Queer Black Lives Matter! by This Way Out Radio

Queer Black Lives Matter on the anti-racism/anti-police brutality frontline! Speakers include Minneapolis City Council VP Andrea Jenkins, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, National Center for Lesbian Rights Exec. Director Imani Rupert-Gordon, Equality Florida Exec. Director Nadine Smith, Sacramento protesters Tee Fansofa and Lynz Williams, and activists DeRay Mckesson and Ianne Fields.

And in NewsWrap: Swiss lawmakers finally talk marriage equality, Panama’s equal marriage lawsuits languish in limbo, a Japanese judge rejects a murdered gay man’s spouse survivor benefits, Putin plays the queer card in his latest power play, Puerto Rico’s new Civil Code concerns rights activists, a French village elects the country’s first transgender mayor, and more international LGBTQ news reported this week by Laura Dickinson-Turner and Michael Taylor-Gray (produced by Brian DeShazor).

All this and more on the June 8, 2020 edition of This Way Out!

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