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Gainesville Reinstalls Rainbow Crosswalk Bricks At City Hall Plaza

The Gainesville Sun reports: Gainesville city officials and residents gathered at City Hall Plaza on May 8 to celebrate the ribbon-cutting of the newly renovated space. The redesigned plaza, city officials said, will provide a more functional community hub and can accommodate more than 2,000 people. The space also incorporates the rainbow bricks salvaged from the downtown crosswalks removed last year. Their removal came after state officials ordered communities across Florida to take down or paint over rainbow crosswalks, including the crossing in Orlando that memorialized the 49 victims of the 2016 Pulse Nightclub massacre. Gainesville officials pulled roughly 1,900 bricks from […]

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Colorado lawmakers pass rewritten conversion therapy ban after Supreme Court ruling

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Colorado lawmakers have approved a rewritten ban on so-called “conversion therapy” in an effort to preserve protections for LGBTQ+ youth after the US Supreme Court struck down the state’s previous law earlier this year. The new legislation, HB26-1322, now heads to Democratic governor Jared Polis, who is gay. Polis is expected to sign the bill into law. The updated bill was drafted in direct response to the Supreme Court’s March ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, which found Colorado’s earlier ban unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds. Now, rather than prohibiting therapists from encouraging minors away from LGBTQ+ identities specifically, the rewritten law instead bars […]

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Florida Anti-DEI Law Will Cut Funding for Key West Pride Events

Monroe County, Florida, home to the Florida Keys, will stop spending public funds to promote several LGBTQ events that draw thousands of tourists to Key West each year. The county announced the decision on May 5, citing a law signed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis last month prohibiting public money from being spent on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The law bars preferential treatment or special benefits for groups based on characteristics such as race, sex, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Currently, organizations that host tourist-attracting events can be reimbursed through the Monroe County Tourist Development Council. Groups […]

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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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