LGBTQ News, 4/18/23

[Angeline Binick]

I.     GLOBAL NEWS

II.    POLICY / LEGISLATION

III.   PRO-LGBTQ ADVOCACY

IV.   ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM

V.    HEALTH

VI.   CAMPUS

VII.  RELIGION

VIII. DISCRIMINATION

IX.   HATE CRIMES
X.    ARTS & CULTURE

XI.   SPORTS

XII.  CRIME

XIII. COMMENTARY

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL NEWS

Australia: Sydney’s Inner West Council’s Public Toilet Strategy Seeks To Make Public Toilets Gender Neutral
https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/sydneys-inner-west-councils-public-toilet-strategy-seeks-to-make-public-toilets-gender-neutral/223208

LGBTQ, intersex Gambians continue to suffer persecution
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/04/18/lgbtq-intersex-gambians-continue-to-suffer-persecution/

For LGBTQ Kenyans, court win prompts backlash as threats escalate
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/lgbtq-kenyans-court-win-prompts-backlash-threats-escalate-2023-04-18/

UK: Trans students could be banned from single-sex schools under leaked Tory guidance
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/18/trans-single-sex-schools-gudiance-rishi-sunak/

POLICY / LEGISLATION

Hundreds Rally Against Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills in Arizona, Texas
https://www.advocate.com/politics/anti-lgbtq-bills-texas-arizona

Missouri asks people to ‘report’ doctors offering trans healthcare
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/18/missouri-trans-gender-affirming-care-andrew-bailey/

Missouri House votes to limit transgender student athletes
https://apnews.com/article/transgender-sports-ban-missouri-814d459ad054976b21a45636ae04fb0d

Missouri Attorney General Sets Severe Restrictions on Gender-Affirming Care
https://www.advocate.com/law/gender-affirming-care-missouri

Kentucky Schools in Disarray Over Conflicting Advice on Implementing Anti-LGBTQ+ Law
https://www.advocate.com/politics/kentucky-anti-lgbtq-law-schools

Texas County Votes to Keep Library Running After Threatening It Over Banned Books
https://www.advocate.com/news/texas-library-banned-books

 

PRO-LGBTQ ADVOCACY

Chuck Williams, Founder of the Williams Institute at UCLA Law School, Is Dead
https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/chuck-williams-ucla-dead

ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM

UK: Anti-drag protester who accused drag queen of ‘grooming children’ convicted of hate crimes
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/18/anti-drag-christopher-mitchell-auntie-titania-trust-hate-crime/

HEALTH

Most People Who Died of Mpox Were Black Gay Men With AIDS
https://www.poz.com/article/people-died-mpox-black-gay-men-aids

CAMPUS

Pennsylvania: Penn State celebrates LGBTQ graduates with 2023 Lavender Graduation
https://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/penn-state-celebrates-lgbtq-graduates-with-2023-lavender-graduation/article_45eaf5e8-de0f-11ed-90b7-bf550ae1b928.html

 

RELIGION

Australia: Melbourne’s Scotch College Dissociates Itself From Presbyterian Church’s Views On Gay Students
https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/melbourne-scotch-college-dissociates-itself-from-presbyterian-churchs-views-on-sexually-active-and-gay-students/223231

DISCRIMINATION

Twitter removes policy against deadnaming transgender people
https://apnews.com/article/twitter-elon-musk-transgender-deadnaming-hateful-conduct-ae1b7285bb906e04b26ff9751ec0c2ce

HATE CRIMES

Georgia: Black Trans Woman Ashley Burton Fatally Shot in Atlanta
https://www.advocate.com/crime/ashley-burton-trans-woman-death

UK: Gay Adult Store Attacked for Second Time in Two Months
https://www.advocate.com/crime/clonezone-vandalized-twice

Fresh wave of anti-LGBT violence sweeps Uganda
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20230417-wave-of-anti-lgbt-violence-in-uganda

Australia: I’m A Celeb star David Subritzky left bloodied in ‘homophobic’ attack while on night out in Sydney
(Trigger warning)
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/18/david-subritzky-im-a-celeb-homophobic-attack-sydney/

ARTS & CULTURE

Phoenix Indian Center Celebrates 3rd Annual Two-Spirit Powwow
https://nativenewsonline.net/arts-entertainment/phoenix-indian-center-celebrates-3rd-annual-two-spirit-powwow

SPORTS

Transgender player ruled ineligible for semi-pro women's league
https://www.reuters.com/sports/transgender-player-ruled-ineligible-semi-pro-womens-league-2023-04-18/

UK: Football fan charged over homophobic ‘Chelsea rent boy’ chant at Premier League match
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/17/football-fan-charged-over-homophobic-chelsea-rent-boy-chant/

CRIME

Tennessee: Motive in Nashville shooting remains unclear weeks after 6 people were killed at a Christian school
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/motive-nashville-shooting-remains-unclear-weeks-6-people-killed-christ-rcna79700

COMMENTARY

National Transgender HIV Testing Day 2023
https://www.poz.com/article/national-transgender-hiv-testing-day-2023

Timeline: The unfolding saga between The Free Press and a Missouri gender clinic
https://www.mediamatters.org/bari-weiss/timeline-unfolding-saga-between-free-press-and-missouri-gender-clinic

The impact of anti-trans laws in the US
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/the-impact-of-anti-trans-laws-in-the-us-transcript-1.6813910

Right-wing media figures defending Uganda's anti-gay law are connected to organizations that helped inspire it
https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/right-wing-media-figures-defending-ugandas-anti-gay-law-are-connected-organizations

Where are all the Bears? How fatphobia has erased bigger gay men from our TV & movie screens
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/04/where-are-all-the-bears-how-fatphobia-has-erased-bigger-gay-men-from-our-tv-movie-screens/

Right-wing media ran with dubious police claims of Covenant School shooter's “manifesto” to continue attacks on trans people
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/right-wing-media-ran-dubious-police-claims-covenant-school-shooters-manifesto-continue