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For the most up-to-date monkeypox information and resources, visit GLAD.org/monkeypox.

Accurate information about monkeypox can help keep our community informed and healthy. Here are some resources about monkeypox and the vaccine, JYNNEOS:

Monkeypox Information | 疾病预防控制中心
JYNNEOS Monkeypox Vaccine Distribution by Jurisdiction | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Monkeypox Vaccination Access Project | Grant Roth, MPH
MPXresponse.org | RESPND-MI
Monkeypox Information, including a fact sheet about the impact on gay and bisexual men | Fenway Health
Six Ways We Can Have Safer Sex in the Time of Monkeypox | RESPND-MI
What Gay and Bisexual Men Need to Know about Monkeypox | Gay Sexuality & Social Policy Institute (GSSPI) at UCLA
6 Ways We Can Reduce Risk in the Time of Monkeypox | GSSPI

Thanks to our friends at Fenway Health for putting together this informative resources. Please click through for the full Twitter thread with information and infographics.

To ensure that our community has accurate information about monkeypox – its symptoms, how it’s spread, & when to seek medical care – Fenway Health has created these infographics. Please view and share with your networks. Together, we can keep our community healthy and informed! pic.twitter.com/Z27YkS1YJ1

— Fenway Health (@FenwayHealth) June 10, 2022

欲了解更多信息，请访问 GLAD.org/monkeypox.

The Respect for Marriage Act

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VICTORY! On December 13, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Respect for Marriage Act. 了解更多.

The Respect for Marriage Act will ensure that the federal government and all state governments continue to recognize and respect all marriages, without discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, or race.

The bill will give clarity and comfort to millions of families across the country. This is an important opportunity to protect the families of LGBTQ+ Americans who remain vulnerable to discrimination in their daily lives.

The U.S. House passed the bill on July 19, 2022 with bipartisan support. On November 29, 2022 the bill passed the Senate with bipartisan support.

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The Respect for Marriage Act repeals the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”), both parts of which have already been invalidated by the Supreme Court. The bill also ensures that all state and federal governments must continue to recognize and respect all marriages, regardless of the couples’ sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin.

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Yesterday, the U.S. House passed by a bipartisan vote of 228-195 the “Right to Contraception Act,” legislation that explicitly codifies the right to use contraceptives in federal law and gives health care providers the right to prescribe “any device or medication used to prevent pregnancy” to patients. The bill also allows the federal and state government, patients, and health care providers to bring civil suits against those alleged to have violated the law.

Lawmakers passed the bill in the aftermath of the 最高法院的 多布斯 裁决 overturning the Constitutional right to abortion, and in which Justice Clarence Thomas’s separate concurrence invited the Court to revisit previous Supreme Court precedent mandating access to birth control as wrongly decided.

Thomas also suggested that previous rulings in favor LGBTQ rights should also be revisited in light of 多布斯. In response, the House passed the “Respect for Marriage Act,” earlier this week, which repeals previous federal laws struck down by the Supreme Court. That bill also codifies current law that federal government and state officials must provide respect to couples whose marriages are lawfully celebrated without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin of the married persons.

Mary Bonauto, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders’ (GLAD) Civil Rights Project Director, issued the following statement on the House passage of the Respect for Marriage Act:

“The bipartisan passage of the ‘Right to Contraception Act’ is a crucial step to ensure that those who need it can freely access reproductive health care such as birth control,” said Bonauto. “The choice to use contraception is a personal one and the government has no interest in interfering in that decision. That is and should remain long-settled law. But as the 多布斯 ruling has created widespread fear that such fundamental issues may again be up for debate, we are grateful that the House is proactively working to protect fundamental American freedoms.

“We hope that the Congress continues using its constitutional powers to protect other important rights on which Americans rely, including by passing legislation to protect voting rights and our democracy, to ensure availability of reproductive and medically necessary gender-related health care, and to prevent discrimination.

