Baz Holmes Poynter, proudly trans and gay, after she told alders “how it is to be me.”
Kids will sometimes make mean comments when fifth-grader Wesley Bianchine uses the teacher’s restroom at school. But all the other bathrooms are designated for either boys or girls, leaving non-binary kids like Wesley without another place to go.
“The world is not organized for transgender children,” Wesley said to a panel of alders and an audience of over 50 people.
And as a stream of students, parents, and educators insisted, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) should help change that.
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Sep 12, 2022 4:23 pm
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The flag marks PRIDE New Haven, eight days of LGBTQIA+ events.
A rainbow burst through the Monday afternoon fog in the form of a Pride flag newly raised over the New Haven Green, marking the start of a week of LGBTQIA+ celebrations amid growing resistance towards transgender rights in the state and across the country.
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Jun 19, 2022 11:01 am
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Jhah Cook and Farrah Mohammed collecting pride pins at a Bi+ table.
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Moms Madeleine and Jessica with daughter Emma Brunson.
It was all sunshine and rainbows on Saturday, as hundreds of folks filled Hamden’s Town Park Center with queer joy and loving community in celebration of the town’s largest-ever Pride festival.
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Jun 2, 2022 9:40 am
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Jacky and Amanda Forcucci with their kids, Johnny and Sawyer, at Wednesday's event.
Hamden raised a rainbow flag at Town Hall for the first time to launch Pride Month — and lifted the spirits of LGBTQIA+ community members looking to live in a more aware and affirming town.
Participants in Thursday's "Children's March" to Edgewood Park.
One hundred and fifty New Haven middle and high school students put their pencils down and posters up Thursday to give the city a lesson on solidarity, passion, and leading through action.
Local officials have grown more optimistic that they will be able to head off a $3 million hit to school budgets and still allow transgender athletes to compete in school sports. If they are not successful, the cost of taking a lawsuit against the federal government to the U.S. Court of Appeals could cost up to $99,000 — though New Haven would have help paying the tab.
These are the latest updates from the New Haven Public Schools Board of Education, which convened for a special meeting on the subject Monday night.
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Apr 21, 2020 3:14 pm
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Drag artist Loosey LaDuca records a virtual drag story hour video.
Video-recorded drag queen story hours to promote LGBTQ+-friendly children’s books.Online safe spaces for queer youth to share stories and get advice about sheltering in place at home.Advocacy for the repeal of a decades-old federal policy that discriminates against gay man who want to donate blood.
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Oct 14, 2019 7:56 am
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Jody Clouse (second from the right) with her daughters Mya (left) and Sylvia and town arts chief Alisha Martindale (right) at first-ever town Pride event.
Jody Clouse got “a little teary” as she helped raise a rainbow Pride flag for the first time in her hometown’s Center Park.
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Jun 30, 2017 1:46 pm
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Dunn at the New Haven Pride Center.
Patrick Dunn never thought that turning the pages of National Geographic magazine would lead him to the New Haven Pride Center (NHPC). Now his thinking about herd mentality has him stepping up as its first executive director.
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Nov 10, 2016 2:20 pm
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Hausladen and Zinn.
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Abdul-Shakoor and Shah.
Thursday’s programs on WNHH radio ask what 21st century transportation might look like, celebrate a New Haven faith center, continue to (loudly) debate the election, go to the movies, fill listeners in on LGBT news and comparative shop for church pews.
Allen with a bathroom graphic udring “Pride Weekend” tour.
Standing in the narrow, stone-lined alleyway beside St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Hillhouse Avenue, LGBTQ historian John D. Allen remembered some of the blessed unions that took place outside the building.
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Jun 14, 2016 7:53 am
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Bandhary-Alexander and Lugo at WNHH.
The latest programs from WNHH radio check in with community members about the massacre in Orlando, revisit immigration reform and the Brock Turner case, meet new authors with new summer reads, and time-travel to a simple time that actually wasn’t so simple.
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May 20, 2016 7:08 am
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Daly at Wednesday’s summit.
Can the Muslim community really count on the FBI to protect it in mosques, schools, and neighborhoods as racial profiling and counterterrorism efforts escalate across the country?
Today’s shows on WNHH radio debated the upcoming primary, explore Connecticut’s food scene, delve into the history of birdhouses (yes, you read that correctly) in New Haven, and more.
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Jan 6, 2016 1:20 pm
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168 York Street Cafe.
Those walking down York Street Cafe last Saturday night might have gotten a sip of Bear Soup, a hearty mix of “bears, leather, drag and more” — the “more” being an evening of rollicking entertainment and fundraising to support LGBTQ programs at True Colors, a Connecticut-based nonprofit organization that serves sexual-minority youth and provides family services.
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Nov 12, 2015 1:03 pm
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Angela Bowen (left), Jennifer Abod, and poet Kitty Tsui
In The Passionate Pursuits of Angela Bowen, which will be playing this Thursday night as one of the opening movies in the 2015 New Haven International Film Festival, director Jennifer Abod documents the many challenges and triumphs of a woman who continually sought to reinvent herself as she came to know and embrace each aspect of a complicated identity. Indeed, the film is a sort of love letter — a well-deserved and carefully made one — to the New Haven dancer, feminist, civil rights activist and scholar offers a loving portrait of a life defined by difficult transitions, hard-won success and lasting personal and professional influence.
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Sep 25, 2015 1:44 pm
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“We evolve as a people, and the way that we understand these things evolves,” said Seth Wallace, executive chairman and one of the organizers behind Pride New Haven. “There’s been an explosion in the way we think about and talk about these things.”
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Jun 30, 2015 1:28 pm
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A day after the Obama administration celebrated a new era in civil rights for the LGBT community, bathing the White House in luminous rainbow-colored hues, a crowd gathered at Morris Cove’s Pardee Seawall in New Haven to witness the marriage of Mischa Johnson (left) and Betty Baisden (right), pillars of the local community who also happen to be a transgender couple.
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Jun 26, 2015 11:49 am
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When the Supreme Court granted same-sex marriage its final victory nationwide Friday, John Allen’s mind traveled back 22 years, to New Haven’s aldermanic chambers.
