Top 10 LGBTQ+ Couples on Animated Shows

 

 

This list came out last month and I'm rather fond of it. When I was a little boy - hell even when I was a teen and young adult - they wouldn't dare have LGBTQ+ characters on animated shows. Now it's happening on not only one show, but several at the same time. And without hardly any controversy. It's always a good thing when progress is made, but progress made without folks acting like fools is extra special.

'Eight queer candidates to watch closely on Election Day' & other Fri midday news briefs

 

Ritchie Torres

8 queer candidates to watch closely on Election Day - Our community will be getting more members of Congress.

Support for gay marriage reaches all-time high, survey finds - 70 percent. Not bad.

Susan Collins ‘Truly Grateful’ For Endorsement From Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Abortion Group - Oh Sue! You have fallen!

Anger and Concern in Hollywood’s LGBTQ Community Ahead of Senate Vote on Amy Coney Barrett - We ain't exactly thrilled about it outside Hollywood either.

Trump Evangelical - If Christians (like him) don't vote, bestiality will become accepted in America

 

 

Feel free to laugh as long as you remember that people like him vote. We should be voting too.  

From Right-Wing Watch: 

 Frank Amedia,  . . .  who founded the POTUS Shield prayer effort to wage spiritual warfare on behalf of President Donald Trump, released a video last Friday in which he claimed that God told him that he is going to shift the polls in key races heading into the election so that Republican candidates gain 5 points, while Democratic candidates lose 5 points. And to drive home the point of just how important it is for Christians to vote, Amedia warned that failure to do so would result in an America where “animalism” is accepted and “somebody can marry a cow and have perverse sex with them.”

 . . . “This is about morality,” he said, “This is about same-sex marriage not being approved and blessed in this country. This is not about us changing genders into five and six different meanings now. Even sexual preference has all of a sudden been changed in the dictionary to where it’s offensive. How far do they want us to go? Wait until animalism becomes acceptable and somebody can marry a cow and have perverse sex with them. You think I’m laughing. That’s what’s going to come.”

'Trump's SCOTUS nominee was trustee at private school with anti-gay policies' & other Thur midday news briefs

 

Amy Coney Barrett

Barrett was trustee at private school with anti-gay policies- I dare anyone to act surprised. 

Nonbinary Actors and Creators Have Some Advice for Hollywood - Pay attention, Hollywood. 

United States to team with countries who persecute LGBTQ people for 'pro-family' manifesto, including 'Kill the Gays' bill sponsor Uganda - My post from Wednesday deserves repeating. 

West Hollywood officials vote to appoint a “Drag Laureate” to help promote the city - Sounds like a good idea to me. I'm all for it.

United States to team with countries who persecute LGBTQ people for 'pro-family' manifesto, including 'Kill the Gays' bill sponsor Uganda

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

This is dedicated to those in our community who seem to think that Donald Trump is pro-LGBTQ, particularly Brandon Straka, Chadwick Moore, and Richard Grenell.

According to People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch, the Trump Administration, led by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is making a move on the international stage with regards to women's health and the LGBTQ community.

And it's not a positive one:

On Thursday, Oct. 22, less than two weeks before an election that could bring the Trump administration to a close, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Health and Human Service Secretary Alex Azar are scheduled to join Brazil, Egypt, Hungary, Indonesia, and Uganda in sponsoring a virtual ceremony to sign the “Geneva Consensus Declaration,” reports the Independent, which notes that, other than the U.S., the sponsoring nations involved “have strict laws on both abortion and same-sex or ban each entirely.” 

 The HHS announcement of the event says the declaration “further strengthens a coalition to achieve these four pillars: (1) better health for women, (2) the preservation of human life, (3) strengthening of family as the foundational unit of society, and (4) protecting every nation’s sovereignty in global politics.”

 The event appears to be a culmination of Pompeo’s intensive efforts to build opposition to any international recognition of a right to reproductive choice—and his zeal to undermine international recognition of the rights of LGBTQ people while celebrating governmental enforcement of “traditional” religious values on gender, sexuality, and family.

