5 Things to Know This Week: July 18, 2016

1. Trans Rights

Moving ad about transgender bathroom rights, that were run on Fox News on the last night of the GOP Convention. And that's how you change hearts and minds. More info on FairnessUSA.org

2. Coming Out

Parents Throw a Coming Out Party for their 17 year old daughter. These parents are winning when it comes to parenting. Bravo!

3. Remember Pulse Orlando and the Survivors

CBS News created and featured a page remembering the Forty-nine who were killed during the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. They also added the poem by Patience Carter, who was shot in the leg. "The Guilt of Being Alive is Heavy."

4. Hunger Crisis in the LGBT Community

In the New York Times there was an article, "Hunger Crisis in the LGBT Community," written by Roni Rabin who reported that many people in the LGBT community were unable to afford food to feed themselves and their families, at least once in the past year. A new report on hunger notes that 1 in 4 LGBT adults go hungry compared to 1 in 6 heterosexual identified people in the same situation.

5. United Methodist Still Trying to Figure it Out

The United Methodist Church elected its first openly lesbian bishop, Rev. Karen Oliveto the senior pastor of Glide Memorial Church in SF, was elect by the Western Jurisdiction Conferences and the UMC Council of Bishops are losing their minds over it. Read more about it here.

Those are my Top 5 Things you should know for the week of July 18th!

-- CV