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‘Don’t Say Gay’: Florida’s “hateful” bill “designed to attack LGBTQI+ kids” continues to advance

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Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill has continued to make its way through state legislature, bringing it even closer to reality. The bill, which is part of a Parental Rights in Education proposal, is being sponsored by Republican State Senator Dennis Baxley. LGBTQ+ activists are fearful that if House Bill 1557 and its companion Senate Bill 1834 are signed into law, they could have the power to totally limit any discussions or lessons on identity, the community’s history and the oppression it has faced. On 17 February, the House Judiciary Committee…

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LGBTQ+ representation on broadcast television reaches record high

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The 2021 to 2022 period saw a record high for LGBTQ+ representation and racial diversity on broadcast television in America, a study found. GLAAD’s annual Where We Are on TV report was released on 17 February and revealed data on “the overall diversity of primetime scripted series regulars on broadcast networks and streaming services for the 2021-2022 TV season.” The 17th annual study found that 11.9% of series regular characters scheduled to appear on scripted broadcast primetime programming were LGBTQ+, marking an increase of 2.8% from the year before as…

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Poet-politican: first Black trans American to run a city council

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Poet, performance artist, politician and ground breaker. For Andrea Jenkins, the first Black transgender American to lead a city council, all roles rest on her lifelong quest for justice. “Poetry and politics have had a very close connection,” Jenkins, 60, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a video call. “As one of my favourite poets and mentors, Amiri Baraka, said, ‘Poets are the legislators of the world.’” After almost three decades in local government, Jenkins still teaches poetry at her local arts college but it is a drive to secure…

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Chantale Wong becomes first out lesbian US Senate-confirmed ambassador

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Chantale Wong has made history by being confirmed as the United States Director of the Asian Development Bank. She becomes the first openly lesbian, Senate-confirmed ambassador in America’s history after a bipartisan confirmation vote. Writing on Facebook on 8 February, the day of her confirmation, Ambassador Wong shared her “pride and humility” over the honour. She said: “22 years ago, Pres. Clinton appointed me to the Board of the ADB as the Alternate Executive Director. I was young and impressionable and had so much to learn. “Tonight the US Senate…

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Joe Biden tells LGBTQ+ community they “are loved” as Florida advances “hateful” bill

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Joe Biden has promised to support the LGBTQ+ community as Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill makes its way through state legislature. The bill, which is part of a Parental Rights in Education proposal, is being sponsored by Republican State Senator Dennis Baxley. LGBTQ+ activists are fearful that if Senate Bill 1834 is signed into law, it could have the power to totally limit any discussions or lessons on identity, the community’s history and the oppression it has faced. On 8 February, The White House tweeted that “conservative politicians in Florida…

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Donald Trump promises to “ban” trans athletes from sport if re-elected

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Donald Trump promised to implement a nationwide ban on trans athletes should he ever be re-elected as president. Trump, who in 2020 became the first incumbent president to lose re-election since George H.W. Bush in 1992, gave a speech in Conroe, Texas on 29 January. “We will ban men from participating in women’s sports,” he said during the rally. “So ridiculous.” He went on to comment on Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania who previously spent three years competing on the men’s…

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Lesbian couple found tortured, shot and dismembered in trash bags in Ciudad Juárez

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Nohemí Medina Martínez and Yulizsa Ramírez were found roughly 17 miles apart from each other on a stretch of Juárez-El Porvenir Road. Content warning: This story may include topics that could make some readers feel uncomfortable. The women, who were both 28-years-old and of El Paso, Texas, were discovered on 16 January the day after seeing family whom they had travelled to visit in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, El Diario reported. Speaking to the Daily Mail, Chihuahua Committee for Sexual Diversity director Karen Arvizo confirmed that the pair were parents to…

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Policy protecting transgender participation in sport dropped by NCAA

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced changes to its transgender participation policy on 19 January. The latest guidelines mean that trans women wishing to compete on a women’s team have to follow rules set by both national and international governing bodies, meaning a certain testosterone level will have to be met in order to participate. Despite this, there was no medical or legal guidance provided in the announcement and “a sport-by-sport approach” will now be adopted to bring the NCAA in line with both domestic and foreign Olympic Committees.…

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Michael Phelps weighs in on trans athletes in sport: “It has to be a level playing field”

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Michael Phelps said sport “has to be a level playing field” when asked about the controversy surrounding Lia Thomas. Thomas, a transgender swimmer on the women’s team at the University of Pennsylvania, previously spent three years competing on the men’s team. She has become the topic of debate among those questioning trans participation in sport, with Phelps now weighing in on the topic. The 36-year-old, who is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, compared the discussion surrounding Thomas to that of doping in sport and stated…

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Britney Spears celebrates “free woman energy” with liberating nude photos

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Britney Spears has been celebrating the end of her conservatorship which controlled most parts of her life for 13 long years. On 12 November 2021, Judge Brenda Penny freed the Inside Out singer from the legal restrictions that were first imposed in 2008. “The conservatorship of the person and estate of Britney Jean Spears is no longer required,” she said at the time. “The conservatorship is hereby terminated.” There were two branches to the arrangement – one which focused on her estate and financial affairs and one that dealt with…

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