“As 多布斯 demonstrates, our basic liberties and rights, such as privacy, intimacy, bodily autonomy, and to form families and raise our children are concerns of Americans more broadly. GLAD will continue to support all efforts to preserve those bedrock freedoms.”

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GLAD Celebrates Disability Pride Month

This Disability Pride Month, we’re highlighting creators and organizations working to increase visibility and fight for justice for disabled folks. Keep reading to find out more about the incredible work that is being done to build a world where disabled people are fully included and celebrated in all areas of life!

Nasreen Alkhateeb is an award-winning visionary filmmaker focused on amplifying the voices of underrepresented populations through her work. She draws from her identities as “BIPOC, multi-heritage, Black, Iraqi, Disabled, raised Muslim, and 1st Generation” to create her art and inspire audiences.

Image description: A multi-heritage woman with long tightly wound dark brown locks, wearing red lipstick and a high neck black shirt. Background is darkly lit with one purple light illuminating her left side onto her hair.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Tonguebreaker, Dirty River, and other books. They are a long-time disability and transformative justice movement worker and a 2020 Disability Futures fellow. Their new book, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs is forthcoming in October 2022.

Image description: A nonbinary femme with sand colored skin, green and brown curly hair and purple lipstick grins in front of a blooming jasmine vine.

K Copeland co-creates comics on Chaos Life and more with his spouse that delve into experiences of being transgender, navigating disabilities, and raising and relying on a service dog. The duo’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Discovery Channel’s Official Blog, The Australian Broadcasting Company, several anthologies, and more.

Image description: A biracial trans man with long, dark brown hair, wears a charcoal heather shirt. Beside him is a large white and brown husky-type dog. The setting is inside a vehicle, with a brightly lit background with natural light coming in from the vehicle window behind the pair.

Robert Andy Coombs is an artist living in Miami. He explores the intersections of disability and sexuality as well as themes of relationships, caregiving, and more through photography.

Image description: A white man with short dark hair, pictured without a shirt. There is a square tattooed on the right side of his chest, and other tattoos along his collar and on his right shoulder. There is light illuminating his face from the right, and the background is dark.

The Disability Law Center is a private, non-profit organization responsible for providing protection and advocacy for the rights of Massachusetts residents with disabilities.

Image description: Pictured, is a drawing of a white scale on a light blue circle background. The letters “DLC” are written across the scales in dark blue, and a white circle wraps around the drawing, with the words “the protection & advocacy agency for people with disabilities.

Disability Rights Center–NH combats barriers faced by people with disabilities regarding their civil and legal rights. By providing legal advice or representation to people with disabilities across the state in areas like special education, accessibility, employment discrimination, home and community-based services, and Medicaid, DRC-NH is committed to improving the lives of people with disabilities across New Hampshire. GLAD teamed up with DRC-NH in Mejia et al v Edelblut et al.

Image description: A navy insignia with the letters DRC intertwining, and to the right, it reads: Disability Rights Center – NH in navy with a white background.

Disability Rights Maine provides many services, including information and referrals, legal representation, education, and advocacy services to people with disabilities in Maine. GLAD and DRME joined forces in a coalition to advocate for reforms to the Maine children’s behavioral health system.

Image description: A navy blue logo reading: “Disability Rights Maine” atop a white background. In the center, the word “Rights” is written in white against a dark blue background. In the lower right corner is a silhouette of Maine against a lighter blue background.

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The U.S. House today passed by a bipartisan vote of 267-157 legislation that would repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, both parts of which have already been invalidated by the Supreme Court. It ensures that neither states nor the federal government may deny respect for marriages based on the couples’ sex, race, ethnicity, or national origin. Congress is using its constitutional power to assure families that their marriages will be respected.

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders Executive Director Janson Wu issued the following statement on the House passage of the Respect for Marriage Act:

“GLAD is hearing from spouses, parents, and children every day worried about what a future legal challenge to marriage equality could mean for their family. We appreciate this leadership from the Congress because no one should need to fear their marriage and their family won’t be protected and respected.

