News from Around PA
1.) The National Constitution Center held a Drag Queen Story Hour that broke all records!
2.) A new executive director has been named to the Governor’s Advisory Commission on LGBTQ Affairs.
3.) Senator Bob Casey, Jr. has secured about $400,000 for Philadelphia’s LGBTQ Mazzoni Center.
4.) Former Pennsylvania United Methodist pastor Beth Stroud was defrocked in 2004 because she came out as a lesbian, Last month the United Methodist Church reinstated her.
From National Scene
1.) Since 1859, the Ocean Grove, NJ has keep their mile-long beach closed until noon on Sunday. The NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection has now ordered Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, the owners of the strip of beach, to open the beach on Sunday mornings.
2.) The Huntington Beach Longboard Pro tried to keep male surfers from competing against females, but the California Coastal Commission objected and threatened to cancel the tournament.
3.) The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the case of Montgomery County, MD parents objecting to their school district’s policy of keeping parents in the dark if they were “transitioning. The court said the parents did not have standing and the US Supreme Court has declined to take up the case.
4.) Washington state girl’s 400 meter state championship dominated by biological male.
5.) A Los Angeles policy bans the rental of city property for ‘religious worship’.
6.) National Park Service staff have been given the greenlight to wear their government-issued uniforms during pride events.
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