The fight to defend LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights in Guatemala (www.huckmag.com)
Disney heir comes out publicly as transgender, condemns anti-LGBTQ bills (www.nbcnews.com)
Trans autistic people are not “confused” - we know who we are (www.gaytimes.co.uk)
U.S. to issue gender-neutral "X" passports (www.axios.com)
Appalachia: Queer and in color (scalawagmagazine.org)
Guatemala ditches plans to ban same-sex marriage after president threatens to veto law (www.gaytimes.co.uk)
Students stage school walkouts across Florida over ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill (www.gaytimes.co.uk)
In Texas, an unrelenting assault on trans rights is taking a mental toll (www.npr.org)
Aromantic Awareness Week: "I didn’t know I could be aromantic but not asexual" (www.gaytimes.co.uk)
SCOTUS Will Decide Whether Anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination Is Free Speech (www.them.us)
More states want to restrict how LGBTQ+ people, issues are discussed in schools (19thnews.org)
How the Criminalization of Testosterone Attacks Gender Variant People (filtermag.org)
TikTok bans misgendering, deadnaming trans people (www.nbcnews.com)
New gender-neutral pronoun likely to enter Norwegian dictionaries (www.theguardian.com)
Lavender Lining (urbanomnibus.net)
Why minorities are abandoning India’s trailblazing queer forums (restofworld.org)
this is an interesting look into the sectarian issues that face the Indian LGBTQ+ community, particularly with relation to the caste system that exists there.
Moderna confirms first patients have been jabbed in trial of its HIV vaccine (www.gaytimes.co.uk)
It wasn’t just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now? (forward.com)
The British author posted that Nazis did not persecute trans people. That’s false....
Tools for Thinking About Censorship (www.exurbe.com)
An article by historian Ada Palmer who has researched of censorship through the ages and uses the current shitstorm surrounding the Hugo Awards (more here) to debunk myths surrounding the topic and offers alternative views on it.
Best Of All You Can Play The Whole Game Any Way You Want (unwinnable.com)
Article by Unwinnable: It delves into the questions of what a present-day video game is, how it shapes our behavior and how incongruent with reality they have become.
What Does it Mean to be Wholesome in 2023? (unwinnable.com)
Article by Unwinnable which digs into the presentation of “wholesome games” and how they distinguish themselves from other games.
Inside an abusive anti-porn camp for teens (reason.com)
Unsure how to proceed with understanding my gender identity (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Title. I go about my day-to-day life as a man still even though I don’t entirely feel that way. But then again, how do I feel? It’s weird, I really strongly identify with the nb flag; it makes me super happy when I look at it. I want to be like other enbies but it’s hard to do so because I feel so stuck in the way I...
Scientists on Twitter head for the exit (www.axios.com)
Article by Axios: It provides an overview of the ongoing harassment of a vaccine researcher who has drawn the ire of podcaster Joe Rogan. The harassment has been amplified by Musk. Many scientists now consider to leave Twitter in order to protect themselves from such incidents.
Twitter Runs Ads for Disney, Microsoft, and the NBA Next to Neo-Nazi Propaganda (gizmodo.com)
Article by Gizmodo about ads running along-side neo-nazi videos, racist, hateful imagery, etc.
