'Anti-LGBTQ MAGA troll suffers humiliating loss in primary' & other Wed/Thurs news briefs

Valentina Gomez

MAGA troll who sparked fury for telling voters not to be ‘weak and gay’ crashes out of primary - Oh Valentina Gomez. Bless that place in your chest where your heart ought to be. 

 And in case you've forgotten who she is: 

Valentina Gomez, a 25-year-old woman who sought the Republican nomination, made headlines this year with her eye-catching campaign videos that included burning LGBT+-friendly books for children and teens, attacking people in the LGBT+ community with vulgar language, promoting AR-15s, abolishing voting machines and more. 

 Critics of Gomez accused her of spreading “hateful” content because much of her content included vulgar language. She called Vice President Kamala Harris a “hoe” and “little b****”, used the word “f****t” to describe transgender people and described Democrats as “full of gay s***”, among other things.

A bigot lost her election and her brother lost his job. I’m not shedding any tears. - It gets more interesting. Gomez lost the primary and may have cost her brother his job.

Ohio's 'medically baseless and genuinely dangerous' gender-affirming care ban upheld by judge - Appeal! 

Medal count! Here are the LGBTQ+ Olympians who won medals in Paris 2024 (so far) - Hopefully the number has increased by the time you're reading this. 

As LGBTQ library material comes under fire, California may ban book bans - I'm all for it. Do it! 

Wisconsin's first LGBTQ historic landmark dedicated in Milwaukee - Great local story.