- ADELE CLAPS BACK AT A CONCERT ATTENDEE WHO APPEARED TO MAKE AN ANTI-PRIDE MONTH COMMENT. - MURA HEALEY, AMERICA'S FIRST LESBIAN GOVERNOR, OVERSEES RAISING OF PRIDE FLAG AT STATEHOUSE IN BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS. - DRAG QUEEN IN OHIO PERFORMED AT AN ACLU OHIO EVENT, CELEBRATING THE ART FORM OF DRAG. CLEVELAND BASED PERFORMER VERANDA L'NI SAYS THREATS AGAINST HER AND OTHERS WILL NOT STOP HER FROM FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT TO PERFORM. - 40 YEARS AFTER HOMOSEXUALITY WAS DECRIMINALIZED, THOUSANDS OF LGBTQ+ AUSTRALIANS GOT A LONG-AWAITED APOLOGY ON THURSDAY, WHEN THE NSW PREMIER, CHRIS MINNS, DELIVERED A FORMAL STATE APOLOGY. - DOCUMENTARY, QUEER PLANET NARRATED BY ACTOR ANDREW RANNELLS, EXAMINES SOME OF THE MORE THAN 1,500 SPECIES THAT HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO ENGAGE IN QUEER BEHAVIORS. CHRISTINE WILKINSON, A WILDLIFE ECOLOGIST FEATURED IN THE DOCUMENTARY SAYS QUEER AND TRANSGENDER PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TREATED BY OTHER HUMANS AS BEING "UNNATURAL" OR "AGAINST NATURE." HOWEVER, "QUEER PLANET" SUGGESTS OTHERWISE. THE BAD:; - ANTI-TRANS ACTIVIST JENNY WATSON IS CREATING A DATING APP FOR LESBIANS THAT WILL DELIBERATELY EXCLUDE TRANSGENDER WOMEN. THE APP, KNOWN AS L’APP, WILL USE FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY TO GAUGE WHETHER AN INDIVIDUAL MAKING AN ACCOUNT IS A CISGENDER WOMAN. THEY CLAIM THEIR TECHNOLOGY IS 99% ACCURATE. - TRANSGENDER TEEN LEFT WITH BROKEN JAW AFTER ATTACK IN A BATHROOM AT HOPKINS HIGH SCHOOL IN MINNESOTA. - LOUISIANA SENATE PASSES BILL BANNING GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR TRANSGENDER YOUTHS. - FLORIDA'S NEW RESTRICTIONS ON GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOCUSED LARGELY ON TRANSGENDER CHILDREN, BUT A NEW LAW THAT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND GOV. RON DESANTIS SIGNED LAST MONTH ALSO MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR MANY TRANSGENDER ADULTS TO GET TREATMENT AS WELL. - A NEW REPORT FROM THE TREVOR PROJECT AND EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY FOUND THAT 40% OF LGBTQ+ YOUTH HAVE A FIREARM IN THEIR HOME, AND THIS INCREASES THE RISK OF BOTH SUICIDAL IDEATION AND ATTEMPTS. - IDAHO BAR, OLD STATE SALOON, PROMOTES 'HETEROSEXUAL AWESOMENESS MONTH' IN RESPONSE TO PRIDE MONTH; - IN MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA, A METHODIST CHURCH KNOWN FOR ITS EMBRACE OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY WAS VANDALIZED WITH GRAFFITI OF A BIBLE VERSE CONDEMNING HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE WORD "ABOMINATION" IN BRIGHT RED SPRAY PAINT ON THE SIDEWALK. - 200 PRIDE FLAGS STOLEN OVERNIGHT FROM MASSACHUSETTS TOWN. - AN ACT OF VANDALISM (BB SHOOTING) TARGETED A PRIDE FLAG ON DISPLAY AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN NEWBERG, OREGON. IT IS BEING INVESTIGATED AS A POSSIBLE BIAS CRIME. - WASHINGTON POLICE SEARCH FOR SUSPECT WHO SLASHED PRIDE FLAGS.
