I knew we Tucsonans are pretty proud of our fun little city, but there is a whole gay world out there full of amazing people and we should know a little about their lives. With that in mind, I present to you the Gay News section; a few of my favorite news sources talking about Gay News and Events around the world. Check back regularly for constantly updated news and information that truly matters.
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From confirming judges to closing detention centers, six experts address how the president can limit Trump’s impact
In less than two months, Donald Trump will take office, threatening several areas of American life and international policy. The president-elect has pledged to take aim at LGBTQ+ rights, specifically for transgender and gender-non-conforming people. He has promised to conduct mass deportations and raids as a part of a far-right approach to US immigration. And he is expected to roll back data collection practices on police misconduct and stifle any hope of passing police reform in Congress – specifically the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
Trump will largely be able to roll out his agenda, outlined in the 900-plus-page Project 2025 document, as Republicans took control of Congress during the 2024 general election. Joe Biden’s actions in his remaining time in office could be a crucial buttress against the expected impacts of the next four years.
Continue reading...More than 100 artists from Beverly Glenn-Copeland to Anohni contributed to Red Hot’s Transa, one of the year’s most remarkable records
Transa, a galvanising new music compilation in support of trans rights, was born out of tragedy. In 2022, the groundbreaking trans musician Sophie died after an accidental fall; the Transa co-founder Dust Reid had already been thinking about a project that centred trans and non-binary people, and this enormous loss kicked the project into gear.
“That loss was very visceral for me – when Sophie was lost, I was really acutely thinking about all the gifts trans people give to the world,” Reid says.
Continue reading...Mace’s campaign to humiliate Congress’s first out transgender member is mean-spirited and desperate
Since the conversation, if you can call it that, about trans people always seems to come down to bathrooms, I am sure of one thing.
I would much rather share a ladies’ room or a locker room with Sarah McBride than with Nancy Mace.
Continue reading...Ocasio-Cortez accused Republican Nancy Mace of trying to ‘make a buck and fundraise’ with her anti-trans restrictions
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has defended Representative Sarah McBride and criticized House Republicans’ efforts to ban trans people from using bathrooms on Capitol Hill that match their gender identity.
The new restrictions, introduced by Republican representative Nancy Mace and supported by the GOP speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, bans transgender people, including congressional members, officers and employees, from using the single-sex bathrooms and other facilities in the Capitol and House office buildings that correspond to their gender identity.
Continue reading...Tennessee relied on doctors rebuked by courts for inexperience and bias to defend its trans healthcare ban
The doctors have been dismissed by judges across the US as “conspiratorial”, “deeply biased”, “far off” and deserving “very little weight”.
But their testimonies were nonetheless submitted by the state of Tennessee in defense of an anti-trans law the US supreme court will consider in December, in one of the most important cases of the court’s session and among the most consequential LGBTQ+ rights cases in its history.
Continue reading...Films like Emilia Pérez and Will & Harper make for vastly different yet similarly unprecedented awards contenders
Strangely, improbably, as we move toward Oscar season, there are two trans films that are considered serious contenders for major awards – including one that could possibly even land best picture.
To say that this has never happened before is an understatement. The Oscars tend to be an extremely heteronormative affair – you have to go back to 2017 to see the last time Hollywood honored a queer-themed film for best picture with Moonlight, and looking back before that, the LGBTQ+ representation is very, very sparse. What you’ll find even less of is trans representation at the Oscars – the Academy awards had existed for 89 years before a single film platforming a trans story with a trans actor won any award at all (it was A Fantastic Woman in 2018, in which its star, Daniela Vega, helped it win best foreign language film) and there has been very little since.
Continue reading...Christian Schools Australia also claims harm definition means its views on immutability of sex will be outlawed as ‘hateful’
The Australian Christian Lobby has claimed that Labor’s hate speech laws would turn Australia into a “police state” by creating “thought crime” despite the fact the laws are directed towards threats of force or harm.
The Albanese government has substantially watered down the laws but is nevertheless facing a religious backlash, with the Catholic church and Christian Schools Australia claiming that the psychological harm definition will mean the view that sex is immutable will be outlawed as “hateful”.
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Continue reading...The number of gender-affirming procedures rose in the US, followed by an onslaught of anti-trans laws. For many, the scars can be a symbol of pride and resilience
For many trans and non-binary people, top surgery – the process of removing breast tissue to get a flatter or masculinized chest – is not an elective procedure. It’s essential to them feeling at home in their bodies.
