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Police investigate killing of trans woman Marlow Trottie in Louisiana

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Marlow Trottie’s murder is being investigated by Louisiana police (Image: Marlow Trottie/Facebook) Family, friends, and the LGBTQ+ community are mourning Marlow Trottie, a 35-year-old Black trans woman who was found dead in Alexandria, Louisiana, on 8 June. Police have confirmed in an Alexandria Police Department press release that her death is being investigated as a homicide, though authorities have not yet released details about how she was killed or whether any suspects have been identified. Marlow remembered by loved ones Friends, family members and former classmates have remembered Trottie as a kind-hearted person who could make anyone laugh. One classmate described her in […]

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Bangladesh university condemned as students reportedly expelled and handed to police over alleged homosexuality

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Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University has been condemned by advocacy groups for their treatment of students (Image: Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University) A technical university in Bangladesh has reportedly expelled four students and handed two others to police following allegations of homosexuality, prompting condemnation in a statement by JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF). JMBF chief adviser Robert Simon said: “When an educational institution attempts to control private life, personal relationships, and sexual identity, it ceases to be a place of education and humanity and instead becomes an instrument of oppression. This must stop immediately”. JMBF said the incidents […]

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Over 25% of LGBTQ+ people feel excluded or underrepresented by Pride Month

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Pride Month is just days away, but new research suggests a large number of LGBTQ+ people feel underrepresented or even excluded from the annual celebrations. Every year, queer visibility is increased in June as Pride parades, parties and festivals take place, with rainbows and sequins filling the streets. However for some, it isn’t enough. Research from dating app Taimi has found that a growing number of LGBTQ+ people feel a disconnect with Pride as it currently exists – whether that’s the weekend-long festivals, brands launching rainbow logos but doing little else for the community, or sponsored floats during parades. Of the 1,100 LGBTQ+ […]

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Trans woman found dead near Houston bayou identified as Persia Amarra Conway

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The transgender woman whose body was discovered near Brays Bayou in Houston last Monday (25 May) has been identified as 33-year-old Persia Amarra Conway. Conway’s identity was first confirmed by Blaque Out magazine on Friday (29 May), citing social media posts from her family.  In a Facebook post shared on Friday morning, her mother, Michelle P. Simmons, described Conway as “kind-hearted,” “funny,” and “headstrong like her mama,” while mourning what she described as the loss of her daughter at the hands of “a monster.” “Persia was not just my daughter. She was a light. She was a force. She was […]

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Italian Catholic Scouts group to allow LGBTQ+ leaders for first time

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Italy’s Catholic Scouts is set to allow LGBTQ+ Scout leaders to join the group for the first time ever as it updates its outdated selection criteria. The council for the Italian Association of Catholic Guides and Scouts, also known as AGESCI, announced the change in a document shared on 28 May. “AGESCI has reached the conclusion that… emotional orientation and gender identity cannot constitute exclusion criteria in the discernment that community leaders are called upon to exercise when an adult requests to join the association to play an educational role,” the document said. It went on to say that the teaching of being […]

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More gay and bi men in the UK are donating blood than ever before

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Gay and bisexual men in England are donating blood in larger numbers than ever before, a new survey has shown. The surge follows a change in the eligibility criteria for England, Scotland and Wales that was introduced in 2021. In the 1980s, queer men were completely banned from donating blood to prevent the transmission of HIV after the AIDS crisis. In 2011, the ban was then lifted, but queer men wanting to donate had to adhere to strict rules, including a requirement to abstain from having sex with another man for 12 months prior. That period was then reduced to three months in 2017. Matt Hancock, […]

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Vermont passes landmark bill protecting trans prisoners’ rights

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Vermont lawmakers have passed a sweeping, first-of-its-kind bill expanding protections for transgender people in prison, marking one of the strongest state-level responses yet to the Trump administration’s escalating prison policies targeting trans people. The legislation, titled H.550, which was passed yesterday (21 May), acknowledges that trans incarcerated people face heightened risks of abuse, harassment and sexual violence, and requires prison staff to respect inmates’ gender identities and undergo gender-responsive training, as reported by Transitics via Substack. The bill also allows incarcerated trans people to request transfers to facilities that align with their gender identity, with reviews conducted alongside medical and mental health professionals experienced […]

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Trans students made to use outdoor porta-potties as new bill signed in South Carolina

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Trans students may be forced to use outdoor porta-potties if no single-occupancy toilets are available (Image: Getty Images) South Carolina governor Henry McMaster has signed House Bill 4756, a “privacy” law that allows schools to treat outdoor porta-potties as an acceptable single-occupancy toilet option for trans students if no indoor single-user bathroom is available. The Campaign for Southern Equality warned in an Instagram post that the measure could make going to the toilet “difficult and even dangerous” for trans and non-binary young people. The bill, titled the South Carolina Student Physical Privacy Act, requires multi-person bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing facilities […]

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Eight Democrats voted with Republicans on bill that could out trans students

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Eight Democrats voted with Republicans to help pass a bill that could force teachers to out transgender students to their parents and ban the acknowledgement of trans identities in school settings. HR 2616, also known as the ‘Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act’, was passed in the House of Representatives on 20 May. If approved by the Senate and signed into law by Donald Trump, it would prohibit any school that receives federal funding from teaching “concepts related to gender ideology”, effectively ban state-funded schools across the United States from acknowledging the existence of trans people. The House Equality Caucus has dubbed the bill the ‘Don’t […]

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Art scholarship to be established for trans student found dead

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Friends, loved ones, and community members are mourning the death of Murry Foust, a 22-year-old trans man and student at Northern Kentucky University, whose body was found on Sunday night after a month-long search. “While our hearts are broken and this is not the outcome we were hoping for, we can only pray that finding them provides closure and comfort to everyone who is hurting,” Foust’s family wrote in a statement posted to Facebook on Monday, May 26. Foust, who used he/they pronouns, was last seen alive on April 27, captured on security footage in Covington, Kentucky’s Latonia neighbourhood. After nearly a […]

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