Harvard’s global LGBTQI+ rights initiative faces Trump shut down threats; Hong Kong’s government teases limited queer spousal rights, Pope Leo echoes the same-gender couple blessing policy of Francis, Iranian trans inmates die in an Israeli airstrike on its infamous prison, North Carolina’s governor vetoes anti-trans and anti-DEI bills, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court upholds the state’s conversion therapy ban, and team Trump scrubs “B” following their “T” erasure from the National Stonewall Monument’s now gay and lesbian only website. Those stories and more this week when you find “This Way Out.”
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