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Updated: 5:13 AM CDT July 15, 2021 ST. LOUIS — After more than a year away, festivals are returning to the Missouri Botanical Garden with Chinese Culture Days. The annual event will kick off on Aug. 7 with a grand parade featuring a 70-foot dancing dragon. The weekend-long event will also feature authentic regional cuisine and watch special performances and martial arts demonstrations. For more information about the festival and to get tickets, click here. There will be no tra...

At that point we had our lawyers involved.’ MARTIN DE RUYTER/STUFF Transgender rights supporters protest against the Speak Up For Women group and the council decision allowing it to hold a public meeting in Nelson. The group argued the council had cancelled the booking unlawfully, with the council appearing to agree with the “characterisation of our organisation which had been made online”. Graham told the group that was not the case, with the dialogue between the parties avoiding a po...

It planned to speak at the Lion Harbourview Lounge in the Michael Fowler Centre on July 15 and recently had its booking confirmed by WellingtonNZ, which runs the city’s public venues. The group’s campaign and upcoming event has raised concerns among Wellington City councillors and nationwide transgender support and advocacy group, Gender Minorities Aotearoa. After finding out about the venue confirmation, councillor Fleur Fitzsimons​ wrote to Wellington NZ’s chief executive, John ...

New birthing center coming to Central Texas Megan Vanselow © Provided by Waco-Temple-Bryan KWTX-TV The Starting Place Birthing Center Temple TEMPLE, Texas (KWTX) - The Starting Place Birth and Wellness Center, a non-profit center working under Heartline Ministries, will open its doors to the community Tuesday, focusing on the underserved minority community in Bell County. Co-founders Tara Livesay and Beth Johnson are midwives, offering prenatal, delivery and postpartum care a...

"A number of our political opponents who are activists are targeting these venues and asking that we be cancelled."

"A number of our political opponents who are activists are targeting these venues and asking that we be cancelled."

The bill will allow gender-diverse New Zealanders to self-identify the gender on their birth certificate, Internal Affairs Minister Jan Tinetti said.

A boisterous but peaceful throng protested in central Nelson against a group that opposes legislation to allow gender self-identification on birth certificates.

Speak up for Women’s planned talk on sex self-identification has been moved amid concerns for the wellbeing of the LGBTQI+ community.

A divisive group barred from speaking in Christchurch libraries has been allowed to use a Nelson City Council venue, a move which has “embarrassed” and “disappointed” some councillors.