LGBTQ News, 7/28/21
Angeline Binick
II. CRIME
III. POLICY / LEGISLATION
IV. PRO-LGBTQ ADVOCACY
V. ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
VI. DISCRIMINATION
VII. HATE CRIMES
VIII. ARTS & CULTURE
IX. ENTERTAINMENT
X. SPORTS
XI. COMMENTARY
GLOBAL NEWS
Anger and fear in Ghana as bill seeks to criminalize LGBT+ people
https://news.trust.org/item/20210727123715-wmbd9/
Ghana: Let's not generate intense hate campaign against homosexuals, says Kofi Akpaloo regarding anti-LGBT bill
https://www.modernghana.com/news/1095260/anti-lgbt-bill-lets-be-careful-and-not-generate.html
Tanzania: Human rights lawyers sue government over homophobic arrests
https://www.mambaonline.com/2021/07/27/tanzania-sa-lawyers-sue-government-over-homophobic-arrests/
‘We’re back baby’: How this Australian-first Pride Centre is restoring the hope of a neighborhood
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/29/were-back-baby-how-this-australian-first-pride-centre-is-restoring-the-hope-of-a-neighbourhood
Canada: Homophobia and transphobia in P.E.I. schools a 'serious and systemic' issue, youth advocate says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-child-and-youth-advocate-discrimination-in-schools-1.6119919
Canada: Trans woman says getting gender-affirming ID in Ontario is an 'impossible struggle'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-transgender-identification-gender-1.6117750
Ed Buck Guilty of All Charges
https://www.advocate.com/crime/2021/7/27/ed-buck-guilty-all-charges-against-him-will-likely-die-prison
POLICY / LEGISLATION
Hate crime laws lack uniformity across the U.S., report finds
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/hate-crime-laws-lack-uniformity-across-u-s-report-finds-n1275267
Maryland sodomy law used in bookstore arrests of gay men still on books
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2021/07/28/md-sodomy-law-used-in-bookstore-arrests-of-gay-men-still-on-books/
Sally Miller Gearhart, Lesbian Separatist and Activist, Dies at 90
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/sally-miller-gearhart-dead.html
ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
Australia: Sydney Serves Eviction Notice To Transphobic Feminist Legal Clinic
https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/city-of-sydney-serves-eviction-notice-to-transphobic-feminist-legal-clinic/204768
Colorado: Denver Web Designer Who Refused Same-Sex Couples Loses Court Case
https://www.advocate.com/news/2021/7/28/denver-web-designer-who-refused-same-sex-couples-loses-court-case
HATE CRIMES
Nebraska: LGBTQ event at children's museum canceled following threats
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lgbtq-event-children-s-museum-canceled-following-threats-n1275299
Texas: Suspect Charged With Shooting Houston Woman After Learning She's Trans
(Trigger warning)
Pennsylvania: Man found guilty, sentenced in murder of transgender woman in North Philadelphia
https://6abc.com/north-philadelphia-shooting-woman-shot-in-head-guns-murder-rate/10910502/
Netherlands: Teen attacked for refusing to answer ‘are you a boy or a girl?’
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/28/boy-or-girl-attack/
UK: Group of youths punched and robbed in another Liverpool hate crime
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/07/28/liverpool-lgbt-hate-crime/
New effort will help trans researchers update their names in published works
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/new-effort-will-help-trans-researchers-update-names-published-works-rcna1529
South Africa: UCT students boycott Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lecture
https://www.mambaonline.com/2021/07/28/uct-students-boycott-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-lecture/
ENTERTAINMENT
Dua Lipa 'horrified' at DaBaby's HIV and gay comments
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57984070
Rapper DaBaby apologises for HIV comments as Boohoo drops him
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-57999121
Unapologetically themself: Nonbinary Olympian Alana Smith shares powerful message
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/unapologetically-themself-nonbinary-olympian-shares-powerful-message-rcna1520
‘A nightmare scenario’: How an anti-trans Instagram post led to violence in the streets
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/28/anti-trans-video-los-angeles-protest-wi-spa
Gay athletes more comfortable living their lives openly — and that’s a good thing
https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/2021/7/26/22595263/gay-athletes-more-comfortable-living-their-lives-openly-and-thats-a-good-thing
Trans rights divides political rivals, young and old in the United States
https://news.trust.org/item/20210727162640-j2j6m/
Survey: More Americans Know a Trans Person, Yet Acceptance Unchanged
https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2021/7/27/survey-more-americans-know-trans-person-yet-acceptance-unchanged
They saved Chicago’s last lesbian bar and infused it with Black queer culture
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-community-voices/saved-chicagos-last-lesbian-bar-infused-black-queer-culture-rcna1514
Another Pie in the Face for Anita Bryant: Her Granddaughter Is Gay
https://www.advocate.com/people/2021/7/27/another-pie-face-anita-bryant-her-granddaughter-gay
Canada: Vancouver seen as a safe haven for LGBTQ people from around the world
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-safe-haven-lgbtq-1.6117787