Thursday, September 04, 2025

'Trump DOJ reportedly looking to ban trans Americans from owning guns' & other Thur/Fri news briefs



Trump DOJ Reportedly Looking to Ban Trans Americans From Owning Guns​ - I am NOT a fan of guns, but I do understand the need of them for the sake of protection. But this goes BEYOND gun ownership. This is yet another instance in which the Trump administration is scapegoating trans people in an attempt to distract its base. Regardless of how anyone feels about trans people or trans rights, we need to recognize and call out the Trump Administration's eagerness to openly wage war against this group of Americans. 

Trans Americans aren't the bullies or the problem. The Trump Administration is. And from some of the responses I've been reading, a lot of pro-gun folks aren't happy with this. They feel that if trans people can be banned from owning guns, it would make things easier to ban other groups from owning guns. 

From the article:
 
The DOJ is reportedly looking at ways to designate transgender people as mentally ill and therefore ineligible to exercise their Second Amendment rights, one Justice official told CNN. 
“The vast majority of mass attacks in the US have no connection to transgender people,” the report stated, “Still, after the deadly shooting last week, some conservative allies of the president quickly claimed that gender dysphoria – the psychological distress and discomfort some people feel when there’s a difference between their sex assigned at birth and their gender identity – is a mental illness that should bar citizens from purchasing a firearm.” 
A 2023 report by the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Association Center found that from 2016 to 2020, 96% of shooters were men, 3% women, and 2% transgender. 


Tucker Carlson wants to ask Pete Buttigieg “very specific questions about gay sex” - Uh hell no. Every level and angle of this narrative makes me ill. 


  How the Supreme Court’s conversion therapy case could reshape LGBTQ+ protections across America - Not to mention how far the court is willing go to in a direction which weaponizes the idea of "religious freedom."
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Tuesday, September 02, 2025

From the archives - Video: Children are more knowledgeable about gay marriage than some adults

  

 Since marriage equality, or gay marriage if you will, is in the news again, I thought it would be a good time to reach into the archives and re-educate folks about marriage equality and kids. The above videos are over 10 years old, but they are as pertinent now as when they were first made.

In just about every anti-LGBTQ speech, accusation, or narrative is the claim that LGBTQ folks are seeking to harm kids. And the subject of marriage equality is no different. Generally speaking, as evidenced by the recent situation involving rapper Snoop Dogg, some people still have this intense fear of talking about us to kids. No matter what the subject is, they think that even talking to kids about us in the most simplistic tones will somehow present a danger to them.

I guess no matter how far we've come, old stereotypes and fears refuse to die. Especially in this new age of social media where people use videos and comments taken out of context for the sake of engagement.

But at the videos above prove, kids are not stupid, and they can cut through the noise generated by lies and fear to see the truth in the heart of the matter.

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Attempts to blame trans community for mass shootings foiled by buzzsaw of truth


 On Wednesday, this country yet again experienced the tragedy of a mass shooting, 

Two children were killed and 17 others were wounded when a lone gunman opened fire at a Catholic school in Minnesota.

The shooting in itself is an awful incident which is becoming more common in this country and I could go into detail about that. However, there is something especially vile about this particular mass shooting. 

The late shooter, Robin Westman, identified as transgender. Because of this, far-right groups and social media influencers are tying this shooting to other recent mass shootings in an effort to create a false narrative that is there is a growing pattern of mass shootings perpetrated by trans people 

Twitter has been filled with posts resembling the following.


 The anti-LGBTQ hate group the American Family Association chose to gaslight its attack on trans Americans under the veneer of "compassion."


AFA is full of it. It is all about stigmatizing and denigrating trans people. It's an old tactic by the anti-LGBTQ industry, In the past, groups like AFA tried to claim that gay men were more likely to sexually molest kids. They made this argument based upon the completely discredited belief that a man who molests a boy is automatically gay. 

 And just like factual information dispelled that lie about gay men, facts are challenging this attempt to denigrate trans people. Twitter has a fact-checking mechanism called grok. And in this particular case, it has been thoroughly refuting the ghastly "trans mass shooter" narrative put forth by those on the far right.



 In fact, grok has been knocking down anti-trans lies all day.

 

As to be expected, some folks are unhappy with grok's fact checking.

