A dozen cities and counties from across the United States have filed an amicus brief urging the 9th U.C. Circuit Court of Appeals uphold a lower court decision in favor of seeing nine LGBTQ and HIV organizations not lose their federal funding. At stake is millions in dollars for services targeted to queer and transgender Americans, as well as the fiscal standing of the nonprofits providing such programs.   The office of San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu exclusively shared with the Bay Area Reporter the 23-page brief it filed on behalf of the coalition of municipalities in the federal lawsuit San Francisco AIDS Foundation v. Trump. The local HIV service provider is among the lead plaintiffs in the case, along with the San Francisco Community Health Center and the GLBT Historical Societ

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