JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns (www.thepinknews.com)
Harry Potter author JK Rowling has said she would prefer two years in jail over using a trans person’s correct pronouns.
Conventions flee Florida as Ron DeSantis wages culture war (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Cross-dressing cosplaying Transformers fans are the latest victims...
Many Queers Can’t Bring Themselves to Face the Emotion They’re Really Feeling Right Now. We Must. (slate.com)
Not a feel good story, so beware. But I think there's a glimmer of hope here in contextualizing despair into survival, as upsetting as that may be.
A majority of Republicans now say same-sex relations are immoral after a year of 'groomer' attacks on the LGBTQ community (www.businessinsider.com)
Republican support for same-sex relations dropped 15% in the last year, according to a recent Gallup poll.
Principal with drag queen side gig resigns under pressure from Oklahoma's top schools official (www.nbcnews.com)
State Superintendent Ryan Walters is calling for a regulation that would allow educators to be fired for “acts that excessively promote sexuality” outside of work.
Citizens scare anti-LGBTQ+ neo-Nazi leader & his “training camp” out of town (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Bye bye, hater...
Only one in six asexuals have ‘universally positive experience’ of being out (www.thepinknews.com)
Only one in six asexual people have had a universally positive experience of being out, new research has shown.
Grindr isn't just for sex – a quarter of users also there to network (www.thepinknews.com)
Around a quarter of Grindr users say they're not just on the LGBTQ+ dating app for hookups – they're also using it to network.
Found on Japanese Quora
Supreme Court of Nepal orders registration of marriages for same-sex couples (www.thehindu.com)
The Supreme Court of Nepal on Monday issued an interim order directing the office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers of Nepal and other relevant ministries to establish a “transitional mechanism” to ensure the registration of marriages for “same-sex and non-traditional heterosexual couples”.
Gay flight attendant deported “for wearing tinted moisturizer” (www.lgbtqnation.com)
A flight attendant was celebrating his 32nd birthday in a Qatari hotel. Then the police came...
Lebanon moves to ban 'Barbie' film for 'promoting homosexuality' (www.jpost.com)
The Hezbollah-backed minister said the film was found to "promote homosexuality and sexual transformation" and "contradicts values of faith and morality."
My feelings right now for myself and all my LGBTQ fam
Alabama’s first LGBTQ lawmaker on billboard: Part of ‘dangerous’ national trend (www.al.com)
Patricia Todd, who was an Alabama until 2018, said the anti-LGBTQ billboard injected into Mobile's special election on annexation represented a "first" in which anti-LGBTQ message was so public.
Traverse City salon refuses to service transgender, queer patrons (www.freep.com)
A Traverse City hair salon is receiving backlash after announcing that their business will no longer serve transgender and queer people.
Putin instructed the Russian Ministry of Health to create a separate psychiatric institute for the study of LGBT people (twitter.com)
Putin instructed the Russian health ministry to create a separate psychiatric institute for the study of LGBT people, as well as a number of other "behavioral areas, including social behavior."...
Why did Apple simplify the family emojis? 👩👦👩🏽👧🏿👦 (www.youtube.com)
French President Emmanuel Macron supports ban on gender-inclusive language (www.lgbtqnation.com)
France's legislature is considering the ban...
House rules in a guest house in Malindi, Kenya | 2009 photo made by Nicor
Nearly 100,000 transgender minors live in anti-trans states, research finds (www.thepinknews.com)
A new report has found that over 100,000 transgender minors aged 13 to 17 are living in states that have passed anti-trans legislation.
Vladimir Putin signs law banning gender changes in Russia (www.jpost.com)
The law also bans post-surgery transgender people from adopting children and annuls the marriages of post-surgery transgender people.
LGBT+ Pride event in Georgia evacuated as far-right protesters storm site (www.politico.eu)
Organizers say police refused to protect them.
Realtor helps LGBTQ+ Texans leave state through ‘rainbow Underground Railroad’ (www.kxan.com)
Dwyane Wade ‘salutes’ Marlon Wayans for supporting trans child (www.thepinknews.com)
Dwyane Wade has high praise for Marlon Wayans after the comedian opened up about supporting his transgender child....
Queer Afghans cry for help under Taliban rule, citing private prisons, torture & death (www.lgbtqnation.com)
The LGBTQ+ Afghan activists accuse the UN and the world of remaining silent as they face a "widespread and systematic crime against humanity...
