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- COUNTRY SINGER MAREN MORRIS COMES OUT AS BISEXUAL IN A PRIDE MONTH POST. - KRISTEN STEWART WILL STAR AS LESBIAN ASTRONAUT SALLY RIDE IN AN UPCOMING SERIES ABOUT THE NASA SPACE SHUTTLE ASTRONAUT CLASS OF 1978 AND THE COMMISSION THAT INVESTIGATED THE 1986 CHALLENGER DISASTER. - RUPAUL RAISES $2 MILLION FOR DRAG DEFENSE FUND WITH ACLU; - A DENVER, COLORADO COMMUNITY HELPED TWO WOMEN HAVE A LESBIAN WEDDING AFTER THEY JOURNEYED HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD FROM VENEZUELA. - MASSACHUSETTS STARTUP COMPANY, NAMESAKE, HELPS STREAMLINE NAME CHANGES FOR TRANSGENDER AND NON-BINARY RESIDENTS. - GOGGLEBOX AUSTRALIA‘S TIM LAI GOT MARRIED TO HIS PARTNER OF 25 YEARS, MARK, IN MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. - FOR THE FIRST TIME, WEST TEXAS HAS A PERMANENT LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY CENTER. - ARMY VETERAN AND RETIRED FIREMAN, COL. EDWARD THOMAS RYAN, COMES OUT AS GAY IN HIS OBITUARY: “NOW THAT MY SECRET IS KNOWN, I'LL FOREVER REST IN PEACE”. - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO BECOME A SANCTUARY CITY FOR TRANS & NONBINARY PEOPLE. - MASSACHUSETTS LAWMAKERS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED A BILL WEDNESDAY AIMED AT UPDATING THE STATE’S PARENTAGE LAWS TO INCLUDE LGBTQ+ PARENTS AND FAMILIES THAT USED METHODS SUCH AS ASSISTED REPRODUCTION AND SURROGACY. - A FLORIDA LAW RESTRICTING TRANSITION-RELATED CARE FOR MINORS WAS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL BY A FEDERAL JUDGE. - A NEW POLL FROM GALLUP ABOUT AMERICANS’ ATTITUDES AROUND TRANSGENDER RIGHTS REVEALS A GROWING DISTASTE FOR FAR-RIGHT EFFORTS TO BAN GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE. ACCORDING TO THE POLL, SIX IN 10 U.S. ADULTS OPPOSE LAWS BANNING GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE FOR MINORS. - THE LAST REMAINING CHALLENGER TO DELAWARE STATE SENATOR SARAH MCBRIDE (DEMOCRAT) IN HER RACE FOR THE STATE’S LONE U.S. HOUSE SEAT DROPPED OUT THIS WEEK, CLEARING THE WAY FOR MCBRIDE TO BECOME THE FIRST OUT TRANSGENDER PERSON ELECTED TO CONGRESS. - A NEW STUDY FROM PAYROLL AND HUMAN RESOURCES PLATFORM GUSTO REVEALS SOME INTERESTING TRENDS AROUND LGBTQ+ ENTREPRENEURSHIP, MOST NOTABLY THAT QUEER SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS TEND TO BE MORE INTERESTED IN GIVING BACK TO THEIR COMMUNITIES THAN THEIR STRAIGHT COUNTERPARTS. 70 PERCENT OF LGBTQ+ ENTREPRENEURS SURVEYED SAID THAT HAVING “A POSITIVE IMPACT IN COMMUNITIES THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO ME” WAS A PRIORITY. - FISHTOWN BAKERY IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA CELEBRATES PRIDE MONTH WITH A LIMITED EDITION MENU. THIS MONTH, THE CAFÉ SELLS EVERYTHING FROM CARDS, CANDLES AND STICKERS CELEBRATING PRIDE, TO A LIMITED-EDITION MENU OFFERING COLORFUL CAKES, CUPCAKES AND COOKIES. "IF IT'S GAY, WE WILL MAKE IT!" CO-OWNER LILY FISCHER SAID WITH A SMILE. THE BAD:; - TRANSGENDER SWIMMER LIA THOMAS LOST A LEGAL BATTLE WEDNESDAY CHALLENGING AN EFFECTIVE BAN ON TRANS