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Jennifer Knapps Christian rock travels from Kanas to Oz and back again; a Kenya court orders protections for transgender people, gay CDC hero Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigns with other RFK, Jr. protesters, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker goes on offense with a first-in-the-U.S. state queer legal hotline, a U.S. federal judge sides with a trans sister in a University of Wyoming sorority lawsuit, and Australian Football League pro Mitch Brown flies like an Eagle out of the bi closet.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
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Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
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Jennifer Knapps Christian rock travels from Kanas to Oz and back again; a Kenya court orders protections for transgender people, gay CDC hero Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigns with other RFK, Jr. protesters, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker goes on offense with a first-in-the-U.S. state queer legal hotline, a U.S. federal judge sides with a trans sister in a University of Wyoming sorority lawsuit, and Australian Football League pro Mitch Brown flies like an Eagle out of the bi closet.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
[https://jenniferknapp.com/]
Queer news Tik-Toks into the future; Britains first trans judge fights the U.K. top courts woman definition in the Euro-Court, a gay Jamaican refugee is freed from U.S. ICE custody, Texas university students beat a campus drag ban in a U.S. appeals court, a Florida district judge un-bans books in the states classrooms and school libraries, and Florida activists rebuke the DeSantis removal of rainbow crosswalks.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
[Context = https://www.context.news/; embedded videos at thiswayout.org]
Honoring thirteen years of cabaret play at Planet Queer; foreplay gets gay Indonesian men 80 lashes, an Allah is lesbian t-shirt lands a Moroccan feminist in jail, Nepal carries on with its first post-USAID Kathmandu Pride, trans youth lose gender-affirming healthcare in a second U.S. appeals court, a Virginia school district Trumps the federal trans bathroom ban, and a cis biracial lesbian teen sues a Minnesota eatery over a restroom gender check.
Those stories and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
[https://www.planetqueer.org/about]
A Caribbean coalition defeats anti-queer colonialism; the U.S. Air Force cheats departing trans troops out of retirement benefits, a majority of surveyed Chinese people support LGBTQ rights, New Hampshire Republicans rob trans youth of gender-affirming care, Massachusetts strengthens trans and reproductive healthcare protections, a U.S. appeals court sites Skrmetti to uphold Oklahomas pediatric trans healthcare ban, and a lesbian priest is elected to clean up the Church of Wales.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
[Eastern Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality/ECADE = https://ecequality.org/]
Jamison Green tracks the history of transgender medicine; a Caribbean high court tosses Saint Lucias anti-queer sex laws, Cuba approves legal gender change without surgery, a world record-breaking crowd marches for Existence and Resistance at Londons Trans+ Pride, Berlins Christopher Street Day Parade includes protests of the Bundestags rainbow flag ban, and Hungarian cops grill Budapest Mayor Gergely Karcsony over suspicions that he helped organize the citys banned Pride march in late June.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
Censored books break free at BANNED Camp; Malaysian cops mistake a Health Department-supported AIDS prevention event for a gay sex party, a Hong Kong judge stalls a trans mans bathroom win, a Canadian judge delays the deportation of a nonbinary U.S. citizen, a gay Venezuela makeup artist is freed from U.S. rendition in El Salvador, and an infamous Kentucky clerk begs the U.S. Supreme Court for marriage equality relief.
Those stories and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
Writers fight back against U.S. book bans; a Ukrainian gay couple wins its first fight for legal recognition, the Church of England abandons dishonuorable teaching on queer sex, Puerto Rico bans pediatric gender affirming care and will jail practitioners, New Hampshires governor vetoes book and bathroom bans, a U.S. court restores Trump funding cuts to 9 queer and AIDS organizations, and new Irish lesbian Rosie ODonnell scoffs at Trumps empty threat to revoke her U.S. citizenship [with audio].
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
Harvards global LGBTQI+ rights initiative faces Trump shut down threats; Hong Kongs government teases limited queer spousal rights, Pope Leo echoes the same-gender couple blessing policy of Francis, Iranian trans inmates die in an Israeli airstrike on its infamous prison, North Carolinas governor vetoes anti-trans and anti-DEI bills, Wisconsins Supreme Court upholds the states conversion therapy ban, and team Trump scrubs B following their T erasure from the National Stonewall Monuments now gay and lesbian only website.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
The U.N. Human Rights Council votes on an independent queer expert; fifty are arrested in Istanbul for attempted Pride, Chinas war on gay male erotica continues, Trumps beautiful budget bill strangles benefits for women and trans youth, the U.S. Supreme Court takes more swipes at trans rights, trans sports bans race to the high courts next session, and Australias Mens Hockey Team dons rainbow sox to support their gay mate with Pride.
