And now to more recent news. Yes! I finally caught up. Oh wow

This is incredible and the best I have felt in 5 months.  I have had so much old news, many hundreds of back logged news I wanted to share.  I recently found out that the mail stuff I would share was stuck on my phone so did not post.  I cleared that.  Today right now all old news mail articles are posted, the stuff I want to share is posted.   I still have to do the video on what happened because I got long term Covid.  Sadly I was able to do this because Ron was gone to Texas to help his sister and now they are on their way home.  More pressure to do as much as I can with my pain and disability.  So I have two more rooms to work on before they get here later this week.  I want to do a video on the entire thing but may not.   My goal was to clear all these tabs and then do videos …. but we will see, Hugs

Prices / affordability /

 

Bill Would Ban AI-Driven “Dynamic” Grocery Pricing

 

Trump Admin Races To Thwart Possible Tariff Refunds

 

Johnson Won’t Allow Vote On Extending ACA Subsidies

 

 


tRump Admin trying to hurt workers and lower incomes

Trump Admin Moves To Dissolve TSA Union Contract

 

 


 

Grifting / Cons / tRump family scams / tRump family news

Trump Presidential Library To Include “Fake News Wing”

 

President Liberace Boasts About New West Wing Sign

 

Trump: “My Arc Will Blow Away The Arc De Triomphe”

 

Trump Sues BBC For $10 Billion Over Capitol Riot Film

 

Wiles Torches Top White House Officials In Interview, Says Glorious Leader “Has An Alcoholic’s Personality”

Audio Busts Wiles Lying About Musk’s Ketamine Use

 

Wiles: Trump Lied About Clinton Visiting Epstein’s Island

 

DAMAGE CONTROL: White House Has Entire Cabinet Post Defenses Of WH Chief Of Staff Susie Wiles On X

 

Vance: Those Who Privately Trash Trump Are “Traitors”

 

 

Johnson Won’t Allow Vote On Extending ACA Subsidies

 

 

 


 

Hate / DEI  /  Racism /  ICE

 

COPS: Wisconsin Man Used Grindr To Harass Victim

https://youtu.be/HVKzTOzT1SQ

 

 

Rep. Ilhan Omar: My Son Was Pulled Over By ICE

https://youtu.be/pupz-Dechn8

 

Bessent Cancels “Woke” Commemorative Quarters

Mr. Bessent opted instead for the more general, and much whiter. 

 

Texas Universities Use AI To Root Out “Woke” Courses

 

Heritage Hires Anti-LGBTQ Extremist For Key Post

 

 

Carlson: Nick Fuentes Is Successful Because He’s Right

 

Rep. Randy Fine: Denaturalize And Deport All Muslims

 

Paladino: “Expel All Muslims From Western Nations”

 

Rioter/GOP Senate Candidate Jake Lang Claims He’ll “Storm” Colorado Prison To “Break Out Tina Peters”

The city, home to one of the largest Muslim populations in the United States, has recently become a repeated target for out-of-state activists who falsely claim it operates under “Sharia law.” The tensions began when Jake Lang, a Jan. 6 rioter who has described himself as a political prisoner, arrived on Michigan Avenue attempting to burn a Quran.

 

Border Chief: Everyone Must Carry Citizenship Proof

Federal law enforcement agencies are detaining US citizens who do not carry proof of their citizenship in what civil rights advocates describe as a flagrant violation of constitutional rights—and a top Trump administration official is claiming the government has the authority to do so.   Bovino recently lied in court about being hit with a rock by anti-ICE protesters, despite video showing that never happened. According to reports, some Border officials privately refer to Bovino a “Little Napoleon” due to his height and volatile temper.

 

 

 

 


 

Things that are just wrong on too many levels / Medical Misinformation / tRump’s illegal war to steal oil / Rule by decree

Zelensky Drops Request For Ukraine To Join NATO

The only one making concessions here is Ukraine

 

 

JetBlue Has Near Miss With US Aircraft Near Venezuela

The pilot of a JetBlue flight reported on Friday that he narrowly avoided colliding with a U.S. military aircraft over the Caribbean after an Air Force refueling tanker passed in front of the commercial plane without broadcasting its position, according to air traffic control radio communications.

