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Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:08 am While I was at the 5 star hotel last week, I met a young lady (she was 17) (I didn't ask her for a date) (ol' Wifehorn would've done something bad) (real bad) who had a number of slogan buttons on her backpack. One of them - the only one that made me say, "I gotta have this" - was a rainbow flag and the word "ALLY" superimposed on the flag. It was an LGBT+ button for straight people.

So I got one for myself that will be delivered whenever they feel like it. I'll wait.

Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 8:08 am While I was at the 5 star hotel last week, I met a young lady (she was 17) (I didn't ask her for a date) (ol' Wifehorn would've done something bad) (real bad) who had a number of slogan buttons on her backpack. One of them - the only one that made me say, "I gotta have this" - was a rainbow flag and the word "ALLY" superimposed on the flag. It was an LGBT+ button for straight people.

So I got one for myself that will be delivered whenever they feel like it. I'll wait.

Far-right Christian cranks launch pathetic bid to reclaim Pride Month as ‘Christianity month’
EMMA POWYS MAURICE JUNE 4, 2021
Christians are attempting to rebrand Pride as 'Christianity month'. It's not working

Pack up the Pride flags everyone, because conservatives are reclaiming June as Christianity month. We’re sorry to tell you that the month formerly known as Pride has officially been cancelled – at least that’s the claim from the far-right. As rainbows and LGBT+ love spread online, conservative groups and far-right conspiracy theorists are desperately trying to combat it by flooding timelines with the hashtags #Christianity month and #ReclaimTheRainbow.

Their rallying cry was led by far-right conspiracy theorist Lauren Witzke, who called on her followers to celebrate June as “Christianity month”. Being suspended from Twitter she was restricted to her Telegram channel, a favourite with conservative groups. She followed this up with an appearance on the far-right conspiracy show TruNews alongside alt-right troll Milo Yiannopolous, who recently declared himself “ex-gay”. “I wish that you could fight the horrors and hells of Pride month,” he said as Witzke cut in: “Now Christianity Month!” Yiannopolous then suggested the term “Jihad June” before they introduced a toolkit of conservative memes to help people “reclaim the rainbow”. Their wishful thinking soon spread to Twitter as desperate Christians reasoned that if they believed something hard enough it would be true. “Let’s get #ChristianityMonth and #ReclaimTheRainbow trending,” announced one post, while another good Samaritan claimed they were on a “rescue mission to save LGBT people from the eternal oven”.

BREAKING: As MAP trends on first day of June, “pride month” is canceled. June is now #ChristianityMonth #reclaimtherainbow pic.twitter.com/iFEk5XUuZv
— Zoomer News Network (@ZNNpatriot) June 1, 2021

Today is #ChristianityMonth
Let’s put God > Pride and restore our once great society
We are gonna #ReclaimTheRainbow
Christ is King!
— Classical Conservative (@baron_smith_) June 1, 2021

Christianity Month starts tomorrow! #ReclaimTheRainbow #ChristianityMonth pic.twitter.com/irBMcP0tCp
— Faith of Byzantium ☦ (@Orthosphere) May 31, 2021

It’s never a bad day to be a warrior for the Creator! #ChristianityMonth
— Nate from Nebraska (@omni_based) June 2, 2021

The Rainbow is a Symbol of God’s majesty over the Earth. Not the glorification of sodomy. #ChristianityMonth #reclaimtherainbow #Sisco2022
— Michael Sisco For Congress (@MichaelSiscoWV) June 1, 2021

PRIDE HAS NO PLACE IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD!#ChristianityMonth pic.twitter.com/AJ0UFmpkEd
— ZoomerBattalion (@ZoomerBattalion) June 2, 2021

Back in reality Pride Month continued as normal, and the actual Christian month, otherwise known as the entirety of December, is expected to do the same.

In this photo shoot, Roddy and fellow gay actor Tab Hunter cook weiners and cake in their underwear, and apparently no one in the 1960s had any idea.

Life After Outing: Tab Hunter, Hollywood’s Most Profound Gay Icon





Today, Hunter's gayness is an open secret, but taking the public into his confidence is still a major event

BY ARMOND WHITE
JULY 17 2016 9:00 AM EDT

In the new documentary Tab Hunter Confidential, the actor is twice referred to as “delicious.” He’s even called “A breath of spring.” And what words could describe how radiantly beautiful he is in, of all things, a TV clip about mental illness which he made in the 1950s after he had to commit his mother to an institution. It was a public service announcement providing national awareness and compassion for the disease. In this doc, Hunter earns awareness and compassion for his gay life story. Today’s Hollywood has no equivalent movie star.