The article from the Independent said the following:

Appointed by the president in 2018, secretary Pompeo has been seeking to push a pro-life US foreign policy during his time in office. Late last month he attempted to use a US-sponsored UN event as a platform to redefine international human rights and prioritize “religious freedom” over LGBTQ equality. But the event was boycotted by most EU member states. 

 In a speech titled 'Promoting and Protecting Human Rights: A Re-Dedication to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights', secretary Pompeo told those nations in attendance that international human rights protections are in “crisis". At the meeting he also touted a recent Trump commission report which elevated rights such as religious freedom as "unalienable", meaning they can't be taken away. The report also dismissed abortion and same-sex marriage as "divisive social and political controversies".

Points 1 and 2 of this "manifesto" seems to be a clever way of standing for the restriction of abortion, which is bad enough. Points 3 and 4 should bring chills to LGBTQ people because even though we aren't mentioned per se, we would be negatively affected, Particularly point 4 with regards to "sovereignty." It means the United States would not say a word if a foreign nation chooses to persecute its gay citizens.

And that would be a huge point to make when one takes into account the nations participating in this "manifesto." At least two are infamously known for their opposition to LGBTQ rights and their persecution of their own LGBTQ  citizens.

According to PinkNews, Hungary's LGBTQ community have faced concentrated attacks by its government. Prime Minister Viktor Orban made it his mission to persecute LGBTQ people from creating false panics that they are after children to attempts to eliminate transgender rights. 

And then there's Uganda, where persecution against LGBTQ people became an ugly international incident in 2009 when a bill was introduced which sought to execute people for being LGBTQ.  Uganda faced a huge backlash which lasted for years. The bill was changed from the penalty being death to that of life imprisonment and Uganda's parliament made it a law in 2013. In 2014, Uganda's Constitutional Court struck it down based on a technicality.

Last year however, Ugandan officials began looking to resurrect the law. And this time, should the law be resurrected and Trump receives a second term, don't count on the United States being in the chorus of countries condemning it.  So much for Trump's supposed effort to decriminalize homosexuality worldwide. Of course that effort was bogus. And this act by Pompeo merely cements that fact.

Just something to think about when you're in the voting booth. That is if the Trump Administration hasn't given you enough already to think about.

'Political candidates face increase in anti-LGBTQ attack ads' & other Wed midday news briefs

Political candidates face uptick in anti-LGBTQ attack ads - Nothing like a political race for people to show their true faces. Or asses.

Billy Porter Helps Examine Origins Of LGBTQ Rights Movement In New Docuseries - This is needed because I've noticed that some of us are woefully inadequate about our history. 

Dear SCOTUS: LGBTQ+ People Are Religious and Also Deserve Liberty - That's right!

Drago Renteria is the father of Deaf queer activism - Love this profile.

Tiffany Trump gets 'Twitter-dragged' because of awful 'Gays for Trump' event

News and video came out on Monday about gay pro-Trump event held by his daughter, Tiffany. It's one in a series of pro-gay events the Trump campaign has held in an attempt to gaslight the LGBTQ community into believing that he supports us. Apparently the Trump family thinks we have short memories when it comes to the attempts to eliminate our rights these past four years.

The event was a disaster. And the icing on this stale cake was Tiffany's speech:

This may be the worst speech I’ve ever seen.

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— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) October 20, 2020

According to Raw Story: 

The event was said to have around a dozen people in attendance and was co-headlined by former White House official Richard Grenell. “I know what my father believes in,” Trump said at one point. “Prior to politics, he supported gays, lesbians, the LGBQIA plus!” Many commenters noted that she omitted the “T” from LGBTQ, which stands for transgender people.

That's not all commentators did.  Apparently it was "let's drag Tiffany Trump on Twitter" day as folks called her out on everything from the dress, to her alleged inebriation, to wondering if she has moved past Eric Trump when one thinks of the Trump sibling with, shall we say, less upstairs. Some tweet are as follows: