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previously criticized the campaign in December for releasing a two-minute video, featuring images of soldiers and anti-vaccine demonstrators alongside clips of Trump’s speeches, as the artist’s 2012 single plays in the background.According to Euro News, the Trump campaign has played that video featuring Woodkid’s song, or sometimes just the song alone, at Trump’s rallies. And despite the artist’s objections, the Trump campaign re-released the video from December on Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social.On August 7, Woodkid took to X to protest the campaign’s use of his music.“Once again, I never authorized the use of my music on this @realDonaldTrump film,” he wrote.Once again, I never gave permission for the use of my music on that @realDonaldTrump film. Run Boy Run is a LGBT+ anthem wrote by me, a proud LGBT+ musician.

made public last Friday, was generated to comply with a state law that took effect on July 1.The law requires local education agencies, including school boards and the governing board of charter schools, to prioritize “protecting children from the harmful effects of illicit pornography over other considerations.” The board said it was committed to enforcing the law.Traditionally, schools and librarians have looked at the overall content and value of challenged books, rather than cherry-picked selections from such works, when determining whether books should be removed from shelves or banned altogether.However, the new law refuses to make allowances for works that may contain some adult content but have overriding literary, political, or artistic value. That means any works containing descriptions of sex or masturbation are banned, as are any books with LGBTQ content that opponents may claim is “sexual.”When a local education body removes a book for violating the law, it must notify the state board of education.

longstanding support for LGBTQ individuals.Jacob Reitan, who, in 1999, became the first out gay student at Mankato West High School, recently spoke with former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki for a segment during the August 7 edition of her MSNBC show, Inside with Jen Psaki.Reitan, who was one of Gwen Walz’s English literature students in 1997, recalled how, on the first day of class, she informed students that her classroom would be a “safe space” for LGBTQ students. Tim Walz, meanwhile, would go on to serve as the faculty sponsor of the school’s first gay-straight alliance club, which Reitan helped start.“Both Tim and Gwen were incredibly supportive of their gay students,” Reitan told Psaki.“They modeled values of inclusivity and respect.

prohibiting public libraries from removing books from shelves simply due to objections about their content, including books with LGBTQ themes or characters.Walz signed an executive order banning conversion therapy and has been an advocate for federal nondiscrimination laws, both as a member of Congress from a rural, Republican-leaning district and as governor of a Democratic-leaning state (Minnesota’s laws have protected LGBTQ people from discrimination for decades). In short, there’s much for LGBTQ advocates to like about Walz.

apologized for remarks she made immediately after the match. Soon after the match, anti-transgender activists and right-wing media figures, including former U.S.

The New York Times accused the GLAAD president and CEO of engaging in a pattern of lavish spending, including having the nonprofit pay for the renovation of her home office.According to the Times, which analyzed months of the LGBTQ media advocacy organization’s expense reports from January 2022 to June 2023, Ellis allegedly racked up charges for first-class flights, expensive black car services, stays at luxury hotels, a ski day that was part of a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, a Provincetown summer rental, and nearly $18,000 in renovations to her home office, which was outfitted with a chandelier and other ornate accouterments.That spending was on top of Ellis’s salary, which began at $441,000 following the renegotiation of a five-year employment contract in 2022, with automatic 5 percent increases each year.The Times claims that as part of that final employment agreement, Ellis earned a $150,000 signing bonus, additional payments of up to $300,000 per year tied to GLAAD’s fundraising efforts, and a discretionary annual bonus of up to 40% of her salary.

failed to register her transgender daughter as male when the now-16-year-old started high school.It started in November 2023, when Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Peter Licata reassigned Monarch High School Principal James Cecil, Assistant Principal Kenneth May, athletic director, and coach Dione Hester, and Norton after receiving a complaint that a transgender athlete had competed on the girls’ volleyball team.The reassignments triggered student protests at Monarch High, including a student-led walkout.A month later, the Florida High School Athletic Association penalized Monarch for breaking the law, fining it $16,500 dollars, issuing a letter of reprimand that will remain “a permanent part of it membership record,” placing the school on probation for year, and suspending Norton’s daughter from participating in any sports for a year.The FHSAA also ordered Monarch to require its administrators, employees, and athletic staff to attend seminars and workshops on how to comply with Florida’s “Fairness in Women’s Sports” law.The investigation revealed that Norton’s daughter began taking puberty blockers at age 11 and has since begun receiving hormone therapy.The girl is small and slight, and often sat on the bench during her freshman and sophomore years, even as the girls’ volleyball team racked up a 13-7 record last season.

outed as gay because his Grindr data suggested he was visiting gay venues is now suing the gay hookup app for violating his privacy.Starting in 2016, Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, a priest from Wisconsin, served as the former general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which serves as the Roman Catholic Church’s official mouthpiece in the United States, and frequently rails against laws and policies that recognize the rights of LGBTQ people.But in 2021, Burrill resigned from his position within the church after The Pillar, a right-wing Catholic activist website, claimed to have uncovered mobile app data showing that he had not only used the Grindr app but had visited a gay bar and multiple bathhouses.The Pillar did not say where or how it had obtained this data, saying the information on Burrill’s alleged whereabouts was based on “commercially available records of app signal data.”While the data didn’t include names or pictures of users, Grindr assigns a unique number to each phone and tracks timestamped location data based on GPS signals.

