Some news items you might have missed: • LGBTQ Nation: The prominent LGBTQ+ rights organization Egale Canada will boycott events in the U.S. in protest of the Trump administration’s continued assault on the transgender community. • JoeMyGod: San Francisco Pride leaders are reviewing security plans as safety concerns grow in LGBTQ+ community following a series of policies taking aim at the LGBTQ community.
SF Pride To Increase Security Due To MAGA Threats https://t.co/UmpdbGNv2i pic.twitter.com/ETal2WbKwL
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) February 10, 2025
• GLAAD: GLAAD’s Visibility Project found that the number of Super Bowl ads that explicitly featured LGBTQ people dropped this year. Check out this year’s inclusive ad spots here. • NY1: Gay foster dads are fighting to retain custody of their kids taken from them following false allegations of abuse by the children’s birth mother (who apparently doesn’t like the idea of her kids being raised by gays).
A married, gay foster couple from Brooklyn is battling to regain custody of the children who were taken from their care after what they say were false allegations of abuse by the children’s mother. @AnnikaPergament reports.https://t.co/GZO4L7mWih
— Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) February 7, 2025
• Salt Lake Tribune: Former Mormon Bishop and therapist who practiced harmful “conversion therapy” on gay men pleaded guilty to three charges of first-degree felony forcible sodomy, admitting that he sexually abused two male patients “using his position as a therapist.” • Fox News: Donald Trump doubled down on his plan for Gaza saying he would “own” the newly-developed Gaza and Palestinians would NOT have the right to return to their land. He says he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in the Palestinians who would be forcibly displaced under his proposal.
Donald Trump, on Gaza: “…I would own this. Think of it as a real estate development for the future. It will be a beautiful piece of land.”
Q: Will Palestinians have the right to return? Trump: No, they wouldn’t. If they have to return now, it’d be years…it’s not habitable [image or embed] — Prem Thakker ツ (@premthakker.bsky.social) February 10, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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