GLAD not only won the first marriage case in any state, but also brought the first coordinated challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) over a decade ago. We saw the harms LGBTQ+ married families faced every day as the status of their family relationships shifted because they crossed state lines or because the federal government categorically disrespected their marriages. The Supreme Court rightly found unconstitutional both the federal disrespect part of DOMA in 温莎 and the interstate nonrecognition aspect in 奥贝格费尔. It is long past time for the Congress to remove the entirety of this harmful law from the books.

The Respect for Marriage Act also affirms what we know is true: it cannot be lawful for the states or the federal government to refuse to respect a marriage because of the sex, race, ethnicity or national origin of the couple. This provides critical assurance to millions of Americans about the stability of their crucial family relationships wherever they live, travel or relocate. We are grateful to bipartisan leaders Representatives Nadler and Cicilline, and Senators Collins, Feinstein, and Baldwin who introduced this measure and to the Representatives on both sides of the aisle who supported it today.

这 Supreme Court 多布斯 裁决 has only added to fears many Americans have about forces destabilizing our democracy and the loss of critical protections. Congress can address these fears and ensure respect for important rights Americans rely on by passing legislation to protect voting rights, access to abortion and contraception, respect for marriage, and nondiscrimination. Today’s House vote on the Respect for Marriage Act is an important step in that direction.”

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41st annual event marks in-person return to the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum after two years.

“As activists, we must remember the importance of celebrating ourselves and each and every step forward that we make. That’s how we’ll survive these challenging times.” –Byllye Avery and Ngina Lythcott

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) will honor Byllye Avery and Ngina Lythcott, renowned national leaders for reproductive justice, civil rights, and health equity, and noted civic leaders in Provincetown, at its annual Summer Party on July 23. Drag chanteuse Varla Jean Merman will be the celebrity emcee for the festivities, which takes place at the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum at 4:00 p.m. “We’re excited to gather in person again to honor Byllye and Ngina for their commitment to improving the health and well-being of Black women and other underserved communities, especially in the area of reproductive health, including access to abortion,” said Janson Wu, GLAD’s Executive Director. “It is especially important to lift up their work and their example after the Supreme Court’s rollback of 罗诉韦德案, to inspire a new wave of leaders to continue the fight for true reproductive justice and health equity for women, LGBTQ+ people, and people of color.” Avery’s work as a health care activist and reproductive justice advocate stretches back to the 1970s, when she co-founded the Gainesville Women’s Health Center in Florida in 1974, the city’s first abortion and gynecological care clinic, in response to the lack of access to reproductive health care among low-income Black women in the community. In 1978, she helped found Birthplace, an alternative birthing center also located in Gainesville.