 

Normally, I enjoy seeing bigots, homophobes, and members of the anti-LGBTQ industry get called out and dragged for their lies, but I can barely muster a smile here. It's bad enough that when these shootings happen, those with power (Congress) won't do anything to prevent them from reoccurring. Now it seems that others are treating these mass shootings as opportunities like they are sudden windfalls.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Trump - "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."

SOME folks will probably claim that this comment by Trump from a recent cabinet meeting is being taken out of context. 

Uh no. 

He may be talking specifically about deploying troops to Chicago (which is by itself a bone headedly stupid thing to do) but based upon his action since he regained office (thanks again to all you simpleminded dumbasses who helped), he's definitely got the Il Duce mentality going strong. 

Trump may be the president, but he doesn't have the right to do anything he wants. Years ago, that comment alone would have caused all sorts of havoc, but in today's society which has been desensitized to unconsciousness by an overload of information from a far-right ecosystem led by Fox News, right-wing social media influencers and access-ambitious pundits, it will probably go over like a thin breeze. 

Regardless though, it is something to remember not only for the 2026 midterm elections but also all future elections, particularly presidential ones. Pay attention folks and above all, vote wisely. I hope we get through this madness, first.


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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Nancy Mace suffers embarrassment when only eight people show up for her campaign speech

Nancy Mace

This embarrassment couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. I can only hope that this is a sign of how things are going to be not only for Mace, but for other candidates scapegoating our community for power.


 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) canceled a speech in South Carolina on Thursday after just eight people showed up to an event that was billed to have 100-plus people in attendance, local news site MyHorryNews.com has reported. Mace — who is running for South Carolina governor — was expected to lead a “parental rights” rally in Myrtle Beach hosted by the Horry County chapter of the far-right, anti-trans Moms for Liberty group. 

But, as MyHorryNews put it, “plans seemingly changed” once she walked into a room of mostly empty chairs. The speech was scrapped, with a member of her team telling reporters that Mace would take questions from the media before she met individually with the attendees. 

 . . .The speech cancellation arrives just weeks after Mace —who has used her time in the House, in part, to obsess over trans women using the women’s bathroom — kicked off what she called the “Mother of All Town Halls” tour in Myrtle Beach, an event that reportedly packed the Veterans Café and Grill. In her remarks, she claimed that she would “debate anyone” although those who arrived at the event with shirts “reflecting their opposition” to her were asked to leave before she started her speech, NBC News reported.
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Thursday, August 21, 2025

We Come to Bury James Dobson, Not Praise Him

James Dobson

Infamous religious leader James Dobson died today. 

Dobson was a prominent and influential figure of the religious right because he not only started Focus on the Family but also had a hand in creating the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defending Freedom. He also, according to The Advocate, help to push the Republican Party further to the right. 

Those who have kept up with my blog over the years know how I feel about the religious right, or as I call them, the anti-LGBTQ industry.  And how I also feel about the Family Research Council and the Alliance Defending Freedom.  It shouldn't take a palm reader to guess how I feel about Dobson in general and the specific news of his passing.

To put it politely, James Dobson was an odious, self-righteous, evil man who weaponized Christianity to hurt LGBTQ people. It was never about love or God with him. It was always about power and control. He thought that Christians who believed as he did should control this country, our laws, and general culture.

And he didn't mind overlooking certain passages of the Bible in his quest for political power.  How else could anyone explain his embracing of Donald Trump. In exchange for White House access, Dobson made excuses for Trump, at one time even calling him a baby Christian. Other times, Dobson would not only ignore Trump's behavior, but he also praised him in spite of it all. 

Then again, praise is too weak of a word to describe what was going on. Dobson not only kissed Donald Trump's ass. He wiped and polished it:




 In the coming days, you're going to hear a lot of nice comments about Dobson. Folks are going to talk about his so-called strong character and devotion to God. His so-called commitment to preserving purity and American culture.

It's all a lie. 

The comments you are welcome to read below tell us just who James Dobson actually was. These are voices of the people he hurt and those who were tasked to pick up the pieces of broken spirit which came from his "teachings." 