 

DOE Moves To Build Nuclear-Powered AI Data Centers

 

FDA Likely To Roll Back Warning Labels On Supplements

 

Trump Signs Order Designating Fentanyl As A WMD

so fuking stupid, it’s an fda approved drug

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US Kills Eight More In Three Pacific “Drug Boat” Strikes

 

Pentagon To Downgrade Military Command Groups

It would reduce in prominence the headquarters of U.S. Central Command, U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command by placing them under the control of a new organization known as U.S. International Command. Those familiar with the plan said it aligns with the Trump administration’s national security strategy, released this month, that declares that the “days of the United States propping up the entire world order like Atlas are over.”

Their way to rid themselves of officers who will refuse to follow an illegal order and put command in the hands of those who will.  All of this is to reduce the number of Admirals and Generals who could credibly disobey the illegal orders that will be coming soon.

 

 

The Atlantic: New Pentagon Policy Is A “Suicide Note”

This past September, the Trump administration terminated these agreements. The center’s former head, James Rubin, called this decision “a unilateral act of disarmament,” and no wonder: In effect, the United States was declaring that it would no longer oppose Russian influence campaigns, Chinese manipulation of local politics, or Iranian extremist recruitment drives. Nor would the American government use any resources to help anyone else do so either.

 

Hegseth Refuses To Releases Full Double-Tap Video

 

 

 


Things that are good and need to be mentioned.

Australia To Further Tighten Gun Control Laws [VIDEO]

 

Wisconsin Judge Advances Case Against Fake Electors

 

 

Yes more recent news. But wow has the US gone nuts! The grifting, hate, and denying basic facts of reality is really scary.

Trump: European Nations Want Me As Their Leader

 

 

Boebert Spent $3381 In Donor Money To See Kid Rock

 

Miami Herald: DeSantis Secretly Diverted $35M Meant For Needy Children To Anti-Weed And Anti-Abortion Ads

 

Trump Plans To Seize DC-Area’s Public Golf Courses

 

 

US Begins Selling $1M “Trump Gold” Fast Citizenship

Foreign nationals can now pay $1 million plus a $15,000 processing fee for the Trump Gold Card, which grants them U.S. residency “in record time,” the website states. Corporations, meanwhile, can also partake in the program by making a $2 million contribution and paying the $15,000 processing fee.

 

GOP Senator: Make Things Affordable By Earning More

 

 

Almost 400 J6 Rioters Seek Millions In “Restitution”

The St. Louis-based lawyer declined to share copies, citing his clients’ privacy, but said most are seeking $1 million to $10 million for alleged injuries and property damage during their arrest, prosecution and, in many cases, imprisonment. Earlier this year, US officials agreed to pay nearly $5 million this year to settle a claim brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a police officer inside the Capitol on Jan. 6.

 

 

SC Measles Outbreak: 111 Cases, One Person Vaxxed

 

South Carolina Measles Outbreak Continues To Worsen

 

 

QAnon Ron Johnson Backs Using Bleach To Treat Autism

 

FDA To Label COVID Vax With “Most Serious Warning”

 

Denmark Designates US As Potential Security Threat

 

Florida Sues Starbucks For Anti-White Discrimination

In the lawsuit filed Wednesday, Uthmeier’s office alleged that for the “past five years and continuing to the present day, defendant has excluded or disfavored nonminorities in numerous employment practices and programs.”

 

NPS Gift Shops Get Deadline To Purge “DEI” Merch

The move is part of the administration’s wider campaign to scrub federal institutions of “corrosive ideology” recognizing historical racism and sexism. The directive instructs park staff to report by Friday any retail items that have content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living” or that includes “matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance or grandeur” of a natural feature in its description.

 

Border Chief Wants “Honor Of Cuffing” Rep. Ilhan Omar

DHS Is Using TSA Lists To Make Deportation Arrests

 

 

Hegseth Posts Cartoon Of “Trans” Person Being Kicked

 

FL City Hits Back At Duffy With 11 Rainbow Bike Racks

Key West Hits Back At Duffy With Rainbow Fences

Hit the link for many photos of Key West homes now sporting rainbow picket fences. As for Ms. Walker, the self-proclaimed “Christian Republican” felt compelled to boast about her complaint on X.

