Right-wing pundit has a vulgar meltdown after seeing Pride flag

Pride flags gets Alison Steinberg angry.

Amidst all of the chaos and fear these days have brought up, the following makes me grin. It's tonic for all that ails me.

OAN Contributor Alison Steinberg is raging after returning home to Huntington Beach to find the city flying a Pride flag. (Language) pic.twitter.com/fk5rTg88hF

— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 26, 2022

From Mediaite:

One America News anchor Alison Steinberg short-circuited over the weekend — going on a profane meltdown over seeing the rainbow flag in the middle of Pride Month. Steinberg, who previously mused that it was “gay” to support Ukraine in their war against the invading Russian military, posted a fire-breathing rant to Instagram on Saturday night over seeing the LGBT pride flag fly over Huntington Beach.

“Guess what I came home to be greeted with?” Steinberg said while pointing to the flag. “This f*cking bullsh*t.” 

 That was hardly the end of it: 

" What the hell is that? Huntington Beach is the town of good ol’ fashioned, hard-working American people! People that worked all through the Covid lockdowns. Yes, that’s right! Huntington Beach never shut down through any of the Covid nonsense f*ckery. And now we’re peddling this garbage!? What the hell is this? The only flag that should be up there is the American flag. This is a disgrace to our city and it should be taken down immediately! Whoever the hell is running this town needs to be fired! Make America great again! Make Huntington Beach great again."

Poor baby. In the long run, it doesn't matter what you do or say. It doesn't matter how many times folks like you call us 'groomers' and threaten us. It doesn't matter how many videos Libs of TikTok distort to hurt us or how many boardroom plans are conjured up with the goal of stealing our rights. And it certainly doesn't matter how much money is spent to put biased justices on America's courts.

LGBTQ people aren't going anywhere. And we ain't going back to the days of fear and shame, where we hid in the closet in large numbers or made excuses for people's bigotry against us.  What we got right now is what we earned the hard way. We're not giving ANY OF IT up without a fight.

So throw your tantrums, spew your slogans, get it all out. Try us and you will have a fight on our hands. And we know how to fight. 

NY library reverses removal of LGBTQ books and Pride display after intense community backlash

The following is an example of what happens when we fight back.  There has been a nasty wave of bigotry against the LGBTQ community this year and some folks have spent much time and effort spelling out the many ways we are 'doomed.'  We aren't doomed if we fight back:

According to the New York Daily News:

The Long Island library that decided to tear down Pride displays and remove books from children’s sections reversed its decision at an emergency meeting Thursday night. The Smithtown Library board of trustees voted 4-2 to rescind its controversial Tuesday night decision. One of the seven trustees abstained. 

The initial decision prompted a massive response by advocates and a strong statement from the governor, leading to Thursday’s emergency meeting. On Tuesday, the board voted 4-2 in favor of a “motion to remove all Pride Displays, in addition to removing all books of the same subject on display, from all Children’s sections in all Smithtown Library buildings.” One member was absent on Tuesday.' 

The initial decision to remove the Pride display and books garnered a lot of negative attention. Even New York Governor Kathy Hochul weighed in by ordering an investigation  She also condemned library's decision to remove the Pride display and books: 

 Hochul said in a press release today she is “horrified” by the vote and ordered the New York State Division of Human Rights to investigate reports of an anti-LGBTQ bias. “Public places are prohibited by law from engaging in discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity,” she said. “We will not tolerate a 'Don't Say Gay' philosophy taking root in our state.”

The New York Daily article points out that the backlash isn't over just yet.

Earlier, the decision prompted immediate action by the LGBT Network, a nonprofit that fights for the rights of LGBTQ people and their families in Queens and Long Island, which criticized the library’s “bigoted move” and announced measures directed at protecting local LGBTQ youth. .

 . . Late Thursday morning, the organization held a press conference to explain how it plans to act against the “really scary” decision by the library, which Kilmnick referred to as “an attack on LGBTQ youth in our community.” The measures, which were originally scheduled to be launched in the fall, will now be officially announced on Monday at a virtual town hall — after the library’s decision forced the group to “fast track and accelerate them.” 

 They involve the creation of “LGBT Network ambassadors” in every school district — parents, students, teachers and other community members who will work to ensure that LGBTQ curriculum is taught “and that our history is recognized, represented and not erased.”

BUSTED! Far right caught spreading false story that a drag queen exposed self to children

With the help of a doctored picture (first picture), the far right continues its inane lie that drag queens are  'grooming' children. 

Yet again in their need to demonize drag queens, far right conservatives have shown how low they are willing to stoop. 

According to the Associated Press:

CLAIM: A drag performer flashed their genitals to children while reading aloud in a Minnesota library.

 AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The performer in this 2019 photograph was wearing several layers of nude tights, said Hennepin County Library Communications Manager Joshua Yetman. “There wasn’t any exposure to children,” Yetman said. 

