LGBTQ News, 10/13/21
Angeline Binick
II. POLICY / LEGISLATION
III. POLITICS
IV. ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
V. INCARCERATION
VI. HATE CRIMES
VII. ENTERTAINMENT
GLOBAL NEWS
Gay couple hail 'big win' in battle over children's Namibian citizenship
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gay-couple-hail-big-win-battle-over-childrens-namibian-citizenship-2021-10-13/
Ghanaian chief threatens to force through anti-LGBT+ bill
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/10/13/ghana-anti-lgbt-bill-chief-osagyefo-agyeman-badu-ii/
Virginia: Hanover School Board meeting gets heated amid conversations on transgender policy
https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/hanover-school-board-meeting-gets-heated-amid-conversations-on-transgender-policy
POLITICS
LGBTQ Youth web resource gone after Texas GOP candidate complained
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2021/10/12/lgbtq-youth-web-resource-gone-after-texas-gop-candidate-complained/
UK: Shadow minister criticizes Kathleen Stock for being LGB Alliance trustee
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/13/shadow-minister-criticises-kathleen-stock-for-being-lgb-alliance-trustee
More than 200 women, transgender inmates to be transferred from Rikers Island
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/576629-more-than-200-women-transgender-inmates-to-be-transferred-from-rikers
Washington D.C.: AU student expelled over arrest in attack on gay Asian man, parents
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2021/10/13/au-student-expelled-over-arrest-in-attack-on-gay-asian-man-parents/
Two remaining defendants in D.C. trans murder case accept plea bargain
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2021/10/12/two-remaining-defendants-in-d-c-trans-murder-case-accept-plea-bargain/
Black Trans Man Mel Groves Shot to Death in Mississippi
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/10/13/black-trans-man-mel-groves-shot-death-mississippi
‘If I’m funny, no one cares who I sleep with’: Queer comedians on finding a stage
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/13/queer-comedians-standups-paul-sinha-suzi-ruffell