Wednesday, March 11, 2026

'Maine residents rally to keep LGBTQ book in local libraries' & other Wed/Thur news briefs


Resident in the city of Gardiner, ME rallied to keep the LGBTQ book 'Prince and Knight' on the library shelves after some people called it 'propaganda' created to 'indoctrinate' children.



Residents rally to keep LGBTQ book in Gardiner-area school libraries - Good news coming from Maine to start it all off on a positive note. 

Engineer sues LA County for right to work from home when Pride flag is displayed​ - It's ridiculous, but the Supreme Court has everyone playing the "it's my religious liberty" card so he could win. It's becoming annoying how almost every time we are mentioned in the public square, someone pulls the "religious liberty" card to render us invisible or create some sort of psychological roadblock which they would never do in other situations.


Cisgender kids in Texas can’t get care due to anti-trans laws - Transphobes like to smear puberty blockers when they are prescribed to trans teens. They don't say a word when they are prescribed to other kids for different conditions. 

There Is No Evidence For Banning Trans Women From Sports - SCOTUS is not going to rule in our favor on this subject because it's all about fears and irrational suspicions. Still, this information is needed.

He helped ban conversion therapy. Now the Supreme Court could undo it all. - Now we could win this SCOTUS case. But then again, it could be the "it's my religious freedom" card played again.


LGBTQ studies are necessary in K-12 education - Amen! We need to have this conversation. and NOW.

Monday, March 09, 2026

Moms risk arrest to protect gender-affirming healthcare for trans youth



From Orion Rummler of The 19th by way of The Advocate comes a simple fact that the parents of trans kids are determined to keep their children healthy and safe. 

Even if they have to be arrested for it:

(Larissa) Godfrey-Smith was one of over 50 people who joined a protest last month against the Trump administration’s plans to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth. They blocked the entrance to the Health and Human Services Department headquarters to demand that the government stop blocking medical care for transgender kids. Godfrey-Smith was among the 25 protesters arrested.

 Parents and grandparents of trans youth, plus their therapists and medical providers, are fed up after years of health care bans and hostile rhetoric. Those feelings are driving them to do things they’ve never done before — like plan to get arrested at a protest.

 . . . As a licensed professional counselor who specializes in LGBTQ+ mental health, Godfrey-Smith, who uses she and they pronouns, works with trans kids and their families as they navigate the complexities of gender changing over time. They answer nervous parents’ questions. They talk about concerns regarding medical transition. They also work with trans adults who are well into their 30s and 40s and figuring it all out for the first time. 

 The Trump administration is not helping those patients, she said; bans and rhetoric are just making everything worse. Families are confused about what they can access and what to believe. Financial costs to find knowledgeable providers are rising. And parents are scared about the world their trans children are growing up in. 
“I’m so angry and so frustrated. I’m just so exhausted at the misinformation,” they said. As a mental health provider, they know that families feel abandoned. She wants those families to see people standing up for them. 

 

Read the entire article here. 

Thursday, March 05, 2026

'Trump causes MAGA meltdown with post accidentally supporting 'child transgender surgery'' & other Thur/Fri news briefs

Trump's original Truth Social post which causes a conservative meltdown


Trump Deletes Post Backing Child Transgender Surgery With ‘Approval of the Parents’ Following Backlash From Conservatives - Gender-affirming healthcare for trans kids generally doesn't involve surgery and I'm sure this was an error in syntax on Trump's part. STILL, it was hilarious to watch conservatives flip out over it. 

Joe Rogan calls trans people “f**king perverts” & blames them for school shootings - Joe Rogan's personal animus against the trans community is probably one of the things which fueled transphobic backlashes. 


West Virginia Senate passes ‘anti-LGBTQ’ bills on Crossover Day - Bizarre bills. I guess they were meant to be anti-LGBTQ

Tuesday, March 03, 2026

'Trump admin hangs banner of anti-LGBTQ influencer Charlie Kirk outside Ed. Dept' & other Tue/Wed news briefs

Charlie Kirk

Trump admin hangs banner of anti-LGBTQ+ influencer Charlie Kirk outside Ed. Dept. ​- The Trump Administration is joining conservatives in an attempt to cram a false image of Charlie Kirk down the throats of Americans. And it's not working. Kirk was a racist and a demagogue. He lowered the tone of political discourse in this country, and it probably led to his assassination. He is not nor will he ever be a great American figure.

NY attorney general's office orders NYU Langone to resume services for trans kids - The Trump Administration bullied this hospital, NYU Lagone, into discontinuing services for trans youth such as puberty blockers and hormones. But the NY attorney general's office stepped in and pointed out how these same services are still offered to other youth, which makes not offering the same services to trans youth an act of discrimination. 

Supreme Court deals blow to trans student privacy protections - In case you haven't heard, SCOTUS did us dirty again. They have a genuine hostility for us.