U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling legalizing marriage equality.The pugilistic former clerk of Rowan County has officially appealed an April ruling by U.S.

tapped as Donald Trump’s running mate.“The entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. How does that make any sense when we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t have a direct stake in it?” Vance said.Vance made similar comments at a conservative conference decrying Buttigieg as part of the “childless Left,” even asserting that single people, or people without natural-born children should have less of a say in voting.Noting that Buttigieg and his husband Chasten have two children whom they adopted in 2021, and that Harris has two stepchildren, Collins asked Buttigieg how he would respond to Vance’s statements.“The really sad thing is [that] he said that after Chasten and I had been through a fairly heartbreaking setback in our adoption journey,” Buttigieg told Collins.

homosexuality is immoral and oppose any sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage.Officials at Jackson-Reed High School argued that the requirement conflicted with its nondiscrimination policies, which, like D.C.’s human rights law, prohibits disparate treatment or harassment of LGBTQ individuals.The school said it would allow the chapter to remain active if it dissociated from the national FCA or changed its policy regarding the limiting of leaders.A student sought to reactivate the chapter, with school and district officials saying the FCA could remain on campus if it simply elected its leaders, arguing that it was protecting the safety and well-being of students by “promoting an equitable environment free of discrimination.”The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a right-wing conservative legal group, argued that the school district and school officials had discriminated against FCA members by not permitting them to be recognized as an official club, claiming they were being treated differently from other school-recognized groups. In court, Jackson-Reed Principal Sah Brown said that only four of 60 school-recognized clubs have been authorized to exclude members or leaders based on gender identity, race, ethnicity, national origin, or other protected characteristics.But he also noted that none of those clubs had actually enforced those exclusions and that each club had dropped language restricting membership from the school’s official website.The office of D.C.

DEI hire,” based on the assertion that she was only selected as vice president due to her race and gender, as well as claims that she lacks intelligence, and is otherwise unqualified to be president.Harris’s critics leave out that, prior to becoming the duly elected vice president, she served as the duly elected district attorney for San Francisco, the duly elected Attorney General for the state of California, and the duly elected U.S. senator for California — which happens to be the nation’s largest state and home to the world’s fifth-largest economy.MAGA pundit Matt Walsh has gleefully circulated the accusation that Harris owes her political career to a short relationship she had with Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco.Both Harris and Brown have acknowledged the relationship but downplayed it as largely irrelevant, especially with regard to Harris’s professional career — which started in 1990 when she was working for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, not in Brown’s home base of San Francisco, according to a fact-check by Reuters.“Kamala Harris got her start in politics by sleeping with Willie Brown,” Walsh wrote on X.

longstanding support of the LGBTQ community“We are deeply grateful to President Biden for his more than 50 years of public service and his longtime support for the LGBTQ+ community,” HRC President Kelley Robinson said in a statement. “Today’s announcement reflects what President Biden has done his entire career and will be core to his legacy: putting the needs of Americans and his country above his own.

lower court’s ruling that the AEA was an unconstitutional infringement on performers’ First Amendment rights.The judges also lifted an injunction that prohibited local authorities in Shelby County — which encompasses the city of Memphis and its suburbs — from enforcing the law Writing for the court, Nalbandian found that the Memphis-based LGBTQ theater company, Friends of George’s (FOG), lacked legal standing to sue over the law, because its “drag-centric performances, comedy sketches, and plays” did not meet specific criteria under Tennessee law to be considered “harmful to minors.”As a result, he argued, the theater company failed to prove it was at risk of potential future prosecution and lacked standing to bring the lawsuit.Nalbandian and Siler declined to address whether the law’s content violated the First Amendment.But Circuit Judge Andre Mathis, a Biden appointee, noted in a dissenting opinion that the majority’s ruling conflicts with both past 6th Circuit precedent, as well as Supreme Court precedent.Mathis argued that Friends of George’s had standing to sue because the content of their skits might be considered “adult-oriented performances.”And because the theater where the troupe performs does not distinguish between adult and child ticket holders, and does not card all patrons, a handful of minors could end up seeing the shows — thus violating the law, and making the theater company subject to prosecution.Mathis found that the AEA is not simply a “time, place, or manner restriction” that might otherwise be considered reasonable, but rather a content-based restriction targeting shows that lawmakers may personally deem offensive or objectionable — a clear violation of the First Amendment.Tennessee Attorney

