So Much Good Queer News to Celebrate!

Scouting, Suing, and legislative sessions ending!

Mar 09, 2026

Hello, hello, hello, lovely people! As the first buds of spring start to pop up and the days start to stretch out longer, I always find hope becomes a little easier to reach for. Even if where you are in the world is still feeling cold and dark, hopefully this week’s Good Queer News roundup will be its own source of sunlight for you as it has been for me!

don’t worry about the shoe, it was windy and my blanket kept hitting me in the face. NOT aesthetic!!

I’ve been spending the week steeping myself in scholarship about hope in preparation for [REDACTED]. (Keep your eyes on your inbox for some GREAT news coming in the next few weeks 😉). So much of what I’m reading is landing with me so beautifully.

To quote the incredible book “How to Be Hopeful, Empowering Practices to Overcome Despair and Act for Climate Justice”:

“Hope without agency is wishing.” - elin kelsey

Or to quote the brilliant Rebecca Solnit:

“Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act.” - Rebecca Solnit

I am joyful and hopeful not because I know that everything will work out in the end. I am hopeful because the only way to truly guarantee a certain end result is not to try at all. Carrying on is my only option. I am proud to carry that torch.

Good Queer Actions!

Folks loved last week when I helped connect people with specific skills to specific needs, so I’m doing it again! I am searching for people with basic Video editing skills & software! The Mama Dragons, an amazing organization supporting parents of LGBTQ+ youth, is working to develop a large-scale educational library on supporting queer and trans youth. They have a huge collection of recorded live zoom events, but those recordings currently contain names and faces of members and to protect their privacy, they are looking for help removing or blurring those individuals from the recordings.

If you are interested in helping out, send me a message and I’ll get you connected! If you are part of an organization or project in need of volunteers with specific skills, please let me know so I can uplift your ask in my next newsletter!

So much good queer news!

Let’s start with the scouts! Last week, Pete Hegseth (I like to boo his name like Haman. Happy belated Purim!!) put out a video announcing that the Department of War had forced Scouting America—formerly Boy Scouts, who changed their name to be more inclusive last year—to no longer accept trans scouts.

In response to the announcement, Scouting America put out their own official press release a day later making it loud and clear: “Scouting America will continue to welcome and serve all youth. That commitment is unwavering.” More directly, the CEO told AP: “We have transgender people in our program. We will continue to have transgender people in our program.” (More: The Advocate)

The girl scouts, meanwhile, continue to go hard for their trans members (as they have for many, many years at this point). In addition to journalist Erin Reed helping trans girl scouts sell more than three hundred thousand boxes of cookies!!!!!! This article from MSN highlights just how powerful and strategic their support has been. My favorite quote:

“This moment will pass. Leadership changes. Courts change. Laws change. What endures is whether we chose to behave like adults when children needed us to.

We have been here before. We once knew how to do this, When the time comes—and it will come soon—we can choose to remember and do it again.” (More: MSN)

P.S. This fantastic article was sent to me by a GQN subscriber! I do my best to keep on top of all the good queer news, but I’m just one person and there’s a LOT to celebrate. If there’s something hopeful, or hilarious, or powerful, or worth sharing in your state, community, even in your personal life, I’d love to share it here!

State-Level Updates!

In North Carolina’s primaries last week, anti trans democrats saw a series of HUGE losses. As we see some politicians (looking at you, Newsome!) attempting to sacrifice trans people in a distorted attempt to appeal to conservatives, it’s encouraging to have proof piling up that this strategy does not win. Remember, any changes that we want to see at the presidential level must start at a local level, so this is promising to me!

In an Arkansas special election, democrats flipped a republican seat for the ninth time since Trump’s inauguration. If you’re a data nerd like me, you’re going to love the downballot’s phenomenal tracker of every special election post inauguration.

Indiana’s legislative session has ended and advocates appear to have defeated all but one of the proposed anti-LGBTQ+ bills! Hoosiers have protected access to bathrooms, affirming IDs, and more. Hell yeah!!

Utah’s legislative session has also ended, and it appears only one anti-trans bill passed as well!

Resistance News!

The Nonbinary park ranger fired for hanging a giant trans flag from Yosemite’s El Capitan Mountain last year is now suing the federal government for violating their first amendment right! Hopefully this lawsuit will allow them to find some justice, and to further protect our right to speak out against a hateful government. (More: LGBTQNation)

Brilliant trans psychologist Dr. Sebastian Barr is newly back from paternity leave and is already up to some amazing stuff! If you are a therapist in Kansas with trans clients, he is providing amazing free resources to help you better understand and support those clients. If you aren’t in Kansas, these resources are an amazing paid offering!!

A wonderful flyer for Dr. Barr’s amazing resources!! Send this far and wide!!

Last week, Lyft offered a 50% off discount for any trans people needing a ride as their driver’s licenses are not currently safe to use. If you are working at a big company, take note that these kinds of actions are amazing to push for!

If you have someone in your life who deserves to hear that it isn’t time to give up yet, don’t forget to send this their way!