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They stand out on these streets as they travel en masse, drifting down side streets and sidewalks passing alongside many locals making their way to or from various nightclubs and bars.

“We’re reaching out to the public,” Herrera told INTO. “To the homeless population and the trans women who are out there doing sex work.”

Herrera and others are participating in the Midnight Stroll, a largely volunteer-based program designed to assist displaced LGBTQ persons. Herrera participates in the Stroll through her work as a Victims Advocate at St. John’s Well Child & Family Center’s Transgender Health Program, where she connects queer people – primarily trans women of color and the undocumented – to health care and safety.

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Teanna Herrera is Building Bridges Between Trans Sex Workers and Health Care

Taiwan’s vote against same-sex marriage illustrates the problem with referendums

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This month’s midterm election results saw an unprecedented number of openly LGBTQ candidates elected to local, state, and federal office across the United States. While the voter turnout was the largest and queerest for a midterm election in U.S. history with 6 percent of voters identifying as LGBTQ, enemies of equality continue to employ anti-democratic tactics to stifle and silence queer voices.

It is well-documented that Republicans do not fight fair when it comes to elections. From Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era and continuing through the 2018 election, conservatives have utilized voter suppression to keep marginalized voices from being fully heard. Arguably, the GOP’s favorite anti-democracy tool is gerrymandering, or the drawing of voting districts – typically on the basis of race – to advantage Republicans over Democrats. And while not all LGBTQ people are Democrats, all LGBTQ people stand to lose big if the majority of queer votes and voices are disenfranchised.

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Gerrymandering Is An LGBTQ Issue

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The new protection comes under the heading: ‘Repeated and/or non-consensual slurs, epithets, racist and sexist tropes or other content that degrades someone.’

It continues: ‘We prohibit targeting individuals with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to dehumanize, degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category.

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Twitter now protects trans people from targeted misgendering and deadnaming