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The Netherlands announced that the country will eliminate all gender markers on all forms of identification except for passports by the year 2025.
In California, a federal judge has ordered the release of the videotapes made of the infamous Proposition 8 trial held in 2010 that lead to same-sex marriage being stored in California. But proponents of Proposition 8 immediately filed an appeal with the 9th Circuit Court hoping to block the release of the trial tapes.
And in Santa Monica, California, workers at a Burger King are protesting management’s inappropriate and lacking response to an employee’s recent death from the Corona Virus. Instead of taking responsibility, management blamed the transgender worker’s death on hormones.
Outbeat News can be heard Sunday nights at 8:00 pm as part of Outbeat Radio on KRCB FM Radio 91.
(Photo: Dutch flag – Dutchgamer, Yusuf Babayusuf / CC BY 4.0)
While most people were forced to remain inside for Pride month this June, several celebrities including 3 snowboarders came out citing pride month as their motivation.
But Pride month didn’t end happily everywhere, including here in the Bay Area where two hate crimes are being investigated by police. A transgender man was verbally assaulted in Fairfax and a couple is now facing criminal hate crime charges. In Oakland, the LGBTQ Center was vandalized. Police there were quick to condemn the action and are investigating the incident as an anti-LGBT hate crime.
(Photo: Snowboarder and filmmaker Tanner Pendleton – Instagram)
LGBT activists used a drone to place a rainbow pride flag in the hands of a famous statue in the often anti-LGBTQ country of Ukraine.
Pride celebrations happened virtually all over the U.S.; perhaps inspiring a 90-year-old man to come out of the closet for the first time while wondering about the love of his life from 50 years ago.
Cities throughout the Bay Area raised the pride flag on official flag poles, but in San Ramon and Danville, the City Council’s voted to raise the Philadelphia version of the flag created in 2017 that includes a brown and black stripe representing LGBTQ communities of color.
Outbeat News can be heard Sunday nights at 8 pm as part of Outbeat Radio on KRCB FM-Radio 91.
(Photo: Courtesy of Kyiv Pride)
Last week’s historic landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to protect LGBTQ people in employment was surprising on many levels, not the least of which include the justices who both supported and wrote the decision for the court.
In Tennessee, a deputy sheriff was fired from his job after a local source discovered racist and anti-LGBTQ posts on the deputy’s social media site.
In Foster City, officials reversed course on their decision about flying the rainbow flag.
A virtual Sonoma County Pride celebration is set to take place this Saturday.
(Photo: Ted Eytan / CC BY-SA 2.0)