“I would never talk about my private life,” Hunter remembers his early years. The doc traces his pop career, including the moment when the tabloid magazine Confidential, exposed his 1950 arrest at “a limp-wristed pajama party.” (The charge “disorderly conduct” was a code.) Surviving the scandal, Hunter proves there is life after slander. This doc, produced by Hunter’s life partner Allan Glaser and directed by Jeffrey Schwarz, is a personal public service announcement and the most entertaining movie so far this year.

Born to German-American parents as Art Gelien, he was renamed “Tab Hunter”—a comically bland name to match his blue-eyed blond features which at that time were considered “All-American.” The name-image match-up was devised by Hollywood agent Henry Willson who specialized in pretty boys like Guy Madison (Robert Moseley), Rock Hudson (Roy Scherer), Troy Donahue (Merle Johnson), Chad Everett (Raymon Crampton). If Willson was a glorified pimp, he yet had an uncanny read of the American market, knowing what appealed to women as well as men—plus the special, subconscious allure of delicate masculinity that was particular to gay subculture.

Foggy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:36 am My staff informs me that according to official fully fictional statistics, more than half of the male children born in this great land of ours in recent years have been named Hunter, including my own great-nephew in Bainbridge Island, WA. But I still haven't heard of anyone else named Tab. Oh, wait ... that's "bat" spelled backwards. Mystery solved.

Here are a few suggestions for last names for children named Tab.

Tab Soda
Tab New Window
Tab Browser

After 57 fantastic “How can one calorie taste so good?” years, the Coca-Cola Company recently announced the 2020 year-end retirement of the legendary hot pink Grand Dame of diet cola, TaB!

A multitude of TaB’s fellow retired ’70s and ’80s iconic brand stars sent their best wishes including caffeinated bad boys New Coke and Jolt Cola as well as minty-fresh-breath friends Certs and Freshen-Up Gum. All My Children’s Erica Kane sent best wishes from her home in Pine Valley. Polaroid cameras are standing by to capture all the festivities during an Andre Cold Duck sparkling wine toast once TaB officially has her last moment on the grocery store shelves!

Coca-Cola’s first-ever “diet” soft drink, TaB began its career in 1963 and was marketed to consumers who wanted to “keep tabs” on their weight. The successful one-calorie drink became the best-selling diet cola until the release of Diet Coke in 1982. At that point, TaB’s sales declined but continued to have a loyal following over the years.

Foggy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:36 am My staff informs me that according to official fully fictional statistics, more than half of the male children born in this great land of ours in recent years have been named Hunter, including my own great-nephew in Bainbridge Island, WA. But I still haven't heard of anyone else named Tab. Oh, wait ... that's "bat" spelled backwards. Mystery solved.

Here are a few suggestions for last names for children named Tab.

Tab Soda
Tab New Window
Tab Browser

Foggy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 8:36 am My staff informs me that according to official fully fictional statistics, more than half of the male children born in this great land of ours in recent years have been named Hunter, including my own great-nephew in Bainbridge Island, WA. But I still haven't heard of anyone else named Tab. Oh, wait ... that's "bat" spelled backwards. Mystery solved.

Here are a few suggestions for last names for children named Tab.

Tab Soda
Tab New Window
Tab Browser

filly wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:06 pm I have to admire those bakers for trying to make a go of things in Lubbock. It's good to see there are some good folks in the community up there.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 6:47 pm

filly wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 3:06 pm I have to admire those bakers for trying to make a go of things in Lubbock. It's good to see there are some good folks in the community up there.

Lufkin.

How the World’s First LGBTQ+ Mariachi Band Celebrates Pride
Originally founded in 2000, Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Angeles is recognized as the world’s first LGBTQ+ mariachi band. Arcoiris, which means “rainbow” in Spanish, is a fitting name to describe the diversity of the band’s members, including Natalia Melendez, the first transgender woman in the history of mariachi.

We recently spoke with Carlos Samaniego, the director and founder of the band, including the inspiration for forming Mariachi Arcoiris, how it’s been received within the Latino community, and their recent partnership with Estrella Jalisco on a social media campaign to bring families free performances and encourage open conversations about machismo culture, inclusivity, and identity.

We are a mariachi band, so we perform traditional mariachi music. I don’t like changing too much and I try to respect the composer’s intention as much as I can. That has been ingrained in me as a classically-trained musician. But when it comes to pronouns and gender, we flip it around. For example, there’s a famous song by Jose Alfredo Jimenez called Ella, which in Spanish means “her” or “she.” In this case with the song, I’m not going to change the words to “El” (“him”). The whole focus of the song is around the love of a woman, so instead, I’m going to have a girl sing it.