Scouting America clarifies that their deal with Pete Hegseth doesn’t ban trans kids - Speaking of hostility, Trump's Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been trying to bully the Scouts with regards to "DEI" and trans kids. He may not have been as successful as he thought.

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Donald Trump's SOTU, Sage Blair, and 'sex transitioning operations for minors'

Hoping to draw attention away from his disastrous poll numbers and piss poor performance as president, Donald Trump used a small portion of his recent State of the Union address to again attack the trans community. 

But was there a change in plans in terms of how he did it?

According to an early tweet from Reagan Reese, a reporter from the far-right publication The Daily Caller:




 However, there was a major problem with that claim. 

Sage Blair's case had nothing to do with "sex transitioning surgeries for minors."


Several people quickly pointed this mistake out on Twitter. 

Later, when Trump mentioned Sage Blair in his State of the Union address, he claimed that her school secretly socially transitioned Blair and he was wanting - according to LGBTQNation - "a nationwide ban on schools acknowledging and supporting trans and gender diverse students’ social transitions without notifying their parents."

 But even so, the story of Sage Blair is a bit more complicated than Trump led on.


According to one LGBTQNation article:

Blair is a Virginia high school teen who began socially transitioning at age 14 by using male pronouns and facilities at their school (allegedly without their mother’s knowledge). Blair’s mother sued the school district, alleging that the mental distress caused by the school’s policies and subsequently bullying from other students compelled her child to run away from home and fall victim to child sex traffickers. Virginia Republicans have since championed “Sage’s Law,” a bill that would require schools to forcibly out trans kids to their potentially unaccepting parents. 


Another LGBTQNation article went into more extensive detail:

As Law Commentary notes, Blair’s lawsuit rests on her claim that ACHS officials had a duty to inform her of Sage’s social transition and that if they had, the traumatic events that followed would not have happened. But as Assigned Media’s Evan Urquhart notes, it’s impossible to know if that would have been the case. Urquhart goes on to note that trans teens who are not accepted by their parents are particularly vulnerable to online predators, and cites a 2013 study indicating that trans young people experience better mental health outcomes when they are accepted and affirmed by their parents. 

 As the New York Times reports, last year the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld a lower court’s dismissal of Blair’s claim that ACHS officials violated her right to direct the child’s upbringing. A separate claim that the school violated Title IX by acting with “deliberate indifference” to the threats Sage experienced from classmates is currently moving through the courts, according to the Times.


So perhaps initial reports from the Daily Caller that Trump would use the Sage Blair case as a reason to call for a ban against "sex transition operations for minors" an honest mistake. Or maybe something else. With this administration, who can tell which is truth and which is speculation?

But the dishonesty and scapegoating are always clear.

Monday, February 23, 2026

'She ain't real, y'all!' - Nicki Minaji's MAGA social media busted for being propped up by bots and fake accounts

Nicki Minaj


The idea that Nicki Minaj became a follower of Donald Trump based on the strength of his personality is bull. We all know this. She wants something and is willing to sell out Black Americans for it, as this explosive expose in Politico proves:

Nicki Minaj spent the past year transforming herself from a polarizing rap superstar into a high-profile conservative provocateur, lobbing viral attacks at Democratic leaders, boosting MAGA talking points and earning public praise from President Donald Trump and his allies.  On social media, Minaj’s pugnacious persona and sharp-edged posts — including repeated broadsides against California Gov. Gavin Newsom — have made her a darling of the Trump administration and the conservative movement, drawing millions of views and steady amplification from far-right influencers. 
But quietly, humming in the background of her varied social media blitzes, a sophisticated army of bots was unconditionally praising and amplifying Minaj’s content, according to a new report shared exclusively with POLITICO. 

 The report, compiled by the disinformation detection company Cyabra, identifies a coordinated network of bots — more than 18,000 of them — that drove algorithms to spread Minaj’s posts on X.

 . . . The report found inauthentic accounts repeatedly amplified Minaj’s posts with praise that used “highly similar language,” particularly in response to posts where authentic accounts were criticizing Minaj. “Supportive comments generated by fake profiles were predominantly brief, repetitive, and low in semantic complexity, consisting largely of praising keywords and positive hashtags rather than original or substantive engagement,” the report found.

 Other inauthentic activity surrounding Minaj included “longer, more detailed comments designed to appear organic.” “Nicki you are brave for living your truth, people might not always agree with what’s being played out, but as an artist and watching your growth as a person is inspiring,” read one comment from a purported Minaj fan, @LAX76283656, that was deemed fake by Cyabra. “This pattern suggests a deliberate attempt to integrate into genuine conversations, increasing the credibility and visibility of the amplified content,” the report read. 

 . . . Bot networks have become a familiar feature of modern politics since revelations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, when coordinated inauthentic accounts were used to inflame divisions and manipulate online discourse. 

Such campaigns are now routinely detected around wars, elections and geopolitical flashpoints — but far less often around celebrities or the music industry. That backdrop helps explain why Cyabra’s findings seem so peculiar. Rather than a short-lived spike tied to a single event or appearance, the company found sustained and coordinated amplification of Minaj’s posts across a range of political and cultural topics over time.

You can read the full article here

Thursday, February 19, 2026

'Tenn bill attempts to undermine gay marriage by allowing individuals, private groups to refuse to recognize it' & other Thur/Fri news briefs


Bill to let private groups refuse to recognize same sex marriage passes Tennessee House - These continuous attempts to undermine same-sex marriage are going nowhere in a landscape where it is now normal for gay to marry. No matter how supporters of these attempts try to weaponize them as "religious liberty," they still come across as mean-spirited: 

 Chris Sanders, executive director of the Tennessee Equality Project, told News 2 that while the bill likely won’t change things for large, private entities, including national bank branches or big healthcare systems, it would likely hurt those in rural areas where those organizations are smaller and often locally-owned. 

“Imagine if the Treasury Secretary were driving through the state of Tennessee and had an accident in a small, rural county, and someone refused to recognize his husband as his husband, and they had to make medical decisions or wanted to visit in the healthcare facility,” Sanders said. “That’s the kind of impact that this bill could have on anybody in a dire circumstance.” 

Trump falsely links trans people to terrorism. Now, a target is on their back. - This is not good, y'all. Folks need to know this but I didn't make this the leading story because I don't want to help cause a panic. 


Lansing school officials react after DOJ launches investigation into LGBTQ policies - Ridiculous overreach which is a reminder that the Trump Administration is targeting all of us. BUT they will not defeat us.

Tuesday, February 17, 2026

'Trump administration sued over removing Stonewall Pride flag' & other Tue/Wed news briefs



Trump administration sued over removing Stonewall Pride flag - As well it should. Such mean-spirited garbage. 


Rev. Jesse Jackson, trailblazing civil rights icon and LGBTQ+ rights ally, dead at 84 - R.I.P. Mr. Jackson was always in the LGBTQ community's corner. 

European Parliament passes resolution that says trans women are women - Good for them! Batten down the hatches, though. 

Democrat under fire over campaign memo implying LGBTQ+ candidates aren’t electable in key California race - Not a good idea right now to do such a thing. Let's focus on the opposition. 


Silence of the Lambs actor Ted Levine: Trans villain was 'f*cking wrong' - Even though it was stated several times in the film that he was not actually trans, I can understand why folks still feel negative towards the character. Like someone in the article said, it was some people's first introduction to what could have been perceived as a trans character. And it was NOT a good one.

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

'Bisexual Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn blasts her haters: 'They hate to see woke b**ches winning'' & other Wed/Thur news briefs

Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn has a message for her haters.


Bisexual figure skater flaunts gold medal at her haters: “They hate to see woke b***hes winning” - Get it, girlfriend! 

Whoa. A Republican governor just vetoed a GOP-led anti-trans bill - And the Republicans in her state legislature may not be able to override the veto. Double shock. But why?

“I vetoed a nearly identical bill to this one last year,” said Gov. Ayotte, according to The New Hampshire Bulletin. “I made it clear this issue needed to be addressed in a thoughtful, narrow way that protects the privacy, safety, and rights of all Granite Staters. Unfortunately, there is minimal difference between Senate Bill 268 and the bill I vetoed last year, which [Republican] Governor [Chris] Sununu vetoed the year prior.” 

 When Gov.(Kelly) Ayotte vetoed a similar bill last year, she said, “I believe there are important and legitimate privacy and safety concerns raised by biological males using places such as female locker rooms and being placed in female correctional facilities. At the same time, I see that [this bill] is overly broad and impractical to enforce, potentially creating an exclusionary environment for some of our citizens.” 

 We will see how it all turns out. 


Tennessee’s newest anti-LGBTQ bills go against U.S. Supreme Court rulings - An effort to poke at SCOTUS on marriage equality and anti-discrimination employment protections. Hopefully a waste of time and money.

Ballroom culture struts its stuff in Cape Town with the city’s first major ball of 2026 - An article from late last month but still needs to be spotlit. The brothers and sisters in South African simply ATE. 

Conservatives Are Terrified That People Like Me Are Buying Guns Now. Maybe They Should Be. - I completely support this. I am getting tired of reading articles of LGBTQ people being targeted and beaten up. We need to "handle our business."

Monday, February 09, 2026

'Republicans want nothing to do with effort to ban gay marriage' & other Mon/Tue news briefs



Republicans Want Nothing to Do With Conservative Efforts to Ban Gay Marriage​ - This isn't surprising seeing how popular gay marriage (same-sex marriage) is. And besides its popularity, we now have a generation raised with the reality that same-sex couples can legally marry and no one can offer any reason to them why this should suddenly become illegal.  Same-sex marriage has become normalized in the fabric of the American experience. BUT that doesn't mean we should slack off or rest easy. Hard fought rights taken for granted are always rights eventually lost.

Hat tip to Joe Jervis for supplying the above link. Here is the link to his post for those who want a shorter breakdown of the above article. 

Anti-Marriage-Equality Leader Reveals More Details About New Campaign’s Strategy and Tactics - However, our opposition are both bullheaded and boneheaded. They've got a long-term strategy with their attempt to take away our right to marry:

 A judicial strategy focused on the supposed harm to children caused by marriage equality. 

A public relations campaign to change public opinion, which is currently solidly in favor of marriage equality. 

 A campaign to turn churches into “a child-centered fighting force.” 

 As you can read, the strategy relies on the same tactics and lies which lost them the fight in the first place. The way to fight this is to continue to marry, continue to be happy, and above all continue to amplify our families and the stories of our families and marriages.

Activists & experts agree: We must change our understanding of HIV in the Black community - Amen!

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was Puerto Rican, queer and American in the best way - Just in case you didn't hear - and I'm sure you did. Even I was up shaking my bons bons.

Team LGBTQ in 3rd place in Winter Olympics medal count, ahead of Team USA - By the way, we are kicking ass at the Olympics, too. 

Thursday, February 05, 2026

Franklin Graham gets called out for hypocritical attack on Bad Bunny while ignoring Kid Rock's sexualized lyrics

In a recent tweet, prominent conservative pastor Franklin Graham accused Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny of having a 'sexualized agenda.' He also praised Kid Rock who has in the past sang about sex with underage girls. Responders to his tweet were very vocal about his hypocrisy.


Sunday is the Superbowl and MAGA conservatives are upset that Puerto Rican superstar and recent Grammy recipient for 'Album of the Year' Bad Bunny is headlining the halftime show. So, to counter it, far-right group Turning Point USA (associated with the late Charlie Kirk) is putting on its own halftime show.

This show will feature has been rock star Kid Rock. 

From Mediaite:

Since the announcement that Bad Bunny would be the Super Bowl’s headlining act, conservatives have criticized the choice by pointing to his previous comments on President Donald Trump. At last Sunday’s Grammy Awards, Bad Bunny also spoke out against ICE’s immigration enforcement in the U.S. In response to the conservative outcry, Turning Point has organized an alternative show for those not interested in the Spanish-speaking artist. 

TPUSA’s show will also include Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett. In a video posted by Benny Johnson, Kid Rock hinted at what he’ll be bringing to the table Sunday night: 

 But I think one thing important that I would like to get out there and say to everyone is that I think I speak for us all at Turning Point, the other artists that are performing, when I say that in no way, shape or form, don’t let the left twist this around. Like, in no way are we approaching this with any hate in our hearts. We’re simply gonna go play some great songs, like I’ve said, for our base, people who love football, love America, love good music, love Jesus. It’s pretty much that simple.

The Mediaite article also said:

It’s unknown just how many people will tune in to Turning Point’s show, but prominent conservatives have vowed to boycott the NFL’s. Samaritan’s Purse CEO Franklin Graham claimed on X/Twitter that he’d be watching the former — complaining that the NFL show has been “pushing moral boundaries.”

Graham's tweet is below:


Here is where the story gets deliciously interesting. 

All of this Superbowl attention has created a renewed interest in Kid Rock's past songs, particularly one song named Daddy Cool in which he talked about sex with underage girls:

His song "Cool, Daddy Cool" with rapper Joe Calleja, or Joe C., includes lyrics in which Kid Rock sang, "I like 'em underage," referring to women. "Young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory," Kid Rock sings in the song. "But I say it's mandatory," Joe C. sings in response.

Graham's hypocrisy about Bad Bunny and Kid Rock did not escape notice. Responders to his tweet proceeded to call him out and figuratively drag him all over Twitter.  As for myself, I found the entire thing amusing that after all of these years of falsely accusing LGBTQ people of sexualizing kids, Franklin Graham has the gall to publicly praise someone who actually sang about sexualizing kids.


Wednesday, February 04, 2026

'Anti-gay marriage campaign caught faking Obama's support and using racist tropes ' & other Wed/Thurs news briefs

'Greater Than,' an anti-gay marriage campaign, was caught falsely implying that former President Barack Obama supports its efforts. The campaign, run by white conservatives, is also using racist tropes against white gay fathers.  (click on the picture to enlarge it)


Campaign to end gay marriage falsely claims Barack Obama’s support - You can simply smell the desperation with these folks. First, they took grabbed a quote Obama made in 2010 and deliberately mischaracterized it to make give the impression that he opposes marriage equality when in fact: 

 Barack Obama publicly declared his support for same-sex marriage in a May 9, 2012 interview with ABC News, making him the first sitting U.S. president to do so. He also appointed two Supreme Court justices — Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — who both voted in favor of the landmark 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage. 