 

Arlington Pride Canceled After City Axes LGBTQ Rights

Literal Potty Police Demand IDs In Texas Capitol

 

Kirk’s Killer May Face Anti-Christian Hate Crime Charge

 

 

Leavitt: US May Seize More Oil Tankers Near Venezuela

Yet the Russian oil shadow fleet is left totally alone by the tRump admin?  I wonder why the oil tankers off Venezuela are OK to attack yet the same sanctioned oil tankers of Russia are off limits?  What is the difference between illegal sanctioned oil tankers?  Oh yes Putin has something over on tRump.   Hugs 

 

Navy Submits Possible Punishments For Sen. Mark Kelly

 

WSJ: Pentagon Readies “Land Strikes” On Venezuela

 

 

DOJ Sues Georgia’s Fulton County For 2020 Election Records And Four Blue States For Lists Of Voter Rolls

“States have the statutory duty to preserve and protect their constituents from vote dilution,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

This is code for balck people voting which white supremacist feel makes their votes less important.   Hugs

 

 

Duffy Threatens To Pull $73M In NY Highway Funds

 

Cops: ICE Leader Strangled Decades-Younger Girlfriend

 

 

A Resource For Planning

When I started reading here at Scottie’s, and later posting here, the blog purpose included providing online safe space and resources for LGBTQ+ people. I try to include posts directed at that readership whenever I can. Things are changing rapidly for everyone in the U.S., but bigots have been emboldened to discriminate whenever and however they like, for sport, even, if they wish. (My own observations.)

I have read at The Order Of The Good Death for years, watching Caitlin Doughty’s videos (she’s knowledgeable and hilarious,) watching legislation primarily on my own behalf (I want a sky burial, dang it!) Last night, I saw that The Order is generating an End-Of-Life guide for LGBTQ+ people. So, here’s the scoop, click on through. They’re only beginning this project, a guide for each state of the U.S. Here’s a snippet; go see it and become involved if you can.

“Our end-of-life experiences are as unique and varied as our lives, often reflecting the same challenges we experience in life. As a result, people in the LGBTQ+ community often have their own unique set of needs at the end-of life, placing them at a higher risk for discrimination and disenfranchisement.”

Additionally, I highly recommend looking over the Louisiana guide, by Ezra Salter, linked within. It’s a PDF, but covers numerous pertinent issues people might not consider in general.

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LGBTQ End-Of-Life Guide

Music For Change

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Sounds like activism: musicians who fight for change – in pictures

Photographer Janette Beckman and curator Julie Grahame have organized a one-time fundraiser for the ACLU that showcases images of musicians who have recorded protest songs or are known for their activism. Forty-three photographers have donated images of 50 artists, from John Lennon to Nina Simone to Bad Bunny, and 100% of the profits will go towards the ACLU and their efforts to protect equality, freedom and rights. In addition to the images there is a playlist of songs for the fundraiser.Bob Marley, who performed at Crystal Palace Bowl in 1980, is known for songs such as Get Up, Stand Up, War, Redemption Song and Concrete Jungle that advocate for social issues, human rights and resistance. Photograph: David Corio

Curated by Briana Ellis-Gibbs

(I posted a few here; go see the whole piece with all the photos. It’s motivating! A.)

Bruce Springsteen, New York, 2017

Songs such as American Skin (41 Shots), The Ghost of Tom Joad and Born in the USA highlight systemic injustice, racism and the struggles of working-class people and immigrantsPhotograph: Danny Clinch, Transparent Clinch Gallery

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Doechii, New York, 2025

She is known for songs like Anxiety that advocate for mental health awareness and has used awards show speeches to speak out against government overreach and oppression. Photograph: Sacha Lecca

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Nina Simone, London, 1968

One of Simone’s most prominent songs, Mississippi Goddam, was a direct response to systemic racial inequality in the US exemplified in the handling of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and Medgar Evers’s murder. The song became an anthem for the civil rights movement. Photograph: Michael Putland

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Dolly Parton, Tennessee, 2003

Her songs, including A Woman’s Right and Coat of Many Colors, have addressed social issues, and she has been outspoken and financially generous as a philanthropist. Photograph: Clay Patrick McBride

(snip-Go See The Rest!)

