Tom Hutt-Dixon

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Neighbours unite to display Pride flags after Idaho bans them from public property

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Residents of Boise, Idaho, are coming together to display Pride flags across the city after a state law banned them from flying on government property. A grassroots group called Pride North End has been distributing as many flags and yard signs as possible to locals willing to display them outside their homes. The group has already handed out more than 250 flags and 900 yard signs, according to CBS2 Boise. Though its GoFundMe campaign initially aimed to raise $2,000, it has since brought in more than $10,000, with any unused funds to be donated to LGBTQ+ nonprofits. “We cannot just say something without doing […]

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New Louisiana law allows deadnaming of trans people in workplace

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A new Louisiana law will shield workers from discipline if they refuse to use a transgender or non-binary colleague’s name or pronouns. Republican governor Jeff Landry signed Act 579 into law on 30 May, with the measure due to take effect on 1 August, as reported by local NBC affiliate KTAL News. The law prohibits employers from disciplining workers who refuse to share their own pronouns, decline to address colleagues by anything other than their birth name, or use pronouns that match a person’s sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity. Supporters have framed the measure as a protection for First […]

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Police on the hunt for ‘The Doodler’ suspect who killed six gay men in 1970s

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San Francisco police have renewed their appeal to identify “The Doodler,” a serial killer who targeted gay men more than 50 years ago, offering a $250,000 reward for information. Investigators believe the killer murdered six gay men between January 1974 and June 1975. Police say the victims were all targeted because they were gay, and that each met the suspect shortly before being killed in isolated coastal locations. Four bodies were found around Ocean Beach, with another in Golden Gate Park. The victims were 49-year-old Gerald Cavanaugh, 27-year-old drag and comedy performer Joseph “Jae” Stevens, 31-year-old Klaus Achim Christmann, 52-year-old lawyer Warren Andrews, 32-year-old […]

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Art scholarship to be established for trans student found dead

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Friends, loved ones, and community members are mourning the death of Murry Foust, a 22-year-old trans man and student at Northern Kentucky University, whose body was found on Sunday night after a month-long search. “While our hearts are broken and this is not the outcome we were hoping for, we can only pray that finding them provides closure and comfort to everyone who is hurting,” Foust’s family wrote in a statement posted to Facebook on Monday, May 26. Foust, who used he/they pronouns, was last seen alive on April 27, captured on security footage in Covington, Kentucky’s Latonia neighbourhood. After nearly a […]

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Japan takes major step to officially recognise non-binary identities

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Japan has taken a landmark step towards non-binary legal recognition. The Osaka High Court ruled on 8 May that the country’s family registration system, the koseki, a mandatory national record-keeping system tracking births, deaths and marriages, violates Japan’s constitutional equality protections by only offering “male” and “female” as gender options. The case was brought by a 50-year-old non-binary resident of Kyoto Prefecture, who petitioned to change their designation of “eldest daughter” to a gender-neutral term in the koseki. While the court stopped short of granting the individual request immediately, it ruled that the absence of a nonbinary gender marker option should be […]