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News (USA)
Pro-Palestine protestors demonstrate outside of LGBTQ+ organization’s gala
Protestors held signs that read “No Pride in genocide” and “Israel bombs queers.”
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Commentary
Pride isn’t just inaccessible for disabled people, it’s emotionally inaccessible too
I want to be able to party and show up for my community… but we’re often treated as inconvenient afterthoughts.
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News (USA)
Trans man wins $4.7 million from school district that didn’t let him use the restroom
He’s been fighting this case for almost a decade now, but he won.
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Politics
The Senate will vote on a contraception protection bill today. Republicans could derail it.
Republicans are saying that the bill to protect contraception access threatens “parental rights.”
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Politics
GOP congressman made headlines for his cute son. Then people brought up how he met his wife….
“It’s always fun when someone discovers Tennessee Rep. John Rose for the first time. The story of how he met his wife is deeply strange.”
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Life
Donald Trump loves this pastor who just said LGBTQ+ people are “demonic”
He has accused LGBTQ+ people of supporting pedophilia and bestiality.
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Life
A priest taught me that homosexuality is always wrong. Dyke March showed me that he was wrong.
Dyke March showed me that I am a part of something bigger than myself.
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Election News
GOP governor candidate says abortion is only for women who won’t “keep your skirt down”
He said “it makes no difference how a child ended up in that womb,” it’s “killing the child” because the mother wasn’t “responsible enough.”
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News (USA)
State GOP tells people to “burn all Pride flags” during June
The Republican Party calls LGBTQ+ people “demonic, godless groomers” who “ultimately harm our children.”
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Life
GOP governor says June is about understanding & accepting homophobes
June is no longer Pride Month in Utah, it’s a “Month of Building Bridges” between LGBTQ+ people and those who hate them.
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News (USA)
Texas professors sue Biden for the right to discriminate against trans students
They also want to fire teaching assistants over abortion history
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Politics
Marjorie Taylor Greene demands an “exorcism” of Mike Johnson’s “demons” in bizarre tirade
She called Johnson “useless” for not shutting down the government in response to Donald Trump’s conviction.
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News (World)
Two men jailed after criticizing prime minister for not being anti-gay enough
An activist and imam were charged with “spreading false news”.
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Life
Pro-wrestler receives “overwhelming” support after coming out as bisexual
“If me coming out and living my truth helps at least one other person feel more comfortable in their own skin, it makes it all worth it.”
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News (USA)
Trans man gets justice in workplace discrimination case after fighting for a decade
He was denied health care coverage in 2013, but he didn’t stop fighting.
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News (USA)
Community stitches Pride banners back together after unknown vandal slashed 14 of them
“I see them now as a sign of healing,” one resident said.
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News
“Baby Reindeer” star Jessica Gunning just came out as “a big old gay”
“I realized I was a big old gay… and that was a massive moment where everything clicked and I made sense of myself then.”
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News (USA)
Stranger sucker-punches gay man while shouting about “homosexuals” just before Pride Month
The subway assault happened on the victim’s morning commute.
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Life
The Boy Scouts’ moral panic all began with 2 queer teens in the 70s who refused to stay closeted
The boys spoke publicly against the discrimination they’d experienced. The problem was, it was legal.
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News (USA)
Guinness just recognized this drag queen story hour as the biggest ever
They’re kicking off Pride Month by setting records.