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'On Friday, June 27, we achieved a historic win. The Court of King's Bench of Alberta granted our request, alongside our co-applicants, Skipping Stone and five individual gender diverse youth, for an injunction to block the Alberta government's ban on gender-affirming care for trans and gender diverse young people from coming into effect.

On the basis of expert evidence, the Court concluded that Bill 26 would cause irreparable harm to gender diverse young people in Alberta. The ruling affirms that trans and gender diverse youth and young people deserve safety and access to the health care they need to thrive.

As we have long argued, the government should never interfere in the medical decisions of doctors and patients or prevent parents and youth from deciding what medical care is right for them. Everyone deserves the ability to access health care and participate fully in their communities. We are grateful that the Court has acted to protect access to critical medical care.

But this victory is only a temporary safeguard. Friday's ruling means that this harmful law will be paused while we proceed with our full constitutional challenge. And we know more is coming: Alberta's two additional anti-trans bills are coming into effect this fall.'

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On 28 June 1969, New York City police arrived at the Stonewall Inn, a bar in Greenwich Village that catered to the gay community, to conduct a routine raid and arrest any individuals found to be cross-dressing. The raid did not proceed routinely, and resulted in resistance and demonstrations by the bar’s patrons and other individuals who gathered around the scene. The Stonewall Riots are considered to be a spark that ignited the gay rights movement.

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#YESquotes: The Carter Presidency & #GayRights / Harris Dousemetzis - "During Carter's presidency, gay people were for the first time drawn into #governmental policy-making & accepted as part of the political community....chang[ing] the public's sensitivity to gay rights..." #Pride bit.ly/4ninFuz

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Bluesky Social · LIVEdammit (@livedammit.bsky.social)#YESquotes: The Carter Presidency & #GayRights / Harris Dousemetzis - "During Carter's presidency, gay people were for the first time drawn into #governmental policy-making & accepted as part of the political community....chang[ing] the public's sensitivity to gay rights..." #Pride bit.ly/4ninFuz

Edmund White, the groundbreaking gay author, died last week at age 85. He was part of a generation of writers who came to prominence in the 1970s, and who documented the tragedy of AIDS, and the advance of gay rights and culture through his fiction and journalism. A transformative moment for him was the Stonewall uprising in 1969. He was in the neighborhood when "all hell broke loose." “Up until that moment we had all thought homosexuality was a medical term,” wrote White, who soon joined the protests. “Suddenly we saw that we could be a minority group — with rights, a culture, an agenda.” Here's a full tribute to him from @AssociatedPress.

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