Jennie Arnau discovered her passion for music in her childhood home of Greenville, South Carolina, a place that called her back at a time of loss and grief. She’s now living and working in New York City, ending a self-imposed break from songwriting and performing with her new album, A Rising Tide (interviewed by David Hunt).
Plus: The “Rainbow Rewind” pays tribute to the Matthew Shepard Foundation and celebrates historic queer October moments for the U.K., South Africa and black lesbians in the U.S.
And in NewsWrap: autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ratchets up Turkey’s persecution of LGBTQ people with a series of proposed “judicial reforms,” Church of Norway Presiding Bishop Olav Fykse Tveit formally apologizes to LGBTQ people for years of bias and demonstrable harm, fired Wyoming book ban-battling local librarian Terri Lesley is vindicated in a 700,000-dollar settlement against the state, Australia’s High Court unanimously upholds Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke’s 2024 visa rejection for far-right U.S. podcast personality Candace Owens, former U.S. President Barack Obama talks about taking a gentler approach with opponents of gender-affirming healthcare for young people, 84-year-old British actress Miriam “Professor Pomona Sprout” Margolyse is an unapologetically woke left-wing dyke, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by Sarah Montague and Joe Boehnlein (produced by Brian DeShazor).