Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the lgbt community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.
As more fallout is felt from the Democratic Party's huge blue tsunami of victories last Tuesday, it's becoming clear that the reliance on anti-trans attacks by the Republican party fizzled in the face of worries about the economy, Trump's unnecessary war with Iran, and more issue that Americans felt were more important:
Rainbow Wave 2026: See all the LGBTQ+ midterm election winners - As of now, 18 LGBTQ candidates won their races in the United States House, Senate, and various other statewide races. I think this is the largest number of winning candidates we've ever had.
MAGA influencer Xaviaer DuRousseau is suing the PragerU, the far-right group he used to be affiliated with (by featuring nonsense seen in this photo) for racial and sexual discrimination. How ironic!
Once upon a time, there was a Black progressive activist who supported the Black Lives Matter movement. He then decided, for whatever reason, to become a conservative MAGA activist. He got a lot of engagement and support from right-wing circles and even got a gig with a far-right "education instruction" group PragerU. For a while things were going well.
Xaviaer DuRousseau, a conservative influencer and former PragerU presenter, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against the organisation alleging racial and sexual-orientation discrimination. The complaint also alleges a hostile work environment, inadequate protection after threats and wrongful termination.
. . . The case puts a former public face of the conservative education group in conflict with the organisation that helped build his profile. DuRousseau hosted Respectfully, Xaviaer, and describes himself on his website as a Los Angeles-based political media personality.
Before becoming conservative, he participated in Black Lives Matter protests and supported Bernie Sanders.
In a 2025 profile in The New York Times, he said watching PragerU videos while preparing for Netflix's The Circle prompted him to question his progressive views.
The Post Millennial reported on 7 November 2026 that the complaint named colleague Aldo Buttazzoni and alleged he had repeatedly admitted being racist. DuRousseau claims managers knew but failed to act. IBTimes UK has not reviewed the complete complaint.
. . . The complaint reportedly describes a June 2026 incident in Washington, DC. DuRousseau alleges seven men surrounded him, used a homophobic slur and attempted to assault him. He says PragerU refused his request for security before a return visit.
DuRousseau alleges chief executive Marissa Streit called him a 'safety threat to our donors' after he raised concerns. The complaint reportedly says lead producer Adam Rodriguez sent him 'whodunnit.mp4', a video allegedly depicting him being shot. It ended with a 'wasted' screen resembling Grand Theft Auto.
Just in case none of you dear readers heard about Tuesday night's midterm election, allow me to give you a summation. The Democratic Party won control over the House and the Senate, five governorships and a bunch of state houses. It also grabbed victories in Republican strongholds considered to be untouchable, such as senate seats in South Carolina, Kansas, and Texas.
Voters, many of them most likely die-hard MAGA members or at least voted for Trump in 2024, were angered by his many broken promises, unnecessary war with Iran, and inability - or refusal - to do something about our poor economy. So, they sent him a message at the voting booth.
And it was a harsh one.
Donald Trump and the Republican Party got wrecked, thrashed, dragged from one end of the country to another, and basically stomped into fine powder. I don't think I have ever seen such a huge Democratic victory in a midterm election. Not even the thrashing in the 1998 midterms which was so embarrassing that Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich resigned from Congress or the 2006 midterms which officially made President George Bush a lame duck. What happened on Tuesday night was historically brutal. The results and their implications will be talked about on this blog and a lot of other places from days to weeks to come.
Included in last night's blue wave were monumental victories for the LGBTQ community and specifically the trans community. This is definitely much needed visibility.
Editor's note - Tuesday is election day and the LGBTQ community simply have to show up. A lot of us do weeping and hand wringing about the attacks on our community, but Tuesday is the time we take some action. Securing our rights and safety isn't going to happen instantaneously. It's a process which begins on Tuesday by voting for the candidates who support our community and - at the very least - we can establish a dialogue with even if they don't fully support our rights (i.e. some issues involving our trans brothers and sisters.) Victory doesn't happen in one day or even in one election. It's a long process. It's about building power while telling our stories. That's how we've won so many battles in the past. And that's how we win now That gameplan never changes.
The point is it's easy to bellyache, but bellyachers have never won anything. Those who fight win. Let's make Tuesday a start in our fight. Don't take anything for granted, don't get complacent and don't predict anything. Just get your asses out and VOTE.
Okay, on to the news briefs:
MAGA Melts Down Over Misleading Clip of El-Sayed on 60 Minutes - In spite of all of the unnecessary controversy regarding El-Sayed (much of it has to do with him being a Muslim running for the Senate,) the fact that his opponent has to rely on a misleading clip about trans athletes says a lot about how the Republican party have nothing to run on except to scare folks about trans people. The fact that MAGA folks are working to increase engagement of this narrative speaks to the same point.
Preschool case puts LGBTQ and religious rights at odds in Supreme Court- So here we go again with this Supreme Court. The case involves religious entities receiving tax dollars while discriminating against LGBTQ families. Knowing how this court has acted against us in the past, there is no telling what it will do with this case.
Today, I saw a video in which some guy calling in to a talk show complained that gays are "influencing" kids. It was the standard junk that we've heard all of our lives i.e. the lie that children knowing that LGBTQ people exist will somehow "take away" their innocence. He also said that 18+ was the appropriate age learn that we exist.
Yet again, some fool reducing our lives to his fevered imagination of what he thinks we do sexually.
That's why I am reposting this video. It's a reminder of a simple fact that so many in this country want to ignore - the fact that LGBTQ children exist. They are not recruited, sexualized, groomed, nor any of the other adjectives used to create negative connotations of LGBTQ people. They simply are who they are.
Omitting their existence won't make them disappear. And as it has been proven countless times, all of the ex-gay therapy in the world won't change their gender expression or sexual orientation as if it's something which can be cured by antibiotics.
LGBTQ children exist, but how they exist is dependent on us. We can either embrace and guide them or act in deluded directions which won't change them one iota, but create self-hatred which will damage them spiritually, emotionally, and in some cases, physically.
Conservative parents claim that anti-trans ads against Senate candidate James Talarico are teaching their children that trans people exist.
Editor's note - In the final week before the midterm election, I have just one thing to say - get off your asses and vote. You can do it now during the early vote period or wait until next Tuesday. Just as long as you do it. Voting is our power and we should never waste it.
DOJ Offers $1M Grant To Study “Violent” Trans People - An attempt to create junk science started by our government. Let me help these idiots out - there is no link between gender dysphoria and violent crime. Now where is my million dollars?
The 30-second ad from the Progress Action Fund (PAF) depicts a white-haired man in a suit sitting inside a bathroom stall. A young girl trying to use the bathroom then opens the stall door and screams upon seeing him.
“I’m your Republican Congressman,” he tells her in a raspy voice. “Now that we’re in charge, I’m checking to make sure there’s no trans people in the wrong bathroom.”
The girl responds, “Bathrooms are private. Don’t you have anything better to do?”
“I won the last election, and this is my priority,” the Congressman replies. And in perhaps the most powerful moment, the ad ends with a close-up of the generic Republican’s face as he creepily says, “Now let’s make sure you’re really a girl.”
The ad will air on television in both Texas and Ohio as part of a broader $1 million ad buy.
“Americans want their elected officials to lower gas prices and end the war in Iran, not follow them into the f–king restroom,” Progress Action Fund executive director Joe Jacobson said in a statement. “Republicans are creepy as hell. Democrats need to grow a spine and call Republicans out for their creepy fetish of monitoring children’s bathrooms.”
Personally, I think the ad - which is being praised for its directness - should air in more places around the country.
