A British author is releasing a book that explores same-sex relationships, NGOs in Hong Kong that serve the LGBTQ community are facing cutbacks, and a lesbian group in Australia is planning on excluding bisexual and trans women.

There was a time, not so long ago, that Florida was the swingiest of swing states. From the “hanging chads” disaster of 2000 which handed the White House to George W. Bush to razor-thin races for governor and senate through 2018 all barely tipping Republican.

The Department of State Health Services in Texas removed the option to correct one’s sex on their birth certificate, a board in Missouri discusses labeling LGBTQ books, and trans inmates in Idaho will start to receive gender-affirming care.

Fake accounts. Out of context quotes. Misleading posts. A flurry of misinformation fueled a social media narrative that the suspect in last week’s mass shooting at a Georgia high school was transgender and was motivated by a lack of trans societal acceptance.

Two gay men in Zimbabwe are facing a year in prison after authorities charged them under the country’s sodomy law.

Hundreds attend a Pride festival in Nepal's capital, a campaign for LGBTQ inclusion in sports returns to Guernsey, and a court in Australia rules that a trans woman's ban from a female's-only app is discriminatory.