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Gay penguins are back together just in time for mating season
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/gay-penguins-back-together-just-time-mating-season/
I am posting this for the people who claim being gay is not “natural” and against the way god meant the plumbing to work. Homosexual acts and couplings can be found in almost all animal species. There is another gay penguin couple that has raised chicks successfully, I read of one gay bird couple that adopted a chick abandoned by the straight birth parents protecting and raising the chick to adulthood as a family. So either their god lied to these people, or these people are hiding behind their god to push their bigotry. Hugs
Photo: ZSL London ZooA same-sex pair of penguins has reunited for mating season at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia.
According to penguin keeper Emily Thornton, two of the aquarium’s male Gentoo penguins Klaus and Jones have been building nests together for about three or four years now.
“Initially, they started building their nest in the wrong area as such, but this year, for the first time they’ve actually put it in the nesting platform area, which is really exciting. They are a couple that we’re hoping one day might actually be foster parents,” Thornton explains.
“Although same-sex male pairs are unable to fertilize and lay an egg between themselves, Klaus and Jones can be given a ‘dummy egg’ to protect during the nesting period and practice being dads,” says Thornton.
Same-sex penguin couples have paired off in zoos all over the world. “Penguins conduct homosexual relationships that can last a whole lifetime,” biologist Guenter Strauss explained in 2019 when the Munich Zoo highlighted a male couple of Humboldt penguins during Pride Month.
Other notable examples include Sphen and Magic at Sydney’s Sea Life Aquarium, Ronnie and Reggie at ZSL London Zoo, and Thelma and Louise at Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand.
Roy and Silo, a homosexual chinstrap penguin couple at New York’s Central Park Zoo, even inspired the children’s book And Tango Makes Three after they successfully hatched an egg given to them by zookeepers.
Same-sex penguin couples frequently foster eggs and chicks, sometimes stealing eggs and whole nests from heterosexual couples. One pair of male Magellanic penguins has even been dubbed the San Francisco Zoo’s star parents. In 2019, Oceanworld Aquarium Dingle in Ireland reported that most of its penguins had paired off into same-sex couples.
Schools all over are being forced to deal with parents angry about furries & litter boxes
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/schools-forced-deal-parents-angry-furries-litter-boxes/
Ask yourself why the right is so taken with this issue and why they are pushing it so hard. Furries are a stand in for trans kids and litter boxes are the stand in for trans kids in bathrooms. It is a way to attack trans kids / students without mentioning the word trans. The attacks on trans kids have run out of steam and people are starting to fight back making the bigots lose. So just as they switched from gays to trans, they are switching to code words. That is why some of these bigots say the furries are trying to change their species, licking themselves meaning they are unclean, dirty, gross and are infecting your holy child. They talk about furries taking poops in a classroom full of other students, which is code for a trans kid being in the same class as your kid is like someone shitting in the classroom. It is stinky and unsanitary and gross is what they are saying. Think about it and how stupid what they are saying is. If you don’t know it is code for hating trans you would wonder at the idea that a student drops their pants in front of all the other kids and goes to the bathroom. That would be exposing themselves to the entire class. That is what they claim having a trans kid in a class is like, having their genitals exposed for your kid to look at. Get real and fight back against this bigotry. Hugs
Photo: ShutterstockJoe Rogan just admitted that his claim last month that he knew of a student who forced a school to install a litter box so that she could defecate in it was false. The urban myth is still spreading like wildfire, and more and more schools are being forced to deny that they’re letting kids use litter boxes.
“My friend, his wife is a school teacher, and she works at a school that had to install a litter box in the girls’ room because there’s a girl who’s a furry, who identifies as an animal and her mother badgered the school until they agreed to put a litter box in one of the stalls,” Rogan told former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii on his podcast last month. “So this girl goes into the litter room or to the girl’s room and urinates or whatever — I don’t know if she poops in it, that’s pretty gross.”
He’s not the only prominent conservative making that claim. Even Republican candidates and elected officials – like Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Nebraska state Rep. Bruce Bostleman (R), Republican Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), and Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate J.D. Vance – are accusing schools of letting kids use litter boxes.
And schools are being forced to respond to angry – and wildly misinformed – residents.
“It is utter nonsense,” said San Luis Coastal Unified School District superintendent Eric Prater in California.
