Montana Trans Woman, Bookstore, and More Sue Over Anti-Drag Law
The ban on drag story hours and other performances is blatantly unconstitutional, according to a coalition of individuals and institutions.
July 11, 2023
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The ban on drag story hours and other performances is blatantly unconstitutional, according to a coalition of individuals and institutions.
The block is temporary, but Pride will go on.
The court ruled that the plaintiffs did not have standing.
The 2017 law prohibited employees at care facilities from using anything other than a resident's self-identifying gender and pronouns.
Hundreds of thousands of previously-banned LGBT videos are now available on the site's Restricted Mode.
Some advertisers want the service to stop showing their commercials in front of anti-LGBT content.
LGBT content creators are still seeing their videos restricted and their revenue diminished.
The company admitted to restricting several terms.
They accuse YouTube and Google of discrimination, fraud, and restricting speech.
The class-action lawsuit claims that the company age-restricts videos and categorizes them as inappropriate for advertisers because of their LGBTQ content.
YouTubers tell The Advocate the only explanation appears to be ignorance.
It was to go into effect on April 1 at midnight.
Films and TV shows with such content would be available only by "special access," says an anti-LGBTQ+ member of Parliament.
The Elon Musk-owned social media platform has once again found itself in hot water.
A lower court had ruled that the law should be permanently blocked, but this decision reverses that.
The judge had issued the original block last Friday only hours before the law was to take effect.
"WE WON!" the drag-centric theater group that brought the suit wrote on Instagram.
The independent oversight board found that Meta's content moderation rules around breasts weren't trans and nonbinary-inclusive.
LGBTQ+ activists in the U.K. are criticizing this restriction on care for transgender youth.
Pornhub said the law infringes "on the rights of adults to access protected speech" while "employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive" policies.