WOMEN COMPETING IN THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF WOMEN'S SWIMMING, DASHING HER HOPES OF MAKING THE SUMMER OLYMPICS IN PARIS NEXT MONTH AND LEAVING TRANS WOMEN UNABLE TO COMPETE AS WOMEN. - U.S. REPRESENTATIVE BRUCE WESTERMAN, IS WORKING TO WITHHOLD FUNDING FROM VETERANS AFFAIRS HOSPITALS THAT FLY THE PRIDE FLAG IN ARKANSAS. - THE AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION (AFA), A LONG-RUNNING HATE GROUP FOUNDED BY BIGOTED CHRISTIAN MINISTER DONALD WILDMON, IS FIGHTING PRIDE MONTH WITH SOME ANTI-PRIDE MERCH. - CHRISTIAN BASED ANTI-LGBTQ+ HATE GROUP LIBERTY COUNSEL CALLS THE 2016 ORLANDO FLORIDA NIGHT CLUB PULSE SHOOTING THE “GREAT REDEMPTION” AS IT PUSHES CONVERSION THERAPY BY EXPLOITING THE DEATHS OF THOSE 49 PEOPLE. - A CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST PASTOR AND SELF-PROCLAIMED “PROPHET” FROM NEBRASKA NAMED HANK KUNNEMAN IS SPREADING A LIE THAT SCHOOLS ARE PUTTING LITTERBOXES IN BATHROOMS BECAUSE “MENTALLY DISTURBED, DEMONICALLY POSSESSED” STUDENTS ARE IDENTIFYING AS CATS AND CALLS FOR EXORCISMS TO BE REQUIRED FOR STUDENTS. THE CLAIM HAS BEEN REPEATEDLY REFUTED BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND JOURNALISTS, BUT RIGHT-WINGERS CONTINUE TO REPEAT IT AS A WAY TO VILIFY SCHOOLS WITH TRANSGENDER-INCLUSIVE POLICIES. - MARTHA-ANN ALITO, THE WIFE OF FAR-RIGHT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO RAGES AT PRIDE FLAG THEN DESIGNS HER OWN FLAG THAT HAS FLAMES AND SAYS “SHAME”! IT WAS MADE IN RESPONSE TO HER NEIGHBORS' PRIDE. - CAITLYN JENNER’S RUMORED TRANS GIRLFRIEND CALLS THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY A “TOXIC” CULT. CAITLYN DEFENDED HER ON X (TWITTER) BY SAYING THE “LGBT ‘COMMUNITY’ IS A JOKE. IT’S NOT A COMMUNITY UNLESS YOU AGREE W/ THE CULT. IT’S A DEMOGRAPHIC.”; - A BISEXUAL TEEN IN FORT MYERS, FLORIDA WAS ALMOST BEATEN TO DEATH BY THUGS SHOUTING SLURS AT HIM. THE VICTIM WOKE UP IN THE ICU WITH A BRAIN BLEED, A BROKEN NOSE, AND MULTIPLE FRACTURES. - THREE TEENAGERS (TWO MINORS AND A 19-YEAR-OLD) WERE ARRESTED IN SPOKEN, WASHINGTON AFTER SECURITY CAMERAS REVEALED THEM DEFACING A PRIDE DISPLAY PAINTED ON A STREET FRONT AT A PUBLIC PARK BY USING LIME SCOOTERS TO MAKE SKID MARKS OVER THE DISPLAY. - SENATE REPUBLICANS IN THE USA HAVE BLOCKED LEGISLATION TO PROTECT ACCESS TO IN VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF), A FERTILITY METHOD USED BY MANY SAME-SEX COUPLES TO GET PREGNANT. IT’S THE THIRD TIME THAT REPUBLICANS HAVE BLOCKED SUCH A BILL SINCE ROE V. WADE WAS OVERTURNED IN JUNE 2022. - THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COLUMBUS, GEORGIA’S PRIDE ORGANIZATION WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY AFTER POLICE DISCOVERED A TROVE OF DRUGS, PARAPHERNALIA, AND A .38 REVOLVER AT HIS HOME. POLICE SAY, JEREMY HOBBS, AGE 49, WAS THE SUBJECT OF A MONTHS-LONG INVESTIGATION THAT RESULTED IN A SEARCH WARRANT FOR HIS HOME WHERE INVESTIGATORS FOUND AND SEIZED 5.4 GRAMS OF CRACK COCAINE, 20.7 GRAMS OF METHAMPHETAMINE, 23.8 GRAMS OF LIQUID GHB, AND AN INA .38 REVOLVER.
