'Gay couple adopts foster son via Zoom' & other Thur midday news briefs

Gay couple adopts foster son via Zoom because they refused to wait any longer - Good for them! Congratulations to the new family!

A Man Shared A Shocking Photo Of What COVID-19 Did To Him After Six Weeks In A Hospital - Folks keep telling people that the coronavirus is no joke. 

 

Lawmakers urge Trump administration to collect data on LGBTQ COVID-19 patients - Yes they should.

Todrick Hall Hosts Virtual Prom Benefit to Fight LGBTQ+ Homelessness - Wonderful idea to do this.

Coronavirus Camp Classic 4 - Twelve moments with Beverly Leslie from 'Will and Grace'

With all that's going on in the country, even I need a break. And the video above is good way to do it. It features a campy duo from 'Will and Grace' who have wonderful chemistry. I'm not talking about Jack and Karen. I'm talking about Karen and her almost equally rich and not-so-in-the-closet  nemesis Beverly Leslie.

Beverly Leslie has to be the official breakout role for longtime actor Leslie Jordan. He's been everything from a rapping security officer in a failed television show to one of Jason Voorhees' victims in a Friday the 13th movie. Presently, he is a huge social media star because of his hilarious Instagram videos during the coronavirus lockdown.

And the success couldn't have happened to a better person.

'Religious exemptions are gutting civil rights protections, advocacy groups warn' & other Wed midday new briefs

Religious exemptions are gutting civil rights protections, advocacy groups warn - Deliberately, no doubt. And it's downright ugly how openly it's been happening.

Hungary’s parliament bans transgender people from legally changing their gender - This is awful and you just know some folks here are dreaming of doing this madness. 

Trump’s attack dogs turn on Blade reporter - How MAGAts weaponize Twitter.

LGBTQ magazine cover sparks debate over inclusion of controversial celebs - Don't get mad because some folks made the cover. Use the fact that they made the cover to speak on the situations.

FRC's Tony Perkins whines that Trump isn't getting enough credit for fighting COVID-19 pandemic

According to some conservatives, Trump hasn't been given enough credit for fighting COVID-19.

It hasn't been a full day yet since my post Monday night about religious right reluctance to criticize Trump over the COVID-19 pandemic and the Family Research Council proves the point I was making.

 From its president, Tony Perkins:

When the dust settles from the coronavirus -- months, maybe even years from now -- there will be a lot of storylines from the crisis that were never told. One of the biggest, history will show, is about this president. Like most leaders in his position, he'd never faced a tragedy of this magnitude. But unlike so many others, Donald Trump turned to America -- not government -- for answers. It worked, not that most of the country will hear about it. He solved the supply problem, the equipment problem, the ventilator problem. But it didn't matter. The haters in the media and Democratic Party would simply turn and harp on something else. "There is a new cardinal rule in journalism," NRO editor Rich Lowry warns, "never write anything favorable about the Trump administration's coronavirus response, even about its successes." Obviously, he points out, no one's response has been perfect. "But to read the press, there is basically nothing good that the Trump administration has done over the last three months."

So Perkins (and Lowry ) are upset that the press hasn't been covering up for Trump's incompetence during this pandemic. It's not enough that Perkins and Lowry are doing it. They seem to want the entire narrative of this situation to be that the media is exploiting it to harm Trump  and that makes him the actual victim. Not the over 90,000 deceased Americans, not the over one million infected, not the people out of work or the people whose lives have been generally devastated.

'Officers charged with brutal assault on trans woman' & other Tue midday news briefs

Officers charged with allegedly slamming transgender woman's face on ground - I DO NOT like posting items like this, but they are needed.

The ‘gender critical’ feminist movement is a cult that grooms, controls and abuses, according to a lesbian who managed to escape - WOW! This is one incredible article.

My faith instructs me to stand up for LGBTQ neighbors - A pastor stands for the LGBTQ community. Thank you. 

Roy Horn, Little Richard, and Life in the Half-Closet - NO way to live.

Religious right silence during pandemic proves they favor Donald Trump over integrity, common decency

Here's something we are missing in regards to the Trump Administration and the coronavirus - the voice of the evangelical conservative leaders, i.e. the religious right. 

Remember all of this:

 

As conspicuous as Trump's fumbling coronavirus response has been the absence/silence of religious right leaders.  Franklin Graham, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, James Dobson, and the rest have in the past had no problem bragging about their access to the White House, namedropping the policies they are supporting, or conveniently appearing in pictures with Trump while either in prayer or dramatic repose.

As America has been in chaos and the Trump Administration has been in even more chaos during this pandemic, why are they so silent?

'Will waivers help sink Trump's transgender military ban?' & other Mon midday news briefs

Will Waivers Help Sink Trump’s Transgender Military Ban? - This has not been getting that much attention, which I guess is good in a way. Still, it is very significant.

America will be a beacon of hope for LGBTQ rights again - by Joe Biden. Pay attention, folks. Who we vote for in this upcoming election will be the difference between moving forward and being pushed back.

Idaho Falls expands LGBTQ anti-discrimination ordinance - Wonderful! 

 News sites backtrack after 'deadnaming' transgender woman in obituary - It shouldn't be difficult to treat trans people with the dignity and respect they deserve.