 And then there is this naked appeal to racist tropes involving Black children (as if these liars ever cared about Black children): 

 Greater Than’s website also features what appears to be an AI-generated image of a Black teenage boy looking sad and troubled, while his oblivious and uncaring white gay dads hold hands in the background. 

 It’s notable that a campaign seemingly entirely run by white Christian conservatives would misrepresent the only Black president’s words and then fabricate a computer-generated photo-realistic image of a Black boy menaced by gay men in order to gain sympathy from Black community members and people who care about children’s well-being; essentially treating Black people as puppets and props. 

Florida halts proposed cuts to HIV meds program following legal challenge - Ugly mess in Florida potentially stopped because enough people wouldn't stand for it. 

Carolina LGBTQ+ community member dies unexpectedly - R.I.P. to a wonderful friend who I've known ever since my college days at Winthrop University. He made a positive impact on our community during his time here.

Utah bill sparks controversy over drag and LGBTQ community expression - Another anti-drag bill. Can't certain people focus on more important issues. 

Nicki Minaj Tells Katie Miller She Thinks Moon Landing Was Fake​ - Sometimes people walk out of your life for a good reason and you should let them keep going. Don't come back, Nicki. 

Related post: 

A Timeline of Nicki Minaj’s Descent Into Trump’s MAGA World - Put Nicki Minaj down as one of the folks who will exploit us and then desert us when the time is right for her.

Monday, February 02, 2026

'Nancy Mace Is Not Okay' - Explosive expose points to 'erratic' and 'abusive' behavior of SC Congressional leader

Nancy Mace

Extremely anti-trans (and very public about it) SC Congresswoman Nancy Mace is the subject of what many are calling an explosive expose in a New York Magazine profile.  And it's not pretty. 

The title alone, Nancy Mace Is Not Okay, gives you an indication of where the article is going.

 By focusing on her recent questionable behavior (such as causing a huge scene at a Charleston airport last year and then accusing SC Attorney General Alan Wilson of plotting against her) and interviews with former staff members, it paints the picture of an erratic and unbalanced lawmaker.

Mediaite breaks down what it calls the five juiciest reveals from the article:

Forcing Staffers to Vote for Her in Hot Lawmaker Reddit Forums 

She Made Staffers Go on Liquor Runs 

Staffers Were Tasked With Cleaning Her Airbnbs 

 Mace ‘Torched’ Her Relationship With Trump Over Epstein Files 

Ex-Staffers Are Worried About Her 



The publication cites several former staffers, including a former top consultant to her gubernatorial campaign, who described her behavior as erratic and accused her of being abusive. Mace’s office fiercely denied the claims made in the piece and trashed its author in a statement to NYMag.

 The picture painted by the former employees detailed some of their concerns with Mace, who was first elected as a representative in 2021. Supporters of the congresswoman argue that Mace instead is a victim of ex-staffers’ axe grinding.

 “We were scared of her,” one former staffer told NYMag. “She would make staffers cry. She would threaten to fire them, take their money away, not give them raises, not to give them days off, religious days.” Another former staffer detailed how early in her career Mace would push for appearances on national and local TV to help her brand. Her staffers thought she had potential, even if her behavior had them questioning her actions. “Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere,” a staffer told the magazine. 

 The New Republic adds other tidbits from the expose: 

 Former staffers said Mace treated them like maids after she arrived in Congress in January 2021, ordering them to clean the multiple properties she was renting out on Airbnb, including her Washington townhouse. Ahead of election night in 2022, Mace instructed her staffers to spiff up her $3.9 million home in Isle of Palms, South Carolina, for a watch party, a former staffer with direct knowledge told New York magazine. 

 Mace also started dispatching staffers on late-night runs for alcohol to keep parties going at her home. “Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila,” one former staffer told New York magazine. 

 . . . One staffer alleged Mace’s excessive drinking and marijuana use became an issue. They recalled an incident in 2022 when Mace wanted to fire an aide for “doxxing” her because the aide told reporters she was out of the country, even though Mace had already announced her trip to a group of supporters just days before.

 “She would definitely do it excessively,” the staffer said of the congresswoman’s drinking and marijuana usage. “And again, not to say that most members don’t or most staff don’t, but it got to the point where it was an issue.”

Mace infamously transformed herself from an LGBTQ ally to one of its loudest and meanspirited opposers in Congress, often publicly slurring trans women during hearings. She blames transgender Americans for supposedly changing her mind, particularly the election of the first trans woman to Congress, Sarah McBride. In doing so, Mace also utilizes ugly and untrue tropes about transgender women in bathrooms and locker rooms to justify her change.

A lot of folks have claimed that she was being opportunistic. Perhaps there is more to the story. 

Just saying.

