Morning everyone!

Pride Month is nearly over (don't worry, that won't stop us celebrating!)

Before it ends, we'd like to know if, over the course of Pride Month, you've seen more posts relating to the experiences of LGBTQ+ people? This could be a simple celebration post or it could be an in depth deep dive into the experiences of queer people on the Fediverse.

Please share your Pride Month experiences with us below and boost the poll

Dennis Schubert, alias dschub, team "leader" of #Diaspora, working for #Mozilla, told me "Good luck for the next 20 years" in April 2018 while I was harassed by yet another satyre, as he calls himself, from Uruguay called "requeteche", who was proud to represent the RDA Stasi (don't ask me why, this people should be in jail).
Seven years later, I would say to them, good luck in your pathetic lives.

Neu in der KIT-Bibliothek und knapp vor Ende des Pride Month:
Josh L. Davis
Queer: Sex und Geschlecht in der Welt der Tiere und Pflanzen
Lesesaal Naturwissenschaften, Fachgruppe biol 6.8, Signatur 2025 A 628

In den Zeitungen der Attenkofer Mediengruppe habe ich heute einen Gastbeitrag anlässlich der morgigen #CSD-Polit-Parade in #München. Ich konnte gar nicht anders, als darin auch das Gebaren von Julia #Klöckner und der #AfD zu thematisieren. #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2025 #Queer #LGBTIQ

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A little Pride Month piece of me waving my pride flag from NONSTOPPUP! I've taken it to the last two pride parades I've attended and it's become a sort of signature for me.

: Coticartist

Indian court rules #TransWomen are women and ‘legally entitled to recognition’

Written by Amelia Hansford, June 26, 2025

"A court in #India has decreed that trans women are women.

"In a landmark ruling for the country, after rejecting claims that womanhood was preserved only for those who can bear children, the High Court of Andhra Pradesh ruled that trans women were 'legally entitled' to recognition as women.

"Presiding over the case, justice Venkata Jyothirmai Pratapa decided that tying the definition of women to pregnancy was 'legally unsustainable' and contradicted India’s constitution, which emphasises equality before the law.

"Quoting a Supreme Court decision from 2014, which legally recognised the rights of 'third gender' individuals, Pratapa said that prohibiting trans women’s right to identify as women 'amounted to discrimination'.

"The case was brought to the high court in 2022 after transgender woman #PokalaShabana looked to use a section of the Indian penal code to seek protection from her in-laws, whom, she said, had been abusive towards her.

"Her husband’s parents petitioned the court to deny her use of Section 498A, which protects women from cruelty by a husband or relatives, arguing that it only applied to cisgender women. They claimed that trans women don’t meet the legal definition of women under Indian law because they cannot get pregnant and said Shabana’s allegations of harassment lacked evidence.

"However, the judge said that articles 14, 15 and 21 of the constitution, which guarantee a variety of discrimination protections, including the right to life and personal liberty, meant trans women’s rights to be recognised as women superseded the law.

" 'A trans woman, born male and later transitioning to female, is legally entitled to recognition as a woman,' he wrote in his ruling. 'Denying such protection by questioning their womanhood amounts to discrimination.'

"Trans activist and artist #KalkiSubramaniam told the Washington Blade that she was relieved and delighted to see the court 'upholding our basic human right to be identified as what we want.' She went on to say: 'For [the] #transgender community, especially #transwomen, this verdict means a lot.' "

Source:
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/26/india-trans-women-high-court-decision/

Happy ten year anniversary to Obergefell v. Hodges.

When I was a kid, I never would have imagined that marriage equality would happen. It was beyond my wildest dreams.

There is plenty of work to do now and in the future, of course, but I think it’s also important to sometimes look back and see how far we’ve come.

A better world is possible.

I saw lots of 25 years oldish girls with stoma doing it on intasgram in panties, I won't go as far but still why not? I am 46, I am too old for that..

Meet De Queer Schaakclub, Amsterdam’s queer chess community creating a safe, joyful space where everyone belongs at the board.

https://dequeerschaakclub.nl/

Erik Kerssen, Rens Mors

Polyvalent.e vous aurez la flexibilité mentale de gérer tout type de technologie, du fax en passant par les imprimantes à jet d'encre; connaître l'IA sur écran CRT serait un plus.

Final hours to back the #AcesAndArosAnthology!

You got us to $70000! Every creator gets a second bonus $100!

Thank you so much! Still time to support this project!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/comicuno/aces-and-aros-an-asexual-and-aromantic-comic-book-anthology

#Pride #PrideMonth #Bookstadon #LGBTQIA+ #asexual #aromanic #agender #comicsky #comics #queer #ace #aro #kickstarter

TIL about Suzanne Malherbe (Marcel Moore) and Lucy Schwob (Claude Cahun). They were life partners who created art together.

One of their most prominent projects was an anti-Nazi campaign. It was propaganda that was designed to trick German soldiers.

They were two very brave women, being lesbian/gender-fluid activists who created bold art in a hostile area of the world.

https://lithub.com/how-a-queer-couple-masterminded-a-nazi-resistance-campaign/

Happy Pride Month!

Image of 1970s anti-LGBTQ crusader and poster child, Anita Bryant, getting pied by Thom L. Higgins in 1977