Avery founded the National Black Women’s Health Project in 1983 in Atlanta. Now known as the Black Women’s Health Imperative, it is the only national organization exclusively dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of Black Women. The project stemmed from her work as a board member of the National Women’s Health Network and kicked off with The Conference of Black Women’s Health Issues, which drew 2,000 women to the Spelman College campus in 1983 to address topics such as domestic violence, diabetes, sexual abuse, nutrition, sexuality, childbirth, mental health, and holistic wellness. As part of her work running the organization, Avery spearheaded the production of the 1987 documentary film “On Becoming a Woman: Mothers and Daughters Talking to Each Other,” in which two generations of Black women discuss menstruation, sex, love, and communication. In 1989, Avery was recognized for this work with a MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the “Genius Grant.” In 2002, she created the Avery Institute for Social Change to focus on healthcare reform and educating lawmakers on what women needed in the Affordable Care Act. Avery has written and lectured widely on the impacts of race, class, and sex on women’s healthcare. She has also served on the board of Outer Cape Health Services. Lythcott has had an equally long career as a public health practitioner and health advocate. In fact, when she and Avery met in 1989, Lythcott was the director of the Health Promotion Resource Center at Morehouse School of Medicine as well as a faculty member. She then joined the National Black Women’s Health Project’s Wellness Program advisory board. Lythcott was the dean of students at Dartmouth and Swarthmore Colleges and in the Schools of Public Health at Columbia and Boston Universities. A long-term breast cancer survivor, Lythcott has been active with several organizations working to eradicate the disease, including the Intercultural Cancer Council, where she is a current board member. Additionally, Lythcott has long been active in the American Public Health Association. She has done extensive community-based health promotion/disease prevention work with low-income members of diverse, urban, and rural communities, using a community organization and development model. She has also worked in Ghana, Tanzania, Brazil, Nigeria, and South Africa. She is currently a member of the Provincetown School Committee. Avery and Lythcott are as dedicated to each other as they are to social justice. The two have been in a committed relationship for 33 years and a married couple since their 2005 wedding at the Provincetown Pilgrim Monument. Both women currently serve as advisory board members of the feminist health and reproductive justice organization Our Bodies Ourselves. “It’s a high honor to be recognized by GLAD, an organization that shares our commitment to justice, lived equality, and equity,” said Avery and Lythcott. “We must remain committed to every women’s access to quality healthcare, including abortion, and our right to live and love as we choose. We must all recommit to engaging in this work that saves and changes lives, especially now—as our hard-won rights as women, LGBTQ+ people, Black people, and people of color are rolled back or otherwise threatened. As activists, we must remember the importance of celebrating ourselves and each and every step forward that we make. That’s how we’ll survive these challenging times.” In addition to honoring Avery and Lythcott, GLAD’s Summer Party offers spectacular views, a fun-filled live auction, delicious food, open bar, and fun kids’ activities. Children are welcome to attend at no charge. Varla Jean Merman will host a fabulous and exciting live auction featuring custom art, travel experiences, family adventures, and more. For those who can’t make it to Provincetown for the party, GLAD is also hosting an online silent auction to allow guests to participate in the fun from anywhere. Alix Ritchie and Marty Davis are the 2022 Summer Party’s High Tide sponsors. This year’s Summer Party marks the event’s return to Provincetown after a two-year absence due to health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The safety and well-being of our supporters continue to be paramount. For that reason, proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for entry to the festivities. Social distancing and masks are highly encouraged. For additional COVID-19 safety information and to purchase tickets, visit the event page.

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自最高法院可耻的决定推翻 罗诉韦德案 on June 24, we have heard from many LGBTQ+ people concerned about the security of their marriages and their families.

Together with COLAGE, Family Equality, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, we have put together an 常见问题解答提供信息并回答您最重要的问题.

The resource, which will be updated as the impact of the Court’s decision develops, answers common questions like

我现在能做什么来让自己更有安全感并保护我的婚姻？
LGBTQ+ 家庭现在该如何采取措施保护自己？

Please share it with others in your community who have concerns. While this is an unsettling time, GLAD is facing these challenges head-on, and we are here for you.

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If you have questions about your specific situation, reach out to GLAD 答案, our free, legal infoline.

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LGBTQ+ Litigating Organizations Call for Immediate Action to Reform the Supreme Court and Restore Democracy

“The Supreme Court has lost the public’s confidence in its integrity and has eroded its own legitimacy.”

Today, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Transgender Law Center issued a clarion call for immediate, essential reforms of the U.S. Supreme Court, including adding additional seats to equal the number of federal judicial circuits and adopting an enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court justices.

In addition, the organizations called for lifting the filibuster to allow Senate consideration of Court reform and voting rights legislation.

The Joint Statement of GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders, Lambda Legal, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the Transgender Law Center:

The undersigned national LGBTQ+ legal advocacy organizations litigate in our Nation’s federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court. We believe the time is long past due to recommit to the essential protections of liberty and equality and the right to vote for all Americans and for generations to come. The Supreme Court has lost the public’s confidence in its integrity and has eroded its own legitimacy. To regain a measure of balance and restore confidence in the Court and the rule of law, we call for the following as minimal essential steps:

Lift the filibuster at least to allow Senate consideration of Supreme Court reform and voting rights restoration.
Pass the Judiciary Act of 2021, H.R. 2584 and S. 1141, to expand the number of seats on the Court to equal the number of circuits in the federal judiciary.
Pass the For the People Act of 2021, H.R. 1 and S. 1; the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021, H.R. 4 and S. 4; and the Washington, D.C. Admission Act, H.R. 51 and S. 51.
Adopt an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court.