THE FACTS: As hateful and misleading rhetoric aimed at the LGBTQ community has escalated in recent months on social media, Drag Queen Story Hour events hosted by libraries or bookstores have become a frequent target. This week, some social media users are resurrecting a 2019 photo of such an event in a Minneapolis suburb and reposting it with false claims it shows the performer exposing their genitals to children. The image captures the performer, who is wearing a short dress while seated in front of students, reaching to the side for a book. In some versions of the post, a black box labeled “CENSORED” has been added to the space between the performer’s legs.

 “This is literally a sex crime,” reads a June 10 tweet that was shared some 10,000 times. “Adult flashes his penis to young children at library’s drag queen story hour,” another tweet read. However, unedited versions of the image show that the performer was wearing opaque nude tights that covered their genitals, a fact that Yetman confirmed to the AP in a phone interview Monday. “The performer was wearing tan or nude-colored tights, several layers of tights,” Yetman said. 

“They did not expose themselves to the children.” Yetman said the photo was captured in October 2019 during a drag queen story hour program at Ridgedale Library in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka. The image circulated online with the same false claims shortly after the program happened, and the library system debunked them at the time.

This isn't the first time the far right has run distorted pictures in order to demonize LGBTQ people. 

There was the following in 2010 during an attack on Progressive Insurance because of that company's pro-LGBTQ policies:

Doctored picture

Actual picture

Then there was this 2014 monstrosity below which you read all about here. 

Doctored picture

Actual Picture

It's the thing to remember and keep in perspective while beating back smears against drag queens.. The targets may have changed from gay men to trans men and women to drag queens, but the propaganda techniques never do.  Nor do the lies.

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Right-wing media’s latest anti-LGBTQ strategy is to call for kids to be taken away from their parents - 

 Candace Owens of The Daily Wire called for parents to have their kids taken away if they take them to a Drag Queen Story Hour event. She added that such parents are “underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them because it's child abuse.” [The Daily Wire, Candace, 6/15/22] 

 Right-wing podcaster Steven Crowder claimed that progressives are opening the door to parents having their kids taken away if they don’t help the kids transition. “No one complained when you did it [Drag Queen Story Hour] at your private gay bars, no. But when it's at a public library with children, all of a sudden that’s where you get people I guess guilty of hate speech,” he added. [BlazeTV, Louder with Crowder, 6/14/22] 

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon tweeted that parents who take their kids to drag shows should be arrested: “We need a show called ‘To Catch a Groomer’ where cops organize fake ‘family-friendly’ drag shows and then arrest all the parents who show up with their kids.” [Twitter, 6/5/22] 

Washington Times columnist Tim Young said parents taking their kids to drag shows “deserve no rights in this country” and “at the very least” should “be in jail.” [Twitter, 6/4/22] 

 On The Faulkner Focus, Fox News Radio host Jimmy Failla claimed, “There was a time in this country of just a little more decency, where if someone even voiced the idea of taking your kid to a drag show, they would be arrested.” [Fox News, The Faulkner Focus, 6/7/22] 

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No, this gay man is NOT trying to 'convert' or 'groom' toddlers.

 

As this silly message I got earlier this month proves, the smearing of LGBTQ folks as 'groomers' of children is reaching the Twilight Zone level of inanity (click on graphic to read it):

How sad that your agenda is smothering our children! No one wants to “erase” you. Just stop trying to “convert” our toddlers. Some of these little ones are still in diapers, have pacifiers and blankies. And you want to teach them about your “pride”! Our little ones should be proud of themselves without you trying to convert them. Can’t you at least wait for middle school?

Well! I've been accused of many things as a gay man, but NEVER of trying to 'convert,' 'recruit' or 'groom' babies. Honestly speaking, it simply underscores just how inane this 'groomer' accusation is.

 I think I speak for quite a few LGBTQ folks (as well quite a few heterosexual folks) in saying that if I could truly 'groom' or 'convert' anyone, I wouldn't waste my time on kids with so many millionaires and billionaires around.

I've got fake fur coats to get out of layaway. 

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So-called anti-LGBTQ mastermind Christopher Rufo is a huge snowflake

Christopher Rufo

Far-right culture warrior Chris Rufo is mad at me.

Awwww! The so-called evil mastermind. Mr. BIG @NYTmag profile and so-called wrecker of #CRT and drag queens gets scared of a nondescript black gay guy from the south for simply making the argument that he is actually working FOR #LGBTQ people with his blatant public plotting. pic.twitter.com/rsVWpdD3li

— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) June 19, 2022

I take it as a badge of honor. This man is partly behind the attempt to smear LGBTQ people as groomers and pedophiles. And he even encourages people to lie on us.

He didn't appreciate me mocking his wannabe James Bond villain need of publicly bragging about his homophobic plots. Like this one:

I guess Rufo didn't appreciate that his latest tweet proves the point I made about him in an earlier post:

Rufo's eagerness and unashamed openness in telling people to lie in order to cast LGBTQ people as groomers says more about his willingness to put us in danger than about him actually wanting to protect children from danger.

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