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Deutsche Welle reports: The latest effort to restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ people in Georgia comes shortly after a “foreign agent” law was adopted in May despite weeks of unrest and pro-EU rallies. The Georgian parliament, where the ruling Georgian Dream party has a decisive majority, will start discussing the planned LGBTQ+ bill in the coming weeks. The final reading …

SF Gate reports: After a long, contentious debate, the city of Redlands announced that it will not fly a rainbow flag during Pride Month in June. The 3-2 vote drew a number of attendees and sparked intense conversation between City Council members who argued over the flag’s symbolism. The members who voted against the measure included Mayor Eddie Tejeda, Councilmember …

The Hill reports: Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) announced new legislation this week that would help combat abuse against elderly LGBTQ Americans by establishing a task force within the Department of Justice (DOJ) to focus on solutions for the issue. The legislation, dubbed the “Elder Pride Protection Act,” was developed with Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.). Both are members of the Congressional …

Portland, Oregon’s CBS affiliate reports: A juvenile suspect has been arrested in connection to an incident at the Newberg Public Library in which a window that displayed an LGBTQIA+ Pride flag was shattered by a BB gun. According to the Newberg-Dundee Police Department in a post on Facebook, police were originally dispatched to investigate the incident on Wednesday at 7:15 …

First, here’s what happened on Tuesday in the US House: Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on Tuesday started naming all the countries that would bar Donald Trump from entering once he is officially a convicted felon, while listing reasons he believed his Republican colleagues were “in a cult.” Swalwell listed all the countries while Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio yelled over …

The Associated Press reports: Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida says he’ll be voting in November against a ballot amendment to legalize recreational marijuana in his state, a deeply personal decision based on his brother’s long history of addiction. The senator and former Florida governor said he watched his brother Roger Scott begin smoking marijuana as a teenager and then …

NPR reports: A Wichita pastor recently encouraged members of his church to mark Pride Month by checking out mass amounts of gay- and transgender-themed books from their local library. “One way you can love your neighbors and your community is to gather together some of the men in your church and go empty the local library of all their LGBTQ+ …

The Florida Phoenix reports: Emboldened by the mainstreaming of hard-right politics ahead of a presidential election cycle, white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ groups increased to record levels in the United States last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest annual report on hate and extremism. The SPLC, which has published the annual report since 1990, documented 835 active anti-government …

The Arizona Republic reports: Two top aides to Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Friday morning to charges stemming from a plan to keep him in the White House by falsely certifying he won the state in 2020. Mark Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, and Michael “Mike” Roman, a member of Trump’s campaign team, were arraigned in a Maricopa County …

Milwaukee’s Fox affiliate reports: In Brookfield, former presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard spoke one-on-one with FOX6 on Friday, June 7. With the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee now 38 days away, Gabbard spoke about the upcoming event – and vice presidential rumors. FOX6 asked Gabbard if she is in the running to be Trump’s vice president. “I’m not going to comment …