Transgender and nonbinary students in Virginia will soon be able to use their pronouns and name of choice at school, according to new guidelines from the Virginia Department of Education that school districts must adopt come September.
VDOEâs model guidelines were issued in March, a month bookended annually by International Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, a day to celebrate the transgender community and raise awareness about the discrimination the community faces.
The commemoration was founded in 2009 by Rachel Crandall-Crocker, a psychotherapist and executive director of Transgender Michigan, who said in a Wednesday column for the online LGBTQ magazine âThemâ that she wanted the community to have more than the Transgender Day of Remembrance, observed annually on Nov. 20.
By City News Service
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - More cultural institutions will reopen to the public today following COVID-19 closures, with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Natural History Museum both welcoming visitors again.
Visitors to LACMA with tickets purchased in advance online – will see several new exhibits, including: Bill Viola: Slowly Turning Narrative; Cauleen Smith: Give It Or Leave It; NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE - 2020 CE); Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera; View From Here: Recent Acquisitions; and Yoshitomo Nara.
The exhibitions Do Ho Suh: 348 West 22nd Street and Fiji: Art & Life in the Pacific from 2020 were extended and also will be available to view.
By City News Service
Apr 1, 2021
COMPTON (CNS) - What began as a tree fire was pushed by gusting winds into an industrial pallet yard and warehouse complex in Compton today, creating a plume of thick black smoke visible from as far as Orange County and prompting evacuations as embers ignited blazes at homes in an adjacent neighborhood.
A passerby initially reported a fire burning in a tree near Alameda Street and East Rosecrans Avenue around 4:30 p.m., fire officials said.
With the Southland in the tail end of a Santa Ana wind event, gusty conditions quickly pushed the flames into the industrial yard, sparking an inferno as flames chewed through flammable materials stacked in the yard and inside metal-roof structures on the property.
By City News Service
Apr 1, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department will resume enforcement of all parking violations in unincorporated areas of the county today.
After a period of relaxed enforcement due to the coronavirus pandemic, the department s Parking Enforcement Detail will once again issue tickets for street-sweeping violations, expired registration and other violations, and will also begin towing vehicles that have been warned via a ``red tag.
Those in need of financial assistance to pay citations can make arrangements at www.lasheriffparking.com, by calling 866-561-9744, or writing to Los Angeles County Sheriff s Department, P.O. Box 30629, Los Angeles, CA 90030-0629.
A gunman who carried out a deadly rampage inside an office building in Orange, killing four people including a 9-year-old boy, was acquainted either personally or professionally with the victims and specifically targeted the real estate services office, police said today.