" When I read that James Dobson is being remembered as a man who cared about families, I think instead about the families torn apart by his message. Parents taught to fear their own children. Spouses trapped in marriages built on self-denial. Young people who looked at me — the smiling “success story” on the magazine cover — and walked away believing they were broken beyond repair because they couldn’t replicate my lie. Dobson’s empire baptized cruelty and called it love. That is his true legacy. But those of us who lived through it are writing a different ending. Our story is one of survival. It looks like telling the truth, even when it costs. It looks like acknowledging our complicity while naming the coercion. It looks like building lives where we no longer need to prove our worth." - John Paulk, former chairman of Exodus and former Focus on the Family's point person for "ex-gay" therapy

“James Dobson cynically used faith as a cudgel to bludgeon vulnerable communities, spread disinformation, and inject toxic bigotry into the bloodstream of American culture. His legacy is one of cruelty disguised as Christianity, and our nation is worse off because of the relentless campaigns of intolerance he orchestrated. 

 Dobson’s obsession with changing LGBTQ people was a moral abomination that caused immeasurable harm. Parents were misled, children were traumatized, and lives were destroyed because he refused to accept people for who they are. His pseudoscientific crusade for conversion therapy will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters of modern religious extremism.”- Truth Wins Out Executive Director Wayne Besen  

(Editor's note - Truth Wins Out created a wonderful project, Respect My Research, which exposed Dobson for deliberately distorting scientific research against LGBTQ people.) 


" James Dobson helped me in my career by providing therapy clients who were harmed by religious, spiritual, emotional, and physical abuse. He gave me clients who were traumatized and self-loathing because they had the great misfortune to be born to parents who believed that being LGBT is "not God's plan" and that they could be "cured."

 He provided clients who were physically abused by parents who hit them with objects - "paddles" - "rather than your loving hands." He helped create clients who believed they were innately evil, undeserving of kindness, unworthy of love, and hated by God. Yes, I've been told that in the therapy room. 

 Because of him, I sought specialized training in treating traumatic injuries, which has helped me to help others. He was ignorant about human development, a religious extremist, and someone who is personally responsible for uncountable incidents of child abuse as well as suicide. He caused incalculable harm to be inflicted on countless innocent children. Good riddance." - Alice Clearman, psychologist


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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

'Nancy Mace battles nonexistent 'transgender mice research' after Trump's false claim' & other Wed/Thur news briefs



Nancy Mace introduces ludicrous ‘Trans Mice Act’ after false Trump claims​ - Long story short - Trump made up a ridiculous story about research turning mice transgender. Nancy Mace, the desperately attention-seeking Congressional leader, jumps on the story to spearhead some type of "legislation." In other words, a stupid man makes up a stupid story, causing a incredibly attention-hungry but nonetheless stupid woman to piggyback on it for the sake of publicity. 


Trump quietly bans federal health insurance from covering gender-affirming care - Trump's ugly war against the transgender community continues. A president, or any elected leader, having such vitriol against an innocent group of people is simply vile. And it's worse how so many folks are desensitized to it because it doesn't affect them. 


Hillary Clinton: Supreme Court ‘will do to gay marriage what they did to abortion’ - We will see, Mrs. Clinton. Still, your advice is something our community should follow. 

LGBTQ groups denounce takeover of D.C. police – except for one - Who else but the Log Cabin Republicans? 

And finally:

The Trains of Dusk and Dawn (The Astraeus Journey) - Queer author - and a good friend of mine - Erica Lieberman presents something for you LGBTQ science fiction fans:
 Anna Alla is a young, gifted woman with a mouth to match. Unfortunately, her attitude leaves her vulnerable in the society she lives in. Her home, Astraios, is a tidally locked planet with one side always facing the sun, and one side always facing the night; the same way our moon faces the earth. Both extremes are uninhabitable, leaving only the narrow space between dusk and dawn for the people of Astraios to live. The society built around this unique world demands austerity. With a caste system designed to remind the inhabitants of their place in the world, there is no moving up, and every chance to be moved down (Downgraded). 
There is no home. Members of the higher castes travel on trains from one city to the next, working a week at a time assigned to jobs based on their caste. The lowest cast, Walkers, walk the tracks in a perpetual loop, clearing the tracks of debris. No one owns more than the clothes they wear, the most basic essentials, and the food they eat. Anna Alla fit neatly into the lowest level of the middle caste (Specialists) as a child. To satisfy her love of history, she hoped to be assigned to maintenance of the oldest equipment on Astraios.

