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For the past five years, Alice has been making a living as a sex worker. She is also disabled; she has bipolar type II, which leads to hypomania, depression and a severe lack of physical energy.

For Alice, these two sides of her life – disability and sex work – are inexorably linked. Alice (not her real name) started this line of work when she was at university – it was a way to make some extra cash to top up her student loan. She had always intended to quit sex work after graduating. “That was three years ago,” she says.

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Dutee Chand, India's first openly gay athlete, is facing a barrage of criticism from her family after announcing she was in a same-sex relationship.

The sprinter, 23, came out last month, revealing her "soulmate" was a 19-year-old woman from her village.

India's historic decision to decriminalise gay sex in 2018 inspired her decision, she said.

But since publicly coming out, her family have reacted with hostility.

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Members of the disadvantaged LGBTQ community in India, a country where same-sex relations still remain illegal, will soon be able to use a 15-acre ancestral palace in Gujarat as a refuge from discrimination and persecution. The development comes after India’s only openly gay member of royalty, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of Rajpipla, Gujarat, decided to open the gates of his palace to the community and also turn a part of his ancestral estate into a help centre with counselling, care, and medical attention.

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Sponsored by Democratic lawmakers and requested by Inslee, Senate Bill 5526 creates “Cascade Care,” a program to offer standardized plans for individual health coverage, to be offered by private insurers on the benefit exchange.

The plans won’t be available until January 2021, and it’s too early to know what exact coverage they will offer or how much they’ll drive down health-insurance costs.

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A California yoga studio is claiming that former NBA star Dennis Rodman and several others, including a former employee, stole merchandise over two separate trips last week. One of the items among the $3,500 haul: a 400-pound amethyst crystal. Vibes Yoga Studio owner Ali Shad said he watched the heist unfold on the store’s security footage.

He said Rodman, a former employee, and two others worked in coordination to distract an employee and raid the store’s racks. “It’s clear as daylight,” Shad told the Los Angeles Times.

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An international sorority that passed a policy banning transgender women from all of its chapters has said that transgender women may join.

Zeta Phi Beta is a sorority with over 800 chapters and 125,000 members worldwide. This past January, they adopted a new diversity statement.

According to a copy obtained by the Washington Blade, the statement said, “An individual must be a cisgender woman” to join the sorority.

Now Zeta Phi Beta has sent a statement to Essence magazine about the diversity statement, apologizing for it.

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The rush of Republican-controlled states to mount a challenge to the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade rulinglegalizing abortion nationwide has sparked confusion about what these new laws actually do. Here’s what you need to know.

Lawmakers in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah have passed new antiabortion bills, and similar measures are pending in other states. The new laws have prompted questions about whether women who have abortions could be punished and why some of the pieces of legislation are called “heartbeat bills,” among other topics.

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People in Alabama Prisons Are Shackled to Buckets for Days on End

n March 25, 2019, Christopher Caldwell reportedly found himself nearly immobile, shackled to a bucket at Limestone Correctional Facility in Alabama. His pant legs were taped up, and his belly, feet and hands were shackled. Caldwell’s handcuffs were shackled to his belly, preventing him from moving his hands above his waist.

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