Joe Biden beating Donald Trump was the greatest moment of 2020 for LGBTQ people

Editor's note - Hands down, the greatest moment of 2020 was the victory of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice Presidential-Elect Kamala Harris. Enjoy the video clips. Then, if you are so inclined, read my post about 2020. What I wrote came out due to frustration of four years of idiocy, especially 2020 in general. Barring a juicy religious right scandal, this will probably be the last piece I post for 2020. Have a Happy New Year. Be careful, be safe, and wear your dang mask! 

As always, thank you all for the support you've given this blog over the years.

   

  

As 2020 winds down to a close (thank God), I feel like I'm in the aftermath of one of those fights I used watch during high school. In those fights, punching is the least effective measure you can do. Those fights were wild. I'm talking head-slinging, hair-pulling, ripping, tearing, body-tossing, body-slamming frenzies of madness which generally involved everyone in the vicinity. Who cares if they weren't directly involved in the outbreak of chaos. Everyone was busy ducking bodies and avoiding whatever projectiles  flung through the air. 

In that same manner, 2020 has been a riotous, chaotic year  The important thing though is that we got through it or, in this case, almost through it.  We lost a lot of good friends, felt much too much pain and fear regarding the future, and got angry on an unhealthy level more times than we would like to admit.

But we had many surprising and hard-fought victories. One was in June when the Supreme Court said that we are protected from workplace discrimination by federal law. That was a victory which I was not expecting and even now, months later, continues to blow my mind. 

 And it came no thanks to Donald Trump. He promised to be our ally when running for president, but then used his Administration to undermine our safety and rights in so many avenues. He had nothing to do with any of our victories, especially the one in June.

This victory would have been greatest moment of 2020 if it were not for a certain election in which LGBTQ people joined a larger community of African-Americans, other people of color, white people Democrats, Republicans, Never-Trumpers, older Americans, progressives, conservatives, and all-around fed-up folks to topple Trump's undeserved presidency and place President-Elect Joe Biden  and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris in the White House.

There is so much I have to say about Donald Trump and to his supporters, particularly those who believe his bogus crap about how the election was "stolen" from him. 

The election wasn't stolen. It was relinquished.

'Six victories for the LGBTQ community in 2020' & other Wed midday news briefs

 

Here are just six victories for the LGBTQ community that came in 2020 - Every victory was unapologetically hard-fought. 

HUD appears to have given up on anti-transgender homeless shelter rule - Victory number seven? 

Jose Antonio Vargas Opens Up About Being Undocumented and Gay - I met him once. He is a nice guy.

Gay cricket star Alex Blackwell says she’s tired of lesbians in sport being ‘profiled as predators’ - Amen to that!

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters' top post of 2020 - A 'Proud Boy' and a small black sex toy

Top 'western chauvinist' Gavin McInnes seems to have a thing for small black dildos.

In the future, when I am asked to describe how bad of a year 2020 was, I won't go into much detail. I will simply point to what is now the top post of the year on this blog. It had nothing to do with revelations that the religious right continues to lie about LGBTQ people nor does it have anything to do with any of the exploits of soon-to-be former President of the United States (hallelujaaaaah!)  Donald Trump.

But my top post of the year has to do with the man in the picture at the top of this post. His name is Gavin McInnes and he is a known racist and homophobe. He is/or was the leader of an ugly right-wing group known as the Proud Boys. The Proud Boys are known for two things -manically insane support of Donald Trump and the violent street fights they tend to start.

It's a group of sad, assorted nuts who drape themselves with a with a fake pedigree (being founders of Western Civilization or something like that) to cover up their shortcomings. 

McInnes himself claims that he isn't homophobic, even though there is footage of him being a completely crass bigot. BUT to prove how homophobic he wasn't (and here is where my blog came in), McInnes shoved a small dildo up his butt while being televised on his radio show. He did it to supposedly "own" liberals.

'12 hot mess stories which signified 2020 - as told by LGBTQnation' & other Tue midday news briefs

Our top 12 outlandish stories that will only make sense if you made it through 2020 - Twelve insane incidents which typified just how screwed up 2020 was. To the prayer by Trump's spiritual advisor Paula White (seen in above video) that he win the election to that fly in Mike Pence's hair during the vice presidential debate, it's been one of those "drinking years."

The humiliation of Mike Pence is 'reaching a crescendo': Trump biographer - And I can't think of a more deserving guy.  Okay. Maybe one.

Dozens of anti-gay groups are making money off Amazon's charity platform - Absolute vile mess. 

'Drag Explosion': The 'fabulousness and defiance' of '90s drag - The drag community catch a lot of flack, but it is easily the most disciplined, dedicated, friendliest, and popular part of our community.

The 10 Best Quotes from Gay Movies

 

 

Just a quick line from 10 movies and a nice way to ease us all into this week.  Personally, I'm partial to line number four. Which ones do you recognize? Which ones do you prefer? Which quotes do you think were unfairly omitted?

'Megan Rapinoe, Bill Jean King, and 174 female athletes sign brief supporting trans athletes' & other Wed midday news briefs

 

Megan Rapinoe

Megan Rapinoe, Billie Jean King & 174 female athletes sign brief supporting trans women in sports - THANK YOU! 

West Hollywood to Add Black, Brown Stripes, Trans Flag to Crosswalks - Now some folks may not agree. But I do.

  N. Carolina wedding venue denies lesbian couple, citing 'Christian values' - And here we go again. At least we have a decent president as this battle will no doubt begin again.

My aborted project - Examining how the religious right exploits the 'gays recruit children' lie

 In 2016, I was beginning a new project about the anti-LGBTQ industry. But I, as well as the world in general, got sidetracked by a four-year odyssey into the deepest bowels of hell. so to speak, otherwise known as the Donald Trump presidency.  Like the figurative version of the Greek mythological monster Charybdis (look it up) which he is, Trump and his "madcap hijinks" as president sucked up the energy and attention away everybody and everything. That included my project. And now four years later with that orange dragon slain, dissected, and pounded to fine powder, maybe I can start the project anew.

Or at the very least, talk about it.

As so many of you who keep up with this blog know, I track and refute anti-LGBTQ lies which are spread to dehumanize our community and rob us of our rights and safety. For this particular project, I wanted to focus on one particular, especially nauseating lie. The one which claims that we are "recruiting" children.

Implying that LGBTQ people are "after" children is probably one of the most successful tactic of the anti-LGBTQ right. From fights against marriage equality and anti-discrimination ordinances to passing anti-transgender pieces of law, claiming gays want  "access" to children seems to always be in their bags of tricks. 

 When they pull the "gays want children" card, often times,  the religious right will use words like "indoctrination" or "marketing." They tend to skirt around what they mean, but those who believe what they say, the meaning is clear as expressed in these clips:

And that, my friends, is their general premise and argument. Any law positive to LGBTQ people, any television show showing us in a good light, any ordinance which guarantees our rights and safety, anything in general which benefits us or allows us spotlight is actually a part of a huge plot to get children. And often times, it's that lie which puts the religious right in the winner's circle. Unfortunately the belief that "gays recruit children" isn't as archaic as you would think. The above comic is presently available on a "religious webpage" along with other comics claiming the same thing about us and children. 

Laughing a belief of a monster hiding under the bed is always fun until you realize how people exploit that belief to harm others. Especially when the "others" in question include you.

I haven't decided whether or not I will take up this project again.  I will let everyone know once I do decide.