 Instead, she finds herself downgraded and living a life she doesn’t understand. Anna has to find a way to overcome her situation and her tendency to make her situation worse in ways she can’t fully appreciate. With her newly found friends, the nerdy outcast ekes out a place for herself and shares a new way of thinking that is a threat to the leaders of her society. Anna Alla’s life is hard, but one of her own making, for better or for worse.
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Monday, August 18, 2025

Drag show ban blocked at West Texas A&M University. Major parts of Florida book ban struck down by federal judge.


A federal appeals court blocked a drag show ban at West Texas A&M University on Monday. A few days before, a federal judge in Florida struck down major parts of Florida's book ban law.


 As we deal with the second term of the jackass better known as Donald Trump, vestiges of old culture wars are disintegrating under our noses.

From The Texas Tribune:

A federal appeals court Monday blocked West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler from enforcing a campus drag show ban, ruling that the performances are likely protected under the First Amendment. 

The 2-1 ruling from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower court’s decision upholding Wendler’s 2023 cancellation of a drag show, which he argued was demeaning to women and compared to blackface. The decision means Spectrum WT, the student group that brought the lawsuit, can produce drag shows on campus while its lawsuit continues in a lower court. 

 Judge Leslie H. Southwick, who wrote for the majority, said the context of the students’ event made its message of supporting the queer community clear. 

 “The viewers of the drag show would have been ticketed audience members attending a performance sponsored by LGBT+ student organizations and designed to raise funds for LGBT+ suicide-prevention charity, “ wrote Southwick, who was appointed by George W. Bush. “Against this backdrop, the message sent by parading on a theater stage in attire of the opposite sex would have been unmistakable.” 

 The court concluded that Legacy Hall, where the drag show was scheduled to take place, was a designated public forum open to a variety of groups, including churches and political candidates. That meant banning drag shows targeted the content of the event, something the Constitution allows only in the rarest cases.

 Finally, the court found that students faced ongoing irreparable harm to their speech rights, noting Wendler had canceled another drag show planned for 2024 and declared that no drag shows would ever be allowed on campus.

 

And a few days earlier in Florida, according to LGBTQNation:

A federal judge in Florida has struck down major parts of the state’s book ban law, ruling that it violates the First Amendment by sweeping protected literature off school library shelves. 

 In 2023, Florida enacted H.B. 1069, expanding the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law to prohibit classroom discussions of LGBTQ+ identities through the end of high school. The measure also required schools to remove books flagged for “sexual content,” a vague standard most often applied to works addressing race, gender, and sexuality. 

 Six major book publishers, the Authors Guild, and parents from Escambia County sued after dozens of books were removed. They argued that H.B. 1069 gave parents and residents unchecked power to demand removals of any book considered “pornographic” or “describes sexual conduct,” without clear legal definitions. Under this sweeping standard, students lost access to award-winning books including The Color Purple, Cloud Atlas, The Freedom Writers Diary, Looking for Alaska, Slaughterhouse-Five, Shout, The Handmaid’s Tale, Beloved, and The Bluest Eye.

 In a broad order, federal Judge Carlos Mendoza of the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida found the state’s book ban unconstitutionally overbroad, calling it an “I know it when I see it” test that chilled free speech. “None of these books are obscene,” Mendoza wrote in his order. “The restrictions placed on these books are thus unreasonable.” 

. . .Rejecting the state’s claim that removals were simply government “curation,” Judge Mendoza held that delegating an unchecked “license to object to materials under an ‘I know it when I see it’ approach” to parents, “regardless of the holistic value of the book individually or as part of a larger collection,” amounted to outright censorship.

 

We probably won't hear the opposition make noise about these decisions because they've moved on to new rage-baits campaigns involving male cheerleaders and Sydney Sweeney (and I don't even KNOW who that little white girl is.)

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

'Lara Loomer repeats claim about Lindsey Graham being gay in deposition' & other Wed/Thur news briefs

Sen. Lindsey Graham. Is he or isn't he? Lara Loomer says he is.


'It's well-known!' MAGA activist repeats salacious claims about GOP senator in deposition​ - It IS Lara Loomer and she has made this claim about Lindsey Graham before, so maybe it should be taken with a grain of salt. Then again, we are talking about Lindsey Graham here, so . . .




