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29:29 Casper Cendre started writing letters to queer people in prison when they were in high school. Cendre wanted to know what queer life was like from the inside. Since then, he’s received thousands of letters and artwork.  Ten years later, Cendre directs A.B.O. Comix, a non-profit collective of artists and activists dedicated to providing community and healing. Through selling anthologies of artwork created by incarcerated contributors, A.B.O. has raised over $43,000 in mutual aid to help queer prisoners buy commissary items and pay for medical bills. When and if they are released, A.B...

In his best-seller debut novel, Robert Jones, Jr., describes the romantic and tragic relationship between two enslaved young men on a Mississippi cotton

California health officials have now updated their tracking system online to include LGBTQ COVID data. It comes several days after San Francisco began asking COVID-19 test takers what their sexual orientation is in addition to their gender identity. Monday, December 21, the California Department of Public Health announced that it had moved forward on starting to track the COVID SOGI data. In an advisory to the media, it noted that "as part of its commitment to reduce health inequities and ensure the best outcomes for all Californians, the state has launched a Health Equity Dashboard on www.co...

San Francisco is now asking COVID-19 test takers what their sexual orientation is in addition to their gender identity. It comes one week after city officials had informed the Bay Area Reporter they were working with their sponsored testing provider, Color, to expand the data requested at the time of testing or during registration to ask a question about sexual orientation. It makes San Francisco one of the few municipalities in the state to be collecting the SOGI data. "SOGI data collection has been added to the city's testing site registration through Color lab," Clair Farley, a trans wom...

Meanwhile, San Francisco officials are working to improve their SOGI data collection through its testing sites. Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) told the Bay Area Reporter Thursday that he plans to send a legislative audit request to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee in order to examine how state health officials are collecting not only sexual orientation but also gender identity demographic data. Since 2018, a number of California departments and agencies focused on health care and social services were to be collecting SOGI data after lawmakers enacted several pieces of legislatio...