NY Model for Batterer Programs

Intimate partner violence has surged by 7% to 10% in states with near-total abortion bans. Traveling for abortion care creates massive financial and emotional strain, and legally binds and traps victims to violent, abusive partners.

https://core.wisc.edu/2026/02/17/study-links-abortion-restrictions-to-rise-in-intimate-partner-violence/

Hungarian police announced they will allow the annual Budapest Pride march to take place this year. Last year’s resistance march made headlines after Orbán’s Fidesz party backed legislation to ban Pride events.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-budapest-pride-2026-approved-peter-magyar-lgbtq-shift/

PRIDE-2026’s annual State LGBTQ+ Business Climate Index gives Massachusetts its highest ranking for a 4th consecutive year. The index measures each US state’s laws, policies, and political environments that affect LGBTQ+ people and, by extension, their employers.

Pride month: Poland registered its first same-sex marriage after an EU court ruling required recognition of same-sex marriages performed abroad, marking the first such recognition in the country despite no domestic legal recognition of same-sex marriage

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/poland-registers-first-same-sex-marriage-after-courts-ruling

The appeal court’s majority decided that the injunction should be narrowed to the plaintiffs currently serving in the military. The ruling won’t immediately go into effect, allowing the administration time to ask the full appeals court to hear the case.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/appeals-court-panel-rules-that-transgender-troops-were-illegally-barred-from-u-s-military-service

The violent ideology of supremacist misogyny: “That section on women uses dehumanizing language that’s really popular in the misogynist incel community…intended to indicate that women are actually not human.” Alex DiBranco

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-s1-5835586/san-diego-mosque-anti-women

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the “Pink Scare” has returned: Republicans have adopted a coordinated personal and cultural attack strategy against Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, casting him as un-Texan through jabs at his masculinity, sexuality, and lifestyle.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/05/the-gops-actual-strategy-against-james-talarico-call-him-a-faot/

Institutional sexism and racism: Hegseth bigoted scrutiny has fallen heavily on female and minority officers, who have borne the brunt of the dismissals. Nearly 60 percent of the senior officers Mr. Hegseth has fired are female or Black

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/us/politics/hegseth-navy-promotion-list.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share