New Orleans Saints have 12 male cheerleaders, sending some NFL fans into hysterical meltdowns - Some on the right find the dumbest things to fake outrage about.
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Monday, August 11, 2025

Trump justifies taking over DC police with claim that Democrats 'want transgender for everybody'

If you haven't heard by now, Trump has decided to take over the DC police and deploy the national guard in the Capitol city. He claims to be doing it because of crime even though the crime rate in DC has been going down. He has also threatened to do the same in other cities which, just like DC, have high populations of African Americans. 

It's racist pandering but of course the media will probably fail to mention that interesting point. They are too busy calling Trump's move extraordinary. They should be honest and call the move batshit crazy.   Or at least call it an attempt to take attention away from the Epstein Files. 

Speaking of batshit crazy, Trump held a press conference to justify his action. He was accompanied by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

And like he always does when having a press conference, Trump went on a wild tangent. This time, he went from telling lies about crime in DC to claiming that Democrats won't stand against crime because they want everyone transgender. 

Transcript:

“Probably won’t get one Democrat vote because they have no idea what they’re doing. That’s why they want men playing in women’s sports,” Trump said, while discussing seeking legislation to fight crime in D.C.. 

 “That’s what they — why they want transgender for everybody! Everybody transgender. And they — they’ve just got walloped in an election in a landslide, and they haven’t changed one thing,” Trump fumed, adding: I saw the other day that a certain gentlemen . . 

Is Hegseth simply smiling or just trying to suppress a laugh? Bondi has got a fixed expression on her face, but one wonders is she thinking "Lawd, hammercy. Hurry up and die so Vance can be my boss and I don't have to do shit like this anymore."

Either way,  I'm done with calling Trump incompetent. At this stage, it's like saying that humans need to break to live. Instead I'm blaming the voters. Some people like to say that Democrats are to blame for both of Trump's presidencies, but they are full of shit. They are either pundits too chickenshit to tell the truth or folks whose aim is not to tell the truth.

And that truth is voters are to blame for this. Our country is lazy and complacent. We take our votes for granted. We whine about those running while omitting how we run off good candidates because of nonsense like soundbites taken the wrong way. 

We think that when we vote, we are doing the candidate a favor. "The candidate has to earn my vote," I've heard some voters say.

No, dumbass. You aren't doing candidates a favor by voting for them. You are doing yourself a favor by putting someone in office who will help you.  And if you vote the wrong way, you will end up with an insane, incompetent asshole squawking some nonsense about political parties turning people transgender.

Like so.

I'm going to make a guess that like so many other times, Trump is going to fall on his face and it will be up to the right-wing propaganda ecosystem (led by Fox News of course) to clean up after him and make his latest nonsense into some semblance of sense. 

By now it's as predictable as Trump's tangents.
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Thursday, August 07, 2025

'Slap in the face: Air Force to deny retirement pay to trans soldiers being kicked out by Trump Administration' & other Thur/Fri news briefs



US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service​ - Just another way the Trump Administration is kicking trans soldiers in the face. Trans soldiers are serving for their country, and they should be treated like other soldiers instead of being cast off. I hope they sue because I think they would have a good case. 

Nancy Mace under fire after Trump-voting town hall attendee 'jeered' for not clapping - Trash is as trash does. And Nancy Mace is pure trash. 



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Tuesday, August 05, 2025

America owes drag queens a huge apology



America owe drag queens a huge apology. 

Drag queens have had to endure a long season of being mispresented, taken out of context, threatened with of violence, being scapegoated by ridiculous laws outlawing their art, and basic fearmongering about how they were sexually grooming kids to turn them transgender or something or another.

 And what has come out of all of this? Nothing negative about the drag queens, but consistent news stories about church leaders, Republicans leaders, and other supposedly upstanding members of the community being caught sexually harming kids.

 Don't even get me started on the Epstein Files. 

Taking all of this into account, an argument could be made that perhaps kids are safer with drag queens than with youth leaders, church leaders, and elected officials. 

That's not fair. It's wrong to generalize about church leaders and elected officials because of the actions of a few of them. 

 But that's exactly what's been done to drag queens. And what's more, much of the finger pointing was conjured up by cherry-picked photos and videos (see list of articles below post) and the general naivety of people to instantly trust something on social media, all brought together by wannabe social media influencers with a nasty agenda in mind. 