Those stories and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
Trans masculine comedian Marval Rex stands up for Big Dad Energy; hundreds of thousands defy Orban to Pride Parade in Budapest, seventy-five people are arrested at an Indonesian gay party, a high court in India rules that trans women are legally women, the U.S. Supreme Court lets parents opt kids out of queer-related lessons but backs insurance coverage for PReP, and a guerrilla theater Pride show at the Kennedy Center trolls Trump.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
The U.S. Supreme Court blocks pediatric gender-affirming healthcare; Australia relaxes blood donation restrictions for gay and bisexual men, the Trump administration defunds queer youth suicide prevention hotlines, a U.S. federal judge blocks the State Departments denial of X gender passports, and U.S. Vice President J.D.Vance is greeted with ridicule and contempt on Bluesky for praising the Supreme Courts anti-trans ruling.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
USAID cuts devastate the global queer community; a Czech trans woman beats forced sterilization in the EuroCourt, young bi women fuel Australias queer population explosion, U.S. Southern Baptists call for marriage equality repeal, World Pride brings joy and defiance to the U.S. capital, Tel Aviv Pride becomes a casualty of the Israel-Iran conflict, dozens of Congress members press the State Department for info on a detained gay Venezuelan make-up artist, and a lesbian U.S. Air Force veteran is elected mayor of San Antonio, Texas.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
The U.S. Navy tries to sink Harvey Milks memory; queer job rights are threatened by a straight womans U.S. Supreme Court win, Puerto Ricos nonbinary and gender non-conforming people win a birth certificate X option, Texas Dont Say Gay law will ban Gay-Straight Alliances, author Edmund Whites own story ends, and Missoula adopts the rainbow flag to defy Montanas Pride ban.
Those stories and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
A unique history of queer people meeting and eating; dozens of Euro-Parliament members plan to defy Orbans Budapest Pride ban, U.K. trans women can now be strip-searched by male cops, the dismissal of a gay Venezuelans U.S. asylum case stymies due process, but an endangered gay Guatemalan man wins protection from a U.S. federal court, and men in dresses will still sashay through the Kennedy Centers drag ban.
All that and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
The proud drag violin of Thorgy Thor; Italys top court recognizes lesbian co-moms of their IVF baby, a Russian court fines tech giant Apple for no promo homo violations, a far-right Texas federal judge overrules the U.S. Supreme Court on anti-queer job bias, restrictions are loosened for Iowas grade school Dont Say Gay law, U.S. House Republicans cut federal funding for all gender-affirming healthcare, Paris unveils its queer Holocaust memorial, and a huge Trans Pride flag is unfurled on Yosemites El Capitan.
Those stories and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
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Gay Congressman Garcia confronts Homeland Securitys Noem about an abducted gay immigrant; an oppressive anti-DEI bill threatens queer Texas students; Brazils top court authorizes a gender neutral ID for the first time, U.K. Prides ban political parties from parading, the U.S. military begins mass trans discharges, Tennessee protects the right to deadname trans students and staff, and a U.S. appeals court dresses down Floridas family friendly drag bans.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
This Way Out's audio archive gets an indexing facelift; queer Catholics are waiting to see about the Holy See, mass discharges of transgender troops are cleared by the U.S. Supreme Court, Maines Governor Janet Mills stops Trumps Department of Agriculture from stealing the states student lunch money, and a pointless Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bar raid fails to dampen a star-studded drag show.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
Poet-warriors Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde still speak truth to power; a trans former judge takes the U.K. to the EuroCourt, U.K. sports associations comply with the Supreme Court anti-trans ruling, the Equality Act is reintroduced in the U.S. Congress, the top U.S. court ponders the right to PrEP, a U.S. Health Department report derides pediatric gender-affirming care, Polands last LGBT Free Zone surrenders, and I Kissed A Girls Jill Sobule bids farewell with a burn for Vance.
Those stories and more this week when you discover This Way Out.
The natural world comes out with Jason Journeyman Wise; massive protests answer the U.K. top courts anti-trans ruling, queers mourn the death of a more accepting Pope, Trump asks U.S. Supremes to permit his military trans ban during litigation, a federal judge blocks Trumps two-gender passport edict, and Mississippis highest Court nixes an 18-year-old trans mans legal name change.
Those stories and more this week when you choose This Way Out.
Australias Peter De Waal chronicles the road to liberation; the U.K. Supreme Court decides that transgender women are not always women, the U.S. removes gender dysphoria from the list of protected disabilities, a Norwegian trans politician says her country should offer asylum to U.S. queers, Hungarian lawmakers rubber-stamp Orbans LGBTQ Pride ban, and Trump defunds the memorial to North Carolinas trailblazing Black queer activist Pauli Murray.
Those stories and more this week when you find This Way Out.
[The youtube video mentioned in the De Waal feature is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp1o3DsRYpk
And the book can only be purchased in the U.S. here:
https://www.amazon.com/Wasnt-Dutch-Courage-Peter-Waal/dp/1763792366]
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