Adelaide United’s Josh Cavallo becomes the first active Australian A-League soccer player to tell the world that he’s gay — and he’s okay! The lack of LGBTQ information included in sex education courses is a serious problem from the perspective of OutCasting Overtime youth participant Justin (produced by Marc Sophos). Ten years ago this month: Michigan’s now-Governor Gretchen Whitmer took the lead in the state Senate against an anti-bullying bill that would have given school

HEADLINES Delhi High Court sets final hearing for marriage equality cases Italian Senate nixes Vatican-vexing hate crimes bill Polish parliament considers criminalizing Pride Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ debate makes president plea for civility New Zealand census to count queers for the first time Intersex veteran wins “X” gender U.S. passport Right-wing Republicans threaten U.S. marriage equality SUMMARY The Delhi Hight Court schedules one final hearing for a consolidated grou

Fox News host Tucker Carlson takes pout shots at Assistant U.S. Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine’s swearing in as the nation’s first transgender four-star admiral and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s paternity leave. Transgender eight-year-old Sunny Bryant pleads for her right to exist before Texas legislators, and her mother Bekah vows to continue the fight. Daniel “James Bond” Craig reveals his penchant for gay bars and confesses to villainous kisses with “No Tim

HEADLINES Ghana’s drastic anti-LGBTQ bill draws drastic reactions Botswana government appeals court’s pro-same-gender sex ruling South Korean military appeals trans rights ruling Poland defies EU pressure to protect queer rights Russia outlaws patriarchal homophobic hate group Western Australia judge emancipates abused trans teen SUMMARY Ghanaian lawmakers get mounting pressure to pass the world’s “most homophobic” bill, Botswana’s government appeals a lower court decisi

Gemma X, The Villaineers, Mariah Christie, Bestfriend, The Barbarellatones, Karma, Logan Lynn, Mariah Counts, Xantheartist, Violet Grae and Big Thief gave us new releases in the second half of this year, and Steve Sims gives them the Queer Music Focus treatment! And in NewsWrap: binational gay dads win their toddler’s Namibian citizenship, Uganda recognizes its first official gender change, booted South Korean trans woman soldier reinstated posthumously, Japanese trans man su

HEADLINES Binational gay dads win surrogacy son’s Namibian citizenship Uganda recognizes its first official gender change South Korean trans soldier reinstated posthumously Japanese trans man sues for recognition without surgery Texas House bans trans student athletes COVID confines Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras again Next generation Superman gets super boyfriend SUMMARY A Namibian court grants citizenship to the young son of a binational gay couple born via surroga

HEADLINES German voters elect two trans MPs Taipei Court says trans people have nothing to prove Polish “LGBT Free Zones” bow to EU pressure Hungary declares its right to homophobia Kenya bans another queer film Thai high court evades marriage equality again SUMMARY German trans parliamentary candidates Tessa Ganserer and Nyke Slawik are the first to be elected to the Bundestag, the Taipei High Administrative Court rules that requiring trans people to provide proof of co

HEADLINES Cuba proposes marriage equality in new Family Code Curacao court rules for lesbian couple’s rights COVID benches Hong Kong Gay Games and Taiwan Pride McKee’s killers arrested in Northern Ireland UK appeals court overturns trans youth treatment ban Evangelical Lutheran Church in America installs trans bishop Out NFL player forces fateful fumble in first game Lil Nas X thanks “the gay agenda” for MTV Video Award RuPaul’s Emmy winning streak bugs Australian fly

HEADLINES Nicaragua’s NGO purge targets its oldest queer group Shanghai University “surveys” students to track queers Yucatan joins Mexico’s marriage equality states School board pays ACLU $1.3 million for Grimm case Lesbian teacher loses bias suit against Catholic high school Colorado Christian school kids walk out over pushed-out gay coach SUMMARY Nicaragua’s government moves to shut down the LGBTQ group Fundación Xochiquetzal and other non-governmental organizations

HEADLINES Queers flee Taliban as US exits Afghanistan Polish “LGBT Free Zone” defies EC sanction threat Romania’s right-wing echoes Hungary’s homophobia Uganda’s Museveni rejects redundant “Sexual Offenses Bill” Israel lifts blood donor rules based on sexual orientation Secretary Pete and husband Chasten coming adoption Oregon couple answers school banner ban with Pride sign SUMMARY Activists mount rescue efforts for queer Afghans as the Taliban take-over portends exec

HEADLINES Baja California joins Mexico’s marriage equality states Taiwanese gay wins right to marry Macanese partner Guyana decriminalizes cross-dressing Cameroon’s “attempted homosexuality” trans women assaulted Uzbekistan’s bogus gay anal exams draw global outrage Olympic “Team LGBTQ” triples in size and multiplies medals Charlotte, NC revives queer protection ordinance SUMMARY The legislature of Baja California follows other Mexican states that have implemented the S

HEADLINES Ghanian rights activists freed after workshop raid Gay Hong Kong democracy campaigner denied bail Kyiv Pride raves on Zelensky’s doorstep Polish theologian fined for hate in Germany Hundreds march conservatively in first Caymans Pride Trans kids sue Tennessee over school bathroom bias [law] Egypt’s rainbow-marked bank note mistaken for homo promo SUMMARY Twenty-one activists busted at an LGBTQ advocacy workshop in Ghana are freed due to a lack of evidence aga