Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons (screen capture)Some news items you might have missed:
• Instinct Magazine: Imagine Dragons frontman (and longtime LGBTQ ally) Dan Reynolds likes to performs shirtless and in shorts….and no one is mad.
• Kenneth-in-the-212: Kenneth rounds up the latest in LGBTQ publications including the St. Patrick’s Day issue of GLOSS Magazine with this cute leprechaun.
• New Republic: The Tennessee House of Representatives has passed a bill that would allow people to refuse to “solemnize” a marriage if they disagree with it. The bill could allow county clerks to deny marriage licenses to same-sex, interfaith, or interracial couples.
• Human Rights Watch: A bill introduced in Uganda’s Parliament criminalizing same-sex conduct and sexual and gender identity calls for a ten-year prison sentence for publicly saying that you are anything but heterosexual. It also defines all same-sex acts as non-consensual.
Ugandan lawmakers are once again targeting sexual minorities. A new proposed law could make it illegal to even say that you are gay, transgender, or queer. pic.twitter.com/zKZTFsCeYj
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) March 9, 2023
• NBC News: The city prosecutor in Newport News, Virginia, said that he would not seek charges against the 6-year-old boy who shot his elementary school teacher in January. No decision has been made in regard to whether any adults associated with the case could be held criminally liable.
• Politico: A man convicted of credit card skimming in Seattle in 2017 and deported to Brazil has submitted a sworn declaration to federal authorities alleging that truth-challenged Rep. George Santos orchestrated the operation.
Rep. George Santos orchestrated a 2017 credit card skimming operation in Seattle, a former roommate of the scandal-plagued congressman said in a sworn declaration submitted to federal authorities Wednesday.https://t.co/FmzKdWgFwk
— POLITICO (@politico) March 9, 2023