“It is an unfounded allegation,” said superintendent Curt Dubost of the nearby Paso Robles Joint Unified School District. He told The San Luis Obispo Tribune that there have not been any students asking to use litter boxes in schools.
“We have had complaints about ‘Furrys’ in PRJUSD,” Paso Robles school board member Kenney Enney wrote on Facebook. “They are not a protected class, so therefore if there are ‘Furry’ issues in your child’s school, and staff is not addressing it, please notify your your [sic] School Board Trustee.”
The Alpena School District in Michigan is being forced to make a similar denial after residents took school officials to task at a board meeting about kids allegedly dressing up as animals by wearing ears and tails to school while making animal sounds during class.
“It’s really frustrating,” Alpena Public Schools superintendent David Rabbideau told The Alpena News. “People are lobbing these missiles at us and saying, ‘I know better what’s going on.’”
“It’s crazy that we’re talking about this,” Thunder Bay Junior High School Principal Katie Lee said. Her school is in Alpena Public Schools.
The health department was even forced to send a worker to inspect Alpena High School to look for litter boxes.
“For the record, they didn’t find any,” Rabbideau said. “Because there’s never been any. And there never will be.”
In New Hampshire earlier this week, the private high school Pinkerton Academy issued a statement saying that they don’t have litter boxes either after Republican U.S. Senate candidate Don Bolduc accused the school.
“They’re putting litter boxes,” Bolduc said. “These are the same people that are concerned about spreading germs. Yet they let children lick themselves and then touch everything. And they’re starting to lick each other.”
This school said in a statement: “It has come to our attention that at a recent event in Claremont Don Bolduc named Pinkerton in false claims suggesting that unhygienic, disturbing practices are taking place in our classrooms and spaces on campus…. We want to assure our community that Mr. Bolduc’s statements are entirely untrue.” The school invited all candidates to visit “so they can inform themselves.”
Last month, the Republican party’s nominee for governor of Colorado claimed that 30 schools were accommodating furries, with students “identifying as cats.”
“Not many people know that we have furries in Colorado schools,” she said on a radio show. She went on to say that it happened in her kids’ school district so she moved to get away from the student-furries.
Two statewide educational organizations condemned her claims as “exhausting” and “incredibly frustrating,” saying they disrupt learning and stress out teachers who are already overworked.
“There are no litter boxes in our buildings and students are not allowed to come to school in costume. There are no furries or students identifying as such during the school day,” one of the accused school districts, Jefferson County Public Schools, said in a statement.
“This vicious rumor – it’s been debunked how many times already?” Bret Miles, the executive director of the Colorado Association of School Executives, told The Denver Post. “Now it’s out there again, in our governor’s race…. School districts are spending time chasing down storylines that were purely for political gain. They have nothing to do with what kids are experiencing at school, and it’s shock and awe. It’s just incredibly frustrating.”
“No, we don’t provide litter boxes; our children use bathrooms,” a spokesperson for the Durango School District in Colorado said earlier in the month after Rep. Boebert accused that Colorado school district of putting litter boxes out for kids “who identify as cats.”
The rumor has even gone international. The Refrew County Catholic District School Board in Canada issued a statement that said “misinformation is currently circulating in our school communities and online regarding the presence of litter boxes in our schools.”
The statement said that the district has “never had litter boxes in any of our elementary or secondary sites.” The district added that they “do not collect any data regarding animal identity and we do not recognize such identities.”
“I think it was just a matter of time before that misinformation made its way here,” a board spokesperson told the Ottawa Citizen. The spokesperson said that the number of complaints they were getting was “getting a little out of control, so we decided to do a joint statement to reassure school communities that this is not happening.”
The Ottawa Citizen noted that the Eganville Leader published a letter to the editor from someone who claimed that seven students in the district identified as animals. The letter said that one student identifies as a frog and another is a cat who uses a litter box in school and claimed that their information came from “a confirmed report from a high-up school board official.”
And then I seen these
‘I’ve Never Been Assaulted At A Drag Show But I Have Been At Church…Twice!’