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Thursday, January 29, 2026

Anti-LGBTQ groups launch new effort to overturn gay marriage featuring the same old lies

Forty-seven conservative and anti-LGBTQ groups are teaming up in an effort to overturn the 2015 SCOTUS decision which legalized gay marriage. There is one interesting roadblock in their efforts, though. Their goal is to change public opinion by utilizing the same tired lying narrative of "gays are dangerous to kids" which led to their defeat.

From People for the American Way by way of The New Civil Rights Movement:

Forty-seven right-wing organizations have joined together to try to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell ruling that found same-sex couples have the same rights and responsibilities to marriage as different-sex couples. The coalition’s focus is to change national public opinion on same-sex marriage by declaring that children are “Greater Than” equality.

 “We’re all going to speak with one voice, and it is ‘don’t touch the kids,’” the group’s founder, right-wing activist Katy Faust, told American Family Radio, as People for the American Way reported.

 “Faust made it clear that the campaign will continue a long and dishonorable legacy of anti-LGBTQ forces smearing gay people and couples as threats to children,” PFAW added. “She called parenting by same-sex couples a ‘destructive state-sanctioned gaslighting experiment on children.'” 

 According to The Daily Signal, which was launched by The Heritage Foundation, Faust also said that since the Obergefell ruling, children have been “deprived of the unique love and guidance only a mother and father can provide.”


According to The New Civil Rights Movement, several studies refute this claim:


Numerous studies have shown that children raised by same-sex parents fare at least as well as children raised by different-sex parents. 

 A large 2014 study found that children raised by same-sex couples were happier and healthier than their peers raised by different-sex couples. 

 In 2023, The Guardian reported on a study that also found that “children of same-sex couples fare just as well, if not better, than those of heterosexual couples.” 

 “The findings chime with several other studies, including three decades of research from Australia that revealed children raised by same-sex parents do as well emotionally, socially and educationally as their peers in heterosexual families.”


This, however, doesn't seem to deter Faust nor anyone else on the video which you can view above as they spew generalized nonsense about the virtues of heterosexual couples raising kids.  They offer no proof that children are damaged by living in married same-sex households or same-sex households in general.

Neither do their website. 

Hemant Mehta at The Friendly Atheist pointed this out:

While the video has received the bulk of the attention so far, it’s the campaign’s website that actually deserves a closer look. Because surely there’s evidence that children with gay parents suffer, right? Nope. There are no studies cited on the website. There’s no proof of any sort offered anywhere. 

 On a Q&A page that asks “Don’t studies show that children with same-sex parents fare just as well as those raised by their mother and father?” the response is that any study affirming that notion… must be a bad study. 

 Studies of same-sex-headed households — which are always missing a biological parent, maternal or paternal love, and in which the child has suffered parental loss — largely suffer from poor methodology.

And then there is this one:

There’s another question that asks “Do you believe gay people are bad parents/don’t love their kids?” Instead of saying “Yes” or “No,” the website just repeats the conservative talking point that same-sex couples can’t provide kids with what they need: 

 A woman who identifies as a lesbian can be a loving mother, but she cannot be a father. A gay man can be a loving father, but he cannot be a mother. Children need, deserve, and have a right to both.

Faust and company are using an embarrassingly fraudulent game plan and based upon the timidity shown on their webpage, it's obvious that they don't believe it themselves.

Same-sex parenting isn't an experiment nor is it seen as such by the American public. It's a fact. Back in the day before gay marriage, or marriage equality, it may have been categorized as an "experiment," but now is completely different. Many more people personally know gay couples raising children. They don't see anything wrong with it. And they definitely don't buy the idea that a gay couple raising a child is somehow depriving a child of anything.

While we have seen the anti-LGBTQ industry garner tremendous success with transforming their anti-gay tropes to harm the trans community, the idea that they can circle back and reuse these lies against gay couples and families is doubtful. At least for now.  

But a little advice from me to you, Katy Faust. If your mantra is "don't touch the kids," then you should follow your advice and leave our families and OUR KIDS alone.


Monday, January 26, 2026

'LGBTQ celebrities, lawmakers speak out against ICE for Alex Pretti shooting' & other Mon/Tue news briefs

Alex Pretti

 Editor's note - I apologize for not posting as much as I should.  The situation in Minnesota is bad enough to make me sad for my country, but a personal tragedy at home knocked me on my ass. I'm slowly getting back up.

Billie Eilish, Meg Stalter, and All the LGBTQ+ Celebs Speaking Out Against ICE - Unless you've been living under a rock, you know about the recent killing of Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minnesota and how it has served as an inflection point in which many on ALL sides of the political spectrum have rained condemnation down on the Trump Administration (except for very loyal Donald Trump ass-kissers.) LGBTQ celebrities are also making their voices heard. Pretti's killing comes less than a month after ICE agents shot and killed Renee Good. 