 In truth, drag is an art. It can be adult-oriented, but a lot of times, it's not. It involves having multiple skills, talent, and discipline. Drag queens generally make their own costumes, create their names, and performance routines. Aside from that, they also freely donate their time and talent at prides, various charity events, reading to children, and (for those who are constantly asking such leading questions) at hospitals and nursing homes. 

The narrative that drag queens are a part of some plot to "sexualize kids" is yet another time in which homophobes have successfully played upon fears that LGBTQ people are out to "sexually recruit" kids.  It's a noxious lie in itself, but it goes beyond sad in the case of the anti-drag queen hysteria. 

While certain disgusting, low-budget sons of bitches (it's the politest way I can describe certain people) were pointing fingers at drag queens, children were being victimized by other folks. While folks were attempting to get clout, engagement or some sort of fake fulfillment for their pathetically empty lives by screaming "leave the kids alone," children were being victimized, but not by the people they were screaming at. While lawmakers were on crusade against drag queens for votes and attention, children were being sexually molested, but not by drag queens.

While all of these idiots were busy chasing imaginary monsters draped in sequins and mascara, wigs and rainbow flags, real monsters were having their way with kids. Just think about what harm could have been prevented if these folks actually did care about children instead of screaming at, vilifying, and threatening drag queens.

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Monday, August 04, 2025

Chappell Roan, Billie Eilish, Colman Domingo, and Sarah McBride are among the Equality Forum's LGBT History Month honorees

 There is a lot of nonsense going on which I will focus on later this week (especially the news that Hot Mess Nancy Mace will be running for SC governor), but for the present, I want to focus on something positive.

October is LGBT History Month and every year, the Equality Forum dedicates each day in that month to spotlight an LGBTQ historical figure. Also, every year, the group makes the announcement as to who will be honored around this time.

This year the list features, I think, more contemporary people. More importantly, at least to me again, is how important it is this year that we honor and amplify LGBTQ people. We all know what's going on with the Trump Administration's attack on trans people in general and our community in large. It's so easy to get frustrated (I have been on a few occasions.)  Let these historical figures guide, inspire, and empower you. We aren't going anywhere, ESPECIALLY not backwards.

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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Nancy Mace - 'I'm a proud transphobe.' Social media - 'That ain't all you are, honey.'




Congresswoman Nancy Mace (Rep- SC) has made a complete ass of herself online again.

 From The Advocate: 
 On Tuesday evening, the South Carolina Republican responded to a headline from The Advocate, “Nancy Mace considers quitting Congress to take her transphobia statewide in South Carolina,” by tweeting: “FALSE: I am not quitting Congress. TRUE: Proud transphobe.” The story was about Mace’s decision to consider running for governor of her home state. 

The Advocate article went on to say that she got a lot of negative answers back (surprise, surprise). However, the article didn't go into detail just about how hilariously vicious the responding tweets were. 

To be honest, some tweets supported her. Others weren't complimentary. 


This isn't the first time Mace was made the butt of social media mockery because of her transphobia. In December of last year, she had a trans ally arrested for what she claimed was assault. However, witnesses said that he merely shook her hand. In spite of that, Mace wore a cast on her arm the next day, while people on social media made fun of her dramatics.

 Mace no doubt thinks appealing to transphobia will help her should she decide to run for SC governor. The jury is out on that, but I can tell you that she has in the past overdid her stunts so much that her own colleagues in Congress can't stand her. If there is any chance of a backlash against transphobia, Mace is definitely the one who will be the cause of it.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

'Trump-vangelical pastor Kenneth Copeland want angels to go after those calling Trump out' & other Tue/Wed news briefs

 
Kenneth Copeland Calls On Angels To 'Pull Those Devils Down That Are Attacking Our President'​ - Unlike some of my LGBTQ brothers and sisters, I believe in God and I suggest that Copeland worry about his own soul. Need I have to say why? On the risk of sounding presumptuous, the phrase "bust hell wide open" comes to mind.

Nancy Mace considers quitting Congress to take her transphobia statewide in South Carolina - Oh God, no!!! I cringe at the thought.


