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TRAVERSE CITY — Up North Pride, with a mission to educate, advocate and celebrate the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, hosts Pride week events this month in Traverse City.

March 31 is “International Transgender Day of Visibility,” and advocates held a rally in Helena to mark the day.

March 31 is Trans Day of Visibility every year. This year the group "Queer Trans Youth Assemble" called for student walkouts and rallies nationwide. Dozens of locations across the US saw actions in solidarity. In San Jose, Silicon Valley Pride organized a rally with music, singalongs, speakers, and lots of youth power and creativity.

The Texas Legislature has nine lawmakers who are openly LGBTQ, all Democrats. At the same time, some Republican lawmakers are pushing a slate of bills aimed at drag queens, transgender children and how sexuality is discussed in schools.

While the Religious Discrimination Bill did and continues to cause anxiety for the queer community, for sex workers – queer and otherwise – we feel it as well. The Bill threatens our way of life, our access to services, and even our employment.