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Dallas suburb Princeton just had its Pride event canceled because of a school district’s book ban policy, Dallas Voice reports. The Pride event, organized by Princeton TX Diverse, was scheduled to take place at Princeton High School as it had last year. However, the district canceled the event. They cited a lack of disclaimer about what pride is on a Facebook post and that the event was going to give away books the district has banned. Related Minnesota bans book bans A new law makes it illegal to remove titles from libraries based on ideology, including LGBTQ+ content. The district has not provided a list of what books were banned to the organizers of Princeton’s Pride event. Representatives claim, after an information request by an organizer, that this list does not exist. Stay connected to your community Connect with the issues and events that impact your community at home and beyond by subscribing to our newsletter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today “We founded PTX D...

A gay man having an absolute meltdown while protesting Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 criminal counts in his hush money trial is going viral online. “Fa***t! You’re the fa***t! You’re the fa***t! Get the f**k out of here!” the man shouted from a New York City sidewalk at a passerby. The man was wearing a hat that said “Joe & the Hoe Gotta Go” — referring Vice President Kamala Harris as a “hoe” — and a t-shirt that read, “I love Donald Trump. You got a problem with that, bi**h? GAYS FOR TRUMP.” Related Unhinged GOP candidate calls Joe Biden “weak & gay” as she begs Donald Trump to endorse her She then called her critics “a bunch of pu**ies.” “You’re a pussy!” he squealed. “Do you hear me? You’re a little pussy! Little shrively pussy! That’s all that you are is a c**t, you’re not even a man!” LGBTQ+ news you can rely on Keep track of the ongoing battle against bias and for equality with our newsletter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Maga is having a MELTDOWN...

A member of the notorious New England NSC-131 neo-Nazi group has been arrested on child pornography charges. The group has protested drag events and baselessly accused their patrons of supporting the sexual grooming of children. Stephen Farrea of Portsmouth, Rhode Island was taken into custody on Friday and arraigned on one count of possessing child pornography, the Portsmouth Police Department said in a press release . Related Nazi group sued by state for disrupting LGBTQ+ events & drag story hours with threatening protests The Nazi group stormed drag story hour events and shut others down. Now the state is suing. NSC-131 launched a campaign in 2022 to terrorize the organizers and participants of drag queen story hour events around New England. In 2023, the Massachusetts attorney general sued the group and its two leaders for repeatedly engaging in “violent, threatening, intimidating, and coercive conduct” in the state. Stay connected to your community Connect with the ...

At least eight Arizona school districts offer no sexual education, using opposition to LGBTQ+ issues as an excuse, LOOKOUT reports. Investigators analyzed the sexual education curriculum of 18 public schools across rural, suburban, and urban areas of the state, reaching out to school officials from each district. Of the 18 public schools that were analyzed, eight of them were found to have no sexual education policies and are especially lacking in provisions for LGBTQ+ students. These districts are Gita Bend, Duncan, Parker, Heber-Overgaard, Kingman, Ganado, Nogales, and Scottsdale.  Related Out Arizona Rep. Patty Contreras thinks pro-choice voters are ready to storm the ballot box Contreras spoke with LGBTQ Nation about ASU football, “close-minded” Republicans, and the woman she thinks is a true “wackadoodle.” “Arizona sex education needs to change because sexual health disparities are pretty grave in our state,” Courtney Waters, an assistant research professor at the Uni...

Activist, author, and Delaware state Rep. DeShanna Neal (D) first came to public attention when they battled Medicaid over coverage of their daughter’s gender-affirming care, becoming front-page news across the First State. Life hasn’t been the same since. With their newfound celebrity, the 41-year-old mother of four helped create Delaware’s first pediatric gender clinic, started the state’s first-ever Drag Queen Story Hour, founded New Castle County’s LGBTQ Youth Pride Day with their daughter Trinity, and founded the nonprofit Intersections of Pride Foundation, which works to bridge the gaps faced by the LGBTQ+ community. In 2022, they were elected Delaware’s first nonbinary state lawmaker. Along with their activist bona fides, Neal has an infectious sense of humor, which was on full display as they spoke from their home in Wilmington. I started by asking how old Trinity is now. Your LGBTQ+ guide to Election 2024 Stay ahead of the 2024 Election with our newsletter that covers c...

JK Rowling has just revealed that her loved ones were “begging [her] not to speak” of her anti-trans views, something she claims she had a duty to speak about. This revelation came from her essay in the nonfiction book The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht: Voices from the Front-Line of Scotland’s Battle for Women’s Rights. It highlights the experiences of trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) in Scotland during their campaign against transgender rights. Related JK Rowling reported to police for throwing transphobic insults at talk show host “JK Rowling has definitely committed a crime,” the talk show host said. “I kept my thoughts to myself in public, because people around me, including some I love, were begging me not to speak,” said Rowling in an extract published by The Times. “So I watched from the sidelines as women with everything to lose rallied, in Scotland and across the U.K., to defend their rights. My guilt that I wasn’t standing with them was with me daily, like...