Top surgery is a form of gender-affirming healthcare that can be used to treat dysphoria, the sense of deep unease one feels when their identity or appearance doesn’t match up with the gender they were assigned at birth. It’s also a complicated, intense and invasive process that requires navigating a maze of insurance paperwork, and from which it can take years to heal. This means that the road to achieving one’s “dream” chest can be a long, complex and fluid journey.
Continue reading...South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace introduces bill two months before Sarah McBride is to be sworn in
After Delaware elected the first ever openly transgender member of Congress earlier this month, a Republican introduced a bill to ban her from using the bathroom that corresponds with her gender identity.
The South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace introduced the bill, which comes a little less than two months before Sarah McBride is due to be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress. The measure would charge the House sergeant at arms with enforcing the bill, though it is unclear exactly how, according to the Hill.
Continue reading...Suit accuses Club Q of lax security and says authorities’ ‘deliberate inaction’ enabled shooter to carry out attack
Two days shy of the second anniversary of a hate-fueled mass shooting at a queer nightclub in Colorado Springs, victims and mothers of those killed have filed lawsuits against the club for lax security and against the sheriff’s office for failing to trigger the state’s red flag law to disarm the shooter and ensure they could not purchase any more weapons.
“Club Q advertised itself as a ‘safe place’ for LGBTQIA+ individuals. But that was a facade,” read the two complaints, which contain allegations of negligence.
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(Johannesburg) – The Southern African Development Community (SADC) should publicly condemn the Mozambican authorities’ excessive use of force against postelection protesters, Human Rights Watch said today.
Since the protests began on October 24, 2024, Mozambican security forces have been implicated in killing at least 30 people throughout the country according to media reports. Human Rights Watch found that security forces indiscriminately fired tear gas into residential areas, exposing children to its effects.
An extraordinary summit of SADC heads of state and government on November 20 in Harare, Zimbabwe, issued a statement that expressed condolences for the lives lost in Mozambique during postelection violence, but failed to criticize the Mozambican security forces for the unlawful use of lethal force.
“SADC has squandered an opportunity to publicly condemn human rights abuses against postelection protesters in Mozambique,” said Allan Ngari, Africa advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “The regional body should call on the Mozambique government to respect the right to peaceful protest under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and immediately cease its use of unnecessary and excessive force.”
In its November 20 statement, SADC pledged to work with Mozambique “in ensuring peace, security and stability through the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation.” Yet, the statement did not make any reference to the conduct of the Mozambican security forces during postelection unrest, which has resulted in the killing of dozens of people and injuries to hundreds more.
Postelection tensions in Mozambique escalated dramatically on October 10 when Venâncio Mondlane, an independent candidate supported by the leading opposition party, Partido Optimista pelo Desenvolvimento de Moçambique (Optimistic Party for the Development of Mozambique, known as PODEMOS), claimed victory in the October 9 elections.
On October 24, the election commission declared Daniel Chapo and the ruling party, Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Mozambique Liberation Front, known as FRELIMO), the winners of the election. Thousands of opposition supporters then peacefully marched in Maputo, the capital, to protest the announced results. Across the country, some protesters burned tires and blocked roads. In response, riot police deployed with dogs and armored vehicles fired live ammunition, rubber bullets, and tear gas to disperse demonstrators, leading to violent standoffs between protesters and security forces in many parts of the country.
Since the unrest began, the authorities said they have detained over 400 people for alleged public disorder, looting shops, destroying public and private property, and an attack on a police station. The Mozambican Bar Association said that lawyers have secured the release of over 2,700 people they believe were detained unlawfully.
Given the ongoing violence against protesters, SADC still has an opportunity to press the Mozambique government and security forces to respect fundamental human rights in line with the SADC Treaty, Human Rights Watch said. SADC should establish a fact-finding mission to investigate abuses against protesters and others and seek accountability in accordance with international standards.
The African Union Guidelines for the Policing of Assemblies by Law Enforcement Officials in Africa provide that law enforcement officials must prioritize nonviolent methods and distinguish between peaceful protesters and those who engage in violence. Isolated acts of violence do not make a protest nonpeaceful. The intentional use of lethal force is prohibited unless strictly unavoidable to protect life. The United Nations Guidelines on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement states that tear gas should only be used after appropriate warnings have been issued and protesters have been given time to safely disperse.
“SADC should press the Mozambican authorities to enforce human rights standards and prevent further loss of life amid the ongoing protests,” Ngari said. “International partners should back a regional fact-finding mission to investigate abuses before, during, and after the October elections, so that those responsible can be held to account.”
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