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Commentary
Don’t expect Trump to bring up anti-LGBTQ abuses or election meddling with Putin
Because he doesn’t care.
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News (USA)
Gavin Grimm will finally have his day in court
When classes resume this fall, the Virginia graduate will make his case that even as an alum he has the right to use his high school’s boys’ bathroom.
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News (USA)
Puerto Rico takes first step toward equal rights for all
The island’s socially-conservative governor said he wants to make the U.S. Territory more diverse and inclusive.
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Life
Who are our greatest allies? They’re not white
Black Americans are more likely than any other racial or ethnic group to perceive discrimination against LGBTQ people.
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News (USA)
Hate crimes are on the rise in California for the second consecutive year
Gay men are among the most targeted groups.
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News (USA)
What this congressman did when he visited Auschwitz is unbelievable
Update: Rep. Clay Higgins has apologized after he desecrated the memory of gay victims of the Holocaust, too.
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News (World)
Vatican police raid ‘drug-fueled gay orgy’ in cardinal’s apartment
No, we are not making this up.
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Life
NPR tweeted the Declaration of Independence & some Trump supporters lost it
Is it any surprise LGBTQ people are still waiting for full equality when so many Americans don’t even recognize these immortal words?
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News (USA)
Texas Speaker: ‘I don’t want a suicide on my hands’ over bathroom bill
“I’m disgusted by all this,” said Joe Straus, the Republican Speaker.
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Life
Finally: A place for our aging, lonely elders in NYC
The Big Apple is finally joining Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco in providing housing for older LGBTQ citizens.
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News (World)
Transgender parent fights for right to remove sex from baby’s birth certificate
Kori Doty, who identifies as nonbinary, says they want to raise their eight-month-old outside of “the boy box and the girl box.”
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Meet the gay man who won America her independence
This is the dude who deserves the credit, and we bet you never heard of him.
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Commentary
To resist is American
Remember that it’s your country too, and the rights we have fought for and won, for the LGBTQ community and others, cannot be rolled back.
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Life
Utah ‘freedom festival’ kicks LGBTQ group out of 4th of July parade
The reason given was that the Encircle: LGBT + Family & Youth Resource Center is a political advocacy group. Um, no.
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News (USA)
It’s the 4th of July and everybody’s tweeting
A fireworks show of tweets from Ellen, RuPaul, Janet Mock and even Joan Rivers awaits you.
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News (World)
Gay man sues hospital for forced conversion therapy — and wins
The man had been forcibly admitted to a mental institution in China by his wife and relatives.
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News (USA)
Creep indicted for hate crime after violent antigay attack on NYC subway
Antoine Thomas is charged with harassing a lesbian and her girlfriend, then punching her in the face.
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Commentary
An LGBTQ Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident: we are all created equal, but we have not been treated as such.
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News (USA)
Florida deputy comes out as transgender: ‘I’m happy to finally be me’
Rebecca Storozuk says she used to identify as a gay man, “because I thought that would be easier than trying to explain being trans.”
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Life
Thousands march for marriage in Northern Ireland
An Anglican minister called on fellow Christians to overturn Northern Ireland’s ban on same-sex marriage.