Queer lawmakers call for ICE to be reined in after killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis - LGBTQ lawmakers are also making their voices heard. 

Firestorm as Apple CEO makes eye-popping White House visit: 'You’ve tarnished your legacy' - Tim Cook is LGBTQ family, but he's so wealthy that he's not affected by Trump's anti-LGBTQ agenda like the rest of us. It's sad how money takes precedence over integrity.

Court settlement smacks down DOJ “fishing expedition” to harass young trans patients - BOOM! There has been some good news in spite of all of the madness.

Are Democrats ready to talk about trans issues in the midterms and 2028? - They had better be because you had better believe the Republicans will be weaponizing anti-trans lies. It's pretty much all they have.

Iowa lawmakers may ban K-12 teaching about gender, sexual identity - More distractions and nonsense.

LGBTQ Kids’ Books Lauded With Youth Media Awards in Multiple Categories - But they will not render us, our lives, or our families as invisible.


above photo courtesy of Media Matters for America.

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

'Notoriously biased judge upholds drag ban claiming drag is the same as 'blackface'' & other Tue/Wed news briefs

Federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is known for making rulings conveniently unfavorable to LGBTQ people. The recent ruling against drag shows is the latest.


Federal judge upholds drag ban claiming drag is the same as “blackface" - The courts in general have ruled against drag bans. The judge in this case, Matthew Kacsmaryk, however, is known for issuing rulings conveniently biased towards conservatives in cases regarding LGBTQ equality and reproductive freedom 

From last year: 


(Kacsmaryk has) become the go-to jurist for plaintiffs looking to turn extremist ideology into binding precedent. He’s the one who tried to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone, a safe and widely used abortion medication. He’s ruled against LGBTQ+ protections in the Affordable Care Act. He even tried to force Planned Parenthood to pay $2 billion to Texas and Louisiana—a ruling so outrageous that even the deeply conservative Fifth Circuit tossed it. Now, he’s taking aim at Title VII itself, effectively inviting employers to harass and discriminate against LGBTQ+ workers by pretending Bostock never happened.

 (Editor's note - Bostock is the 2020 SCOTUS ruling which said the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects LGBTQ people from employment discrimination.) 


 From 2023: 


(Editor's note - The irony is that I'm willing to bet that if a ban on "blackface" came in front of Kacsmaryk's court, he would defend "blackface" as a matter of free speech.)

In other news: 




What can we expect in American politics in 2026? - Hell. And I am HERE for it. Let's DANCE!!

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Former lawmaker who accused trans people & drag queens of harming kids will go to federal prison for child sex abuse material charges

Former SC lawmaker Robert John May III was sentenced to 17.5 years for charges linked to child sex abuse material. Ironically, during his tenure as a lawmaker, May accused trans people and drag queens of harming children.


Former SC lawmaker - and now confessed child sex offender - Robert John (RJ) May III is indicative of the hypocrisy of far-right attacks on the trans community and drag queens when it comes to the sexual abuse of children.

From WIS 10 on January 14:

Former South Carolina state lawmaker RJ May was sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison Wednesday on charges linked to child sexual abuse material. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, who oversaw May’s sentencing, said that the abuse in this case was “more severe” than any other she has seen and that May “claimed to be an advocate for children at the State House but was their abuser behind closed doors.” May, a Republican who represented part of Lexington County in the South Carolina House of Representatives, pleaded guilty to five counts of distributing child sexual abuse material.


From The Pink News

 During his time in office May was outspoken against gender-affirming care, trans inclusion in sports and drag performances, and was listed as a speaker at Mom’s for Liberty’s Reclaiming Education in America event in 2022. Many of his concerns about LGBTQ+ topics were cited in regards to child safety. On Wednesday (14 January), May was handed a 17.5 year sentence in federal prison by US District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, a term that was slightly less than the 20 years prosecutors requested but much longer than the five years the former lawmaker requested for himself.

Currie said May was given a higher sentence than the average for similar charges because the content he disseminated was the “most severe the court had seen." (Editor's note - bold emphasis added by me)

 Following his release from prison, May will have to spend another 20 years under supervised release, with federal parole officers monitoring his actions to be sure he doesn’t reoffend. He was also ordered to pay $58,500 in restitution to eight victims who the authorities identified and will be required to register as a sex offender for life. 

 

According to LGBTQNation in September of last year: 

(May) — an anti-LGBTQ+ politician who has accused drag queens and transgender people of harming kids — pleaded guilty . . .  to distributing child sex abuse material (CSAM) after first denying it, Newsweek reported — including images of adults sexually abusing seven-year-olds. The anti-LGBTQ+ “parents’ rights” group Moms for Liberty honored the child pornographer as their 2023 Legislator of the Year. 
May used the screen name “joebidennnn69” to exchange 265 different files of toddlers and young children involved in sex acts on the Kik social media network during spring 2024. Representing himself in court — despite not having a law degree — May had originally asked the judge to throw out the warrant used to search his home, laptop, and mobile devices, as well as evidence that he had flown to Colombia to film himself having sex with three underage girls.