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Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court eviscerated a half-century-old precedent protecting the Constitutional rights of women and all people capable of pregnancy, to access safe abortions. In doing so, the majority decision, written by Justice Alito, diminished the equal rights and status of women and cast doubt on the continued vitality of core Constitutional liberties that we have long taken for granted – from the right to access contraception to the freedom to marry. Others, such as Justice Thomas in his concurrence, openly invited litigation to overturn these cherished Constitutional rights.

Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor put it best, when they dissented “[w]ith sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection.”

Today we are feeling tremendous sorrow. Sorrow for people who may suffer serious health complications – including death – from a lack of abortion care or medical care for miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies.

Sorrow for the people, including LGBTQ+ people, who will be forced to bear children and become parents against their will.

Sorrow for the members of our communities who are terrified right now about what’s next.

And finally, sorrow for our nation and our Constitution, whose promise of liberty is rapidly contracting with the Supreme Court’s radical departure from long-standing, judicial norms of respecting precedent.

Sorrow is disheartening and also necessary for healing. And we need to heal to be at our strongest for the fight ahead.

We have no choice but to be at our strongest and most resilient, because the fate of our nation rests upon our resolve never to give up.

Which path our nation goes down depends on what we do today, tomorrow, and the next weeks, months, and years ahead.

It will depend on how hard we fight, how deep we dig, how much we give.

It will be steered by how much love we offer to each other, how kind we are to strangers, how well we listen, and how loud we shout until we are heard.

We will not give up without a fight, no matter how hard it gets.

Generations of freedom fighters before us didn’t give their blood, sweat, tears, and at times, lives, for us to take the easy path.

Suffragettes didn’t fight over 70 years to pass the 19th amendment, and Black feminist leaders didn’t fight for another 40 years to extend the franchise to Black women, only for us to accept the Supreme Court’s relegation of women to second class status without a fight.

Generations of abortion providers didn’t risk their safety and at times lives to provide safe and affordable abortions to those who needed it both legally and illegally, for us to accept defeat silently.

And a new generation of activists are not continuing the fight to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, 50 years after it was first passed in Congress, for us to deem the mountain too steep to climb.

Freedom is never given, it must be fought for, and often refought over and over.

That is what it takes – resolve. And that is what we have as a community and as a movement:

The resolve and the resilience to get back to work day after day, to be vigilant in protecting the rights we have, and ferocious in our drive to keep our Constitution’s promise of liberty alive and ever expanding.

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Statement of Executive Director Janson Wu:

“Every person in this country should be deeply alarmed by this shameful ruling, which is simply not normal and should be beyond the bounds of what is thinkable for the body entrusted to uphold our constitutional freedoms. A majority of Justices of the Supreme Court has overturned a half-century-old precedent protecting a vital individual right – a right re-affirmed by this same Court as recently as six years ago – and held open the door for a return to dangerous government intrusion into our most personal decisions and freedoms.

There is no doubt this decision will have devastating consequences for millions of women and for anyone who can become pregnant. The consequences of restricting or completely banning abortion, as some states are poised to do, will fall hardest on people and families of color and those without the financial resources to travel out of state or seek alternative routes to care. This includes members of the LGBTQ+ community, who also get pregnant and need access to abortion care.

Today’s decision comes amid grave and escalating assaults on many fundamental liberties. We must rally together across all our communities to push back against these extreme assaults. We will fight alongside our partners and at every level of state and federal government and in the courts for the right of transgender people to access life-saving healthcare and for parents’ basic right to seek that care for their transgender children; for the rights of LGBTQ+ students and students with LGBTQ+ families to be welcomed and included in schools; to protect the recognition of our relationships; to ensure stronger protections for LGBTQ+ families and all families; and for access to abortion, contraception and reproductive choice.”

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