Project 2025 creators target university over LGBTQ+-inclusive course materials - Battle in North Carolina. Just in time for the senatorial election. 

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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

'Trump was told in May by DOJ that he was listed in the Epstein files: Wall Street Journal' & other Wed/Thur news briefs


DOJ told Trump in May he was among names in Epstein files: bombshell report - This doesn't mean that Trump is guility of any wrongdoing but with this Administration, nothing is for sure. There is one thing I am very sure of - there are a WHOLE LOT of drag queens drinking tea right now, while muttering "groomer, my ass" to each other.




Christian bookstore teams up with hate group to sue for the right to misgender people - It sounds like they are making up nonsense and shielding it with some "religious freedom" argument. A recent SCOTUS decision has brought out folks trying to weaponize their religion to remove pro-LGBTQ ordinances. 

I'm beginning to think that Candace Owens isn't "wrapped too tight:" 


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Monday, July 21, 2025

'Hot Mess Nancy Mace makes a fool of herself (again)' & other Mon/Tue news briefs

Nancy Mace tries another social media stunt and makes a fool of herself again.

Nancy Mace’s epic meme fail on the viral Coldplay cheating moment has the internet in hysterics​ - Hot mess Nancy Mace makes a fool of herself again. Not necessarily an LGBTQ issue, but Mace is an equal opportunity fool. 

Federal judge temporarily blocks Mississippi’s new DEI ban - Temporary for now, but it looks good. 

Federal HR office sets deadline for government-wide purge of transgender and nonbinary inclusion - Ugh. Trump's war against trans people have now stretched to target non-binary folks.


Judge Orders Reinstatement of Counselor Fired for Discrimination Against LGBTQ Students - Believe or not, this one was lost on another technicality.  Folks, it's good to stand up for the LGBTQ community, but you gotta watch those loopholes.

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Simone Biles gets last laugh in 'feud' with anti-trans activist Riley Gaines during 2025 Espy Awards



While Simone Biles (top pic) shines and achieves, Riley Gaines (bottom pic) will continue to ride her fifth-place tie with trans athlete Lia Thomas for clout


In case some of you aren't aware, multiple Olympic gold medalist and the most awarded gymnast Simone Biles was in a recent feud with anti- trans activist Riley Gaines. 

Gaines is a former collegiate swimmer who has made a career in right-wing circles speaking out against trans athletes ever since she tied for fifth in a meet with a trans athlete, Lia Thomas. Four other woman who are not trans defeated Gaines, but that hasn't stopped her grift, I mean "crusade."

The feud between Biles and Gaines began when last month when Gaines took it upon herself to publicly call out a high school trans student on Twitter. Biles stood up for the teenager but found herself cast in the middle of an ugly brouhaha with publicity-hungry Gaines, who made the most of this opportunity by attacking Biles on Twitter and Fox News.  On Twitter, her followers also made attacks against Biles. Gaines herself even dug up Biles's sexual abuse by former USA doctor and convicted child predator Larry Nassar. 

 While Biles tried to divest herself from the situation (even by offering an apology), Gaines and her supporters - particularly female pundits on Fox News - declared Gaines as the "winner."

 However, at the Wednesday night's Espy Awards, folks - and I hope especially Gaines and her supporters - were reminded what a true winner looks like: 

 Simone Biles won two trophies at the ESPYS on Wednesday night, including the women’s best athlete award. The 11-time Olympic medalist claimed the night’s first award, best championship performance for her efforts at the Paris Games.

 She won three golds and a silver while helping the U.S. women’s gymnasts win their first team title since 2016. “That was very unexpected, especially in a category of all men,” Biles said after kissing husband, Chicago Bears safety Jonathan Owens. 

The comment Biles made is what folks are talking about because it is considered a dig at Gaines. But we shouldn't let her comment overshadow the fact that Biles continues to win and achieve, while Gaines will probably be looking for another opportunity to ride her coattails for more attention and appearances on Fox.  

One has to admire Gaines's skill of turning a fifth-place tie to a full fledge-media career, but we are still talking about a fifth-place tie.. There aren't any further chapters of the story in which Gaines trained herself to be better and managed to become the gold-medalist she mostly like dreamed of being as a child. Her sports story ends with a brazen grab for easy cash by blaming others for her own inability to successfully compete.  