This is nothing to laugh at or to be happy about. But it's a hell of a lot to be angry about.

 And also remembered. 

The next time far-right hypocrites (particularly a certain emotionally, psychologically, and morally barren harpy who runs a certain Twitter address) goes after us with accusations of child grooming, let's be sure to remind them just who the actual sexual groomers of children are.

above photo courtesy of WIS 10.

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

'Fake photo of Renee Good mocking Charlie Kirk's death spread on social media' & other Wed/Thur news briefs



Watch out for this image supposedly showing Renee Good mocking Charlie Kirk's death - The attack on Renee Good's reputation continues. At this point, it's simply pathetic desperation. Gaslighting at its worst.


It gets worse. It's a full flowing attack on Good's reputation. Just awful. 



 
In other news: 


Maryland woman arrested for assaulting gay man in grocery store faces hate crime charges - The video of this is UNBELIEVABLE and a lot of people praised the gay man who maintained his cool while keep that awful woman at bay. Could NOT have been man because after the first push, it would have been the WWE professional wrestling between me and her.


Rollback of health IT standards will harm LGBTQ patients - Pay attention to the sneaky ways that the Trump Administration is attempting to damage our health.


Photos taken from Snopes. Click on photos to enlarge them.

Monday, January 12, 2026

''Deranged lunatic' - Trump Administration continues to smear Renee Good's name' & other Mon/Tues news briefs

Renee Good moments before she was shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.


Leavitt: Renee Good Was “Deranged Lunatic” Terrorist - Renee Good's death in Minnesota and the subsequent smearing of her memory is the fault of the Trump Administration from beginning to end. 

From hiring incompetent idiots to be ICE agents, 

to jumping the gun by labeling Good a domestic terrorist before all of the facts came in, 

to refusing to backtrack admit they were wrong (because Trump never apologizes when he's in the wrong, which is pretty much most of the time), 

to continuously trying to gaslight Americans with supposed "newly released" footage of the incident which is pretty much nothingburgers amplified by Elon Musk and far-right wannabe social media influencers.

And now they are compounding the error by sending more ICE agents into Minnesota. The one thing we have learned from the Renee Good killing is that American lives, much like truth, are expendable to the Trump Administration.

Trump tries to smear Renee Good and her wife for ICE killing - Homophobia is playing a big part in the attempt to smear Renee Good's name. 

Right-Wing Influencers Have Flooded Minneapolis - Speaking of far-right wannabe social media influencers, they are the Trump Administration's army. And effective too until they make complete asses of themselves. These were some of the same losers responsible for the anti-drag hysteria a while back. 

Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president - Don't get discouraged by what looks like setbacks. We are a people who have overcome setbacks. When they closed doors, we've knocked out walls. 

 HRC holds retirement ceremony for ousted transgender servicemembers - Never forget our trans Armed Forces members who are being forced to retire because of ridiculous prejudice. 


The trans athletes at the center of Supreme Court cases don’t fit conservative stereotypes - Huge SCOTUS case coming up. Keep your fingers crossed and be ready. Either ruling means we gotta fight like hell. afterwards

Wednesday, January 07, 2026

'Professor fired over anti-Charlie Kirk post wins $500,000 settlement and his old job back' & other Wed/Thurs news briefs

Professor fired over Charlie Kirk post just won a major payout — and his old job back - God Bless America! 

Speaking of Charlie Kirk, check out the hypocrisy of one of his followers. This is Lori Mills of California. She considers herself a Christian:

Here is Lori Mills again, but without her mask:


She put me on block after that lovely message, but I tracked her down on her webpage and told her that she makes herself look ridiculous and hypocritical. Probably not necessary of me, but I was feeling rather evil today. I also reported her on Twitter because apparently there is a category you can report someone if they encourage you to harm yourself or commit suicide. I don't know if anything is going to happen, but you never know.


 Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting - By the way, we are arguing about this awful situation which just unfolded today in Minnesota. I didn't put it first in my news briefs because it's just too heartbreaking We are going to be hearing a lot more about it as the weeks and months go by.

In other news: 

Donald Trump wins when he destroys our resolve. But the queer resistance lives on. - This right here is very important. When we give up or give in, we lose. But we aren't a people made for giving up in defeat. That's the thing we must always remember. 

Pride organizers, ACLU sue Indiana city again, saying it defied court - We won in court to have a pride event, but the town is trying to ignore the ruling. BAD idea. 

Kennedy Center renaming triggers backlash - The LGBTQ community does not claim Richard Grenell. Not even a little bit.

Gavin Newsom preparing 'Grindr servers' for MAGA fraud seeker - Still not a fan, but Gavin Newsom is a BEAST to the bigoted far right.