Happening Today
- Clock's Thanksgiving • Rock Island, IL, 12:00 pm:
One of Clock Inc.'s annual holiday traditions.
- Thanksgiving Day Potluck at Mary's on 2nd • Davenport, IA, 3:00 pm:
Thanksgiving with chosen family at the Quad Cities' oldest lLGBTQ+ bar.
Top Stories
Overwhelmed U.S. animal shelters, calls for surrogacy bans, climate change and antibiotic resistance, more
Today’s briefs look at overwhelmed animal shelters, Pope Francis’ call to ban surrogacy, antibiotic resistance and climate change, Ohio’s new ban on gender transition surgeries for minors, and a look at how living in a rural area amplifies risks for and from obesity, especially for People of Color.
Climate change and Hispanic Americans, prescription drugs from Canada, Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ+ law, smartphones as envirometers, Perry school shooter and Discord
Find the best links to learn more about Hispanic Americans and climate change, Uganda’s draconian anti-LGBTQ+ laws, smartphones as envirometers, and more.
News & Features
Diverse online art auction from Carbondale Assembly for Radical Equity offers chance to support transgender families fleeing hostile areas
CARBONDALE, Ill. — If you’re looking for a way to help transgender people seeking to relocate from conservative, rejecting communities to accepting ones, check out the online art auction from the Carbondale Assembly for Radical Equity (CARE).
The auction will continue through 9 p.m. Saturday night. It’s part of a multi-faceted effort in this town of 22,000 known as “little Chicago,” in southern Illinois, to answer regional need for communities that offer sanctuary or haven to transgender or nonbinary people. The new CARE group aims to generate funds that will subsidize food, lodging and apartment deposits for those who feel unsafe, unwelcome, or outright threatened in their current communities.
The bidding is open to anyone, anywhere.
“You do not have to be local to bid on items,” organizers wrote on their event page. “We are happy to ship things to you just for shipping cost.”
Overloaded like animal shelters nationwide, Scott County humane society holds drag show benefit
DAVENPORT — Through its “Drag for Dogs” fundraiser Friday, and a shirt sales campaign, the Humane Society of Scott County is melding its fundraising during critical times with support for the Quad Cities’ LGBTQ community.
The fundraisers come at a time when shelters nationwide are overwhelmed with dogs and cats, struggling to find needed foster families and permanent homes, and overall euthanizing more animals.
Shelter Animals Count, a nonprofit that tries to track animal shelters nationwide, says the rate of euthanasia has increased nationwide for the first time in years. So has the gap between animals taken in by shelters, and released to adoption or foster families.
Read about how to support the Humane Society of Scott County and other animal shelters, whether through Friday’s Drag for Dogs benefit or 11 other steps you can take.
