LGBTQ News, 7/11/24
Angeline Binick
I. GLOBAL NEWS
II. POLICY / LEGISLATION
III. ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
IV. DISCRIMINATION
V. HATE CRIMES
VI. COMMENTARY
GLOBAL NEWS
Uganda rights activists file appeal against ruling on anti-LGBTQ law
Burkina Faso adopts draft law to criminalize homosexuality
Court in Japan allows transgender woman to officially change gender without compulsory surgery
Black transgender woman from Chicago disappears in the Bahamas
POLICY / LEGISLATION
Congressional budget amendments target D.C. Office of LGBTQ Affairs, Human Rights Act
Idaho joins states challenging health care protections for transgender Americans
ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
Heritage Foundation Denies That It Was Penetrated by ‘Gay Furry Hackers’ After Bizarre Chat Logs Leak
DISCRIMINATION
California: San Francisco-area school board members get recalled after banning Pride flags
https://www.advocate.com/politics/san-francisco-school-board-recall-pride-flag
HATE CRIMES
Convictions upheld for killers of Greek-American activist Zak Kostopoulos
(Trigger warning)
https://www.advocate.com/crime/zak-kostopoulos-murder-convictions-upheld
Alabama: Threats against Mobile LGBTQ book event prompt venue to cancel
COMMENTARY
The struggle to reclaim autonomy in the two-spirit movement
https://www.advocate.com/voices/two-spirit-human-rights-watch
Meet the queer craft club weaving LGBTQ+ connections one stitch at a time
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/11/queer-craft-club-lgbtq-skittles/
What it means to be intersex and how they are often forgotten in the larger LGBTQ+ conversation