LGBTQ News, 4/11/22
Angeline Binick
I. GLOBAL NEWS
II.
REGIONAL NEWS
III. POLICY / LEGISLATION
IV. POLITICS
V. ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
VI. HEALTH
VII. CONVERSION THERAPY / “EX-GAY” GROUPS
VIII. DISCRIMINATION
IX. ARTS & CULTURE
X. ENTERTAINMENT
XI. SPORTS
XII. COMMENTARY
GLOBAL NEWS
Australia: Scott Morrison renews support for trans women sport ban amid senator’s fundraising drive
Federal Election 2022: One In Three Australian LGBT Voters Undecided About Their Vote
Polish LGBT+ library helps queer Ukrainians safely navigate notorious ‘LGBT-free zones’
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/11/poland-lgbt-free-ukraine/
France: Macron calls Polish PM an ‘extreme-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people’
https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-morawiecki-extreme-right-antisemite-ban-lgbt-people/
REGIONAL NEWS
Pennsylvanians testify about book bans in Washington D.C.
https://www.witf.org/2022/04/08/pennsylvanians-testify-about-book-bans-in-washington-d-c/
POLICY / LEGISLATION
Not just Florida. More than a dozen states propose so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bills
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/10/1091543359/15-states-dont-say-gay-anti-transgender-bills
Texas Social Workers Quit Over Abbott's Anti-Trans Investigative Order
Florida Republicans Threaten Disney With Legal Retribution For Condemning 'Don't Say Gay' Law
Navajo Nation lawmaker seeks to legalize gay marriage, igniting new debate
Tennessee's anti-gay marriage bill sparks bipartisan criticism
U.S. citizens can now choose the gender 'X' on their passport applications
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/11/1092000203/gender-x-us-passport-applications
Bill Preventing Non-binary Designation on Oklahoma Birth Certificates Moves Forward
Alabama: Anti-LGBTQ bills prompt firestorm of criticism from civil liberty organizations
Transgender treatment ban challenged by lawsuit in Alabama
Virginia bill signed requires parent notification of ‘sexually explicit materials’
LGBTQ+ activists concerned Youngkin and Republican-controlled House would limit public school students’ access to LGBTQ-specific information
POLITICS
Deputy White House press secretary criticizes Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law
ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
Washington D.C.: Georgetown University students to anti-trans hate group: Go away!
Tucker Carlson calls on men to storm into schools “and thrash the teacher”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tucker-carlson-calls-men-storm-schools-and-thrash-teacher
Vernon Jones Says Being Gay Is a Choice: 'They Can Actually Change'
https://www.newsweek.com/vernon-jones-civil-rights-gay-change-black-bannon-trump-georgia-1696619
HEALTH
CDC warns of meningococcal disease outbreak in Florida primarily affecting gay, bi men
CONVERSION THERAPY / “EX-GAY” GROUPS
UK: Hundreds rally in Downing Street for full ban on conversion therapy
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-61060024
UK: Johnson’s LGBT adviser ‘dismayed’ at failure to ban trans conversion practices
DISCRIMINATION
UK: Almost half of LGBTQ+ psychiatrists report hostility at work, finds survey
ARTS & CULTURE
Smithsonian podcast centers queer voices in aerospace
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/04/09/queerspace-podcast-air-space-museum/
University of Alabama history course explores queerness in the South
https://cw.ua.edu/98064/culture/ua-history-course-explores-queerness-in-the-south/
UK: London Trans+ Pride to return
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/04/11/london-trans-pride-2022/
ENTERTAINMENT
Man behind 'world's first gay country album' tours country nearly 50 years after first album release
SPORTS
Australia: MLS, Liga MX, NWSL teams unite with aim to eliminate anti-gay abuse
COMMENTARY
Destigmatizing HIV Among Youth and LGBTQ Folx of Color
https://www.poz.com/blog/destigmatizing-hiv-among-youth-lgbtq-folx-color
Why Are Queer Nightclubs in Brooklyn Under Attack?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/why-queer-nightclubs-brooklyn-under-164130082.html
‘It’s Abhorrent’: Photos from the Trans Conversion Therapy Protest
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7d883/transgender-conversion-therapy-lgbt-protest-photos
US Indicts ‘God’s Oligarch,’ World Congress of Families Funder Konstantin Malofeev