Hooktin Digest

Hooktin Digest serves up the latest news in the LGBTQ community. See everything from crime to disaster, family, politics and business!

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#Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s #pandemic leadership remains under scrutiny, but #Republicans who hope she loses in 2022 are still fighting 2020 battles.

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#Hungary's parliament passed legislation that bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote #homosexuality and #transgender issues, amid strong criticism from human rights groups and opposition parties.

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After 75 years of taboo and ridicule, serious people can finally discuss the mysterious flying objects, and even skeptics say that's a good thing.

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Agnes Chow, a prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, has been released from prison on Saturday after serving nearly 7 months for her role in an unauthorized assembly during anti-government protests in the city in 2019. https://t.co/F9RQWSsAHS

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Dwyane Wade believes raising a #LGBTQ+ child has made him a better parent.

The retired #NBA superstar and newly minted game show host of "The Cube" opened up about what he has learned since his daughter Zaya publicly came out as transgender early last year.

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President Joe #Biden will announce at the G-7 meeting in Britain a plan to purchase 500 million doses of the #Pfizer #coronavirus #vaccine to donate to other countries struggling with a limited supply, according to three people familiar with the plans.

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Progress Pride flag gets 2021 redesign to better represent intersex people https://t.co/gLahkfgxMZ

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The report found the #Capitol Police command system broke down during the riot. One officer said a lieutenant asked via radio, "does anybody have a plan?"

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A #Texas bakery that said it lost business and Facebook followers after it posted a photo of rainbow-frosted, heart-shaped cookies in celebration of #LGBTQ #Pride Month has amassed many new fans from around the world.

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The Justice Department said that it no longer will secretly obtain reporters' records during leak #investigations, a policy shift that abandons a practice decried by news organizations and press freedom groups.

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#Gay, #lesbian and #transgender candidates are competing for votes in Mexico’s midterm election, aiming to upset politics as usual in the largely Roman Catholic, socially conservative Latin #American country.

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The sponsor of #Tennessee’s new law requiring businesses and government facilities to post signs if they let #transgender people use the bathrooms of their choice now says owners and officials who refuse could face up to six months in jail

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#Wildfires in the western United States are increasingly happening at high elevations, in mountainous areas that were previously too wet to burn, according to a new study.

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The rover is still in its conceptual stage, but #GM officials said it will be an electric vehicle that will also be able to operate autonomously.

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“Tennessee is taking the crown for the state of hate,” an attorney for #LGBTQ advocacy group Lambda Legal said.

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Plan to help homeless people during the pandemic by letting them set up camp in a church parking lot unsettles progressive Denver neighborhood. https://t.co/RsLT64Mtih

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Supreme #Court decisions on #abortion and guns could shake up 2022 election

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"There just aren't enough roles for [Pacific Islanders] and #Asian actors in general. And that's why we see The Rock so many times,” sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen said.

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This is the first time in the toy company's 72-year history that it is releasing an official #LGBTQ Pride set.

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It’s known as the stepped-up basis rule, or, as President Joe Biden called it this month, the “trust fund loophole,” and #Biden’s American Families Plan aims to put an end to it for many people who inherit big estates.