For his entire life, Donald Trump has been used to having things his way. He hired lawyers to make problems go away, learning from one of the worst, Roy Cohn, the closeted villain of Angels in America. And now, after decades of dominating everyone through threats and intimidation, Trump has finally found himself in his worst nightmare: not just facing jail but having to listen to people’s insults without lashing out. While much has been made of the magnitude of the moment – the first president ever to undergo a criminal trial – what emerged during the beginning of the trial was not how big the trial was but how small it made Trump look. The courtroom is tired and shabby, the antithesis of the garish surroundings that are so important to Trump. The room itself is cold, leaving Trump at the mercy of a malfunctioning HVAC system. For someone who insists on ostentatious displays of wealth and control, the setting itself is precisely the kind of place that Trump would never deign to set...

Up until the point this picture was taken, I’d never been to a Pride festival before. It’d been on my bucket list for a long time. I’ve wanted to go since I realized I was queer nearly a decade prior, but growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, we were lacking any major festivities to celebrate Pride Month. It was often dangerous to be out, and many times, I felt like if I presented myself as visibly trans, I’d face backlash from the people around me. When I finally moved to Cincinnati, I was ecstatic at the idea of attending my first Pride festival. And, in June of last year, I was lucky enough to be able to attend! This picture is of the Brent Spent Bridge as seen from a park in downtown Cincy – it’s a huge landmark in the area, as it crosses the Ohio river and connects Cincy to its various sibling cities in Kentucky. I thought it was a really cool sight, and it felt emblematic of what was to come. Mira Lazine Brent Spence Bridge Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newslett...

The disgraced multiply indicted and documented lying former President Donald Trump in March of this year arrogantly  declared  that he could get Russian President Vladimir Putin to free imprisoned  Wall Street Journal  reporter, Evan Gershkovich, if he were elected President in November. Putin arrested Gershkovich, 32, a U.S. citizen last March while reporting in the city of Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains on the unfounded charges of being caught  “red-handed”  receiving  “secret information,”  though the Russian government has yet to show documented evidence. From the time of his arrest, Gershkovich has claimed his innocence. Related ‘Fake news’ isn’t a Trump neologism — Hitler called it ‘Lügenpresse’ Both Trump and Hitler used the idea of a “lying press” to silence opposition to their leadership. Gershkovich “will be released almost immediately after the Election, but definitely before I assume Office,” Trump wrote in a post to his ...

A completed draft Texas Republican Party platform refers to homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” gender-affirming care as “child abuse,” and Drag Queen Story Hour as “predatory sexual behavior.” The platform has been voted on by state party delegates and will be formally adopted on Wednesday after a final vote count. The list of state party priorities calls for an end to legal same-sex marriages, same-sex parenting, all LGBTQ+ anti-discrimination laws, all transgender rights — including gender-affirming care for children and adults — a ban on LGBTQ+ content in schools and libraries, the defunding of all diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) initiatives, and legal protections for anyone who discriminates against queer people based on “religious or moral beliefs.” Related Texas’ governor is spending millions & using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to defund public education Greg Abbott has said parents should support the program so that their kids aren’t educated by LGBTQ+ teacher...

Pope Francis on Tuesday apologized for a poor word choice regarding gay priests that elicited “incredulous laughter” from a group of bishops, according to two Italian newspapers. “The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, as reported by others,” the Vatican said in a statement released today. Related Pope Francis slams “closed up, dogmatic” anti-LGBTQ+ conservatives He called anti-queer conservatism “a suicidal attitude.” “As he [Pope Francis] has said on several occasions, ‘in the Church there is room for everyone, everyone! No one is useless, no one is superfluous, there is room for everyone. Just as we are, everyone.’” Global perspectives delivered right to your inbox Our newsletter bridges borders to bring you LGBTQ+ news from around the world. Subscribe to our Newsletter today The 87-year-old pontiff made the remark in a closed-door meeting with Italian bisho...

A rainbow ground mural in St. Petersburg, Florida has been defaced for the second time in just a week. This time, someone was caught spinning donuts over it on security camera footage. People became aware of the mural being defaced last Friday when they received a call about tire marks covering it. The mural was just repainted earlier this month ahead of Pride Month celebrations. Related Man who defaced Pride crosswalk to celebrate Trump’s birthday won’t face hate crime charges The city was the victim of the crime and cities don’t have a sexual orientation, according to the State Attorney. The mural, located in the Grand Central District on the intersection of Central Avenue and 25th Street, was painted in 2020. LGBTQ+ news you can rely on Keep track of the ongoing battle against bias and for equality with our newsletter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Restoring the mural will cost the city an additional $1,100. It is expected to be restored before Pride. The incident...

Richard Dreyfuss, the 76-year-old Academy Award-winning actor, allegedly made transphobic comments during a May 25 showing of his 1975 shark horror film Jaws at the Cabot Theater in Beverly, Massachusetts. Theater management apologized for his comments, saying that they do not reflect the venue’s views. “[He] started sharing his views on … how you shouldn’t be listening to some 10-year-old who says they want to be a boy instead of a girl,” one self-described attendee wrote on X . “Jesus Christ, what an explosion. Crowd was shouting at him and most walked out before the movie even started.” Related 23 LGBTQ+ celebrities who found their way onto “Sesame Street” Forget Bert and Ernie — the queerest characters on Sesame Street are the humans! Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today My girlfriend's parents were there, here's what they said lol pic.twitter.com/915...