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"Griffin-Gracy is in hospice care, her partner has announced, shortly after she was hospitalized for a bloodstream infection. "Miss Major is at home on hospice," Beck Witt Major said in a Facebook post Saturday. "She is comfortable and surrounded by love." Witt Major revealed in a separate post last week that Major, 84, had been hospitalized in September for a blood clot and sepsis. The activist has been experiencing ongoing health problems, including suffering a stroke in 2019, and also being hospitalized in January, after which she revealed that she needed 24-hour nursing care. "Friends, Miss Major has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot," Witt Major wrote. "I’m worried about her please pray for her and donate if you can."..." The Advocate

PSA: check in on the people in your life, especially those of us who are finding and forging who we are... I had a sobering realization this morning. In ten days, I’m going in for bottom surgery and I realized how profoundly alone I’ve become as I approach it. Not in a tragic way, but in a numb one. It doesn’t bother me as much as it should, and that’s the part that hit hardest. Most people in my life — friends, family, even other trans friends — know what’s coming up for me. But almost nobody checks in. No messages, no “how are you holding up?”, no “hey, I’m thinking about you.” When I do hear from people, it’s often because I reached out first. And while I know life gets busy, it’s still a quiet kind of pain to realize how invisible you can feel, even to those who care. So I want to use that realization to say something important: Check in on the trans people in your life. Check in on your friends, your family members, your community members — even the ones who seem strong and put-together. Especially now, in this political climate, so many of us are scared, exhausted, or just quietly trying to hold it together. Some are searching for reasons to keep going. Sometimes all it takes is a message, a call, a simple “hey, I thought of you.” Because silence, even unintentional, can feel deafening. And kindness — small, ordinary kindness — can be the thing that keeps someone grounded. Please… don’t wait for us to reach out first. We notice when you don’t. And we remember when you do. Some of us have already gone quiet because we stopped expecting anyone to answer back.

Sarah Klimm knows a thing or two about battlefields, and she’s ready to enter another one. At 51, the retired U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant and parent of three is running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 11th District, which covers Lancaster County and portions of York County in the state’s south-central region. Read more at: https://www.advocate.com/politics/sarah-klimm-congressional-candidate-pennsylvania

Parade Live!! 💁🏻‍♂️🌈 #HappyPride #PrideParade Saturday, Oct 11th @ 12 Noon

By the accounts I’ve read, October 6, 1998 was a chilly night in Laramie, Wyoming. That’s the night two cowards drove Matthew Shepard to a remote area and proceeded to rob, pistol-whip, and torture him before tying him to a split-roll fence. 18 hours later, a cyclist thought he found a scarecrow when he discovered Shepard, still tied to the fence. He had multiple skull fractures and severe brainstem damage, affecting his body’s ability to regulate his heart rate, temperature, and other vital functions. He had more than a dozen cuts on his head, face, and neck. Matthew was beaten so brutally, his face was completely covered in blood except where his tears partially cleansed his skin.