Some news items you might have missed: • AP News: Hungary’s government will not change policies the European Union believes infringe on LGBTQ+ rights and those of asylum seekers, even if doing so would unfreeze billions in funding the bloc has withheld from Budapest. • Kenneth-in-the-212: Click over to Kenneth’s weekly round-up of the what’s what in LGBTQ publications including Mr. Gay World, Troy Michael Smith, covering Plus Magazine. 
• LGBTQ Nation: The first two weeks of 2024 have seen approximately 285 anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced in state legislatures. Among them, 71 target health care, 21 seek to ban drag shows, and 130 propose censoring school curriculums. • Washington Post: The Justice Department issued a scathing 575-page report Thursday describing the myriad failures of local police during the 2022 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 students and two teachers. The gunman was killed 77 minutes after officers arrived at the scene. https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1748007759126139026 • Florida Politics: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) says a Governor losing a ‘home state’ in the GOP primary season should leave the 2024 race (meaning former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley). But a recent poll shows him losing to Donald Trump in his own state. • OUT: Insiders behind the scenes of Max’s And Just Like That… say the character of “Che Diaz” (played by bisexual/nonbinary actor Sara Ramirez) won’t be returning because fans didn’t care for the character. But Ramirez seems to be signaling they are out because of their pro-Palestinian stance. https://twitter.com/outmagazine/status/1748057738859454946
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