Issue Highlights
The New U.S. Climate Report Includes LGBTQ+ Issues for the First Time | Them
“Human Health” section, which outlines how some members of the LGBTQ+ community are more likely to experience the health impacts of climate change due to the intersection of their identities and also makes it clear that LGBTQ+ people are already a vulnerable population.
Supreme Court declines Florida's request to enforce anti-drag show law
The court, divided 6-3, with three conservatives dissenting, turned away an emergency request from Florida officials after lower courts blocked the law statewide. The majority did not explain its reasoning.
UN Committee Criticizes US Record on LGBT Rights | Human Rights Watch
In its review of the United States’ record on civil and political rights, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRC) condemned a flood of discriminatory state legislation restricting the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.
LGBTQ Social Justice
African values: Manifesto calls for 'decolonized' advocacy against LGBTphobia
The movement should be led by local communities of sexual and gender minorities throughout the continent, “L’appel de Babi” states.
Jesús Ociel Baena: Mexico’s LGBTQ community mourns death of first non-binary magistrate
LGBTQ activists organized marches and vigils in at least 33 Mexican cities as individuals mourned the magistrate’s death and called on authorities to conduct a thorough investigation.
UK Rejects Plan To Send LGBTQ+ Asylum Seekers To Rwanda
The judge deemed Rwanda unsafe for LGBTQ+ refugees although supporters of the plan had argued it was
Queer Ugandan refugee on the run from anti-homosexuality law speaks out
Ugandan refugee works remotely from Kenya to help the community he left behind
United Methodist Church: 261 Georgia congregations leave the denomination over LGBTQ divide | CNN
The churches are breaking from the UMC after a 2019 decision by the national United Methodist Church to allow congregations to leave by the end of 2023, “for reasons of conscience regarding a change in the requirements and provisions of the Book of Discipline related to the practice of homosexuality or the ordination or marriage of self-avowed practicing homosexuals.”
Federal judge rejects a challenge to Florida's controversial law on transgender athletes - WMNF 88.5 FM
He left open the possibility that attorneys for the Broward County student, identified by the initials D.N., could file a revised lawsuit on the equal protection and Title IX issues.
Great Apes & Gibbons
In Borneo, the ‘Power of Mama’ fight Indonesia’s wildfires with all-woman crew
“We’ve been through quite a lot of fire disasters around here,” said Karmele Llano Sanchez, director of Yayasan IAR Indonesia (YIARI), the Indonesia affiliate of International Animal Rescue, a conservation charity established in 1989.
Deforestation for palm oil continues in Indonesia’s ‘orangutan capital’
RAN has called on global brands like Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever to address the development of new canals and illegal plantations as their supply chains are tainted with illegal palm oil from the wildlife reserve.
Chimpanzee Vs Bonobo: Do You Know The Difference? | IFLScience
Bonobos tend to have a more slender body with skinnier limbs, while chimps are stocky and more muscular.
Chimpanzees are not pets, no matter what social media tells you
Trading wild chimpanzees, including their meat and body parts, is illegal. And yet, social media influencers and companies still reap profits from sharing “cute” images and videos of chimpanzees and other primates poached from the wild. All the while, sanctuaries worldwide continue to receive orphaned victims of this illicit trade.
Philanthropy
Everything You Don’t Know (and Should) About Nonprofits, Foundations and AI | Inside Philanthropy
“If nonprofits are using [generative] AI to create grant applications, and foundation staff are using AI to understand grant applications, what's the point of the grant application?”
Five myths and misconceptions about Candid’s grant data
Myth 1: “Candid grants data” is the same as “990 data.”
The Complicated History of Reed Erickson | Autostraddle
In 1964, Erickson founded the Erickson Educational Foundation (EEF), a philanthropic organization that was established to fund projects, institutions, and research to help trans people get the gender affirming care and treatment they needed. Through the EEF, Erickson funded the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA) — now called the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) — and helped subsidize the opening of the Johns Hopkins University Gender Identity Clinic
REPORT: The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy - Institute for Policy Studies
we share some highlights from our recent work on the pitfalls of top-heavy giving — and what to do about them.