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  • Outrage Erupts After Artist Changes National Anthem Lyrics from ‘Home of the Brave’ to ‘Home of the Gays’ [WATCH]

    07/01/2025 1:17:57 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 29 replies
    Trash Panda ^ | July 01, 2025 | Staff
    A recent performance by singer and performer Uché has ignited a firestorm of criticism after a video surfaced of him singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” with a controversial twist. In place of the time-honored closing line, “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” Uché deliberately changed the words to “land of the free, home of the gays.” The moment, which was captured and shared on TikTok during Pride Month, has prompted widespread backlash from Americans who see the alteration as a blatant sign of disrespect toward a cherished national symbol. The video, posted to Uché’s TikTok account...
  • Trans troops in US military 'in survival mode' as ban on serving kicks in

    07/01/2025 6:12:23 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 103 replies
    BBC News ^ | July 1, 2025 | By Mohan, Yousef Eldin and Sophie Eastaugh
    After 17 years in the US Army, Maj Kara Corcoran, 39, was preparing to graduate from an elite military leadership programme. But there was a complication. Two days before the ceremony, Kara was told that she would need to conform to male regulations, which meant wearing male uniform and cutting the long blonde hair she had grown since she told the Army she identified as a woman in 2018. The directive had come from the Pentagon, and filtered down through her chain of command at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. "Nothing about me is a man, but we're going to force me...
  • I'm a drag queen in NYC whose bookings for Pride Month have plummeted this year. I'm trying to work smarter, not harder.

    06/30/2025 3:24:00 AM PDT · by C19fan · 51 replies
    Business Insider ^ | June 28, 2025 | Amanda Coffee
    Brita Filter says her corporate bookings for Pride events have dropped by 60% this year over last year. She's never had this much downtime in June, a typically busy month for gigs and events. She relies on influencer partnerships and community events to sustain her career, which she loves. Brita Filter, 39, is a household name in drag entertainment. Her popularity went mainstream when she appeared on season 12 of "RuPaul's Drag Race," and she's made appearances on "Saturday Night Live," "Broad City," and "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah."
  • Sotomayor says public education is doomed without mandatory gay and trans story hour

    06/30/2025 12:59:07 AM PDT · by fwdude · 140 replies
    The Hill ^ | 06/28/25 | Jonathan Turley
    The end is nigh. That seems to be the message this week from the three liberal justices at the Supreme Court when faced with the nightmarish prospect of parents being able to remove their young children from mandatory classes on gay, lesbian and transgender material. … Justice Sonia Sotomayor declared that there “will be chaos for this nation’s public schools” and both education and children will “suffer” if parents are allowed to opt their children out of these lessons. She also worried about the “chilling effect” of the ruling, which would make schools more hesitant to offer such classes in...
  • Supreme Court rules in favor of Maryland parents who want to pull kids from classes with LGBTQ-themed books

    06/27/2025 12:57:34 PM PDT · by Libloather · 32 replies
    NY Post ^ | 6/27/25 | Samuel Chamberlain, Ryan King
    The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a group of Maryland parents who sued a school board over its refusal to allow elementary school children to be taken out of classes with LGBTQ-themed storybooks. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines Friday, the justices overturned a lower court ruling that found the parents needed to show that their kids were being coerced to act differently than their religious beliefs. The high court concluded that the parents “have shown that they are entitled to a preliminary injunction” because they “are likely to succeed in their challenge to the Board’s policies. “The...
  • Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $65M on trans medical treatment — including for minors — if elected NYC mayor

    06/27/2025 3:13:09 AM PDT · by SaveFerris · 43 replies
    The New York Post ^ | Published June 23, 2025 Updated June 23, 2025, 1:02 p.m. ET | By David Propper and Craig McCarthy
    Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $65 million in taxpayer funds on transgender treatment — including for minors — if he’s elected to lead New York City. The Queens assemblyman, who is locked in a close race with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, says on his campaign website that the money would be funneled to public providers to help transgender New Yorkers. About $57 million would be allotted for public hospitals, community clinics, federally qualified health centers and nonprofits with another $8 million for more expanded services, the website states. Mamdani defended the spending plan as...
  • Ten Years In, Same-Sex Marriage Is Part of American Life. But It’s Still Under Attack.

