Pete Buttigieg PERFECTLY explains how Republicans ignore real problems to push bigoted laws, fascist, christian nationalist agendas. This Pride Month, let's remember we must push back harder than ever and fight for true equality. It's time to hold them accountable and vote them out this November!
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg PERFECTLY explains how Republicans ignore real problems to push bigoted laws, hatful fascist, christian nationalist agendas. This Pride Month, let's remember we must push back harder than ever and fight for true equality. It's time to hold them accountable and vote them out this November! #vote
Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill hat would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. The bill passed its final reading with the approval of 400 of the 415 members of the House of...
Looking for conferences on #Cryptography and #Security. #AfricaCrypt is in #Cameroon this year, a country that imprisons peolpe for suspicions of being gay. In 2021 to trans women were sent to prison for “wearing women’s clothing in a restaurant”.
In other words, we are talking about a complete shit-hole country and a non-negligible part of the cryptographic community cannot safely visit the conference because of that.
A conference that proudly associates itself with the #IACR. I think we should have a serious discussion about whether it is appropriate to place conferences in places that will imprison people for who they are and whether the IACR should associate with conferences that ignore these concerns.
For all the problems that conferences in the west have with accessibility (and that you may rightfully criticize), you can usually at least be confident that the government there won’t subject you to torture for who you are.
When you hear DeSantis/GOP apologists say that calling these anti-LGBT bills "Don't Say Gay" is being blown out of proportion, here is yet another example of how it is actually exactly what they are doing. It isn't about "protecting kids" it is about fucking with LGBT people and shoving us out of society like "the good old days" they keep pining for... #LGBT#LGBTRights#uspoli#DeSantisnews.yahoo.com/florida-teacher…
"The Nightmare Continues": Homophobic and Transphobic Party PO Prevails.
For those unfamiliar with Polish politics:
We had an eight-year-long conservative government led by the PiS party (Law and Justice). A few days ago, elections took place that would determine the possibility of forming a government by the Civic Coalition (KO), along with other opposition parties. The KO is a coalition of several opposition parties, with its lead held by another conservative, homophobic, and additionally, neoliberal party, the PO (Civic Platform). This same party, along with another, PSL (Polish People's Party, conservative agrarians), rejected a bill on civil partnerships for same-sex couples a few years ago. Today, PSL is the main coalition partner for KO. No nightmare has ended; it continues.
I always look thankfully but skeptically at when big businesses do their whole "gay pride" marketing stuff. The test of how legit it is is how they respond to any pushback. The NHL has failed miserably in this regard. From showing pride to making it explicitly optional for the players, which I'm fine with, to banning even personal choice presentations of it. They try to wrap it up into other things too but the catalyst was showing support for LGBT people. The language of onerous burden being " a Player (or Players) is required to be in close proximity to any groups or individuals visibly or otherwise clearly associated with such Special Initiative(s)" e.g. being near gay people or people openly supporting gay people is just bone chilling. We are regressing by decades each year on the issue of #LGBTRights#lgbt#nhlwww.outsports.com/2023/10/9/23…
top global chess official (Dana Reizniece-Ozola, FIDE) called for more research into whether factors such as hormone levels & physical endurance impact players' abilities at male-dominated game
The cop-out answer I get from Republicans I talk to with respect to things like abortion, trans medical care, etc. is "let the states decide and then people can move to states that have the policies they like." Ignore the huge civil rights issue or that Republicans are trying to attack this at the federal level too. As we see they also are trying to reach their tentacles into people's behaviors out of state even from solely their state policies. Their "states' rights" messaging is BS as usual. Don't let your friends and the MSM get away with falling for it. Exhibit A. #uspoli#LGBTRights#ReproductiveRightswww.mississippifreepress.org/3…
MAGA Republicans move into a little town that had a long peaceful history and start spraying cat piss everywhere about the gay-friendly and gay-owned restaurant next door and then claim they are the victims in all this...as usual. I may have to go out of my way to visit this restaurant and drop a bunch of money for a sandwich just because. Hopefully the MAGA dickheads aren't successful here as they have been elsewhere. Enough of their self-entitled bullshit. #lgbt#LGBTRights#MAGA#uspoli A gay couple ran a rural restaurant in peace. Then new neighbors arrived.
