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News (USA)
Obama: “We can finish the job” and end AIDS by 2030
While acknowledging “there is more work to do,” Obama highlighted the progress made so far.
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News (USA)
Bernie Sanders goes to drag brunch in West Hollywood
Because nothing says “typical West Hollywood voter” like a good drag brunch.
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News (USA)
3rd federal court case seeks to block Mississippi LGBT law
All three lawsuits seek to block the bill from becoming law July 1. They also seek to have it declared unconstitutional.
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News (World)
What it’s really like to be transgender in Thailand
The visibility of transgender people, especially in Bangkok, might make Thailand appear more liberal than other countries, but the reality is vastly different.
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Commentary
Neoliberalism’s siren song of freedom
“Neoliberalism” sounds like something progressives should like. It isn’t.
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Commentary
The straight poop about trans women and washrooms
The LGBT movement, if you buy into the rightwing rhetoric, has unleashed its weapons of “lass destruction.”
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News (World)
Russian crime gangs find gay men easy targets
Russian criminals have been emboldened by a law that made it a crime to expose children to gay “propaganda,” part of a Kremlin-backed effort to counter the decadent West.
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News (USA)
Lack of police reporting undercuts national hate crimes count
It’s not just law enforcement departments that fail to report hate crimes. Many victims do not report them either.
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Life
Gay-bashing, Obama-trashing, trans-banning, gorilla-loving comments
“Why is the life of the child more important than that of the rare, endangered gorilla?” Just one of this week’s top comments
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News (World)
Leader of Honduras’ gay community abducted, murdered
Rene Martinez worked in anti-violence outreach programs and was a rising member of the National Party
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News (USA)
Cast of “Kinky Boots” fights HB2 with “Just Pee!”
Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper rewrote the lyrics to the Kinky Boots finale number “Just Be”
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News (USA)
Is this trans man the ‘Sexiest Vegan Next Door?’
Dexter Thomas is the first-ever out transgender finalist in the PETA contest
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News (USA)
Christian rocker Trey Pearson: ‘I’m gay’
“It is like this weight I have been carrying my whole life has been lifted from me, and I have never felt such freedom.”
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Life
Obama to welcome antigay leader of India
Narendra Modi refused to allow a gay American envoy enter his country, but he’s being welcomed here next week
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Life
Pope approves measures to oust bishops who botch abuse cases
Victims groups expressed doubt that the new procedures would result in any wave of firing bishops
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News (World)
200,000 party at Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade, region’s biggest
Given that sexuality and identity can be punished by persecution and even murder, this is an LGBTQ oasis
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News (USA)
Trans veterans could get gender confirmation surgery under new rule
The move comes after a petition by two transgender veterans seeking to have the ban on surgery lifted.
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News (World)
Kremlin claims condoms caused Russian HIV epidemic
No, you read that right. They’re blaming condoms.
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How homosexuality stopped being a disease
In 1971, activists stormed into the annual American Psychiatric Association conference and literally declared war. By 1973, the APA had surrendered.