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Pope Francis Punishes Homophobic Cardinal

Pope Francis is sending a strong message against hate, stripping a Cardinal of his privileges for anti-LGBT preaching. The Catholic Pope has taken a stand against Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, a prominent anti-LGBTQ+ figure in the United States. The Pope has revoked Cardinal Burke’s right to a subsidized Vatican apartment and retirement salary, citing concerns about the spread of “disunity” in the…

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#cardinal burke #Catholic Church #homophobia #Pope Francis #vatican

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First Amendment Means Drag Too

The First Amendment isn’t disposable, says a new ruling from a Texas judge against anti-drag laws. In a major win for the LGBTQ+ community, a federal judge in Texas has shut down S.B.12, a controversial law taking aim at drag performers. U.S. District Judge David Hittner declared the law unconstitutional and issued a permanent injunction, preventing state officials from enforcing it. This…

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#dan patrick #david hittner #drag #drag bans #First Amendment #greg abbott #Texas

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Gay Games in Hong Kong

The Gay Games 2023 are opening on Saturday in Hong Kong, the event’s first time in Asia. The Gay Games were founded in 1982 by an Olympic athlete, a worldwide event to promote acceptance of LGBT+ athletes, artists, and performers. Intentionally similar to the Olympic Games, the first one was held inn San Francisco, and it has been held every four years since then, with a one-year delay during the…

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#athletics #beijing #China #gay games #hong kong #junius ho #reginia ip

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Pulse Nightclub Bought by Orlando

Pulse Nightclub will be bought by the city, in a move to preserve the memory of the tragedy there. Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer revealed on Wednesday that the city intends to acquire the Pulse Nightclub, the LGBTQ+ establishment where a tragic event occurred in June 2016, resulting in the loss of 49 lives. 29-year-old Omar Mateen, claiming he was acting on behalf of ISIS, held hostages and shot over…

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#buddy dyer #memorial #onePulse #Orlando #orlando city council #Pulse nightclub #shooting

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Supreme Court Could Ban Bans

The Supreme Court is facing a critical showdown about state bans on “conversion therapy,” a widely discredited practice of attempting to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. While this practice is already banned for minors in about half of U.S. states because it’s incredibly harmful, it’s resurfaced as the court has become more conservative and open to cases involving…

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#brian tingley #california #conversion therapy #scotus #supreme court #transphobia #washington state

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Texas Drag Law Laid Low

A Texas drag law has been struck down a second time by the same federal judge, this time possibly for good. Senate Bill 12 has featured on this blog before. It was signed by Governor Greg Abbott in June, and expanded existing state law to attempt to criminalize drag shows in any public space. That’s not just a worry of performers in the state, it was explicitly stated in the bill’s statement of…

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#david hittner #drag #drag bans #greg abbott #ken paxton #senate bill 12 #Texas

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First Amendment Means Drag Too

The First Amendment protects drag shows, performers tell a federal judge in Texas just days before the state’s new law would ban them. Senate Bill 12, which will go into effect on Friday unless it’s blocked, would have defined any “male performer exhibiting as a female, or a female performer exhibiting as a male, who uses clothing, makeup, or other similar physical markers and who sings, lip…

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#david hittner #drag #drag queens #drag shows #First Amendment #gender noncomformity #greg abbott #senate bill 12 #Texas

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Locs In or Locked Out?

Locs have gotten Darryl George, a black student in Texas, suspended for a week. George’s mother, Darresha George, has hired a lawyer and is considering legal action against the school district. According to the Barbers Hill Independent School District dress and grooming code, male students’ hair must not extend below the eyebrows or below the ear lobes. Darryl George was reprimanded for his locs…

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#barbers hill independent school district #CROWN Act #natural hair #racism #Texas

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Florida: Fix Your Fair Voting

Florida has to re-district, and they tried to use that to erase black voters, but a judge threw their efforts out. A judge in Florida has ruled in favor of civil rights groups, deeming a congressional district map supported by Republican Governor Ron DeSantis unconstitutional. The ruling, expected to be appealed, represents a redistricting victory for Democrats in the Southeast and potentially…

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#congressional districts #Florida #gerrymandering #lee mars #racism #ron desantis

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Transgender Adults Are Aging

Transgender adults worry about finding housing and community as they age, in these unfriendly times. Thirty-three out of fifty states have introduced anti-trans legislation in the past year, from laws concerning who can access gender-affirming care to who can use which restroom. In nineteen states, there’s no protection of housing rights for transgender people, and federal law only prohibits…

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#aging care #senior citizens #trans rights #transgender

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Malaysia Bans Rainbow Watches

Malaysia’s new morality law prohibits the wearing of any “LGBTQ related” products, and even a rainbow watch could land you in jail. In Malaysia, homosexuality is a crime punishable by high fines and long prison terms – as long as 20 years. It has historically been rarely enforced at the legal level, but the laws have been used to justify a shocking amount of violence against LGBTQ people. With…

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#anti-lgbt laws #homophobia #Human Rights Watch #Malaysia #phil robertson #swatch

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How Many Of Us?

How many people are affected by the recent waves of GOP-led anti-LGBTQ+ legislation? The data is not usually part of their lawmaking. In the past three years at least 21 states have passed laws targeting gender-affirming care for transgender people, or making it illegal for transgender kids to play sports, or made it a crime for transgender people to use the correct bathrooms. But missing from…

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#anti-trans laws #demographics #intersex #transgender #williams institute

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Iraq Bans LGBT Language from Media

Iraq has banned the term ‘homosexuality’ from use in media. They must call it ‘sexual deviance’ instead. The order is not yet official, but was released on Tuesday from Iraq’s official regulator of media, the Iraqi Communications and Media Commission (CMC). All media and social media companies operating in Iraq must cease using words like “homosexuality,” “homosexual,” and “gender” in any…

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#Aya Majzoub #homophobia #iraq #iraqi communications and media commission #religious homophobia #state-sanctioned homophobia

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Putin cracks down on trangender Russians with a new law,

Putin cracks down on trangender Russians with a new law, aiming to create villains to distract from military losses. It’s been over a decade since Putin fired a warning shot at the LGBTQ community with his law forbidding ‘promoting’ queerness to minors. Shortly after that, it became illegal to promote anything LGBTQ at all, a broad law used to force tens of thousands of people back into the…

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An Apology for UK Vets

An apology has been given by Rishi Sunak for the awful historical treatment of LGBT veterans in the British military. Until 2000, it was illegal to be gay in the British military. The justification at the time was “maintenance of operational effectiveness and efficiency,” which essentially means nothing. The policy was overturned after four servicemen and women who had been dismissed for their…

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#britian #lgbt veterans #rishi sunak #UK military

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Japan Passes Weak Pro-LGBT Law

Japan passes an “LGBT understanding” bill, in an incremental step forward for the queer Japanese community. Japan is the only G7 nation with no legal protection for same-sex unions, except for local city-specific laws which offer limited rights to civil unions. They had promised to pass a law protecting LGBT rights before May’s G7 summit meeting, but the law they passed is not quite that. The…

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#g7 nations #Japan #marriage laws #same-sex marriage #takeharu kato

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Washington and Minnesota: Allies

Washington and Minnesota have both established themselves as shield states for patients seeking reproductive or gender-affirming care, with simultaneous laws signed in April. Since the conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, threatening literally every aspect of medical privacy and exposing it to state or federal legislation, over a dozen states have banned abortion and as…

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#health care is a human right #jay inslee #Minnesota #sanctuary states #shield states #tim walz #Washington