LGBTQ News, 5/4/23

[Angeline Binick]

I.     GLOBAL NEWS

II.    POLICY / LEGISLATION

III.   ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM

IV.   HATE CRIMES
V.    COMMENTARY

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL NEWS

 

Anti-LGBTQ candidates win Paraguay elections

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/05/04/anti-lgbtq-candidates-win-paraguay-elections/

 

 

UK: New foster care agency matching LGBTQ+ kids with queer carers

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/new-foster-care-agency-matching-lgbtq-kids-with-queer-carers-to-become-their-amazing-wonderful-selves/

 

 

Uganda anti-gay laws: Beaten and forced to flee for being LGBT

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-65455631

 

 

Barbados activists pushing for LGBTQ+ rights after shedding ‘cloak of imperialism’

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/04/barbados-lgbtq-republic/

 

 

 

 

POLICY / LEGISLATION

 

Florida Republicans pass school bills on pronouns and diversity

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/florida-republicans-pass-school-bills-pronouns-diversity-rcna82755

 

 

Florida Lawmakers OK Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill, 'Don't Say Gay' Expansion

https://www.advocate.com/politics/florida-dont-say-gay

 

 

Transgender Florida teachers plan exit due to pronoun bill

(Video)

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/transgender-florida-teachers-plan-exit-due-to-pronoun-bill-172764229977

 

 

Indiana school pronoun bill signed into law amid worries it'll 'out' transgender kids

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2023/05/04/indiana-governor-eric-holcomb-signs-transgender-school-pronoun-bill/70175812007/

 

 

Transgender surgery ban passes in North Carolina House

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/transgender-surgery-ban-passes-north-carolina-house/42KGHVEUSNH3ZHMW6BSYINBNJI/

 

 

Montana lawmakers send Drag Story Hour ban to governor

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/montana-lawmakers-send-drag-story-hour-ban-governor-rcna82859

 

 

Challenge to Kentucky’s anti-trans law filed in federal court

https://hoptownchronicle.org/challenge-to-kentuckys-anti-trans-law-filed-in-federal-court/

 

 

 

 

ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM

 

Leaked Files Expose Anti-Abortion, Anti-LGBTQ+ Medical Group

https://www.advocate.com/health-care/anti-lgbtq-medial-group-files

 

 

Texas school district scraps James and the Giant Peach trips over cross-gender casting

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/04/texas-school-district-james-and-the-giant-peach-trip

 

 

Candace Owens says she could “beat up” a non-binary US Navy service member

https://www.mediamatters.org/candace-owens/candace-owens-says-she-could-beat-non-binary-us-navy-service-member

 

 

Daily Wire's Matt Walsh: “We're filling the military with cross-dressers”

https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/daily-wires-matt-walsh-were-filling-military-cross-dressers

 

 

South Korea: Seoul's LGBT festival blocked by Christian concert outside city hall, organizers say

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/seouls-lgbt-festival-blocked-by-christian-concert-outside-city-hall-organisers-2023-05-04/

 

 

 

 

HATE CRIMES

 

D.C. judge denies request to overturn conviction of man charged with anti-gay assault

(Trigger warning)

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2023/05/04/anthiny-duncan-denied/

 

 

 

 

COMMENTARY

 

The State of the Mental Health Crisis Among LGBTQ Youth

https://thegavoice.com/community/the-state-of-the-mental-health-crisis-among-lgbtq-youth/