LGBTQ News, 6/17/24
Angeline Binick
I. GLOBAL NEWS
II. REGIONAL NEWS
III. POLICY / LEGISLATION
IV. ANTI-LGBTQ ADVOCACY
V. MILITARY
VI. DISCRIMINATION
VII. HATE CRIMES
VIII. ARTS & CULTURE
IX. CRIME
X. COMMENTARY
GLOBAL NEWS
UK: Transgender voters say they face photo ID barrier
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crggxjz0514o
‘No pride in occupation’: Queer Palestinians on ‘pink-washing’ in Gaza conflict
REGIONAL NEWS
Lancaster Pride celebrates 16th annual festival
https://www.wgal.com/article/lancaster-pride-celebrates-16th-annual-festival/61123996
S. Queen Street reopens in Lancaster after report of suspicious package near Lancaster Pride
POLICY / LEGISLATION
Advocates relieved but wary after court strikes Florida anti-trans law: ‘Gives me a lot of hope’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/16/florida-anti-trans-law
California Senate approves ban on requiring schools to notify parents of child’s pronoun change
Out reps and allies denounce anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in House defense spending bill
https://www.advocate.com/politics/house-anti-lgbtq-defense-bill
ANTI-LGBTQ ACTIVISM
UN Women calls gender-criticals an extremist anti-rights movement
Ben Shapiro uses Father's Day to attack LGBTQ families that use IVF
https://www.mediamatters.org/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-uses-fathers-day-attack-lgbtq-families-use-ivf
Right-wing host forced to remove videos after calling gay dad a 'pervert homo'
https://www.advocate.com/news/nycgaydad-stew-peters-defamation
MILITARY
LGBTQ Soldiers in Ukraine Hope Their Service Is Changing Attitudes as They Rally for Legal Rights
DISCRIMINATION
63% of LGBTQ people have faced employment discrimination: report
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/06/17/employment-discrimination-study-63-percent-lgbtq-people/
HATE CRIMES
Maryland: ‘Chemical agent’ at Baltimore Pride event deemed to be mace, injures 3, police say
https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/06/17/pride-mace-chemical-agent/
Maryland: Police rule out terrorism in chemical agent release at Baltimore Pride Festival
https://www.advocate.com/news/baltimore-pride-incident-not-terrorism
California: Video shows man slash, tear down Pride flag from Anaheim couple's home
https://abc7.com/post/pride-flag-slashed-ripped-anaheim-couples-home-neighbors/14962315/
Scotland: Parents say son's abusers given slap on the wrist
(Trigger warning)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8vvlg43yngo
ARTS & CULTURE
Ukraine: First Pride Rally Held In Kyiv Since Russia's Full-Scale Invasion
https://www.rferl.org/a/gay-pride-rally-kyiv-ukraine-russia/32995306.html
Italy: Rome LGBTQ+ Pride parade celebrates 30th anniversary, makes fun of Pope Francis comments
CRIME
Fentanyl dealer, distribution charge in deaths of two D.C. gay men
Australia: Police found 10,000 bones on Herbert Baumeister's Fox Hollow Farm. Decades later they continue to identify missing gay men
(Trigger warning)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/herbert-baumeister-fox-hollow-farm/103929016
COMMENTARY
How secret queer languages inspired the popular slang we use today