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Chick-fil-A plans UK return after LGBTQ+ backlash ended first attempt

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Controversial US fast-food chain Chick-fil-A is planning a second attempt to launch in the UK, four years after closing its first restaurant following a backlash by LGBTQ+ rights campaigners. The Atlanta-based chain, whose founders have notoriously anti-LGBTQ+ views, is reportedly set to launch a new UK outlet in early 2025 and hopes to expand to five sites within two years. The project could cost the company around $100 million (£80.5 million) within the next decade, as part of the new attempt to capitalise on the UK’s customer base. It first tried to establish a branch in Reading, in Berkshire, in 2019, […]

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School board orders removal of student-painted mural containing LGBTQ+ imagery

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A West Michigan school board has ordered the removal of a student’s mural after parents freaked out over some LGBTQ+ imagery included in the artwork.  Grant High School student Evelyn Gonzales painted the mural at the Child and Adolescent Health Center at Grant Middle School after winning an art contest.  The mural shows kids and animals wearing hats with red crosses on them. The kids have diverse skin colors and one wears a hijab. One girl in the mural wears rainbow colors. Another student wears a transgender flag shirt while getting a shot from a bunny nurse. And two kids […]

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These 7 history-making LGBTQ+ Latinx artists were all honored on stamps

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Queer people of Latin American heritage have been making history for centuries, but most of them don’t get official recognition for their work by their national governments. These seven Latine/Latinx LGBTQ+ people have had the honor to have their likeness or their artwork grace an official postage stamp of their country.  Sergio E. Baradat (born 1959) Sergio Baradat, an out gay graphic designer of Cuban descent who grew up in Miami, makes sense to be the person to start off a list about Latine folks on stamps because he is a leader in the postage design world.  ADVERTISING Get the […]

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Families challenge North Dakota’s ban on gender-affirming care for children

Families and a pediatrician are challenging North Dakota’s law criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors, the latest lawsuit in many states with similar bans. Gender Justice on Thursday announced the state district court lawsuit in a news conference at the state Capitol in Bismarck. The lawsuit against the state attorney general and state’s attorneys of three counties seeks to immediately block the ban, which took effect in April, and to have a judge find it unconstitutional and stop the state from enforcing it. State lawmakers “have outlawed essential health care for these kids simply and exclusively because they are transgender,” Gender Justice […]

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Police search for rider accused of punching nonbinary person on NYC subway

New York City police are searching for an unidentified individual who was recorded harassing a nonbinary person and allegedly punched them on a Manhattan subway.  Hunter Greer, 27, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, said they were attacked Sunday night by two people sitting next to them on the 1 train. Greer said the attack began after they accidentally bumped their elbow against one of the people. That person then stood up and began verbally harassing Greer, at one point using a homophobic slur. “They were continuing to yell slurs at me, and she threatened to break my nose if I didn’t […]

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A mausoleum for transgender women is inaugurated in Mexico’s capital as killings continue

Mexican transgender rights activists Kenya Cuevas and Andrea Luna sat in front of their longtime friend Paola Buenrostro’s pink grave in Mexico City. “You don’t have to pay rent anymore. You will have your own home now,” Luna sadly joked to her late friend, a transgender woman slain in front of Cuevas in 2016. Buenrostro will be the first woman to be moved to a mausoleum a short distance away entirely dedicated to transgender women that was inaugurated on Thursday. Many of the dead transgender women were victims of hate crimes. Built in Iztapalapa, the most populous borough of Mexico’s […]

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Sen. John Kennedy reads sexually explicit passages to justify anti-LGBTQ+ book bans

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During a Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about book bans, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) read sexually explicit passages from two LGBTQ+ memoirs in order to justify censorship as a necessary way to protect children from pornography and sexual grooming. However, other experts during the hearing pointed out book bans are also being used to ban non-sexual LGBTQ+ children’s books and other books about the anti-Semitic Nazi Holocaust, Native American genocide, and Black and Latino civil rights experiences. The hearing, entitled “Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature,”featured testimony from five witnesses: two who claimed that the upset around book […]

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‘Essential’ new guidelines for trans and non-binary inclusion at work issued by HR association

The Chartered Insitute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an association of human resource professionals have published new guidance on how businesses can promote trans and non-binary inclusion in the workplace. The guide provides professionals, employers, and people managers with the information needed to take an informed and proactive approach to supporting transgender and non-binary people at work, as part of a broader diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) policy. It also provides insights from people with lived experience to help employers understand the issues and challenges facing these individuals. Data from the CIPD shows that 55 per cent of trans employees […]

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Utah judge says trans minors must turn over private health records in sports ban lawsuit

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A Utah judge has ruled the state can access the private medical records of two transgender minors who are suing to overturn the state’s anti-trans sports ban.  According to the Salt Lake Tribune – which called the decision unprecedented – Judge Keith Kelly stated that the medical records of the two trans girls speak to how the sports ban has affected their mental health and that information about their transitions and medical care “go to the issues that are squarely raised in this case.” He added, “Their physical, mental, and emotional conditions are all relevant issues.”  The girls’ attorneys say the true […]

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WaPo: We Can’t Verify Tim Scott’s Girlfriend Exists

The Washington Post reports: In June, as Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) began to get a little momentum in the presidential primary, a person working on behalf of one of Scott’s Republican opponents messaged me, asking to chat. “Have you seen the video,” he asked over the phone, conspiratorially, “where he says he has a girlfriend?” The Republican operative who called me wasn’t sure said girlfriend existed. He suggested I look into it. He followed up on our conversation with an email that included a dossier of Scott’s known personal relationships. “No fingerprints,” he said. I decided that, yes, I would try to […]

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