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‘Farmers’ Market Karen’ Rages at Gay Cookie Vendor for Giving Away Pride Flags

A “farmers’ market Karen” jeered and berated a gay vendor was jeered and berated just for handing out LGBT+ Pride flags which she called “political” in Livermore. The startling footage, uploaded to Twitter Monday (June 15) showed Gail Hayden, head of the California Farmers’ Market Association, frostily harangue Dan Floyd for hanging out flags to “satisfy his political agenda”. The administrator, who appeared to pull down her face mask just to launch into a verbal attack, immediately drew criticism online as the latest example of a white busybody steeped in privilege leveraging it for personal gain. idk if any of you have seen this […]

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Poland’s Jewish Leaders Deplore Stigmatization of LGBTQ People

 Jewish community leaders in Warsaw on Tuesday voiced their opposition to the “dehumanizing” language they say is being used against LGBTQ (lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender and queer) people in Poland’s presidential election campaign. Gay rights have been thrust into the spotlight during the campaign for the June 28 election. President Andrzej Duda, an ally of the right-wing ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), views what he calls LGBTQ “ideology” as an invasive foreign influence that harms traditional values in the devoutly Catholic nation. “We have observed politicians… cynically undertake to foment hostility and hatred towards LGBT persons,” the Board of […]

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Trump Slams Door on LGBT+ Asylum Seekers with ‘Impossible’ Plan to Let Judges Reject Cases without Hearing

The Trump administration has put forward a new immigration rule that would allow judges to dismiss applications from LGBT+ asylum seekers without even hearing their case. The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security have proposed revised rules for immigration cases which would drastically narrow the eligibility of people who have faced persecution to claim asylum. The rules would also allow immigration judges to reject asylum applications deemed “frivolous” without even holding a hearing or allowing the asylum seekers to plead their case. Vox and Newsweek report that one of the most drastic impacts of the changes could be for people who have fled persecution, […]

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U.N. Calls for Global End to Conversion Therapy, Says it ‘May Amount to Torture’

The United Nations released a report documenting the global reach and impact of gay and transgender “conversion therapy,” calling for nations around the world to work to ban the scientifically discredited practice. Conversion therapy practices, the U.N. document states, are “interventions of a wide ranging nature” that are “aimed at effecting a change from nonheterosexual to heterosexual and from trans or gender diverse to cisgender.” Minors are often subjected to this practice, the U.N. found, in part because they lack the legal right to control their health care decisions and “as a result of the desire of parents or guardians to […]

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LGBTQ Advocates, Plaintiffs Rejoice after Supreme Court Title VII Win

LGBTQ advocates rejoiced Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court issued an unexpectedly broad ruling that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — specifically, Title VII of the act, which prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of sex — bars employment discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Chase Strangio, deputy director of Trans Justice at the ACLU LGBT & HIV Project, called the ruling “a truly important rebuke” of conservative efforts to roll back LGBTQ legal protections established during the Obama administration. “This is a major blow to the interpretation that anti-trans forces are looking to advance,” Strangio said. “You […]

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Supreme Court Says LGBTQ Employees Are Protected By Civil Rights Employment Statutes

The Supreme Court ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ employees from being discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. The court on Monday issued opinions on two major decisions with far-reaching implications for the civil rights of transgender and LGBTQ individuals. It was a 6-3 ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the four liberal justices in the majority.  Writing for the majority, Gorsuch argued that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is fundamentally no different than discrimination based on sex. […]

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Joe Biden Says Trump’s ‘Cruelty Knows no Bounds’ after he Strips Trans Healthcare Protections during Pride Month

Joe Biden spearheaded a blistering backlash against the Trump administration that on Friday (June 12) “cruelly” erased precious healthcare protections for trans patients less than two weeks into Pride Month. The Department of Health and Human Services finalised a rule that effectively means gender identity is no longer an avenue for sex dissemination in healthcare. It’s part of a slew of policy changes across education, housing and employment to narrow the legal definition of discrimination to not include trans folk. The presumptive Democratic Party nominee slammed the move, echoing the devastating timing of the move and made a charged rallying cry to […]

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Chicago Cop Who Shouted ‘f****t’ at Black Lives Matter Protesters Fired

A Chicago police officer has been stripped of his police powers after he was found to have shouted a homophobic slur at Black Lives Matter protesters. A clip emerged on social media this month of the unnamed officer in an argument with anti-racism protesters after a traffic cone and part of a barricade were thrown at him. The officer, who did not appear to be injured, yelled at the protesters: “B***h! Wait ’till I turn my back, you f**king faggot!” Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot — one of the first out queer Black women in office anywhere in the United States — told a press conference on June […]

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J.K. Rowling Doubles Down in What Some Critics Call a ‘Transphobic Manifesto’

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling published a nearly 4,000-word blog post Wednesday, further reaffirming her controversial stance on the transgender community, which critics have called transphobic. In a tweet sharing the blog post, Rowling simply wrote “TERF wars.” TERF stands for trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a term which critics have called the author. “This isn’t an easy piece to write, for reasons that will shortly become clear, but I know it’s time to explain myself on an issue surrounded by toxicity. I write this without any desire to add to that toxicity,” she wrote at the start of her piece. Rowling addressed […]

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