This is episode eighty-seven of the Baehr and Curadh podcast. We are going to talk about gay news from 2023.
- Ron DeSantis told teachers to not say gay in Florida schools.
- Because of the new law, books with gay subjects are banned from Florida schools.
- Texas follows Florida's anti-gay lead.
- The FDA allows gay men in monogamous relationships to donate blood.
- The Pope allows priests to bless same sex relationships.
- 75 anti-gay bills became law nation-wide out of 417 proposed.
- Schools across the country ban transgendered girls from competing in sports.
- Neo-Nazi groups disrupt drag queen story hour in many places.
- Russia weaponizes homophobia under the guise of banning propaganda.
- 22 states have banned gender-affirming care to transgendered youth.
- Gay people abandon Twitter after uptick in hate and vitriol.
- The Vatican says transgendered people can be baptized.
- Libraries all over the place are forced to ban gay books.
- The Supreme Court rules that a website designer does not have to make any gay wedding pages.
- A conservative-led boycott against Bud Light dethroned it as the nation’s top-selling beer.
- The Dodgers invited, disinvited, then reinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
- It's not just Uganda. Much of Africa is marching backward on LGBT rights.
- United Methodists lose 1,800 churches in split over LGBT stance.
- Bros, is the world's first gay rom-com that was released in theaters.
