LGBTQ News, 12/8/22

[Angeline Binick]

I.     GLOBAL NEWS

II.    POLICY / LEGISLATION

III.   ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM

IV.   HATE CRIMES

V.    COMMENTARY

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL NEWS

 

For India’s ‘third sex’, acceptance mired in colonial past

https://apnews.com/article/religion-india-government-gender-1ae605563ceb57db6c841cee0494fe30

 

 

 

 

 

 

POLICY / LEGISLATION

 

House passes bill to protect same-sex marriage, sending it to Biden's desk

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-bill-protect-sex-marriage-sending-bidens-desk-rcna60128

 

 

Pennsylvania panel updates anti-discrimination regulations

https://local21news.com/news/nation-world/pennsylvania-panel-updates-anti-discrimination-regulations-sex-religious-creed-race-ancestry-ethnicity-sexual-orientation-interracial-marriages-independent-regulatory-review-commission-human-relations-commission#

 

 

 

 

 

 

ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM

 

This right-wing group is trying to set up a system to target drag shows in Texas

https://xtramagazine.com/culture/texas-groups-website-target-drag-events-241749

 

 

Anti-LGBTQ+ Actor Kirk Cameron Shocked at Libraries' Rejection

https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/12/07/anti-lgbtq-actor-writer-kirk-cameron-shocked-libraries-rejection

 

 

Fox News host calls gender-affirming care “satanic”

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-host-calls-gender-affirming-care-satanic

 

 

Daily Wire host: “There are no such thing as trans and nonbinary kids or adults”

https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/daily-wire-host-there-are-no-such-thing-trans-and-nonbinary-kids-or-adults

 

 

 

 

 

 

HATE CRIMES

 

As drag shows in the U.S. are increasingly targeted, the community fears violence

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/drag-shows-targeted-us-1.6677999

 

 

Colorado: Judge unseals docs in gay bar shooting suspect’s past case

https://apnews.com/article/colorado-springs-privacy-04ceeae1a31cc4d9aefa023553586089

 

 

Colorado: Club Q Suspect Wanted to Be ‘the Next Mass Killer,’ Court Docs Say

https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/12/07/club-q-suspect-wanted-be-next-mass-killer-court-docs-say

 

 

Colorado: Club Q shooting suspect opened fire immediately, claimed to have been awake for days, affidavit says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/club-q-shooting-suspect-opened-fire-immediately-claimed-awake-days-aff-rcna60682

 

 

Pennsylvania: Black Trans Woman Shahere ‘Diamond’ Jackson-McDonald Fatally Shot

https://www.advocate.com/crime/2022/12/07/black-trans-woman-shahere-diamond-jackson-mcdonald-fatally-shot

 

 

Gay California legislator gets 2nd bomb threat this year

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/gay-california-lawmaker-receives-2nd-bomb-threat-year-rcna60530

 

 

California: Investigation in death of LGBT Center worker still misgendering her

https://www.losangelesblade.com/2022/12/06/investigation-in-death-of-lgbt-center-worker-still-misgendering-her/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMENTARY

 

Under Elon Musk’s new “general amnesty” plan, right-wing accounts pushing misinformation are brought back to Twitter

https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/under-elon-musks-new-general-amnesty-plan-right-wing-accounts-pushing-misinformation-are