In a 10-page report released on April 16 by staff for the Democratic majority of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, the Republican attorneys general of Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana, and Texas are accused of using “abusive legal demands” to collect the medical records of transgender patients in furtherance of the attorneys general’s “ideological and political goals.”
Five transgender and nonbinary people who are in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody at a privately-run detention center in Colorado say they continue to suffer mistreatment.
Maryland lawmakers passed a number of LGBTQ rights bills during this year’s legislative session that ended on April 8.
A Drag Story Hour event hosted by the Arlington, Va. gay bar and restaurant Freddie’s Beach Bar was interrupted by a bomb threat sent by email on April 6 requiring parents and their children attending the event to exit the bar into its rear outdoor seating area and parking lot until police and a bomb sniffing dog searched the premises and found no trace of a bomb.
The annual Walt Disney Company shareholders meeting took on a contentious environment April 3 as far right anti-trans activists attempted to push through a measure that would force Disney to pay for services for transgender people who choose to detransition.
During a briefing on April 3, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned the ruling issued hours earlier by a court in Uganda that upheld the East African country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, a law that contains a death penalty provision for “aggravated homosexuality.”
Former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who had served first as a longtime Democratic senator and then declared himself an independent, winning reelection in 2006, died March 27 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital due to complications from a fall. He was 82 years old.
Leaders and members of the Clarendon Presbyterian Church, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary on April 13, have said they decided to continue to fulfill their mission of religious faith by using the land on which their church is located in the Clarendon section of Arlington, Va., to develop a new, larger church building to include LGBTQ affordable housing for seniors along with an independently run childcare center that currently operates in the church.
Some of the largest right-wing political movements since the beginning of the pandemic have cloaked themselves in the mantra of “protecting children” and “parent’s rights,” with one of the largest organizations taking advantage of that being Moms for Liberty.
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