Listen Up Girl – Details, episodes & analysis

- UK Black Pride is August 20th - BBC New Show - What It Feels Like For a Girl - A Nice Indian Boy Movie - The UK seen a drastic decline in the annual ranking of LGBTQIA+ rights in Europe - Lego released a Keith Harring lego set - Queerbaiting - 2025 Social Media Safety Index - RFK Jr. Closing 988 Lifeline - Pope ignores Rainbow Flag - Andrew Degar and his spouse, Sarah self defense class for LGBTQ - Lauren Chan SI Swimsuit cover - Bodacious Bookstore & Café - Queer books - Big Freedia's partner dies Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman https://www.listenupgirl.com/ Follow me at https://www.instagram.com/therealzachre/ Podcast music: https://dillonderosa.com/ Thank you Dillion!!!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

• Robert De Niro's Daughter
• Transgender ban in military
• DOJ to stop collecting data on the LGBTQ+ hate crimes
• Nancy Mace is a bathroom freak
• Rep. Jasmine Crockett reads them again
• Diane Von Frustenberg husband writes a book
• Pittsburgh gay club raided
• National Endowment for the Arts pulls funding
• Virginia’s Republican nominee for lieutenant governor
• “Hetero Awesome Fest”
• Disney is set to open a new resort in Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Reform UK are set to ban councils from flying Pride flags
• Italy held its first-ever Dyke March
• The new Pope

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Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

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• DOJ Pride is shut down
• Trump restricts transgender in the military
• Transwoman being sent to a male prison
• Pride being canceled at U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
• Idaho moves forward with asking Supreme Court to ban gay marriage
• Target ends it's DEI program
• Federal government websites removed transgender references
• Trump blames plane crash on DEI
• Trump administration directs clinics in foreign countries to halt HIV medications
• 39% of LGBTQIA+ individuals conceal their identity at work
• UK's Queer population grows
• Lady Gaga is an ally...still!
• Robert Cromey dies at 93

Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

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- White House removes LGBTQ+ and trans terms from the White House website

- Marco Rubio is having X markers removed from passport applications and forbidding any applications wishing to change their sex

- Bishop Mariann Budde asks Trump to have mercery

- 33% increase in calls at Project Trevor

- The right-wing attack on LGBTQ+ books

- Idaho Lawmakers Want Supreme Court to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage Decision

- Same-sex couples in Thailand can legally wed

- State Rep. Venton Jones, proposed to his partner 

Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

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• TikTok was banned and now it's back
• Trevor Project facing financial issues
• Supreme Court takes up a case for a Maryland Country school district
• Trump offers positions to LGBTQ+ people in his administration
• Lesbian Gay Bar in LA closes and the community rallies behind the one still standing
• A dozen companies change or remove their DEI programs

Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

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Follow me at https://www.instagram.com/therealzachre/

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• Bathroom ban for transpeople in the Capital Building
• Less than .01% of minors take gender affirming medication
• Traitors Season 3 is back and is gay
• Single sex homeless shelters and future ban on LGBTQ people
• META makes a change
• Anita Bryant is dead! YEAH!
• Idaho wants to wipe out same sex marriage
• Wildfires are because of DEI according to Megyn Kelly
• Tim Cook is an ass kisser to Trump
• Transgender woman takes the stage at the Golden Globes
• Pope says being homosexual is not a crime

Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

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Follow me at https://www.instagram.com/therealzachre/

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Season 2 kicks off 2025

• Michelle Buteau Calls Out Dave Chappelle
• Trans community prepares for Trump
• Jimmy Carter passes away and supported LGBTQ+ rights
• Michigan man arrested for plotting a mass shooting
• Austin Rivers gives back with knitting
• Ohio Anti-LGBTQ laws
• Nancy Mace did not get the ban she wanted
• Liechtenstein now has same sex marriage
• Two gay men embarrass the LGBTQ community by abusing their adopted children and are sentenced to 100 years each

Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

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Follow me at https://www.instagram.com/therealzachre/

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• Michigan man admitted to planning a mass shooting
• The U.S. House passed a massive defense spending bill that bars military healthcare programs from covering transition related care for minors
• Governor of NJ signed a law prohibiting public schools and libraries from banning books
• The word "Lesbian" is back
• A LA Country Sheriff deputy pleaded guilty in connect to a violent beating of a transgender man
• Gus Kenworthy and Dylan Mulvaney launch their own LGBTQ+ book clubs
• A Nice Indian Boy movie has a release date
• 62% of gay and bi mean in the U.S. are single; Reddit users respond
• Nepal had two transgender candidates that ran for local elections
• A pizza restaurant in Nashville confirmed it does not cater to same sex weddings

Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

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Follow me at https://www.instagram.com/therealzachre/

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• Tom Daley is Kicking Off a Knitting Show
• Most searched words on PornHub in 2024
• Lance Bass
• Aetna settles with Same Sex Couples
• Gay Couples continue getting married before Trump takes office
• Donald Trump is Time Magazine person of the year...again
• U.S. Military denies healthcare for gender affirming treatment
• LGBTQ Veterans in the U.K. receive compensation
• Voters in Odessa vote in a gay city council member
• Daniel Craig's new movie Queer
• Teacher in Oregon wins case against school district

Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

https://www.listenupgirl.com/

Follow me at https://www.instagram.com/therealzachre/

Podcast music: https://dillonderosa.com/ Thank you Dillion!!! 

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• Another Trans Murder
• Nancy Mace is Still Being an Transphobic
• Kuwait Bans Wicked
• Gindr 2024 Unwrapped

Hosted by Zach Randles-Friedman

https://www.listenupgirl.com/

Follow me at https://www.instagram.com/therealzachre/

Podcast music: https://dillonderosa.com/ Thank you Dillion!!! 

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