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🌊 Tomorrow is World Oceans Day! Celebrated annually on June 8, World Oceans Day is an opportunity to celebrate the beauty of nature, encourage conservation, and take action to restore and protect our oceans.
👏 The Massachusetts high school student who was arrested on his way to volleyball practice, despite having no criminal record, has been released. His detainment led his classmates to walk out of class in protest.
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LGBTQ+ advocates made 'petty' Pride merch to protest Utah's flag ban and help community members
According to a newly passed law, the only flags acceptable to fly in Utah are approved state and city flags and the American flag.
In response, Salt Lake City's mayor introduced three new "official" city flags that incorporate the city's existing flag design into new iterations that celebrate LGBTQ+ pride, trans pride, and Juneteenth.
LGBTQ+ advocates applauded the move — and had plans of their own to protest the statewide flag ban. Gabi Finlayson and Jackie Morgan of the PAC Elevate Utah made some "petty" Pride merch to get their message across.
The collection includes the all-new Salt Lake City flags, which feature text that reads: "Good luck banning f(l)ags," as well as some hyper-specific locals-only Utah references.
Even better: The proceeds from flag sales will "go to local nonprofits that are supporting the queer community right here in Utah."
Helping it take a 'major step forward' toward becoming international law, six EU states ratified the High Seas Treaty
In a major step forward towards reaching the 60 ratifications needed for it to become binding international law, the High Seas Treaty was just ratified by six European Union Member states, including Finland, Hungary, Portugal, and Slovenia.
They joined countries like Spain and France to bring the total number of ratifications to 28. To date, 115 countries have also signed the treaty, demonstrating a commitment to ratification.
The treaty was adopted in June 2023, a historic milestone for ocean conservation and governance, and the remaining EU countries are expected to ratify it in the coming months.
Why is this good news? International waters, or the High Seas, cover nearly half the planet, but only about 1.5% is currently safeguarded in marine protected areas. The treaty paves the way for making High Seas marine protected areas, monitoring the impact of potentially harmful activity, supporting developing countries, and more.
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Shop LGBTQ-Owned Bookstores This Pride Month
This Pride Month (and every month) you can directly support LGBTQ-owned bookstores across the country when you get your audiobooks from Libro.fm.
With Libro.fm, you can pick from more than 500,000 audiobooks, including bestsellers and recommendations from real booksellers. You'll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (ahem, Audible).
But you'll be part of a different story — one that supports your local LGBTQ+ community.
Get started by exploring Libro.fm's selection of Pride Picks and find your next fabulous listen.
To protest a statewide policy, a Florida city's LGBTQ+ community used handheld lights to display a rainbow across a bridge
In 2020, the city of Jacksonville installed lights across its Acosta Bridge, lighting it up in rainbow colors for Pride Month from 2021 to 2023. In 2024, the FDOT ordered it to be lit up in red, white, and blue for the entire summer, and it continued that policy in 2025.
So, for the second consecutive year, both to kick off Pride Month celebrations and as a symbol of resilience and protest, the city's LGBTQ+ community walked across the bridge, illuminating handheld lights in the color of the rainbow.
Last year, they lit up an adjacent bridge, the city's iconic blue Main Street bridge, but had to move locations this year due to its drawbridge being raised.
Why is this good news?While what colors light up a bridge, or which flags are allowed to fly in a city, might seem like a small issue — these displays send a much larger message. They make people feel welcome, accepted, and seen, and everyone deserves to live in a city where they experience those things.
The fact that it was neighbors making sure that message was on display is particularly meaningful.
New York City is planning to turn dozens of vacant lots into small 'pocket parks' or playgrounds
New York City just announced plans to transform underutilized and abandoned lots into parks, playgrounds, and green space, particularly in neighborhoods lacking access to these kinds of spaces.
The city's Parks Department has already reviewed and submitted applications for 44 locations in two districts in Brooklyn and Queens. Under the plan, the department would also receive city-owned vacant lots from other agencies at no cost.
The effort is part of a larger plan to improve and expand access to public green space across the city, ensuring that it's no more than a short walk away for everyone, no matter where they live.
Why is this good news? Research continually shows that proximity to more trees and green space — no matter how small the area — does a whole lot of good, from keeping air temperatures cooler to reducing gun violence.
In the so-called "concrete jungle" of New York City, which millions of people call home, this is an exciting, important initiative.
More than 70 art and history sites have been destroyed in Gaza — so Europe opened its first Palestinian art museum
In the horrors of occupation and violence, Palestinians have lost their homes and loved ones, but they have also seen countless cultural institutions, hospitals, libraries, and educational facilities leveled in the Gaza Strip.
The damage includes 77 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest. And while the destruction continues, allies across the globe are working to preserve important cultural artifacts and contemporary art from Palestine.
In Woodbridge, Connecticut, Faisal Saleh opened the first Palestinian Museum in the Western Hemisphere in 2018. Now, he has expanded his efforts in a new museum branch located in Edinburgh, Scotland, which focuses on contemporary art by Palestinians and is the first of its kind to debut in Europe.
Why is this good news?As Saleh says, "Art speaks to people's hearts." This new museum counteracts "dehumanization" of the Palestinian people by giving their culture and narrative a place to shine, putting the humanity of Palestinians on literal display to show that "efforts to dehumanize and erase Palestinians are not working."
This year's Pride Edition of the Goodnewspaper (written and illustrated by three LGBTQ+ women!) is filled with stories of supporters and change-makers, milestones of progress, resources to protect and empower trans and nonbinary individuals, and in-depth reporting on the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation.
As you celebrate Pride — however it looks for you this year — this newspaper will serve as a light in the darkness and a gentle hand at your back to keep you in the fight for LGBTQ+ liberation. We'll see you out there.
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