The Florida Board of Education Wednesday adopted sweeping anti-LGBTQ+ policies as well as rules restricting teaching about slavery and racism. Read on » Employees at the gay hookup app Grindr announced Thursday that they had launched a union. They also did so in part, they say, due to the company's CEO George Arison's prior backing of anti-LGBTQ+ politicians. Read on » California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state has levied a $1.5 million fine against the Temecula Valley School District (TVSD) after it refused to carry a textbook that's teaching materials contain a reference to the late gay politician Harvey Milk. One of the school board members had objected to the reference, calling Milk a “pedophile” during a school board meeting earlier this year. Read on » Italy has begun the process of removing the name of non-biological mothers from the birth certificates of children born to lesbian couples. Earlier this year, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ordered a stop to the issuance of birth certificates to same-sex couples. Now local prosecutors are systematically changing birth certificates issued in the past to lesbian couples. Read on » Transgender people in the U.S. have thought about or attempted suicide in alarming numbers, according to a new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. Read on » The leading organizers of Montana’s largest LGBTQ+ Pride parade in Helena have joined the lawsuit challenging the state’s drag performance ban. Read on » Out gay Australian soccer player Josh Cavallo announced he will be a judge on the upcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under. Read on » Sound of Freedom, the movie about a heroic American saving children from traffickers in Colombia, is a surprise box-office hit of the summer. But it’s also getting attention because the man at the center of the film and the actor who plays him embrace QAnon conspiracy theories. Read on » Some right-wingers are losing it over the new and inclusive Barbie movie, critiquing its expansive view of gender and even calling it communist propaganda. Read on » That's hot. Read on »
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