North Carolina fakes HB2 repeal; crime pays for an award-winning lesbian mystery writer; an Arkansas bathroom bill sponsor takes a powder, a U.S. appeals court finds that workplace bias based on sexual orientation amounts to illegal gender stereotyping, the U.S. Census Bureau adopts a "won’t ask, can’t tell" policy, Sweden compensates sterilized transpeople, USA Wrestling goes to the mat for Texas trans teen Mack, the LGBT equality movement’s "Betsy Ross" passes the banner, and more queer news from around the world!