📚 A librarian fired over an LGBTQ+ kids book

Hi there,

📚 LaVonnia Moore spent 15 years serving her Pierce County, Georgia, community, including five years as manager of the local library. Last month, she was fired after she put a book on a library display at the request of a child. The book in question? One featuring a trans character.

🕯️ Jewel Thais-Williams, owner of the legendary Los Angeles Black queer disco Jewel’s Catch One and an activist for HIV treatment and other causes, has died at age 86. Rest in power.

📣 As political forces, including the country’s president, take aim at transgender Americans, two Black trans leaders in Chicago say they are not only resisting — they are building. The Advocate spoke to Channyn Parker and Precious Brady Davis about changing their community for the better.

👀 California officials say they will not comply with Donald Trump’s anti-trans order to keep transgender athletes out of K-12 school sports. Bravo, California. 👏🏽

Onward and upward,

Alex Cooper

Editor-in-Chief, The Advocate

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