🏳️‍🌈✨ QCrew! Your Weekly Queer News Update: News updates on Nex Benedict and Chevy Hill, Alex Franco we speak your name, and congratulations to Jarrett Hill & Tre'vell Anderson for their NAACP Image Award win


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Anna is talking about her upcoming trip to LA to speak at Podcast Movement Evolutions and attend another Ambies where we are nominated for two podcast awards this year; one for Queer News and one for Second Sunday.


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3:41 - News Updates on Nex Benedict and Chevy Hill. Our new contributor, Darian Aaron, provides his report on Chevy Hill’s services

10:00 - Alex Franco, we speak your name

11:53 - Over 40 anti-LGBTQ riders did not get passed in the recent spending bill that passed to avoid a government shutdown

15:21 - Two trans women are getting some form of justice

18:48 - Black Queer journalists Jarrett Hill & Tre’vell Anderson win a NAACP Image award

20:54 - Amari, a Black trans woman, gets a ticket to the next round of American Idol


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