KESQ that the company’s several dozen accounts on X, including members of its #ILoveGay network, were all taken down at the same time without warning.“I got this flood of emails from my followers, and I’m like, ‘What is happening?’ At the end of the day, we still don’t exactly know what’s going on,” he said.In a July 9 post on Pink Media’s website, Skallerud wrote that the mass suspension was due to what X claimed was a “user report” that claimed the accounts “had broken one of the X rules.”“Which rule we may have violated remains a mystery, but 5 days later, we are still down with no hopes of having our X profiles reinstated,” he wrote.Brad Fuhr, CEO of radio station KGAY and the Gay Desert Guide, reportedly received a message from X telling him that several accounts he ran — including accounts dedicated to promoting LGBTQ spaces in the Coachella Valley and promoting the area as a potential attraction for tourists — had been permanently banned.“Our digital marketing agency Oasis Marketing Group, ‘OMG PSP,‘ that one was suspended,” Fuhr told KESQ. “And then we noticed, of course, that the ‘I Love Gay Palm Springs’ account was also suspended [in addition to Gay Desert Guide].

pic.twitter.com/KMvcMMoM39— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) July 16, 2024Walsh attacked the party’s decision-making, noting that there have been multiple examples of celebrities who have backed Donald Trump, only to be revealed as not being sufficiently ideologically conservative in his view.Walsh attacked Rose over an interview in which she praised the Satanic Temple, a non-theistic organization and religious movement that promotes civil rights, for “helping a lot of people” get abortions.“If it is outrageous and offensive to suggest that a person such as [Rose] is perhaps not fit to be a prime time Republican speaker, then conservatism as a movement is in even worse shape than I thought,” Walsh wrote on X. “In conclusion: come on, guys.

transgender participation in women’s sports, which has become a rallying cry in recent years as various Republican-led legislatures have passed laws barring trans participation, and as various sporting bodies have sought to adopt restrictions prohibiting transgender or intersex athletes from competing as women. James accused Democrats of wanting “to take your dollars…take your voice…take your control, and give it back to D.C.

arrested and charged in March with fraud and money laundering for diverting $150,000 — which was taken from a larger pool of $1.3 million that Casa Ruby had obtained through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) programs — into bank accounts held in El Salvador under her birth name, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release.Prosecutors claimed Corado passed the money through her consulting company, TIGlobal, in an attempt to circumvent the Small Business Administration’s earlier denial of her EIDL application.Corado was temporarily jailed and placed in solitary confinement for her own protection, until a federal judge decided to release Corado and placed her under house arrest, with GPS monitoring, at the home of a niece in Rockville, Maryland.On Wednesday, July 17, Corado entered a plea deal in which she agreed to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud and give up all proceeds traceable to her offense, in exchange for the government dropping a much larger six-count complaint in which she was charged with bank fraud, money laundering, monetary transactions in criminally derived proceeds, and failure to file a report of a foreign bank account.The wire fraud offense is punishable by up to 30 years in prison.But under federal sentencing guidelines, due to it being Corado’s first offense and the crime not involving violence, Corado could receive a much lighter sentence.Prosecutors have argued that the sentence would fall between 33 to 41 months in prison, while her defense team estimates that she could serve between 15 and 21 months, reports The Washington Post.Corado is next scheduled to appear in court on January 10, 2025, for sentencing.

several districts in conservative-leaning areas of the state.Under those policies, school personnel were required to inform on transgender and nonbinary students to their parents if a student either “came out” to a teacher or administrator or asked for various accommodations based on their transgender or nonbinary identity.Proponents of the policies argued that it was important to keep parents informed about decisions made regarding their children and that not having parental notification policies in place would make school districts more vulnerable to lawsuits.But LGBTQ advocates argued that outing students against their will, or before they’re comfortable coming out more publicly, might heighten their feelings of isolation, depression, or suicidal ideation.

. He will serve a minimum of 20 years before being eligible for parole. “The court finds that the actions in their entirety are so serious that the maximum sentence should be applied,” the court said in its ruling last week.Matapour was also ordered to pay compensation amounting to around 112 million Norwegian Krone ($10.6 million) to survivors and relatives of the victims he killed or maimed.

Japan Times.The plaintiff in the case, a trans woman in her 30s, had sought to legally change their gender, but the Hiroshima High Court and the family court ruled that she failed to meet the “surgical requirement.”The woman’s lawyers then appealed to the Supreme Court, which ruled last year that the sterilization requirement was unconstitutional.The court subsequently sent the case back to the Hiroshima High Court so it could rule on whether requiring surgical interventions to meet the “appearance requirement” was legal.On July 10, the court ruled that a person assigned male at birth can legally change their gender without undergoing surgery.The high court found that the plaintiff already resembles a female in bodily appearance due to hormone therapy and that there is no need for her to undergo sterilization.The court also found that the plaintiff has a right to avoid undergoing invasive and often expensive gender confirmation surgery that would cost over a million yen ($6,190 dollars), according to the newspaper The Mainichi.“[The law] gives them a tough either-or choice of having the surgery, thereby eliminating the right not to damage one’s body, or eliminating the right to enjoy the legal benefits based on their gender identity,” the ruling reads.There are differences in how Japanese courts look at the law’s application to transgender men versus transgender women.For example, it tends to be easier for trans men, simply by undergoing hormone therapy, to meet the “appearance requirement,” while for transgender females, removal of male genitalia has generally been thought necessary to meet the same requirement.In the particular case of the trans plaintiff, the changes that her body underwent due to hormone therapy were