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September 1, 2022

Open Letter to the Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board

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August 23, 2022

Addressing Legislative Attacks on the LGBTQ+ Community

In 2022 legislative attacks on queer and trans rights escalated to unprecedented levels. This year’s legislative season saw hundreds of bills introduced across the nation, targeting LGBTQ+ rights, particularly the trans community.

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August 12, 2022

An Open Letter to FINA about trans athletes

We have authored a letter to FINA; in partnership with our peer organizations around the country urging them to remove these discriminatory and unnecessary restrictions on trans athletes.

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July 5, 2022

Why access to abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue

How the recent Supreme Court decision affects queer women, trans men, intersex, two spirit, nonbinary and gender expansive people and how to include them in conversations about abortion.

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June 3, 2022

2021 Impact Report

Because Pride is a celebration, we want to use this month to lift up the incredible work OutFront completed last year. Check out our 2021 Impact Report for a wrap-up of the ways we continue moving the needle of LGBTQ+ equity in Minnesota.

March 31, 2022

Trans Day of Visibility 2022

This year we're focusing on the future.

January 13, 2021

Sun Post: Robbinsdale to penalize providers that engage in conversion therapy

Robbinsdale businesses or organizations that practice or host gay conversion therapy events will likely face financial penalties in 2021. The Robbinsdale City Council’s first matter of new business this year was the first reading of a conversion therapy ban, which passed unanimously at the Jan. 5 meeting.

November 24, 2020

MPR News: What's next for LGBTQ rights?

When a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling made same-sex marriage the law of the land, the LGBTQ community celebrated, but it didn't take the win for granted.

Supporters of marriage equality worried that a different balance of political ideologies on the U.S. Supreme Court could lead to the ruling being overturned down the line.

A group of about 60 transgender individuals, nonbinary individuals and cisgender allies listen to speakers at the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.

August 11, 2020

Sun Post: Robbinsdale church site of protest during anti-LGBTQ seminar

Activists and supporters of LGBTQ rights met the morning of Aug. 8 outside of Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church to protest an all-day seminar they believed was a form of gay conversion therapy. The seminar, titled “Distinctions: Discovering Biblical clarity in a sexually-confused world,” was delivered by Outpost Ministries, a faith-based public speaking organization.

June 18, 2020

Advocate: Is Being Religious and LGBTQ+ Mutually Exclusive?

Activist Scott Keoni Shigeoka, who identifies as queer and spiritual, went on a yearlong (pre-pandemic) road trip across the United States to understand how we could bridge social and political divides.

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