainly from our experience we birth certificate, the Advocate says. only by a desire to maintain the integrity Financial Times. find there’s a lot of anti-bi banter in some House Bill 153 would define gender as of the birth certificate and to provide LGBT organization Stonewall did a workplaces, a lot of stereotypes around “the innate and immutable characteristics clarity and consistency to an otherwise study on LGBT equality and acceptance bi people, so that makes it difficult for established at conception,” The Salt Lake ambiguous statute that has produced in the workplace and found that 90 them to be out at work. Banter can be Tribune reports. If the bill passes to law, conflicting results. ... A person’s sex is no percent of gay and lesbian workers seemingly harmless but it can have quite it would primarily affect intersex, gender more subject to change than a person’s say their workplace is inclusive. a significant impact,” Towers said. non-conforming, and trans individuals, age.” Comparatively, 69 percent of bisexual Stonewall also gave Citi bank a bi- but the lawmakers themselves are saying Nelson also said the bill is based on men, and 63 percent of bisexual women inclusion award, as they run sessions on it’s not motivated by prejudice. scientific fact that sex is chromosomal and said the same. Darren Towers, executive bisexual identity and issues. “This bill is not motivated by any form is not self-determined later in life. 4 • 1.30.2019 LGBTQIA BITES T Transgender TRANSGENDER PROFESSOR SUES ARIZONA OVER DISCRIMINATORY HEAltH PLAN Dr. Russell Toomey. Photo via the University of Arizona. A University of Arizona professor filed state employees and their dependents. a lawsuit against the state of Arizona That means hundreds, if not thousands, because the university doesn’t cover of transgender state employees or transition-related healthcare for its transgender dependents of state employees. employees cannot receive medically Dr. Russell Toomey is transgender, and necessary care recommended by their when he found Arizona’s insurance policy doctors, such as a mastectomy or a excludes transition-related coverage, he hysterectomy,” Toomey wrote. decided to sue over a violation of civil Toomey said he knows of at least 20 rights, according to his article in the ACLU. families at the University of Arizona who “Arizona provides the same are currently being harmed by the anti- discriminatory health plan to nearly all trans policy. 1.30.2019 • 5 NEWS ONLINE DON'T MISS THE ACTION ONLINE Visit SFGN.com to stay up to date on all the news across the web! 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