If I’m singing about love or betrayal, I like singing straight to a guy and I choose someone from the audience. It makes it fun for the whole audience, but it also makes it very inclusive. I don’t know how many men or boys grew up with the dream that they were the one being serenaded to. And so now I get to serenade a man. Sometimes they don’t know what to do with themselves and other people eat it up, they want the attention.

The important reason why male teachers in Spain are showing up to the classroom in skirts

Though U.S. media tends to focus on the LGBTQ community—and ways cisgender, heterosexual norms can result in violence and oppression against queer folks—it’s important to remember that LGBTQ people exist in every corner of not just the U.S., but of the world. And of course, sadly, that means queer folks—and in some cases, their allies—can face discrimination and isolation all over the world, too.

Take, for example, Mikel Gómez, a 15-year-old student in Euskadi, Spain, who wore a skirt to school last fall, hoping to show solidarity with women’s rights and challenge gender norms. As he told TikTok in a viral video, however, he says he was pulled from class, expelled from school, and ordered in front of a psychologist who pressed him on his gender identity. Now, male teachers are wearing skirts to school to show support for the #LaRopaNoTieneGénero (clothes have no gender) movement.

“I knew people would look at me badly,” Gómez said in the TikTok that’s been viewed millions of times since he posted it last October. Still, Gómez says he didn’t expect so much backlash. As reported by LGBTQ Nation, when he told the psychologist he was not a trans girl, he said the psychologist told him to simply wear pants. The student said his parents punished him for wearing the skirt as well.

Following Gómez’s experience, a number of cisgender male students across Spain wore skirts to school in solidarity. More recently, as reported by Seventeen, Manuel Ortega and Borja Velázquez, two teachers at Virgen de Sacedón, a public school in Valladolid, Spain, say they overheard one student calling a peer a homophobic slur because of a sweatshirt he wore to school. The teachers wanted to show their students both that words can be harmful—the student in sweatshirt apparently took his sweatshirt off after hearing the slur—and that people can wear whatever they want.

Carrie & Mollie & Anna & Lucy
Queering the Women’s Suffrage Movement

The Catts had quite an unusual marriage for the time: they often did not live together, while she, with his blessing, continued the suffrage work that kept her constantly on the road. Around the same time as her second marriage, Catt met Mary (Mollie) Garrett Hay, a fellow Midwesterner whose temperance activism with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union led her to the suffrage movement. The two women often campaigned together, and in 1895, they shared temporary living arrangements in New York. In 1899 the two women traveled 13,000 miles, giving 51 speeches in 20 states.

After George Catt’s death in 1905, Carrie and Mollie chose to live together permanently, functioning as something of a power couple in New York State suffrage circles. Catt divided her energies between the state and national movement while Hay headed up the New York Equal Suffrage League and the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City. Both women played especially prominent roles in the 1915 and 1917 campaigns for a New York State women’s suffrage referendum. Hay had a reputation for being difficult to work with, but she was Catt’s closest political confidante until her death in 1928.

When Carrie Chapman Catt died in 1947, she chose to be buried not with either of her husbands but beside Mollie Hay at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, where she erected this monument: “Here lie two, united in friendship for thirty-eight years through constant service to a great cause.” Catt chose the word “friendship” to describe her relationship with Hay, but historians point to the couple as a prime example of how the suffrage movement provided a safe and welcoming space for a variety of unconventional lifestyles, all hiding in plain sight. It isn’t simply a case of who’s gay and who’s not: after all, Catt had relationships with both men and women. To speak of “queering the suffrage movement” is to identify it as a place where women felt free to express a wide range of gender non-conforming behaviors, including but not limited to sexual expression, in both public and private settings.

Washington, D.C.’s vibrant African American community supported a range of alternative lifestyles, including the longstanding partnership between Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first Dean of Women at Howard University, and Mary Burrill, who had previously formed a romantic connection with Angelina Weld Grimke, another playwright and suffragist. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, an African American writer and organizer for the National Woman’s Party, had a range of relationships with both men and women. In California Margaret Jessie Chung, a pioneering Chinese-American physician, dressed in men’s clothing, had close relationships with women, and was called Mike by her friends. White working-class suffragists such as Pauline Newman and Rose Schneiderman shared their lives with other activist women in New York.

bob wrote: ↑Sat Jun 12, 2021 2:17 pm VP and SGOTUS (and their security detail) at DC pride:

orlylicious wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 12:33 pm The RWNJs have been shouting that Nick's ratings are down, forgetting to mention all TV networks are down (less pandemic viewing, more cord cutting). They are desperate to try to find a way to show their tiny and shrinking homophobic, racist, sexist trolling is more important than it is.