LGBTQ News, 8/13/25

[Angeline Binick]

I.     GLOBAL NEWS

II.    POLICY / LEGISLATION

III.   ARTS & CULTURE

IV.   COMMENTARY

 

 

 

 

 

GLOBAL NEWS

 

Three men arrested in Indonesia for allegedly running LGBTQ Facebook group

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/13/three-men-arrested-in-indonesia-for-allegedly-running-lgbtq-facebook-group/ 

UK: Teachers can ask to be referred to as ‘Mx’, education secretary confirms

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/13/mx-schools-uk-trans-bridget-phillipson/ 

POLICY / LEGISLATION

 

US appeals court upholds Arkansas law banning youth transgender care

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-upholds-arkansas-law-banning-youth-transgender-care-2025-08-12/ 

Pa. lawmakers criticize Gov. Shapiro for transgender healthcare lawsuit, women’s sports

https://www.fox43.com/article/news/politics/pa-lawmakers-criticize-shapiro-transgender-healthcare-lawsuit-womens-trans-sports-debate/521-61e2d398-049b-42c9-811d-42c45d4c306b

LGBTQ people ‘erased’ from State Department’s 2024 human rights report

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/08/12/lgbtq-people-erased-from-state-departments-2024-human-rights-report/ 

ARTS & CULTURE

 

Polari Prize long list’s only trans author explains why he’s choosing to stay

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/08/13/polari-prize-trans-author-decision-to-stay/ 

Queer art faces widespread museum censorship, curators say

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/queer-art-museum-censorship-rcna224487 

COMMENTARY

 

From the Margins to the Courts: St Lucia Joins Caribbean Fight to Dismantle Anti-LGBTQI+ Colonial Laws

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/08/from-the-margins-to-the-courts-st-lucia-joins-caribbean-fight-to-dismantle-anti-lgbtqi-colonial-laws/ 

Anti-trans pundits who championed the idea of protecting women’s sports now say that throwing sex toys at women athletes is hilarious

https://www.mediamatters.org/outkick/anti-trans-pundits-who-championed-idea-protecting-womens-sports-now-say-throwing-sex-toys

After targeting youth, state lawmakers now going after the rights of LGBTQ adults

https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/08/13/after-targeting-youth-state-lawmakers-now-going-after-the-rights-of-lgbtq-adults/