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DAILY BREAKING NEWS Photo by Stephen Churchill-Downes And everything in between. 4 Jan. 2, 2019 WINDY CITY TIMES —Ad news: The Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, OutServe-SLDN, American Military The year in LGBT Partner Association and Gender Justice League published a full-page USA Today ad featuring leading military, national security and bipartisan national news officials who felt the Trump administration’s ban on transgender troops is wrong and hurts military COMPILED BY ANDREW DAVIS Kevin Spacey, who was removed from his hit Net- readiness. flix series House of Cards and the movie All the —We are family: The longest-running study on This year is bound to be big, with events like the Money in the World. In December, he broke his si- any LGBTQ-parent families, the National Longi- commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the lence with a bizarre video in which he channeled tudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS), released Stonewall Riots happening. However, 2018 had his “Cards” character, Frank Underwood—one results showing that young adults with lesbian its major and unique events as well: day after a sexual-assault indictment was filed parents are as mentally healthy as their peers. —Skate expectations: Figure skater Adam Rip- against him. —Mississippi turning: Leaders in Starkville, pon became the first openly gay U.S. athlete to —Settle down: A Wisconsin school district Mississippi, voted to permit a gay-pride parade, qualify for the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, paid $800,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit reversing a previous denial and moving to defuse South Korea—and the first to win a medal, as that transgender former student Ash Whitaker a lawsuit alleging discrimination and free-speech he won a bronze in the team competition. Gus brought. Whitaker filed the suit in July 2016, violations. Also, the Clarksdale Board of Com- Kenworthy was another gay athlete who quali- alleging that Tremper High School banned him missioners passed city-wide non-discrimination fied, and he finished 12th in slopestyle. from using the boys’ bathroom and monitored his protections that include sexual orientation and —Arrested development: Two men were ar- use of bathrooms. gender identity in housing, public accommoda- rested on murder charges in the deaths of two —Pioneer dies: Dr. Mathilde Krim, a pioneer in tions and employment—making it only the third women who were in a relationship and two chil- the battle against HIV/AIDS, passed away Jan. Rachel Tiven resigned from Lambda Legal. city in the state to do so. dren in their upstate Troy, New York, apartment. 15 at age 91. In 1983, Krim founded the AIDS Photo by Matt Simonette —Nixon defeated: Emmy-winning Sex and the However, Justin Mann and James White remain in Medical Foundation (AMF), the first private orga- City actress Cynthia Nixon threw her hat in the nization dedicated to AIDS research. ring for governor against Andrew Cuomo in Sep- jail awaiting trial. Justice Fellowship—launched with an accompa- —Comic passes away: Bob Smith—the first tember’s Democratic primary—but came up short —Trans deaths: At least 26 transgender people nying 20-minute documentary and opportunities openly gay comedian to appear on the Tonight in the election. were fatally shot or killed by other violent means for community members to get involved. Show—died after a long struggle with ALS. He —Activist passes: Donna Red Wing passed in 2018 across the country—and the vast ma- —Anti-trans decision: The U.S. Department of was 57. away April 16 after a battle with lung cancer. Red jority were people of color. Among the victims Education confirmed Feb. 12 that it will no longer —Filing: Immigration Equality and Sullivan & Wing served as executive director of One Iowa were Viccky Gutierrez, Celine Walker, Diamond investigate civil-rights complaints from transgen- Cromwell LLP filed two lawsuits against the U.S. during 2012-16, expanding the organization’s Stephens and Chicago’s Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier, der students who are barred from school bath- State Department for refusing to recognize the work into new arenas after the battle for mar- Sasha Wall, Dejanay Stanton, Sasha Garden and rooms that match their gender identity. Transgen- valid marriages of same-sex binational couples riage equality ended. Tydi Dansbury. der students said this development will subject and disenfranchising their children by denying —Farrow path: Pulitzer Prize-winning journal- —Shifty: President Donald Trump fired all of them to bullying. their rightful citizenship at birth. ist Ronan Farrow officially came out as gay at a the members the Presidential Advisory Council —Family ties: The Human Rights Campaign —Grim statistics: The National Coalition of Point Foundation event. on HIV/AIDS without explanation. Chicago-based Foundation released a report detailing the results Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) 2017 Report —Black is beautiful: Out Magazine named Lambda Legal attorney Scott Schoettes, who had of its nationwide survey of LGBTQ people that re- on LGBTQ Hate Violence Homicides reported the African-American transgender woman Raquel Wil- previously resigned from the council along with veals an urgent need for inclusive employer-paid highest number of homicides in the 20 years lis as its newest executive editor, while The Ad- several other members, had tweeted that the re- family and medical leave. It came on the 25th an- NCAVP has been recording this data. According to vocate named African-American LGBT journalist maining members of the council had been let go. niversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act, a the report, released Jan. 22, 52 LGBTQ people in Zach Stafford as its most recent editor-in-chief. —Rocking the vote: Hundreds of LGBTQ candi- federal law guaranteeing certain employees up to the U.S. were murdered in hate-related homicides —Fatal protest: Well-known Lambda Legal at- dates ran for office across the nation during the 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year.