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2023 study by The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ crisis intervention and suicide prevention nonprofit, found that 15% of LGBTQ youth reported being subjected to conversion therapy, with that subgroup being more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide over the past year than individuals who never underwent conversion therapy.Beshear, an LGBTQ ally, noted that he still hopes Kentucky lawmakers will take action to ban such practices but issued the order due to a lack of action by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature.Lawmakers previously overrode a veto Beshear issued of a sweeping anti-LGBTQ bill that bars gender-affirming care for minors, prohibits schools from acknowledging student’s gender identities and pronouns, and blocks LGBTQ-related content from being talked about in schools.“To me, [the issue is] not even about gender or sexuality. It’s about protecting our youth from an inhumane practice that hurts them,” Beshear said during the signing on September 17.He pushed back on critics who claim that banning conversion therapy infringes on anti-LGBTQ individuals’ free speech rights or forces individuals to adopt beliefs that may conflict with their religious views.“Today’s action does not force an ideology on anybody.

Jack Harlow performed hits by Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra alongside the Louisville Orchestra this weekend. Check out the footage below.The rapper is currently on his fourth ‘No Place Like Home Tour’, which launched in 2021 and sees him perform at venues across his home state of Kentucky.For the finale of the tour’s 2024 edition on Friday and Saturday (November 29 and 30), he played two sold-out shows in Louisville at the Kentucky Center For The Performing Arts’ Whitney Hall, alongside the Louisville Orchestra.As well as opening with a live debut of ‘Ambitious’ from his latest album ‘Jackman‘ and closing with the first live performance of ‘Hello Miss Johnson’, he performed a couple of classic covers.First, he took on Sinatra’s 1964 hit ‘Fly Me To The Moon’, dedicating it to Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear on Friday and his grandmother on Saturday.

Oprah Winfrey‘s surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention, in which she made the case for Kamala Harris and against Donald Trump, certainly electrified the United Center, but one moment from the third evening stood out in particular.

Mickey Guyton, Jason Isbell and James Taylor will perform at the Democratic National Convention this evening.

The 2024 Democratic National Convention starts tonight (August 19) live from Chicago, Ill.

The highlight of tonight’s Democratic National Convention will be a speech by President Joe Biden in what is expected to be an emotional moment following his decision to step aside.

It looks like Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota is Vice President Kamala Harris‘ choice to be her VP for her run to become President!

Vice President Kamala Harris is said to have interviewed three of her top Vice President picks on Sunday (August 4) in her run for the 2024 Presidential Election.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Much of Pete Buttigieg’s interview with Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” Monday night was consumed with Stewart’s speculation that Buttigieg is being vetted as a potential vice-presidential candidate. Buttigieg did not deny the notion, but parried by saying that, generally, being vetted for a political post is like being vetted to become a parent through adoption, as he and his husband had.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper will not be Vice President Kamala Harris‘ running mate for the 2024 Presidential election.

President Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris — who has a history of showing up as an LGBTQ+ ally — to become the new Democratic nominee. Although she has not been officially confirmed — and the process to do that is somewhat complicated at this time — she has received the support of a growing list of party leaders and will likely be named the Democratic nominee in the coming weeks.

After dangling the prospect that he would get into the race for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) says that he will not.

Supporters of Joe Biden and Donald Trump planned to hold watch parties across the country for CNN’s presidential debate, seizing on the event to energize their bases.

READ MORE: ‘A Real Problem With Winning’: Right Wing Pundits Stunned by ‘Major Victories’ for Democrats“Think about what some people are doing, trying to dehumanize other human beings. Trying to turn people against each other.

Democrats looked to be on their way to significant victories in off-year elections tonight, with Andy Beshear projected to win reelection in Kentucky, an abortion rights ballot measure easily approved in Ohio and Virginia’s state Senate likely to remain under party control.

one-minute ad, by the right-wing American Principles Project — a “pro-family” political organization that has focused much of its political messaging on opposing LGBTQ rights — alleges that if Beshear wins re-election in November, non-affirming parents will soon lose custody of their children. In the ad, “Dinner Table,” a mother, father, and teenage girl are eating dinner when the teenager says, “Mom, Dad, I’m transgender. I think I might be a boy.”“Honey,” the mother says, “you know we love you no matter what, but, you’re a girl, so why would you say that?”A short-haired woman in a black blazer appears and interrupts her.“Whoa, whoa, whoa.

temporary injunction prohibiting the state from seeking to enforce Section 4 of Senate Bill 150, a sweeping anti-LGBTQ bill that, in addition to barring gender-affirming medical care for minors, restricts which restroom and locker room facilities transgender students can use, allowing teachers and other students to misgender trans-identifying minors, and prohibits certain types of classroom instruction on LGBTQ-related topics and topics related to sexuality, HIV, or other sexually-transmitted diseases.The measure was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear in March over concerns that it infringed not only on LGBTQ students’ right to freedom of expression and equal protection under the law, but the parental rights parents who choose to affirm their children’s identities.In issuing the injunction, Hale sided with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and the National Center for Lesbian Rights, which sued to overturn the law on behalf of seven families with transgender children.

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slammed by LGBTQ advocates as one of the worst bills targeting the transgender community, in part due to its provisions that extend well beyond the realm of transgender health care.In addition to banning gender-affirming medical care for minors, it restricts what bathrooms students may use in schools, limits the scope of sex education to exclude LGBTQ-related topics or information on sexually transmitted diseases, and allows school administrators, employees, and students to misgender trans-identifying minors. None of those other provisions have been challenged in court. The plaintiff families sued last month, alleging the law’s provisions barring transgender minors from accessing gender-affirming treatments infringe on their parents’ right to autonomy in terms of how they choose to raise and make medical decisions for their children and on the youths’ right to equal protection under the law.Corey Shapiro, the legal director for the ACLU of Kentucky, said in a statement that the families “should be able to begin or continue essential medical care” for their children, arguing that the law is an egregious form of government overreach into personal family decisions.They also argue that it is inconsistent with leading medical organizations’ recommendations for treating children suffering from gender dysphoria.“Banning medically necessary care for trans youth is not supported by science or reputable major medical organizations,” Shapiro said.

several major elements of Florida’s “Parental Rights in Education” law, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.Under the newly enacted Kentucky law, school districts are banned from using pronouns that do not match a student’s assigned sex at birth, from teaching certain sex-related courses, and from allowing students to use facilities that match their gender identity, reports Louisville FOX affiliate KDRB.Teachers would be forced to disclose information to parents about their children’s behavior, including whether they are using different names or pronouns that don’t match their sex at birth, or any information disclosed to them by their students about their sexual orientation or gender identity. The new law prohibits schools from teaching human sexuality or sexually-transmitted diseases until after 5th grade, and no student, of any grade level, can receive instruction with “a goal or purpose of students studying or exploring gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.”Schools will also be required to adopt policies informing parents before any class in 6th grade or higher studies sex-related topics, including STDs, and must obtain parental consent before proceeding with any lessons.Schools must also provide alternatives for students whose parents wish to “opt out” of sex-related instruction, and must allow parents to review any materials used in the course of teaching.The bill also prohibits doctors from prescribing puberty blockers or hormones to minors, or from performing surgical interventions to assist a minor in transitioning to a gender that is different from their assigned sex at birth.

Kentucky Gov. Any Beshear, at a bill signing on Wednesday, vetoed a sweeping GOP bill on Friday that would have regulated the lives of trans youths, including banning access to gender-affirming health care and restricting the bathrooms they can use. The bill also would have also banned discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools with students of any age and allowed teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by the pronouns they use. Photo: Gov. Andy Beshear Flickr page