The real source of homosexuality
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It’s the weekend! While you’re enjoying your summer picnics and cookouts, I hope you’ll mention how you’re keeping so well-informed about LGBTQ news!
Candidates speak out about trans murder
Another trans woman of color, Denali Berries Stuckey, was murdered this week in South Carolina, and several of the top Democratic contenders spoke out about the violence against this vulnerable group.
Michigan governor defends Pride flags: Try me
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) ordered Pride flags be flown over the Romney building, where her office is based, because the LGBTQ community deserves to be treated “with the respect they deserve.” This didn’t sit well with state Rep. Lynn Afendoulis (R), who proposed a bill limiting what flags can be flown, claiming, “We shouldn’t be playing identity politics with the people’s property.”
Whitmer wasn’t impressed:
A pity-party for a bigot
The Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom are teaming up once again to tell a sob story about an anti-trans bigot. Tom Rost owns the funeral home that’s the subject of an employment discrimination suit the Supreme Court will be taking up this fall. Both the district court and appellate court agreed that he illegally discriminated when he fired an employee for transitioning. But these hateful groups want you to see him as a victim who is being “punished.” Don’t fall for it.
An apology for Sean Spicer but not Chick-fil-A
The Pawtucket Red Sox have issued an apology for hosting a Pride Night that featured both Sean Spicer throwing the first pitch and a Chick-fil-A giveaway — well, kind of. They apologized for the Spicer part, recognizing it was their failure not to recognize that having someone from the Trump administration wouldn’t align with welcoming LGBTQ people.
But they didn’t apologize for the Chick-fil-A promotion. They just insisted it shouldn’t offend because they have the Chick-fil-A promotion every night, so it didn’t specifically target Pride night. Hey PawSox, that’s worse. It does nothing to justify the fact that they help promote a company that donates millions of dollars to anti-LGBTQ organizations.
Now that’s a new one
A bishop from the Church of Cyprus has a new explanation for what makes kids gay. It’s the parents’ fault, he explained, who “pass on” the “sickness” of homosexuality after the woman enjoys anal sex. You see, “a desire is created, which is then transmitted to the unborn child.”
As my buddy Josh joked, “So he’s saying I was born this way?”
Gay enough for asylum?
A new study shows that queer Muslim migrants seeking refuge in Germany were more likely to be granted asylum if they could prove they’d visited gay bars and Pride parades. Not all queer people engage in such traditions, and imposing such cultural expectations is itself a form of stigma.
Just a “domestic conflict”
Russian authorities have made an arrest in the murder of LGBTQ activist Yelena Grigoryeva, claiming the attack was a “domestic conflict” and that the two she and the suspect knew each other. It’s apparently just a coincidence that she had recently appeared on a Saw-themed anti-LGBTQ hit list…?
It’s a home run!
In a touching video, Toronto Blue Jays radio broadcaster Scott MacArthur recently came out as gay, discussing the struggle it took him to do so:
I’m here to tell you that I understand the self-hatred, that I understand the self-loathing, that if you’ve been to a place where you don’t wanna live anymore — if you’re living in that place right now — I’m here to tell you that I have been there and I’m here to tell you that I was there as recently as two and a half, three weeks ago.
Three’s company for Will & Grace
The upcoming season of the Will & Grace reboot will be its last:
Role models… can you believe?
When the Queer Eye guys were filming at JVN’s old high school, they sat down to chat with the students’ gay-straight alliance. It was such a lovely conversation I had to share it:
Until next time, stay platinum! Have a great weekend!
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