This week’s top LGBTQ+ news

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1:18that person is, they cannot be too queer and they cannot be right or wrong because they are exactly as they should be. And that is why I am delighted that we are able to be here today, and we say Bismillah and Bon Appetit. Thanks to AP, Ali's German with Palestinian and Lebanese heritage has nearly 140,000 followers on TikTok and Instagram. Pride Daily Next to mail, right-wing mayors in Italy are getting married. Alice Andro Basso and Lorise Batsso belong to the anti-LGBTQ plus governing parties that have restricted queer rights in the country on numerous occasions. The pair have been together five years and planned to have a civil union on June 27th. Pride Daily And it's getting easier for trans children in Ecuador to change their gender details and official ID documents. The Constitutional courts ruled in the case of a 15-year-old who'd been refused because

2:18they're not an adult. Moving forward, the lived realities of kids will have to be taken on board, plus the revolving maturity and the right to be heard. No time to tell you that Kazakhstan's vote for a new constitution means marriage is now the union of a man and a woman, rather than just between two people, comes off the back of a recent ban on LGBTQ plus propaganda, and a medieval lesbians, the hero of a new video game that's just come out. 1348 X Voto's set in 14th century Italy and sees young knight Eiter searching for the kidnapped Bianca. Pride Daily Hi there, I'm Kev McGraw, coming up queer pigeons in a thrupal. First though, tougher laws against LGBTQ plus hate crimes in Australia's New South Wales. Others have been introduced to Parliament of the back of a rise in attacks there. Venezuela's new offense aimed at bedwaters using queer dating apps to law victims, plus

3:21an increased five-year jail term, up from three, for publicly threatening or inciting violence against queer people. Pride Daily Next, Nepal's got its first transgender lawmaker. Umeca Shreshtas from the centrist Rastriya Swatantra party, which won a majority in Parliament last week. The 37-year-old says she's excited, but knows it's a big responsibility. Nepal has some of South Asia's most progressive laws on LGBTQ plus rights. Pride Daily And as our never-ending quest to bring you under the best in LGBTQ plus news continues, May we present queer pigeons in a thrupal. A gay farmer in Kansas says this has been quite the soap opera. It starts with a male-olman-detalion owl pigeon sent to Cottonwood Farm's Chase Bones for breeding. This bird previously, over the summer, was paired with a redbird that we thought was a girl.

4:26The two bonded, paired, and just never laid eggs, but when you gave them babies, they would raise them. Turns out the red isn't male. So the male-olman-colored birds paired with a female, and they do have a couple of babies. But then, plot twist, Mr. Almond, Mrs. Lady Pigeon, and the red male are all raising the two babies together. They're in a little pigeon thrupal, a little bisexual pigeon thrupal. I've never seen it before. It's the craziest thing. Chase and his partner, Zach, have a number of animals on their farm, including Princess Fiona, the Harland Cow, and a chicken called Anderson Cooper. If you've ever felt like your family didn't fit the traditional mold, this show is for you. I'm Jamie, host of the Queer Family Podcast, and every week we highlight LGBTQIA plus families and the beautiful, unique ways we build and show up for our families in a world that

5:27wasn't designed for us. We celebrate, highlight, uplift, and normalize queer families because our stories deserve center-stage. New episodes every Monday. Listen wherever you get your pots. Pride Daily Hi there, I'm Kev McGraw. Coming up, Noah Lynn isn't taking flight. 49 people were murdered at Florida's Pulse LGBTQ plus nightclub back in June 2016, and nearly 10 years on, worked to demolish the building as due to begin later. The mass shooting also left 53 others injured. It remains the worst attack on LGBTQ plus people in American history. Survivor Caesar Rodriguez tells Wesh two news. He'll be there as the site comes down. It's something I've been wishing a lot to that building to disappear because for us,

6:28the people that were trapped in there, it's something we want to erase. We don't want to remember, we don't want to see anymore, we need to see something better. The venue's iconic signage has been removed and securely stored, it'll feature an opuminant memorial at the site due to be completed in autumn next year. Pride Daily Next, transgender rights are under attack in India. Planned legislations submitted a parliament would remove self-identification and redefine who's legally recognised as trans. Activists say it's a travesty, a major stat backwards and nothing but erasure, India's Supreme Court endorsed self-determination back in 2014. Pride Daily And transgender pro-darts player Noelle Invan Lavin says she considered quitting the sport after a ban on trans competitors and the women's category.

