Duke University Press' Transgender Studies Quarterly To Publish In 2014

Duke University Press' Transgender Studies Quarterly To Publish In 2014

Dr. Susan Stryker (University of Arizona) and Dr. Paisley Currah (CUNY-Brooklyn) are collaborating with Duke University Press to bring forth TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, a groundbreaking interdisciplinary academic journal which will debut next year.

Stryker and Currah will serve as co-editors, while Duke University Press serves as the publisher. The two professors first collaborated back in 2008 as co-editors of a special transgender studies edition of Women's Studies Quarterly. After receiving over 200 submissions for the publication and only being able to publish 12, they realized how important it was for transgender studies to have its own high-profile publications domain. Read more »

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An executive order could end LGBT discrimination in contracts

An executive order could end LGBT discrimination in contracts

President Obama’s continuing popularity among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Americans is due in large part to major accomplishments of his first term:overturning the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, abandoning support for the so-called Defense of Marriage Act in court and his personal backing for marriage equality, which he announced a year ago this month.

Obama has also supported LGBT rights in other, more indirect ways, including by appointing more “out” LGBT individuals to political office than all previous presidents combined; I was, proudly, one of them. Read more »

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Mountain Park is soliciting for Proposals to provide janitorial services

Mountain Park is soliciting for Proposals to provide janitorial services

Mountain Park Health Center (MPHC) is a federally funded primary healthcare facility with five locations serving the metropolitan Phoenix area.  With 200,000 medical encounters per year and 55,000 patients, we have built a reputation for providing affordable primary care in medically underserved communities for the last 30 years.

The janitorial services for our clinics are an integral piece of our ability to provide quality healthcare to our patients.  Mountain Park is soliciting for Proposals to provide janitorial services for our locations listed below:

·     Baseline – 635 E. Baseline Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85042

·     Maryvale – 6601 W. Thomas Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85033 Read more »

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Int’l Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia observed around the globe

Int’l Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia observed around the globe

LGBT rights advocates and allies will observe the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (or IDAHO) in more than 100 countries around the world on Friday.

First recognized in 2004, IDAHO commemorates the May 17, 1990 decision by the World Health Organization that decategorized homosexuality as a mental disorder, and aims to coordinate international events that raise awareness of LGBT rights violations and stimulate interest in LGBT rights advocacy.

In 76 countries around the world, same-sex relationships are still considered illegal and punishable by jail, fines and in some countries, lifetime imprisonment. In seven countries, a conviction is punishable by death. Read more »

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Gays 'thrown under the bus' in immigration bill

Gays 'thrown under the bus' in immigration bill

The Senate Judiciary Committee is marking up the massive bill that leaders in both parties agree presents the best opportunity to reform immigration policy in decades. The bill contains many provisions sought by progressive groups, but lacks protections for LGBT families, specifically binational same-sex couples whose relationships are not recognized by the government.

While endorsing key provisions in the bill drafted by the bipartisan “Gang of Eight,” LGBT civil rights groups continue to urge the adoption of amendments that protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their families. Read more »

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Polls Show Pro-Equality Majorities in Mich., Ariz., and Va.

Polls Show Pro-Equality Majorities in Mich., Ariz., and Va.

Momentum for marriage equality is spreading beyond the safely liberal strongholds of the East Coast, according to several new polls that found majority support for the freedom to marry in locales as diverse as Michigan, Virginia, and even Arizona.  Read more »

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Arizona House OKs religious-protection measure

Arizona House OKs religious-protection measure

Supporters of a bill that would change the state’s religious-protection law say it would strengthen Arizonans’ ability to defend their “practice or observance of religion.”

But critics of the legislation, particularly in the gay and transgender community, say it’s so broadly worded that it could have dangerous implications, particularly in providing a legal defense for those who ignore state law or city ordinances meant to protect groups such as same-sex couples and transgender individuals from discrimination. Read more »

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Location

Tanner Community Development Corporation (TCDC)
700 East Jefferson Street 2nd floor Training Room
Phoenix, AZ 85034

Beginning on August 1, 2012, about 47 million women in the US, 13 million estimated to be women 
of color, gained access to additional prevention services like breast exams, pap smears, and 
screenings for diabetes; without paying more at the doctor’s office. Join us at this FREE health 
professional training to learn more about the impact that this increased access to early 
preventative health services can have on women’s health outcomes in Arizona!

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

10:00 am to Noon

To register or for more information contact:
602.258.3300 or hharris@worthyinstitute.com Read more »

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