Meanwhile Biles will continue to shine and add to her long list of achievements, thus proving that those who can generally do. Gaines, on the other hand proves that those who can't achieve will spend considerable time blaming others for their own mediocrity.

 It's easy to see who actually won this feud. It wasn't even close.
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Chip and Joanna Gaines trigger conservative Christian rage by showing that religious freedom about gays go both ways

By casting a same-sex couple in their docuseries Back to the Frontier, HGTV personalities Chip and Joanna Gaines enrage conservative evangelicals and puts a much-needed spotlight on how the concept of religious freedom is distorted


 From Men's Journal:

Chip and Joanna Gaines, the popular HGTV personalities who created their own TV network and have a massive following from Evangelical Christians, are facing criticism over a casting decision for their new HBO Max docuseries, Back to the Frontier. 

 The new series, from the couple's Magnolia Network, features three couples living as 1800s homesteaders. Among the couples includes Jason and Joe Hanna-Riggs, a same-sex couple who have two sons. 

The decision to cast the Hanna-Riggs family cast drew immediate criticism from Chip and Joanna's own fan base. Preacher Franklin Graham notably went on X and voiced his dismay. 

"I hope this isn’t true, but I read today that Chip and Joanna Gaines are featuring a gay couple in their new series. If It is true, it is very disappointing. While we are to love people, we should love them enough to tell them the truth of God’s Word," he tweeted. "His Word is absolute truth. God loves us, and His design for marriage is between one man and one woman. Promoting something that God defines as sin is in itself sin."

 Ed Vitagliano, vice president of the American Family Association, called the casting disappointing. “We aren’t sure why the Gaines have reversed course, but we are sure of this: Back to the Frontier promotes an unbiblical view of human sexuality, marriage, and family," the organization tweeted. 

 After hearing the criticism, Chip swung back. "Talk, ask [questions], listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never," he tweeted. "It’s a sad Sunday when 'non believers' have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian."

This controversy is an opportunity to look at the concept of religious freedom as it is used by conservative evangelicals.

Graham and other conservative evangelicals (that includes those on the Supreme Court) have weaponized the term as an excuse to not treat LGBTQ people fairly and in accordance with laws. To do so would jeopardize their "personally held religious beliefs,"   they tell us.

But religious freedom goes both ways.  Just as people have the religious freedom to condemn and castigate LGBTQ people, others have the religious freedom to affirm LGBTQ people or - in the case of the Gaines - welcome LGBTQ people in.

Graham knows this. And other conservative evangelicals (including those on the Supreme Court) know this. But to them, religious freedom is not about freedom to worship. It's not about respecting people's right to worship as they wish.

 It's a ploy for them to dictate policy in accordance with their fantasy that America is a Christian nation controlled and corralled by their definition of Scriptures. It's the method in which they try to take power - power which they delude themselves comes anointed by God when in reality, it comes from their own craven and greedy desires.

Their lapse of knowledge about religious freedom is not accidental. It's a cynical convenience and a hallmark of their barely hidden hypocrisy.  Just as easily as Franklin Graham can condemn LGBTQ people as sinners while simultaneously supporting the even more sinful and incredibly corrupt Trump Administration (which he does almost constantly), other conservative evangelicals can whine that their freedom to worship is being taken away while attempting silence others who they feel aren't obeying God according to their standards.

This controversy, if u want to call it that, merely lays it all bare.


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Sunday, July 13, 2025

News brief special - MAGA anger at Trump over Epstein Files isn't dying down. It's heating up.

How the Trump Administration handled the Jeffrey Epstein situation (seen here with Trump in 1992) has created a huge rift between Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters.

Editor's note - This controversy involving the Trump Administration and the Epstein Files may not be LGBTQ specific, but it is deliciously ironic considering how accusations against LGBTQ people as predators and child groomers have been fueled by Trump supporters. Whatever the case may be, the reversal of the Trump Administration when it comes to conspiracy theories about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's death and alleged "list of contacts" after years of baiting MAGA about it is like watching slow moving train wreck.  And considering the stubbornness of MAGA and Trump, it's a train wreck which won't stop any time soon.

Trump Gets 'Ratioed' on Truth Social for First Time Amid Epstein Backlash









 And for those who have little to no idea what's going on, here is a timeline courtesy of Forbes: 



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