A Different Reality

I am not transgender. And, perhaps like some who read Scottie’s blog, there are times when I wonder why I am reading so much about transgender and non-binary issues, since they don’t really effect me. I’m simply me, an overweight white guy who has struggled with his orientation and confidence. Interestingly enough, I’m – as written – not Hispanic. I was born in the USA, so why should I care about some of the other posts Scottie shows on his blog about ICE/Immigration? I think you know where I am going with this.

On the first day of tRump’s occupation, he signed an executive order that the United States would no longer recognize anything but born male/born female as a gender to the applause of a disappointingly large number of people. With the literal stroke of a pen, a person’s identity was made to be unrecognized by their very own government.

And, just as he has chosen to remove men and women from our communities without the right of Habeas Corpus, one of the very principles our country was founded upon, who will be next to learn they are a non-person and suddenly unworthy of liberty? Will it be me, a struggling fat white guy who doesn’t conform to the cis ideal? Will it be when I become old and can no longer work? Will it be because I don’t agree with the Maga mantra? What will I have to fake to be still acceptable to the powers?

I’d like to paraphrase and steal another’s words here:

The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty… Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton (spoke about what) happiness meant in their lives, how they understood the pursuit of happiness as a quest for being good, not feeling good—the pursuit of lifelong virtue, not short-term pleasure. Among those virtues were the habits of industry, temperance, moderation, and sincerity, which the Founders viewed as part of a daily struggle for self-improvement, character development, and calm self-mastery. They believed that political self-government required personal self-government.

Now this is arguable, but I want to believe it. I want to believe and agree that the creation of this country was about more than the pursuit of power, but about the pursuit of happiness, of completion, of understanding and identity. I believe that the creation of this country was to be about self-determination and self-actualization, not conformity to some distorted and corrupted image of a diseased head of state.

It is for this reason that I embrace the rights and honor of those who are transgender, non-binary, or any who are seeking to understand that person in the mirror. In fact, I see it as a fundamental aspect of being an American that we accept those who are in the journey of self. Further, just as Jesus Christ is reported to exhort us to welcome the stranger – because it is only by befriending those different from whoever I am that I can hope to one day fully understand Randy.

I welcome respectful comments and even disagreements to this post. hugs.

Entertainment News

From SBTB, some NSFW language within. Like, I don’t even know what having a dump-truck tushie means. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“Heated Rivalry: The Unbearable Lightness of Having a Dump-Truck Ass

by Candy 

So right now I have a number of non-romance community friends coming up to me and saying stuff like:

“Oh hey sounds like some hockey fic finally made it onto TV, huh?”

“Yo Candy have you heard of the gay hockey romance TV show?”

“How excited are you about the gay hockey smut on TV?”

“Candy why is your entire Tumblr dashboard filled with naked asses?”

To which I say: excuse me, these are not just “naked asses.”

These are triple-platinum certified, AAA grade dumptrucks. Can dumptruck butts even be certified platinum, Sisqo hit notwithstanding?

Fuck you, they can now. These asses can do anything. These asses can fly you to the fucking moon. These asses were sculpted by the hand of God, after which God cut their own hand off because it had achieved perfection, so why sculpt anything else ever. Connor Storrie’s ass in particular is a mesmerizingly perfect hemisphere. He could never sneak into an enemy base because he is dummy thicc and the thunderclap of those asscheeks would absolutely alert the guards for miles around. Do you understand what I’m saying?


A | BN | K | ABBut the thing is, you need to watch the show — I can’t believe I’m saying this after what I’ve just said above — not for the asses, but because the actors are a delight to watch. It’s not that they’re beautiful, or at least, not only because of that.

It’s because they inhabit their characters to a degree that is frankly eerie.

Like: the way Connor Storrie holds his body as Ilya Rozanov in every scene. Man doesn’t stand like an American, though he very much is. (Storrie is a Texan. A Texan.) And what does “doesn’t stand like an American” even mean? Look, I can’t fuckin’ explain it, OK, but white American dudes tend to hold themselves A Way, and he doesn’t do it. It’s like porn (which this show delivers on, by the way). I just know it when I see it.

