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“We’re Not Going Away”: Texas Town’s Pride Festival Vows To Fight After Council Attempts To Block It “Southlake City Council voted unanimously to deny Pride Kel-So's mass gathering permit”

Come join us tomorrow for great conversation and discussion! Angie Mabry

We're excited our own PFLAG Dallas board member Lucy Ford will be a part of this panel coming us next Saturday August 29!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

With PFLAG Connects meetings, the PFLAG Chapter Network is only a click away! 💻 PFLAG Connects meetings are free virtual meetings run by PFLAG chapters, offering peer-to-peer support, practical and judgement-free guidance to you and/or your LGBTQ+ loved ones, and education and advocacy opportunities throughout the year.

Visit pflag.org/virtualmeetings and sign up for a virtual meeting today!

New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed a law protecting access to reproductive and transgender healthcare: “No one should fear intimidation or violence for seeking healthcare, and no healthcare professional should fear punishment from another state for providing care that is legal in New Jersey. With this legislation, we are making clear that New Jersey will protect patients, providers, and the fundamental freedom to make personal healthcare decisions.”

New protections include:

- Helping patients physically access care by making it a crime to injure, threaten, intimidate, or physically block patients or providers, or to damage property in an effort to interfere with reproductive healthcare services;
- Empowering patients and providers by allowing them to take legal action against individuals who interfere with their access to or delivery of protected care; and
- Protecting healthcare providers from professional penalties or adverse actions involving their medical malpractice insurance for providing reproductive healthcare that is legal in New Jersey.

The legislation also expands New Jersey’s shield laws by expressly including gender-affirming care in the definition of protected reproductive healthcare services.

More info at the link in our bio.

Transgender men in Kansas 'compliance crew' use women's bathrooms to protest state law The group of trans men use women’s bathrooms in publicly owned facilities, which is required by Kansas law, to highlight what they say are flaws in the bathroom bill.

Equality Commons, a new 54-unit community for residents 55 and older, officially opened in downtown Portland this week. It is Maine’s first LGBTQ+ focused affordable senior housing community, designed to provide an LGBTQ+ affirming community alongside support services and programming for LGBTQ+ seniors