In the 2nd episode for today, I cover the large number of winners, nominees and presenters at the 76th annual Emmy Awards that are part of the LGBTQ+ community.

This week in LGBTQ+ News:

• Will Ferrell and Harper Steele release a documentary on Netflix coming September 27, 2024 View the movie trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRZ1ELeGepo
• Lover of Men documentary on Abraham Lincoln having four men in his life and in his bed. View the movie trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNF6Qvh5WYI
• Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president.
• Elon Musk trans daughter claps back at her father on social media.
• A Florida school district has to return 36 books back the shelves that were previously banned.
• Trump makes false claims that children are being transitioned when sent to school.
• Miami-Dade County bans LGBTQ+ History month for the 3rd year in a row.
• Sade dedicates her first new song in six years to her trans son.

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• President Trump removes LGBTQ+ from websites
• HRC is laying off 20% of it's workforce
• My person views on what is happening to this country

• 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

• Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill called the “Defining Male and Female Act of 2024”
• Scott Bessent: Trump's pick for treasury secretary
• Odessa, Texas, you may sue a trans person for $10,000 if you “catch” them using a bathroom that aligns with their gender
• Donald Trump has been extremely clear about his intent to continue rolling back LGBTQ+ rights
• One in four LGBTQIA+ people feel unsafe or unwelcome at live sports events
• The Cincinnati City Council is going to spend $500,000 on all forms of healthcare for transgender youth
• Two new stamps coming from USPS in 2025
• Staten Island will alllow LGBTQ+ groups in the St. Patrick's Day parade
• 2024 Municipal Equality Index

• Trans Day of Remembrance
• Republican Nancy Mace is coming after Sarah McBride
• Law in Texas is still on the books making gay sex illegal
• U.S. Census Bureau is adding sexual orientation
• Mary Trump tells her uncle to F*ck Off
• Madonna's biopic

• World Pride announces it 2025 theme
• UK study shows trans students are bullied more than cisgender students
• RFK Jr. makes the news again
• John Krasinski receives a comment he is trans from a Fox news host
• The Onion buys Alex Jones Infowar website
• Ky Governor made it clear he supports trans people
• Ruben Gallego beats anti-lgbtq republican Kari Lake in AZ
• 12 students arrested at Salisbury University
• Matt Gaetz nominated for Attorney General
• 700% increase in calls to Trevor Project after election
• Hispanics, African Americans and LGBTQ+ received horrible text messages

• Trump won and there is no one to blame but the Democrats who did not vote and the white women who voted for him
• Three states had Same Sex Marriage on the ballot
• Several members of the LGBTQ+ community were elected this term
• Mary Trump continues to lash out at her uncle
• JD Vance did not win the "Normal Gay Guy" vote
• LGBTQ+ Community is Googling where to move to if it gets bad in the United States
• Mali bans same-sex acts

• Trumps Nazi Rally at MSG is cleansed with a duet from Cyndi Lauper and Sam Smith
• JD Vance continues to lie
• Vance thinks normal gay guys will vote for him....ummmm..no
• Over 60M early voters have come out this year
• Trump continues anti-trans campaign
• Elon Musk's daughter, Vivian claps back at Andrew Tate
• Shawn Mendes makes an announcement

• Trump rally had 100 LGBTQ supporters attend and very few gay men
• 18 Transgender candidates are on the ballot this election cycle
• A man from South Carolina was sentence to life in prison for killing a transgender woman
• Seven year battle with Jefferson County in Upstate NY to ensure human treatment of transgender and intersex people
• Camilla Hannan, a teacher in Manchester England is banned from every teaching in England
• Donald Trump is still saying lies that children are going to school and coming back the opposite gender
• Beyonce and Willie Nelson attended Kamala Harris rally in Houston with over 30,000 people in attendance
• The proportion of candidates who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming grew by more than seven percentage points between 2020 and 2024
• A man in Washington state is under arrest after putting a noose around a 14 year gay boys neck
• Maryland has added Trans Shield Act to protect LGBTQ community and healthcare professionals

