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WI Gov Roasts Hate Groups: My Administration Has “No Intention” Of Repealing State Ban On Ex-LGBTQ Torture

The Wisconsin Examiner reports: Three weeks after two right-wing groups demanded the repeal of a professional licensing board’s ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ clients of social workers and other therapists, Gov. Tony Evers sent a sharply worded reply. In a letter to the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and Wisconsin Family Action, Evers declared, “my administration has no intention of repealing Wisconsin’s conversion therapy ban.” Evers asserted that the April 14 demand letter from the two groups was based on “a significant misreading” of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that threw parts of a Colorado ban on conversion […]

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Built This City: An SF Pride Variety Spectacular Happens June 10

Fifty years of queer San Francisco. One unforgettable night to celebrate it all. A historic venue in the heart of a legendary neighborhood, The Castro Theatre has seen a lot. Still, it has never seen a night quite like this one. San Francisco Pride and Peaches Christ Productions invite you to Built This City: An SF Pride Variety Spectacular. Join us for the official kickoff to Pride 2026, a full-throttle celebration of 50 Years of Queer San Francisco. We’re taking over the newly-renovated Castro Theatre for a one-night event that is as bold, brilliant, and beautifully queer as this city has always been. On […]

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Queer Gen Zers have huge electoral power. Isaac James has a plan to get them to the ballot box.

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Isaac James felt an enormous sense of urgency when he founded OutVote, an organization dedicated to mobilizing Gen Z voters. It’s why he launched the initiative (along with his co-founder Ranen Miao) while still a student at Oxford University, where he witnessed from afar the swell of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that dominated the 2024 election. At Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, it was a busy time to launch an organization, but James knew that if he was going to make it happen, he needed to do it right away. “I had the luxury of distance and time to look at what […]

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Colorado takes new shot to curb harmful ‘conversion therapy’ abuse

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In the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that curtailed states’ ability to prohibit so-called “conversion therapy” outright, Colorado lawmakers are advancing a bill to deter the practice through civil liability rather than direct bans. The proposal, House Bill 26-1322, would allow people who say they were subjected to conversion therapy to sue licensed mental health providers, as well as those who employ or supervise them, with no statute of limitations, according to the bill’s text. Lawmakers say that change reflects the reality that many survivors do not come forward until years, sometimes decades, after the harm. Stay up to date with the […]

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School celebrates as SCOTUS rejects forced outing case: “The good guys win, and truth prevails”

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The Supreme Court rejected a couple’s appeal on Monday in a case seeking to limit trans students’ rights in schools.  January and Jeffrey Littlejohn sued Florida’s Leon County School District in 2021 after claiming that school officials met with their child and created a support plan for trans/nonbinary students — in accordance with district policy — essentially “forcing” her child to be “a trans boy” without first consulting her. Littlejohn claimed that school officials discussed restrooms and name-change requests with their child without parental consent.  Anti-LGBTQ+ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) invoked the Littlejohns’ story as inspiration for signing the state’s Don’t Say Gay […]

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Man in critical condition after suspected homophobic assault in Bristol city centre

A man is in critical condition after a suspected homophobic attack in Bristol city centre. Emergency services were called to St Nicholas Street in the early hours of 24 April, where a man in his 30s was found unconscious with serious facial injuries. He was taken to the hospital, but his condition later deteriorated. Police say he is now in a critical but stable condition. Avon and Somerset Police are treating the incident as a hate crime and are searching for a group of three or four men believed to be responsible. The suspects reportedly fled on foot before leaving the […]

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Pride flag burned outside gay couple’s Pennsylvania home

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A gay couple reported the burning of a Pride flag outside of their Lancaster, PA home on April 28. The Lancaster Police department is currently investigating the incident. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. Tuc To and Peter Helman told local NBC affiliate WGAL that they noticed the burnt flag on Wednesday morning after the vandalism allegedly occurred. When they checked their Ring security cameras, they found footage, shared with WGAL, of a person in a hoodie with their face obscured approaching the flag with a […]

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Pennsylvania House passes LGBTQ+ discrimination protections despite GOP outrage

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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would establish anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people. H.B. 2103 narrowly squeezed through the chamber in a 101-100 vote. Republicans against the bill reportedly worried that its vague definitions could conflict with religious freedom (the bill includes religious liberty protections). They specifically worried that the classification of “public accommodations” would allow trans women and girls to use the facilities that align with their gender identities.  “If the whole point here is to protect people in special classes, we just denigrated all young women,” state Rep. Craig Williams (R) said during debate over […]

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European Parliament adopts measure to ban conversion therapy

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The European Parliament voted in favor of a ban on conversion therapy this Wednesday. The demand is now being sent to the European Commission for a response. The move comes after the European Citizens’ Initiative successfully petitioned the European Parliament to take up the issue. Starting in 2024, the ECI gathered over 1.2 million signatures from EU citizens to ban conversion therapy. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) held a debate on the matter earlier this week, which resulted in the committee adopting two opinions, one calling for stronger enforcement of the EU’s LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy 2026–2030 and the […]

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DOJ Targets IL Schools For Teaching LGBTQ “Ideology”

Capitol News Illinois reports: Three dozen Illinois school districts are the latest in a string of public schools, colleges and universities across the country named as subjects of federal investigations into whether the institutions teach about sexual orientation and “gender ideology,” and whether parents can opt out of such curriculum. The inquiry, announced by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday, will also “assess” whether the 35 school districts around the state, plus Chicago’s largest charter school network, allow transgender students to use single-sex bathrooms or participate in competitive sports. The DOJ’s notice did not say what prompted the investigation or […]

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