Wrestler Kane, now a GOP mayor, destroyed on Twitter over drag-show hypocrisy
See how this has nothing to do with children and is all a political ploy to rile up the right wing base that is unable to accept advancements in society. We have grown as a people, just as we did in every generation since the beginning of the species. We don’t do what we did in the 1600, 1700s, 1800s, because we know better now. But there are some people dreaming of a past that never really existed when they felt comfortable and in charge, they were the normal ones with the right to mock and insult the weirdos. They want that again. The other half wants their poor defenseless god to stop crying over men wearing dresses (something they basically did in Jesus’s time) and they know their god shutters in fear / loathing every time a male penis touches another male, regardless of the fact that opposite sex couples can do the same sex acts and their god loves to watch that. Strange, isn’t it? Hugs
Glenn Jacobs, aka KanePhoto: Gage SkidmoreWWE wrestler Kane, who performed topless in genitalia-hugging spandex tights, grappling with other oiled-up men wearing only speedos, g-string style underwear — and sometimes women’s dresses — is complaining about all-age drag shows.
The former wrestler – who goes by Mayor Glenn Jacobs (R) when he’s not performing in flashy outfits – won reelection as the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee in August and performed on multiple occasions with other wrestlers who dressed as women in front of thousands of children.
Now he says he’ll ban family-friendly drag shows anywhere “on Knox County property,” though he has no power to do so. “Currently,” says the mayor, “no law on the books gives me authority.”
The empty pro-wrestling-style boast was another attack on the LGBTQ community inspired by the current Republican obsession with quashing LGBTQ rights, particularly when it comes to gender nonconformity.
Twitter was quick to react to Jacob’s hypocrisy Tuesday, when he claimed “my office has been flooded with calls concerning all-ages drag shows,” just in time for next Tuesday’s midterm elections. Jacobs went on to decry “the sexualization of our children.”
For the uninitiated, drag is an integral part of some of WWE’s often bizarre storylines.
Multiple wrestling fans called out Jacobs for a storyline in which he kidnaps another wrestler’s girlfriend, rapes, and impregnates her.
The callback that best applies to Jacobs today may have been this amped-up crowd favorite, now employed by Twitter users.
We NEED to Talk About Florida’s New Attack on Trans Kids!!!
Republican book banning attempt defeated after community stands up for LGBTQ people
A rare win for the good side. Notice the animosity and hate for gay people. This is not about sexualizing kids, stories about gay kids / people don’t make kids sexual anymore than stories of straight kids / people do. Why is it OK in the minds of straight white conservatives that kids read about straight dating, see straight couples, read about straight parents, see straight people kiss, and that doesn’t sexualize or promote sexuality to them. That is what they want the kids to see because it enforces that it is good and “normal” that they should act that way. But you change the word straight with the word gay and their heads explode with the myth that they have to protect the kids from sex? Get real, that just shows how bigoted and hateful they feel towards gay people. It is a faked concern for the children when in truth it is about forcing LGBTQ+ kids to hide and being able to hurt them. Hugs
Photo: ShutterstockAfter a heated public debate, the Greenville County Council in South Carolina voted to keep LGBTQ books accessible to children at the public library.
A resolution from city Councilor Joe Dill – who recently lost the Republican primary and will not be maintaining his seat – proposed requiring the 12-location library system in the area to remove books “promoting sexuality” from all children’s sections.
The resolution claimed it was seeking to “protect the innocence of children” and also would have required libraries to submit a report to the County Council detailing “how such books ever found their way into the Children’s Sections…and what measures have been put into place to ensure such oversights do not occur in the future.”
Controversy over LGBTQ books in the county began in September when the Greenville County GOP unanimously passed a resolution in favor of banning them from the children’s section of libraries.
The State reported at the time that the Greenville County GOP chair, Jeff Davis, said it was important to prevent kids from being “indoctrinated” by the books.
“Kids can’t buy a beer until they are 21. Should they be able to access these books before a certain age without parental consent? I think not and that should be reasonable,” he said.
The GOP became especially concerned in June when the library displayed LGBTQ books in honor of Pride Month.
Among the books they reportedly worried about was a book about a girl and her dads called Daddy & Dada; Teo’s Tutu, about a boy who does ballet; Pride Puppy, about a puppy who goes to a Pride Parade; and Sex is a Funny Word, a sex education book designed for kids that also teaches about different types of families.