That’s not even going into Storrie’s near-impeccable Russian (which he apparently acquired over three weeks), or the things he’s able to do with his eyes, or the curl of an upper lip, or a flick of his eyebrow.

What, you think there wouldn’t be gifs? Come on now.

And then there’s Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander. Shane, the lawful good muppet to Ilya’s chaos gremlin freak. Williams nails every microexpression, especially in the scenes in which he’s texting Ilya: vulnerability, frustration, reluctant amusement, endearment—they all flicker across his face. He’s stiff and awkward, which you might initially mistake for bad acting, except no, that’s Shane: Shane is an awkward motherfucker! Shane Hollander has zero grace until you strap skates on him, or until he’s confronted by Ilya Rozanov’s dick.

Sure, sure, my friends say. Watch it for the acting. That’s what you say. That’s not what you’re reblogging on Tumblr, you thirsty bitch.

I mean, yeah. I’m mostly posting gifsets of dumptruck butts because I need everyone I know to watch this show, and while I honestly find this image of Ilya giving Shane the once-over when they first meet theee actual hottest thing, who the fuck cares about that who hasn’t seen the show already?

It’s pretty hot

That’s not going to grab people’s attention. Oh, look at this attractive white dude giving someone the ole bedroom eyes. Boh-ring. NEXT.

Ilya Rozanov, naked and glistening with water, jorkin’ it in the locker room showers while maintaining hideously uncomfortable eye contact with Shane? That’s an attention-grabber. And I’ve sold three different people into watching this show because of it.

Speaking for all of us…

So anyway, I’ve had to talk to several friends about this show, and about why I, a person who has worked hard all their life to achieve the perfect body (potato-shaped) care about sports romance, and I’ve come up with this Heated Rivalry explainer of sorts. Maybe you’ll find this helpful as you navigate conversations with other people in your life who are like, hey, I hear you like smut! What do you think of that smutty hockey show? Or, like, if you haven’t checked out either the book or the show, and somehow have avoided learning anything about either of them, maybe this will finally push you over the edge? In fact, I hope it does. Consider this me kicking you down a well lined with bare chests and fake team logos of dubious quality and screaming This! Is! Heated Rivalry!

What the hell is Heated Rivalry?

It’s not a fic, it’s a hockey romance novel by Rachel Reid. The two main characters are Ilya Rozanov, Russian hockey wunderkind, and Shane Hollander, Canadian hockey wunderkind. (And yeah, Shane bears a physical resemblance to Sid Crosby, and Ilya being Russian and playing for a rival team immediately raises the spectre of Alexander Ovechkin, but as far as I know, this isn’t scrubbed Sid/Ovi fic, even if, uh, the inspiration seems pretty clear.)

Shane and Ilya meet rookie year, find each other infuriating yet irresistible, rapidly hook up, and then continue to hook up over many, many years, only to slowly, excruciatingly, fall in love. It’s somehow both slow-burn and bangs immediately. You know U-Haul lesbians? These guys are the exact opposite. (Move-away gays? I’ll have to workshop that more.)

Anyway. The book is mostly sex scenes by volume, and not a single one is repetitive or wasted, because it’s how the character and relationship development happen.

It’s now a TV show, adapted by Jacob Tierney. That’s the same guy who brought you Letterkenny and Shoresy, neither of which I’ve watched, but which I’ve been aware of for years now because people whose tastes I trust have watched them and loved them and told me I should watch them. Sorry, guys, it took the power of gay hockey idiots to drag me into the Tierney-verse. I’m here now, and I love it!

The thing you need to know about this show is: it leans in. It fully commits to the bit. Look, I know I keep talking about how this show is worth watching above and beyond the sex and the beefcake, but the fact of the matter is, you can’t extricate the show from the sex and the beefcake, because it’s a show. About hockey players. Who fall in love because they fuck. A lot. Over many years. So yes, I’m going to talk about the sex.

OK! (snip-I can’t copy-paste their whole post; go read it, it’s great!)