    06/26/2025 11:20:43 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 78 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 26, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET | Adam Nagourney and Jeremy W. Peters
    On the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationally, supporters say they are secure but also wary and watchful.Could same-sex marriage be next?Gay Americans and their allies have much to celebrate on Thursday, the 10th anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Same-sex marriage has, by almost every indication, become ingrained in everyday American life. Since the decision, there have been 591,000 same-sex marriages, and today, nearly two-thirds of Americans approve of the policy. Same-sex couples are staples in contemporary movies and television shows, and reside, often with their...
  • Doctor Who actor David Tennant wears trans rights T-shirt by Canadian designer: 'You will have to go through me'

    06/24/2025 12:16:08 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 51 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 6/24/25 | Elianna Lev
    Stevie Brocksom is still floored after actor David Tennant, best known for his work in the Doctor Who series, wore one of the trans-positive T-shirts they sent him on a whim. The photo has led to a massive spike in sales of the London, Ont., designer's activist T-shirts which help fund a scholarship for transgender students in Ontario. Brocksom and their graphic designer sell a series of T-shirts with trans-positive messaging on their website, "Stevie Safe Spaces." The T-shirts, which are available in sizes S up to 6XL, have slogans on them like “you can’t erase us,” "protect trans kids"...
  • During Pride Month Public Libraries Become Centers for Queer Resistance

    06/24/2025 1:15:05 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 69 replies
    Real Clear Investigatons ^ | June 24, 2025 | John Murawski
    This article contains graphic descriptions that may not be suitable for all readers. Parental discretion is advised.RALEIGH, N.C. – Like public libraries across the country, branches in North Carolina’s capital city turn rainbow-hued each June in celebration of Pride Month. Festive book displays featuring “queer-themed” titles written for all ages – from toddlers to teens and adults – are set out for the public as innocently as if the subject in question were cooking, gardening, or personal finance. The colorful Pride books set out by Wake County civil servants are not just a benign celebration of gay dignity, hugging couples,...
  • Transgender Treatments Distort the Purpose of Medicine

    06/24/2025 6:11:30 AM PDT · by karpov · 17 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | June 23, 2025 | Farr Curlin
    The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee’s ban on medical gender interventions for children, reflects a split in the Justices’ views of medicine: Is it about restoring patients’ health or satisfying their wants? The court held last week that the Tennessee law permissibly distinguished between different medical uses of puberty blockers and hormones for children. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts explained that medical treatments are defined not only by the drug used but by the purpose for which it is prescribed. Administering testosterone to a boy with delayed puberty is categorically different from...
  • America’s Largest Medical Association Sides With Child Mutilation After SCOTUS Ruling

    06/21/2025 12:24:10 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 54 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | Jun 21, 2025 | Amanda Prestigiacomo
    The American Medical Association's new president Dr. Bobby Mukkamala said the ruling was "harmful government interference." The American Medical Association (AMA), the largest medical association in the United States, is coming out against the Supreme Courts ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, arguing that irreversible and damaging transgender procedures for minors are necessary treatments. “The American Medical Association is disappointed in today’s decision that opens the door to further intrusion into patient care and harmful government interference into the practice of medicine,” AMA President Dr. Bobby Mukkamala said in a statement after the ruling came down. The court ruled on...
  • Far-Left SPLC Advised Biden DOJ on Prosecuting “Hate Crimes” Against LGBTQs

    06/20/2025 8:43:50 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 8 replies
    The New American ^ | June 20, 2025 | Michael Tennant
    The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) advised prosecutors from former President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) on “disturbing trends … within the anti-LGBTQ movement” at a 2023 “hate crimes symposium,” the Daily Signal reported Monday.Drawing on documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) via a Freedom of Information Act request, senior editor Tyler O’Neil informed readers of just one instance among many in which the Biden DOJ collaborated with the SPLC.The SPLC, which actually performed some valuable services early in its existence before becoming consumed with fighting “hate,” famously publishes a “hate map.” While genuine haters such as the...
  • Detransitioner Lands Final Blow to Elizabeth Warren’s Hissy Fit Over SCOTUS Trans Ruling

