Posted on 06/04/2025 8:31:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Amid mounting public backlash over men competing in women’s sports and adults engaging in perverse sexualized acts in front of children, many corporations are reportedly pumping the brakes on their support for “Pride Month” events this year. But AARP – despite purporting to be a nonpartisan organization – is still going full steam ahead on its Pride Month messaging, continuing a years-long pattern of embracing far-left gender ideology.
An article published on AARP’s website on May 30 titled “Pride Month 2025: Making Connections Through Community” makes clear that AARP has no intention of backing down from its full-throated endorsement of LGBTQ ideology – and exposing children to it. That article encourages readers to “join forces for celebration and advocacy” and quotes from Jackie Lees, who is on the board of directors for the AARP-affiliated Generation Plus Committee, a group that describes itself as “dedicated to serving members of the LGBTQ+ community who are 55 and older.”
Lees, who identifies as transgender, specifically says that Pride Month should be used to close the “generational gap” and that “we’re here to help the young ones.” Lees was featured on AARP’s “Rainbow Inspirations” video series in 2024.
In the same article, like in years past, AARP also highlighted several Pride Month events for 2025 and encouraged readers to attend. Many of those events, despite containing overtly sexualized content, are advertised as “family friendly.” One of the events, the Hartford Pride Festival in Connecticut, will feature grandparents talking “about supporting their trans granddaughter,” AARP notes.
Attendees at several of the pride events will even see AARP representatives there. The group boasts that it plans to have a booth at Sacramento Pride “to discuss Social Security and caregiving.” It will also be at the Twin Cities Pride Festival in Minnesota to promote the theme of “Queer Joy Is Resistance.” In St. Louis, AARP will take part in an event called “Queer Writes” at the Missouri History Museum.
As AMAC Newsline has previously reported, this is not the first time AARP has encouraged its members – and their children and grandchildren – to attend events that are potentially inappropriate for young people.
Ahead of Pride Month 2021, for instance, as the LGBTQ movement’s cultural power was reaching its zenith, AARP published an article encouraging “drag queen story hour” as a way for “the whole family” to celebrate Pride Month. That article specifically mentioned the “beloved Drag Queen Story Hour NYC,” which “brings drag performers to read stories to children in libraries, schools, bookstores, museums and more, with virtual livestreams opening up the experience to anyone who wants to tune in.”
Four months later, AARP published another article titled, “The 9 Most Fabulous TV Shows and Movies About Drag Queens,” noting that “these aren’t just movies and shows that use cross-dressing as a plot device – these works truly celebrate the art of drag in all its gender-subverting, over-the-top, glamorous glory.”
Both of those articles now appear to have been removed from AARP’s website.
In 2024, AARP published another article instructing readers on “How to Gracefully Handle Your Grandchild Changing Pronouns.” Instead of encouraging grandparents to affirm the biological reality of the gender binary, AARP fully endorses far-left gender ideology, demanding that grandparents “educate” themselves and praise their gender-confused grandkids for their “courage.”
Grandparents should also, according to AARP, “refrain from expressing judgment and instead show support” and should think “of the new pronoun the same way you’d think about a new nickname.” In one case cited in the article, AARP applauds a grandparent who embraced her grandchild’s identity as “genderfaun,” which they describe as “a form of gender fluidity that flows between multiple genders but does not include female or feminine genders.”
In another article published last year, which is still up on the website, AARP also honored Harvey Milk, the first openly gay politician in California. Milk, who is a hero in the LGBTQ community for his activism in public office, allegedly engaged in multiple sexual relationships with teenage boys while he was in his 30s. According to his biographer, Randy Shilts, who was also gay, in one case, a 34-year-old Milk lived with a 16-year-old runaway in Greenwich Village. That boy later committed suicide. (Relatedly, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth recently ordered the Navy to strip Milk’s name from an oil tanker named after him.)
AARP is, of course, free to support whatever causes it chooses. But its members deserve to know exactly where the organization stands – especially on deeply controversial social issues. AARP shouldn’t hide behind a “nonpartisan” label while openly endorsing events, curricula, and ideologies that many Americans find inappropriate and even dangerous.
In stark contrast, AMAC unapologetically stands against exposing children to sexualized content in schools or public venues. AMAC firmly rejects the core tenets of radical gender ideology and believes it has no place in the classroom, no place in public policy, and certainly no place in organizations claiming to represent the best interests of American families.
Shane Harris is the Editor in Chief for AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
I responded to an AMAC ad by asking if they offered access to United Healthcare Medicare supplemental insurance or an equivalent.
Response:
...crickets...
Every Conservative and Christian should dump them like a hot rock.
“But wait? What about my discounts???”
Oh yeah forgot about that, those are much much more important than standing on principle and actually making a difference...
I keep on getting membership invitations from AARP, often with a plastic ID Card that has my name and address ‘conveniently’ pre-printed on it. They say, with a new membership, I can get this ‘Fantastic and Nifty’ canvas bag, covered with zippers and pockets within other pockets!!
I must forego that fantastic and nifty bag, I already have enough. I already have VA health insurance. I immediately destroy that ID Card with scissors.
Besides, I hear AAP is notorious for donating money to Democrat causes and campaigns, so, Thanks but No Thanks!
AARP aka Absolute Asses Recognizing Perverts
Insurance company run by pedos and pedo-adjacent groomers who are mostly retired school teachers.
That looks like the Denny’s Boyz carrying that huge banner.
Make sure when you cut up the card to mail it back to them in their prepaid postage return envelope. Shove a bunch of other junk into the envelope as well to boost the weight.
Disgusting.
And I wonder how many unsuspecting seniors are members of AARP.
AARP, another leftist organization lying about their partisanship.
I started getting my first mailings or ‘invitations’ from AARP when I turned 40.
Yeah the big 4-0.
Which meant nothing to me. I was as healthy as a 22 year old at 40.
Never joined up with them, knew something was up big time from their publications / newsletters they sent my mom. Boy was it chock full of complete, unadulterated manure. I think she’d he’d joined up but later on dumped them when she realized what she was supporting.
One of which, or two, were:
1.) If someone breaks into your home, give them whatever they want and do whatever they ask, don’t fight back.
2.) If the assailant is going about raping you, let them rape you. Don’t fight it. Don’t try to defend yourself. Something about ‘your life is more important than the temporary sexual trauma of rape’ that you’ll recover from.
Uh, no. And I almost forgot #3…
3.) You are more likely to die if you attempt to defend yourself by using a firearm against someone breaking into your home. The whole guns are bad, only law enforcement should have guns, it should be illegal.
Just one of the many reasons my dad worked tirelessly to finish his schooling, get his civil engineering degree, work long enough to afford to move us all out of Commiefornia to his home State of Texas.
He knew where it was all headed back in the 50s and 60s. I think it’s pretty much lost now. If absolute evil doesn’t destroy CA, the earthquakes will.
My father refused to join AARP 30 years ago because they were too liberal.
Anybody channeling any $$ thru them for any reason is funding groomers.
Just so you know.
I haven't received any junk mail from them for quite a while. At some point, they stopped including the prepaid return envelopes...
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