Right-Wing EATS ITSELF Over Gay Rumors

Florida Attorney General declares war on “A Drag Queen Christmas” show

 

A Sunday Read On Monday

Just not that into ewes: ‘gay sheep’ escape slaughter and take over a New York catwalk

I ram what I ram: Michael Stücke, the co-founder of Rainbow Wool, a company that produces wool from ‘gay sheep’ saved from slaughter, with his flock in Germany. Photograph: Steve Marais for Rainbow Wool

Designer Michael Schmidt’s 36-piece collection was made from the wool of rams who have shown same-sex attraction

Julia Carrie Wong

Julia Carrie WongFri 5 Dec 2025 10.00 ESTShare

When a ram tips its head back, curls its upper lip, and takes a deep breath – what is known in the world of animal husbandry as a “flehmen response” – it is often a sign of arousal. Sheep have a small sensory organ located above the roof of the mouth, and the flehmen response helps to flood it with any sex pheromones wafting about.

Usually, rams flehmen when they encounter ewes during the mating period, according to Michael Stücke, a farmer with 30 years of experience raising sheep in Westphalia, Germany. But on Stücke’s farm, the rams flehmen “all the time”.

“They do this all the time, because they find each other attractive,” said Stücke of his 35 male sheep. “They’re cuddling. They’re showing signs of affection. They’re jumping on each other. It’s undeniable that they’re attracted to each other.”

Stücke is the proud shepherd of the world’s first and probably only flock of gay rams. Though researchers have found that as many as 8% of male sheep are “male-oriented”, homosexuality is viewed disfavorably by most farmers, who expect rams to perform a breeding function. Rams who refuse to breed are often slaughtered for meat, and it was during a discussion of this harsh reality with Stücke’s friend and business partner Nadia Leytes that the idea for Rainbow Wool was born: “What can we do to not send all of them to the slaughterhouse?”

“My heart beats for the weak and oppressed in general,” Stücke told the Guardian, with Leytes translating. “I am gay myself and know the prejudices and obstacles that come with being a gay man, especially in the agricultural business.”

Rainbow Wool’s solution has been to buy gay rams directly from breeders, outbidding the price they might receive from a slaughterhouse, and keep them for their wool. The flock now numbers 35, and the farm has a waiting list. Individual sheep can be named and sponsored – they include a Bentheimer landschaf named Wolli Wonka, a Shropshire named Prince Wolliam, and Jean Woll Gaultier – and the wool is processed by a mill in Spain. All profits are donated to LGBTQ+ charities in Germany. “A couple of sheep [have been] saved but also a couple of people,” Leytes said, noting that their donations have supported relocating people living in countries where being gay is illegal.

Correctly identifying a sheep’s sexual orientation can be tricky. “Everybody can just say: ‘Hey I have a gay ram,’” Stücke said, “but what we’re doing is observing their behavior.”

“Some rams basically jump on everything, whether it’s female or male,” he added. “That would not qualify as being a gay ram. That would qualify as being a dominant. But if a ram consistently refuses to mate with a female sheep, this is the sign that you know he prefers other rams.”

Stücke’s flock burst on to the fashion scene last month when they provided the raw material for a knitwear collection designed by Chrome Hearts collaborator Michael Schmidt and sponsored by the gay dating app Grindr. Schmidt sent 36 looks down a New York City catwalk, all knit or crocheted from the wool of Stücke’s gay sheep. Each look represented a male archetype, starting with Adam sans Eve and including a pool boy, sailor, pizza delivery boy, plumber and leather daddy.

Models wait backstage at Michael Schmidt’s presentation of I Wool Survive at Manhattan’s Altman Building. Photograph: Oliver Halfin

“I really wanted to lean into the gay,” Schmidt told the New York Times. “I view it as an art project. It’s selling an idea more than a collection of clothing, and the idea it’s selling is that homosexuality is not only part of the human condition, but of the animal world. That puts the lie to this concept that being gay is a choice. It’s part of nature.”

The naturalness of homosexuality as demonstrated by the gayness of sheep has been a subject of media fascination for decades, thanks in large part to Charles Roselli, a professor of biochemistry at Oregon Health and Science University. Roselli’s research into how sex hormones affect brain development is the source of the statistic about one in 12 rams being gay. (there is MORE on the page; it’s quite intriguing)

If You Hate Gay or Trans People, You’re Suspect | Christopher Titus (Doomed To Repeat)