🚽 A $16,000 anti-LGBTQ+ decision

Hi there,

🎾 Lesbian tennis icon Billie Jean King has become the first woman to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for the new sports entertainment category. Her star was dedicated in a ceremony on Monday, which she attended with her wife, Illana Kloss, and her friends, NBA star Magic Johnson and Oscar-winning actor Jamie Lee Curtis. “The important thing is, I don’t want to be the last one,” King told the crowd.

🚽 Well, well, well. The University of Cincinnati has removed its controversial "biological" bathroom signs just a little over one month after they went up. The Ohio university came under fire in February after plastering anti-trans signs on some of its restrooms that read “biological men” or “biological women,” supposedly to comply with a new state law. The university admits that they wasted $16,000 because of the debacle.

⏳ A Southern LGBTQ+ history archive is establishing a permanent home and is expanding its reach. Invisible Histories announced this week that it will now also cover South Carolina (finally something good coming to my home state), North Carolina, and all of Florida. The organization also announced it will create its own home for its archive in North Carolina. “In a time when our histories are at risk of being erased, we are doubling down on our commitment to safeguarding and amplifying the voices of Southern LGBTQ people,” Dr. Maigen Sullivan, co-executive director of Invisible Histories, said.

Onwards and upwards,

Alex Cooper

Editor-in-chief, The Advocate

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