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Extremists Guilty Of Conspiracy To Disrupt Idaho Pride

The Idaho Statesman reports: A jury deliberated for a little over an hour Thursday before convicting five Patriot Front members for conspiring to disrupt a Pride celebration last June in downtown Coeur d’Alene. Devin Center, James J. Johnson, Forrest Rankin, Robert Whitted and Derek Smith stood in suits behind their attorneys and showed no emotion after a clerk read the …

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Italy Removes Gay Parents From Birth Certificates

CNN reports: The northern Italian city of Padua has started removing the names of non-biological gay mothers from their children’s birth certificates under new legislation passed by the “traditional family-first” government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. These birth certificates belong to 33 children of Italian women who underwent artificial insemination abroad and then registered their children under the city’s center-left …

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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom Fines School District $1.5M For Rejecting Social Studies Book Mentioning Harvey Milk

CBS News reports: California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced that the state would be fining the Temecula Valley Unified School District in an ongoing battle over a social studies curriculum that involves gay rights activist Harvey Milk. On Tuesday, the TVUSD board voted against the new curriculum, which has been endorsed by the state, adding to what has been …

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Voice Study: Bisexual Men Sound The Most Masculine

Science news outlet PsyPost reports: Research published in the Journal of Sex Research aimed to determine whether listeners could detect if a man is bisexual from his voice alone. The findings indicate that people are not able to determine if a man identifies as bisexual based on his voice alone. Additionally, when people listened to the voices of gay, straight, …

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Florida Loses Another Round Against Drag Shows

The Orlando Sentinel reports: A federal judge won’t limit his previous ruling that temporarily blocked a Florida law he has determined violated the constitutional rights of drag performers.  U.S. District Judge Gregory Presnell on Wednesday denied a motion asking that his injunction blocking the law apply only to the plaintiff in the case, the Hamburger Mary’s restaurant in downtown Orlando. …

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British PM Rishi Sunak Apologizes To LGBT Veterans

The BBC reports: Rishi Sunak has apologised for the historical treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the military for being gay. The PM called the ban an “appalling failure” of the British state. It was illegal to be gay in the British military until 2000 – with thousands of veterans thought to be affected. A …

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Louisiana GOP Overrides Gov’s Veto Of Anti-Trans Bill

Axios reports: A Louisiana bill banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth will become law after state legislators on Tuesday overturned Gov. John Bel Edwards’ veto. During a relatively rare veto session, the House voted 75 to 23 to override the governor’s objection on House Bill 648, which bans hormone treatments, puberty-blocking drugs and other gender-affirming care for anyone younger than …

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DeSantis Shouts “Leave Our Kids Alone” As Moms For Liberty Goons Throw Out Protester With Rainbow Flag

Florida Politics reports: DeSantis spoke in Tega Cay, South Carolina and led off his remarks with a denunciation of Biden when people in the front of the crowd began to unfurl Pride flags. “Have you heard Biden? He will say when it comes to children, they’re not your children. They’re all of our children,” DeSantis said, as Moms for Liberty …

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Russia Advances Bill To Erase All Transgender Rights

The Guardian reports: A sweeping Russian draft law to ban legally or medically changing gender has been approved by the lower house of parliament in its final reading, part of a crackdown against LGBTQ+ rights under the president, Vladimir Putin. The bill would bar Russians from changing their gender on official identity documents, which had been legal since 1997. Health …

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Israel Declined To Join Multi-Nation Condemnation Of Hungary’s Latest Raft Of Anti-LGBTQ Rights Legislation

Haaretz reports: Israel has chosen not to join the United States and other Western countries in condemning Hungarian legislation that the countries say will harm the local LGBTQ community. The statement, which has been signed by more than 30 countries including France, Germany, Australia and Ukraine, expresses concern over a series of laws promoted in recent months by the government …

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Same-Sex Marriage Ban Repeal Makes 2024 CA Ballot

CNN reports: California voters will have the chance to remove language barring same-sex marriage from their state’s constitution in 2024’s general election. The California Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment on Thursday that would repeal Proposition 8 – which voters approved in 2008 to ban the state from recognizing same-sex marriages. The state Senate voted 31-0 to repeal the proposition, …

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Embassies Warn Hungary Ahead Of Budapest Pride

Via press release from the US Embassy in Hungary: On the occasion of the 28th Budapest Pride Festival, we the undersigned embassies and cultural institutes express our full support for members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex (LGBTQI+) community in Hungary and their rights to equality and non-discrimination, freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and freedom from …

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Hungary Fines Bookstore $36,000 Over LGBTQ Novel

ABC News reports: A government office in Hungary on Thursday levied a hefty fine against a national bookseller over a LGBTQ+ graphic novel, saying it violated a contentious law that prohibits the depiction of homosexuality to minors. The bookseller, Lira Konyv, is Hungary’s second-largest bookstore chain. It was fined 12 million forints ($35,930) for placing the popular “Heartstopper” by British …

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Poll: 8% Say LGBTQs Will Be Better Off Under DeSantis

Florida Politics reports: In a survey of 1,500 adult citizens conducted between Sunday and Tuesday, just 8% of respondents say lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people would be better off under DeSantis. The poll reveals a gender gap. While 12% of men believe DeSantis would benefit LGBTQ+ people as President, only 4% of women feel the same way. Meanwhile, 40% …

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Kansas Town Seeks To Close Library Over LGBTQ Books

The Kansas Reflector reports: Gerard Kleinsmith says he hates the idea of censorship. He just wants to pull the lease for the city’s public library because he doesn’t like books about transgender people. As a city commissioner, he feels it is his duty to remove transgender content — “garbage,” as he refers to it. Kleinsmith said during a city commission …

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Two Oregon Mayors Resign After Anti-LGBTQ Posts

Oregon Public Radio reports: Newport Mayor Dean Sawyer [photo] resigned Monday, three days after OPB revealed he has been posting offensive content in a private Facebook group for current and former law enforcement officers. Sawyer notified City Manager Spencer Nebel and City Council President Jan Kaplan of his resignation in an email just before 9 a.m. “I am sorry – …

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New Poll: 65% Oppose Refusing Service To LGBTQs

USA Today reports: Days after the Supreme Court’s ruling that businesses can deny same-sex wedding services if it clashes with their religious views, new data says most American voters disagree with that position. Last week, the nation’s high court sided with a Colorado business owner who argued a state non-discrimination law could not compel her to make same-sex websites. The …

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Violent Extremists Shut Down Tbilisi Pride [VIDEO]

Politico Europe reports: Georgia’s annual LGBT+ Pride event was evacuated by the police on Saturday after hundreds of counter-protesters stormed the site. In a statement, organisers of the festival in the capital of Tbilisi announced that they had been forced to shut down the annual festivities after the authorities failed to maintain the perimeter. “Today’s developments indicate that today’s planned …

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Appeals Court Reinstates Tennessee Anti-Trans Law

Reuters reports: A Tennessee law prohibiting doctors from providing medical care such as puberty-blockers and gender affirming surgery for transgender minors can go into effect immediately, a U.S. appeals court ruled Saturday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said advocacy groups that had challenged Tennessee’s law could not show they were likely to prevail on their claims …

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Creator Deletes Anti-LGBTQ DeSantis Campaign Video

Florida Politics reports: A video spotlighted by the DeSantis War Room Twitter account that painted Donald Trump as accommodating on LGBTQ+ issues has been quietly deleted. However, the Tweet highlighting the video is still up as of this writing Saturday morning. The deletion, first noticed by Axios reporter Alex Thompson, caps off days of blowback against Ron DeSantis which included …

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