As we told you before, the SCOTUS ruling was not just about compelled speech around wedding websites, writings on cakes, photographies for weddings, et cetera, et cetera. It was yet another arrow in the quiver of the Republican Party and the judges they've loaded the federal courts and SCOTUS benches with to unwind same-sex marriage rights and LGBT rights in general. This is the second time this week, not even a month since the ruling, that this has happened. I implore people and the MSM to stop buying their bullshit messaging on this already. Thanks. #uspoli#LGBTRights#lgbt Texas judge still fighting to deny wedding ceremonies to gay couples
@msignorile nailed it in this post. "Phyllis Schlafly, the mother of the conservative movement, told me Roe v. Wade would be overturned. She also told me that marriage equality wouldn't hold, and gay rights wasn't 'inevitable.'" Why? Because Republicans play the long game and saw how to stack the courts strategically to get their objectives, the Democrats/left were splintered while the right was not, and the extreme parts of the base that we now call MAGA were ascending. The momentum is for more degradation of rights thanks to Republican Party's judicial picks. It will take decades of the same focus to slow it and then unwind it. We need to start that years ago. There is no time left to waste. #uspoli#LGBTRights#ReproductiveRights How the anti-feminist leader Phyllis Schlafly eerily predicted the future
I've been warning people for many many years that Republicans aren't just coming for "teh gayz" and abortion. They were coming for fertility treatments like IVF and maybe even the right to contraception as well. I didn't think they would come out and just say it like this though. You know why they are? Because no matter how theocratic and out there they've gotten on these issues they haven't been resoundly defeated at the ballot box over and over. Neither side is perfect but both sides are definitely not the same. It will take the other 60-70% of us coming out to vote with the same regularity these religious right/MAGA types do election after election to turn this thing around. Boring? Yes. Dull? Yes. Not made for reality TV culture we live in? Yes. Tough shit. Do it anyway #uspoli#republicans#contraception#abortion#LGBTRights#lgbt Daily Wire's Michael Knowles attacks the constitutional right to contraception
Cork City Library workers 'fed-up' of being harassed on job
'For several months, on a regular basis, they have been subject to intimidation, they've been subject to harassment, from far-right activists coming into their workplace and objecting to LGBTQ books that are in the library'
Comment: abortion & erasure of transgender persons I predict will the key wedge strategies in Republican culture wars leading into the 2024 U.S. elections : noise, disinformation, & identity politics to (1) to divide the electorate, & (2) through information overload induce apathy & dissuade voters from participating / voting - allowing enough of their supporters to elect GOP candidates. ...
Social Media Has Collapsed Good Debate
Joe Rogan’s podcast is an awful venue for serious disagreement. But the alternatives aren’t much better
Vaccine scientist Peter Hotez criticized the influential podcaster Joe Rogan for hosting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lamenting the fact that a podcast with millions of listeners platformed a notorious spreader of vaccine misinformation. ...
In 2022 Rogan said that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas "might be the woke straw that breaks society's camel's back".
In 2022, while interviewing Tulsi Gabbard on his show, Rogan shared the widely discredited litter boxes in schools hoax, claiming that public schools were providing litter boxes to students who dress up as cats.
The podcast host Joe Rogan made news this week by offering the vaccine scientist Peter Hotez $100,000 to be donated to a charity of his choosing if he participated in a no-time-limit debate with the vaccine skeptic (and 2024 presidential candidate) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Joe Rogan and Elon Musk Spent the Weekend Harassing a Vaccine Scientist
The right’s “debate me” ethos has reached (another) new low https://newrepublic.com/post/173766/jo
"‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags - Many liberals celebrated when Hamtramck, Michigan, elected a Muslim-majority council in 2015 but a vote to exclude LGBTQ+ flags from city property has soured relations
In 2015, many liberal residents in Hamtramck, Michigan, celebrated as their city attracted international attention for becoming the first in the United States to elect a Muslim-majority city council.
They viewed the power shift and diversity as a symbolic but meaningful rebuke of the Islamophobic rhetoric that was a central theme of then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign.
This week many of those same residents watched in dismay as a now fully Muslim and socially conservative city council passed legislation banning Pride flags from being flown on city property that had – like many others being flown around the country – been intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.
Muslim residents packing city hall erupted in cheers after the council’s unanimous vote, and on Hamtramck’s social media pages, the taunting has been relentless: “Fagless City”, read one post, emphasized with emojis of a bicep flexing."
Lawmakers in Thailand overwhelmingly approve a bill to legalize same-sex marriage (apnews.com)
Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill hat would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. The bill passed its final reading with the approval of 400 of the 415 members of the House of...