• Tuck Carlson continues to talk about Tim Walz being gay
• Texas AG is investigating a healthcare provider for giving treatment to trans children
• California, Colorado and Hawaii are soon allowing their residents to vote to remove prohibiting same sex marriage in their states
• New study find 78% of primary school children hear homophobic language
• First out transgender lawyer takes a case to the Supreme Court
• 10 Safest lgbtq+ countries
• 12 countries that impose the death penalty for lgbtq+ members
• 10 worst states for lgbtq+ community

• Dani's Queer Bar in Boston - No Review
• Italian Senate Passes a New Law
• Parents can now remove their children from school when trans is talked about
• Tim Walz addressed his and Kamala's position on trans rights
• U.S. Supreme court to hear case on gender-affirming care
• Former gay NFL Player announces NFL to donate $100K to Trevor Project
• Hundreds of veterans are now being honorably discharged back from the Don't Ask Don't Tell era
• Tucker Carlson claims Democrats are keeping Walz in the closet.

• Sole lesbian bar in CO. closes it's doors
• Update on Asheville, NC gay bar destroyed by Hurrican Helene
• DNC started it's first advertising campaign for the LGBTQ+ community
• GOP spending $65M on anti-trans ads
• OK trying to put Trump bibles into schools
• October 12th was National Coming Out Day
• Colman Domingo is a co-chair for 2025 Met Gala
• Christopher Ciccone died of cancer on October 4th

• Dani's Queer Bar opens in Boston
• Middle School opens gender neutral bathroom, but installs huge window to see inside
• Devil Wears Prada Squeal starts filming November 30th
• Ryan Murphy and Kim Kardashian on the Menendez brothers
• More parents are supporting trans children
• Gay bar in Asheville destroyed after one month of being open
• Tik Toker that breaks it down what will happen if Trump wins

Go Fund Me to support Ashville Gay Bar that was destroyed by Hurricane Helene

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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 

• Trans woman wins lawsuit from McDonalds
• Corey DeAngelis Tweets about his time as a porn star
• Heartstoppers Season 3 comes out on Netflix today
• Only 44% of LGBTQ+ people feel safe holding hands with their partners in public. 
• An increase in suicide attempts from 7% to 72% in trans people

This week's news:

• Will and Harper Documentary is out!
• Anti-LGBTQ+ Repulican Corey Deangelis is the star of the week
• Lesbian Firefighter settles case and gets $1.3M
• A man gets 30 1/2 years for killing a transwoman
• Madonna's lesbian relationship in the 90's with a Calvin Klein model
• LGBTQ+ people have higher risk of depression, dementia, late-life depression and stroke
• Thailand signs same sex marriage into law
• Japan has the first same sex reality show

• Matt Gaetz brings a teen to a sex party
• Mark Robinson is caught watching transgender porn
• Michelle Morrow thinks the + in LGBTQ+ stands for phedopile
• Lady Gaga addresses the rumor she has a penis
• Marlon Wayans continues to support his trans child
• Gay Veterans are worried if Trump is re-elected
• A Principal in Alabama is losing her job because she is gay

• Jackass Star Steve O cancels breast implants
• Pakistan launches a ride share app for women and trans people
• Kentucky bans conversion therapy
• Colorado upholds the ban on conversion therapy
• President Biden is the first sitting president to do an interview with an LGBTQ+ newspaper
• Troy Sivan claps back at straight people
• Georgia, the country, passes an anti-LGBTQ+ bill
• Many stars in the LGBTQ+ community have made their support known for Kamala Harris

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• Texas Tran People Rights
• Trans Rights in the U.K.
• Russian and Adoption
• Russia Raids Bars/Clubs
• Transgender Americans and Parents Prepare for Trump
• Walmart Cuts DEI Programs
• Win for Hong Kong LGBTQ Community
• Same Sex Couples Rush to Get Married