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Capital City Pride will hold a “Coming Home With Pride” celebration in October 2022 that welcomes LGBTQ+ Mississippians who had previously left the state.
In response to anti-trans comments by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, Shelli Poe declares that her trans stepson is not broken—he is affirmed in his gender identity, loved and wonderfully made.
Former Pearl River Central High School art teacher Catherine Bass said she left teaching after the administration warned her she could be fired for discussing her LGBTQ identity with students. The administration said it was “inappropriate” for her to tell students she was pansexual.
Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee and Lindsey Beckham have distanced themselves from MassResistance, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, which appeared at a Ridgeland Board of Aldermen meeting in support of removing LGBTQ+ books from the local library.
Duvalier Malone and his husband Dr. Adrian Mayse reflect on their collective journey in love as they celebrate 13 years together. It is also the anniversary of Malone’s first published column where he came out to the world in response to the discriminatory “Mississippi Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act” passed in 2016.
Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians & Gays of Jackson is a nonprofit organization that exists to support the parents and friends of LGBTQ loved ones through the coming-out process.
Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Madison County Library System saying he will no longer withhold payment. McGee had previously withheld $110,000 in library funding due to issues with what the mayor called sexual content in certain books.
Mississippi’s two U.S. senators, Republicans Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker, say they will not vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court
Robert Foster, a former Mississippi House lawmaker who lost a 2019 bid for governor, is using his social-media platform to call for the execution of political foes who support the rights of transgender people.
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