7:29When the World Darts Federation said last summer, she'd have to shift to a new open category. The 29-year-old thought it might be time to move on. Now though, she says while it's weird not to play against women in WDF competitions, it's actually given a more motivation to up her game. Pride Daily Hi there, I'm Kev McGraw, coming up a homophobic NASCAR NINKUM POOB. First though, here's one way to go about getting pregnant in a same sex relationship. Australian TV presenter Narelda Jacobs has been married to wife Karina Nats since August 2024 and they had daughter Sana a year ago. The baby was conceived using the turkey-based a method, which doesn't actually involve said kitchen utensil. It's a plastic syringe, but anyway, you need someone to fill it. And that's where their friend Mitch came in, so to speak. It was MadiGraw 2024, we were on the dance floor at 3am and I said to Karina, go and

8:31ask him. It was just like, oh, there's Mitch and the spotlight is on him. So how to ask such an important life-changing question. I was like, come have your sperm! You want a perm? Yes, can we make a baby? And he just said yes and then I was like, I'm over, come over. And then we all hugged and cried and I think we got kicked out of loose ends at about 4am. Thanks to ABC's Ladies, we need to talk podcast. Narelda and Karina Rasana's main parents with Mitch a regular presence in the baby's life. Pride daily. Next, and NASCAR drivers been suspended indefinitely after using a homophobic voice to mock a rival. Daniel Dye made inferences about the sexuality of David Maluchus and basically just trotted out some stereotypes about what gay men sound like. The word Yars was used, standard. The 22-year-old from Florida has apologized, he's been ordered to do sensitivity training

9:34before NASCAR will think about reinstating him. Pride daily. And $90,000 has been raised for a transgender student who its client has been cut off by his parents after coming out. Matthew Ns had to leave his campus housing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US just weeks before graduation due to being the offspring of bigots who have withdrawn their financial support, they sound nice. His phone somewhere to crash for now, while thanks to a go fund me, his housing and tuition debts are covered and he's back on track to graduate in May. Instacart makes grocery shopping easier and just because you're not doing the shopping yourself doesn't mean you don't care how it's done. With Instacart shopper notes, you can get particular about what you want right in the app, like rotisserie chicken that's extra crispy, steak with marbling, the Romans would have loved, and lettuce you'd actually pick yourself.

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11:40sex. Say, one of the men here walks into the men's bathroom and you see me walk into a stall and you know I'm trans and since you're all abiding citizens, you're going to call 911. And I could go to jail for up to a year, but what if Nixon uses the women's bathroom? Say I happen to walk behind a woman and her husband sees someone who looks like me following his wife into the bathroom. What do you think happens next? Maybe the cops get called, but more likely that man is going to follow me into the bathroom, confront me and even assault me. So there's options, go to jail or get beaten up. Kelsu Pries, this nonsense was voted through and now heads to Idaho's Senate for consideration. Multiple violations of the bathroom ban could result in up to five years in prison. Pride daily. Next, comments about conversion therapy made by Catholic priest in Iceland are being

12:41investigated by police. Father Jakob Roland outlined during an interview how the church helps people struggling with being queer, pray the gay away, anyone, and said conversion or turning from evil towards good is central to the faith. Iceland's laws against conversion therapy ban attempts to suppress sexuality or gender identity, hence the police looking into it. He says if God's law clashes with the country's laws, God prevails. Pride daily. And a plan protest in Budapest to mark international transgender day of visibility has been banned by police. The demo would have seen allies stand in silence in front of the Ministry of Justice on March 29th, that shortly before the day of visibility, but police say this would violate the child protection laws of anti-LGBTQ plus Hungary and the international's helping with a legal challenge. No time to tell you that the strengthening of LGBTQ plus rights in a serious in Spain

13:46is a step closer, the regional government there has approved a draft equality law. Italy's gay helpline has turned 20 years old and bare fellow e-cans kicked off in Dublin celebrating Ireland's big hairy gay men. Help shape the future of Pride daily by filling in our survey, links in the show notes. That's your lot, I'll see you next week. Ever walked past a place for rent and wish you could just take a peek inside? Maybe even explore the layout? Can vision the natural light streaming through the windows or plan where your vinyl record collection would go? At apartment.com, you can. With tools like their 3D virtual tours, you can see the exact unit you could be living in. Really envision yourself in your new home with apartment.com, the place to find a place.