WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday barred clinics that provide abortions or refer patients to abortion providers from receiving any federal funding. Clinics are already barred from using federal money for abortion services. The new rule would block all funding, including those used for other family planning and health services, if there was not…
DENVER – A U.S. District Court Judge on Thursday denied a U.S. State Department request to stay his September, 2018 order which prohibited the agency from relying upon its binary-only gender marker policy to withhold an accurate passport from Lambda Legal client Dana Zzyym, a U.S. Navy veteran who is intersex and nonbinary, and does…
CHICAGO — Howard Brown Health has put out a call for the Chicago portion of the TGNC Health Research Advisory Network. From the email announcement: We’re proud to announce that Howard Brown’s Center for Education Research and Advocacy is leading an innovative transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) Health Research Advisory Network, Four Corners in collaboration with…
CHICAGO — Chicago police Sgt. Eric J. Elkins, who is under investigation for molesting a teenage boy in Michigan and for beating a gay couple in Andersonville, will be getting his full pension despite quitting last month. On Friday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Elkins, who is gay himself, went to the Policemen’s Annuity and…
INDIANAPOLIS — The GOP-dominated Indiana Senate passed a hate crimes bill that had all protected classes removed over the objections of Democrats and the bill’s sponsor. WNIN-TV reported that people who had supported a hate crimes bill were opposing the passage of the changed bill. GOP Gov. Eric Holcomb, who supported the previous version that…
CARBONDALE — A group of Southern Illinois University (SIU) students are preparing taxes for local residents for free. SIU said in a January post on their website that Beta Alpha Psi, an SIU College of Business honors accounting student organization, is sponsoring the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program in 2019 to assist low-and moderate-income…
CHICAGO — Promethean Theatre Ensemble will close its 2018-19 season with the Midwest Premiere of MAD BEAT HIP & GONE, by Steven Dietz, author of LAST OF THE BOYS and PRIVATE EYES and over thirty other plays that have been produced by regional theatres across the country, internationally, and off-Broadway in New York. MAD BEAT…
