Some news items I thought worth your time:
• The Advocate: Baylor University is returning a $643,000 grant to study women and LGBTQ+ people in the church just two weeks after receiving it.
• Kenneth-in-the-212: Check out this week’s round-up of the latest in LGBTQ publications including the 2025 swimsuit issue of the Dallas Voice.
• LGBTQ Nation: D.C. police are hunting for the murderer of 28-year-old Black transgender woman Dream Johnson. Bystanders contacted police around 12:30 a.m. last Saturday after finding Johnson shot several times and lying on the street.
• Instinct Magazine: My colleague Adam over at Instinct did this terrific travel review of hotspots to hit when visiting Las Vegas.
Get Ready to Zip, Sip, and Strip in Downtown Vegas https://t.co/JAt26ab8gm #fremontstreet #circalasvegas #mobmuseum_underground pic.twitter.com/ws37ngk6l5
— Instinct Magazine (@instinctmag) July 11, 2025
• Axios: A federal judge on Thursday blocked Donald Trump’s executive order attacking birthright citizenship, nearly two weeks after the Supreme Court limited lower courts’ power to freeze federal policies.
• Wired: The Department of Homeland Security is urging local police to consider a wide range of protest activity as “violent tactics” – including mundane acts like riding a bike or livestreaming a police encounter.
• X: Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who must report to prison by July 25, told his social media followers that if anything happens to him there, he “did NOT kill” himself. #GoAwayAlready
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