A flash rainbow rewind remembers lesbian purges in the military leading to the conclusion of Pat Bond’s classic tale of lesbians in the U.S. military during World War II, Murder in the WAC. In the news this week, Russia’s crackdown forces the Russian LGBT Network to shut down while England offers new hope to people with drug-resistant HIV. A U.S. federal judge blocks the Trump administration from excluding gender-affirming care from the Affordable Care Act and Ohio makes it h

Part one of Pat Bond’s classic tale of lesbians in the U.S. military during World War II, Murder in the WAC. In the news this week, the first married lesbian couple in Bolivia and the first census to count queers in Australia, Trump policies are stopping federally funded gender-affirming care and blocking the Trevor Project’s crisis lifeline work, and Kansas trans men make good trouble in the toilet.

Comedian and activist Margaret Cho shows another side of herself in conversation with Michael Taylor Gray. In the news, six local London councils are resisting the trans bathroom ban, while two New York lawmakers are moving to legalize bathhouses. Also, Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, a Gay-Straight Alliance lawsuit in Virginia, and the heart-wrenching story of three Ghanaian lesbian asylum-seekers deported to Cameroon by the United States.