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➡️ In today's lead story, Virginia Republican lieutenant governor nominee John Reid is facing mounting political pressure after a report tied him to a Tumblr blog that reposted Nazi-themed pornography. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is calling for a boycott against Netflix for daring to feature LGBTQ+ characters. Independent reporter Erin Reed has the latest. Columnist John Casey reflects on the government shutdown and previous standoffs with Republicans over the decades, and we take a look at how LGBTQ History Month began.

In June, right-wingers hit out at a member of staff at Office for National Statistics for wearing a Pride flag badge, with one critic describing it as the "flag of transgender activism". The year before, right-wing news outlets were left "outraged" by a trans artwork, funded by London's Mayor Sadiq Khan, for London's Trafalgar Square. A Christmas advert featuring Black actress Adjoa Andoh as Mrs. Claus, that saw her use they/them pronouns to refer to someone,

Your love isn't one in a million - more like on in a thousand. There are 1,168,566 same-sex couples living together in the United States, according to a snapshot of the 2020 census by the Williams Institute, 57 percent of whom are married and 22 percent of whom are raising their own children. Among the couples, 52.4 percent are female and 47.7 percent are male.

➡️ The government has officially shut down, the third time this has happened under President Trump's leadership - and Democrats in the Congressional Equality Caucus wasted no time blaming the Republican Party. Meanwhile, Trump ally Michael Flynn urged a federal appeals court to uphold Trump's renewed ban on trans military service in a filing that reads like a culture war manifesto, and Texas is cracking down on state universities teaching about gender identity.

Miss Major, 84 has been in the hospital for 12 days. She has had ongoing health problems, having posted in January that she needed 24-hour nursing care after a recent hospitalization. She had a stroke in 2019. Related: 'Enough Is Enough' 10 LGBTQ+ Elders Share Their Words of Wisdom Miss Major, a Black genderqueer transgender woman, has dedicated the last 50 years to advocating for incarcerated trans people, particularly trans women of color, who are often housed in men's prisons, as she was. She has worked for multiple HIV and AIDS organizations, and she was the first executive director of the Transgender Gender-Variant and Intersex Justice Project, a role she held until she retired in 2015.

My girlfriend Morgan and I were introduced by my realtor at the preseason game for the Chicago Sky. I'm opening a women's sports bar called Babe's, and she became an investor. We go to every home game together. For her birthday, I wrote her a novella called Courtside Connection about our relationship because she loves those sappy sapphic romance books. I have been threatening to throw a self-published book party for it at Babe's.

One marker of the spurious issue play-a form the contemporary American theater features in surplus-is that it tends to be populated with puppets. Their inhabitants can, like the horror that is Tilly Norwood, look real, they can be loud or colorful or quirky, but ultimately they plug into a formula - they do what the playwright needs them to do. That's why it's refreshing to come across a play like Preston Max Allen's Caroline, the assured, affecting three-hander.

The CLC said current arrangements had been in place for many years and follow its own gender identity policy adopted in 2019 following a public consultation and previous versions of the watchdog the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) statutory code of practice. But after a Supreme Court ruling in April, which said the words woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex, both the CLC's gender identity policy and previous EHRC guidance have been withdrawn.

Officials at San Jacinto College, a community college in greater Houston, asked faculty to review student learning outcomes for their courses and ensure they adhere to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Academic Course Guide Manual and Workforce Education Course Manual, said Amanda Fenwick, a spokesperson for the college.

This LGBTQ+-welcoming venue is the creation of nationally recognized, award-winning owners Richard Fuentes and Sean Sullivan. They previously ran The Port Bar, which was also very popular and located next to the Paramount Theatre. A landlord dispute led to its closure last year. But FLUID510, located in the heart of Oakland at 1544 Broadway not far from City Hall and City Center, remains an East Bay destination that serves up tasty food and drinks, and holds stand-up comedy nights, trivia brunches, and other events.

This year's Annual Membership Meeting at The Producer's Loft Studio was a powerful reminder of why the Golden Gate Business Association (GGBA) exists-and why our work matters now more than ever. As President & CEO, I had the privilege of welcoming members, friends, and partners to reflect on what we've accomplished together and to share where we're headed as the nation's first LGBTQ+ chamber of commerce.

Is the tattoo an LGBTQ+ sign? In a similar way to the how the carabiner has become synonymous with queer women - but to the untrained eye it's just a heavy-duty clip used in rock climbing - this arm band tattoo has become popular with gay men. "I have a double arm band tattoo," user and author Mr Lewis Laney shared on TikTok, revealing two dark bands on his forearm, the one above the other double the size.

"No, it's that the original version featured a gay couple getting married. But in the film's Chinese release, someone digitally altered it - quite possibly using AI - and replaced one of the men with a woman, Bloomberg reports, and the homophobic and censorious implications are irking audiences across the globe. "What's happening outside the film is even more terrifying than what's shown in it," wrote a user on the Chinese social network Weibo, as spotted by The Guardian."

The majority of LGBTQ+ young people agreed that they go online to connect with others because it is difficult to do so in their daily lives, with 38% somewhat agreeing and 36% strongly agreeing,

In the middle of the night, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) painted over the Pride crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub memorial, where 49 people were killed in a mass shooting in 2016. In response, protesters used chalk to restore the memorial's rainbow colors-and then repainted it after rain washed the chalk away. FDOT quickly painted the crosswalk black again and posted signs reading "defacing roadway prohibited."

Halford indicated that he had asked "Let's get married" multiple times in the past only to be told, "No, I don't wanna get married." He continued, "Suddenly on one of our night walks, [Thomas] goes, 'I think we should get married.' [I went] straight home [and got] on the phone to get a pastor."

The road erases everything. Here in the United States, you can drive for hours in a single cardinal direction without turning the wheel or grazing the brakes. By the time you get to where you're going, your life story will be rewritten. That, at least, is the dream of the old, worn-out American road story. Joe Westmoreland's isn't exactly a road story, even though it's billed that way, with a grainy picture of a two-lane highway adorning the reverse of the title page.

The MOD has 26 years of experience integrating the trans minority into service; into an organisation where its people work, live and fight together. But in the same way that there was no evidence to justify the ban on LGBT+ volunteers in the 50s and 60s, there is no evidence to justify a regression in the rights, dignity, opportunity and working experience of the current serving trans minority.