    06/19/2025 8:21:17 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 25 replies
    Red State ^ | 06/19/2025 | Katie Jerkovich
    Detransitioner Chloe Cole landed a final blow to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) after she threw an absolute hissy fit over the recent United States Supreme Court transgender ruling for kids.On Wednesday, SCOTUS upheld Tennessee's law barring "gender-affirming care" (including irreversible mutilation) for so-called "transgender" minors, which specifically rejected claims that "transgender" people are part of a protected class. Warren lost her ever-loving leftist mind and falsely claimed on X that "Trans kids suffer when they don't get medically necessary care. This is a brazen political decision by the Supreme Court. My heart is with trans kids and their loved ones....
  • How the Transgender Rights Movement Bet on the Supreme Court and Lost

    06/19/2025 1:02:34 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 19, 2025 | Nicholas Confessore
    The inside story of the case that could set the movement back a generation.One day last December, a clutch of dark-suited lawyers descended the steps of the Supreme Court to a hero’s welcome. The lawyers, from the American Civil Liberties Union, had that morning joined counterparts from the Biden administration in asking the court to block a Tennessee law that bars doctors from providing puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery to young people who feel that their bodies are the wrong sex. In the plaza outside the court, L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy groups had turned out hundreds of supporters, who hugged, cheered...
  • Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia

    06/18/2025 6:39:04 AM PDT · by fwdude · 50 replies
    Erin in the Morning ^ | Jun 11, 2025 | S. Baum
    A report on the largest survey ever of trans Americans’ health was released on Wednesday, June 11, and its findings reaffirmed what many academics, health care providers and trans people already know: gender-affirming care saves and improves lives, but transphobia often dissuades people from pursuing or continuing it when they need it most. Over 84,000 trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming people aged 18 and up responded to the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, spearheaded by Advocates for Trans Equality (A4TE). Of respondents who had transitioned, 9% had gone back to living as their sex assigned at birth at some point in...
  • San Francisco Reaction To Supreme Court ban on child sexual mutilation Supreme Court OKs Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for kids, a setback for transgender rights

    06/18/2025 12:58:16 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 31 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 18, 2025 | By MARK SHERMAN
    The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights.
  • S.F.’s Pink Triangle, symbol of LGBTQ+ rights and Nazi persecution, is vandalized

    06/18/2025 7:43:02 AM PDT · by artichokegrower · 22 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | June 18, 2025 | Rong-Gong Lin II
    San Francisco police have arrested a man accused of defacing the famed Pink Triangle, a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights that is installed annually during Pride Month on top of the city’s landmark Twin Peaks.
  • Children’s Hospital LA Will Shut Down Center for ‘Transyouth Health’ It is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another

    06/17/2025 3:56:21 PM PDT · by artichokegrower · 22 replies
    California Globe ^ | June 17, 2025 | By Evan Gahr
    In a total capitulation to the Trump Administration, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles announced last week that it is shutting down its notorious clinic that foisted sex change procedures on minors. The announcement marks an abrupt shift for the Children’s Hospital, which had earlier seemed inclined to fight the Trump Administration in court over its threat to cut off funding to any hospital that provides so-called gender affirming care for youths.
  • Clayton Kershaw wrote a scripture reference on his Dodgers' pride hat last night to remind folks what the rainbow really means

    06/15/2025 4:00:09 PM PDT · by AF_Blue · 36 replies
    Not the Bee ^ | 6/14/2025 | Hamilton Porter
    Man, how can you not love this from The Dodger's star Clayton Kershaw? Last night was "pride night" for the Dodgers and they and the Giants wore "pride" themed rainbow logos on their ballcaps for the game. But Clayton Kershaw decided that he wasn't just going to go along with it.
  • Boston Red Sox spark controversy after putting on pre-game drag show for Pride Day

    06/15/2025 4:02:48 PM PDT · by SaveFerris · 68 replies
    Daily Mail Online ^ | PUBLISHED: 21:19 EDT, 11 June 2025 | UPDATED: 21:26 EDT, 11 June 2025 | By ALEX RASKIN
    Fenway Park's annual Pride Night has been heavily criticized online in the days since a group of drag queens were welcomed on the field in Boston before the Red Sox hosted the Tampa Bay Rays. 'Gross' and 'disgusting' were just two of the judgements posted on X, where many others joined in the attack. 'Be more like the @Rangers,' another added, referring to the only Major League Baseball team without a Pride Month celebration. Several commenters questioned the logic behind MLB events aimed at including LBGTQ+ fans, arguing they're not really baseball's target audience. However, a 2021 survey by the...