During the recent county council debate, the council members did not mention any specific books, and impassioned pleas were made from people on both sides during the public comment period.
“I can’t even believe we’re having this conversation. Of course we shouldn’t have any sexual material in our children’s library,” said parent Barbara Evans, as reported by The State.
Susan Ward, the parent of a gay son, emphasized how important it is for her son to be able to see himself in books.
“All of us worry about our children. I worry because my child has been subjected to hate and discrimination,” she said.
The conversation reportedly got heated, with the vice chair of the library board – who supported keeping the books away from kids – even saying “barf” when someone said they were gay.
Ashley Snelgrove, a children’s librarian against banning the books, also spoke at the meeting and explained that the library already thinks very hard about what books are available to kids. Beyond that, Snelgrove said kids under 11 are always supervised at the library.
And in a 3-9 vote, LGBTQ equality won the day and the council voted to keep the books available to kids.
Russia Set To Ban All LGBTQ Representation In Media – JMG
Is there any wonder why the current republican party loves Putin! He is doing what they want to do. Outlaw the LGBTQ+. Florida has already outlawed the LGBTQ+ in Florida schools using the same reasoning as Russia has, protect the children from a made up boogieman. These people live to hate. These laws are designed to stop any positive portrayals of the LGBTQ+ while still allowing the negative hate mongering free reign. Hugs
The New York Times reports:
Russia’s Parliament is set to pass a legislative package that would ban all “gay propaganda,” signaling an even more difficult period ahead for a stigmatized segment of society. The laws would prohibit representation of L.G.B.T.Q. relationships in any media — streaming services, social platforms, books, music, posters, billboards and films — and, activists fear, in any public space as well. That’s a daunting prospect for queer people searching for community, validation or an audience.
Kremlin critics see the proposals as an attempt to create an internal enemy to divert attention from battlefield setbacks and an unpopular draft of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. “It’s the equivalent of saying, ‘Look, we have this special operation. If we lose, your kids will have their gender changed, they’ll take your kids away, it’ll be the stuff of nightmares,’” said Dr. Nikolai Lunchenkov, a physician who focuses on L.G.B.T.Q. health.
Read the full article.
Nic Peterson Raising_Rlyeh • 3 hours ago
Reeducation Camps for LGBTQ Persons Show the Compassion of Conservatism by Ken Mehlman and Andrew Sullivan
Something like that?
Dave B • 4 hours ago • edited
And the Fascist Republican party is taking their cues from Putin. Don’t think for a second the Republicans won’t do this here if given the chance.
Dave B Fearsome Beard • 3 hours ago
Pay attention to Republicans for 5 minutes and you can see the future under Republican autocratic rule.
I take it that “gay propaganda” will be defined as claiming that we’re human beings and that we exist.
Dave B Karl Dubhe IV • 4 hours ago
I’m pretty sure they’ll allow gays to be villains who end up dead at the end of the movie because they deserved to die.
Karl Dubhe IV Dave B • 4 hours ago
Don’t forget the Show Trials. They’ll not be as fabulous from our pov…. A show’s a show though. Right?
Elagabalus • 4 hours ago • edited
Without convenient scapegoats, no authoritarian would ever been able to hoodwink the masses into believing that the real source of their misery isn’t the authoritarian himself. Putin needs the gays as much as Hitler needed the Jews.
Mushroom_Sunshine • 4 hours ago
Coming to a GOP representative near you. Within months, Putin’s puppets (AKA GOP) will roll out similar if not identical policies.
“It’s the equivalent of saying, ‘Look, we have this special operation. If we lose, your kids will have their gender changed, they’ll take your kids away, it’ll be the stuff of nightmares,’”
Russian government telling people not to ask questions about the tens of thousands of Ukrainian children who just appeared in the Russian adoption system since February?
“The purpose is to make LGBTQ people invisible in Russia,” one lawyer said.
Invisible people disappear easily.
From history, we all know what happens next. I’m afraid they will soon start rounding up our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters to put them in camps.
We have always known Putin is a fascist dictator beloved by Trump.
It makes their bromance all the more instructive of the four years of Trump’s treachery.
Trump tried the same bromance shit with Kim.
Christo-fascists always play to fears and bigotry. What a comment on humanity that it always works pretty well.
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