Category: LGBTQ+ / Gay / Trans / Gender

Drunk Trump supporter almost ran over gay couple then called them slurs

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/drunk-trump-supporter-almost-ran-gay-couple-called-slurs/

 

“Sorry not sorry y’all are fa***ts,” the local business owner said in her bizarre rant against a gay couple.
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Evan Berryhill-Jewel was caught on video calling her gay neighbors slurs
Evan Berryhill-Jewel was caught on video calling her gay neighbors slursPhoto: screenshot

A Texas woman was caught on video calling a gay couple “fa***ts because she almost hit them with her car and parked badly.

“Republican all the way, baby!” Evan Berryhill-Jewel – who owns the Texas Angels Boutique in San Angelo – shouted while being recorded by Charles Grady and his partner, her neighbors, when she returned home one evening. Grady said that Berryhill-Jewel almost ran over him as he was taking out the trash.

Related: Furious woman pushes through protesters to tear down anti-LGBTQ sign in viral video

Grady confronted her and Berryhill-Jewel, who appeared to be drunk, got mad at him and started touching him aggressively, Grady said.

“You fucking faggots need to learn that equality is what I got,” Berryhill-Jewel said. “How are you any better than me?”

“I’m sorry not sorry that I’m not a f**king Joe Biden fan,” she said as her bizarre ranting continued. “How do y’all like the f**king pain.”

“I can’t hear you over your ear piercings, ewww,” she told Grady’s partner.

“Will we gross you out enough to move over a space?” he responded. She was parked in two parking spots at once.

“No, I’m not going move over,” she said. “I don’t give a f**k that y’all are fa***ts…. Y’all are f**king fa***ts. Sorry not sorry y’all are fa***ts.”

 

Grady said that police responded and they took at least one of the notes that Berryhill-Jewel posted to their door and their car with slurs, including the word “fa***t.”

He said that the full video was 14 minutes long and that police are reviewing it.

Tom Green County prosecutor Chris Taylor told The Advocate that he is aware of the incident.

“We take all such incidents very seriously,” he said.

Berryhill-Jewell posted an apology to Facebook where she blamed alcohol and said that she has gay friends. It was later deleted.

 

I would like to note she apologized on Facebook and deleted it but it seems she never apologized to the gay couple.   Anyone not gay person with gay friends doesn’t go around calling gay couples’ faggot repeatedly.  

Comedian makes a fool out of Republican candidate who wants to make Bible a “basic textbook”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/comedian-makes-republican-candidate-regret-wanting-make-bibles-basic-textbook-schools/

 

Conservatives are cool with the Bible saying it’s okay to own slaves, kill women and smear feces onto lazy priests. But tell a kid that it’s okay to be gay? Noooo, we can’t have that.
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Ralph Rebandt, a Republican candidate for Michigan governor, says he wants the Bible to “be the basic textbook in schools.” It’s a position he came to regret in a recent interview with comedian Jason Selvig.

Selvig, part of the conservative-skewering comedy duo The Good Liars, got Rebandt to agree to ban books from schools that have porn pornographic imagery in them. Selvig then pointed out that the Bible has a story about two daughters who get their dad drunk and have sex with him — it’s in the Book of Genesis, chapter 9, verses 30 to 37.

Related: Comedians get Trumpers to agree to ban the Bible from schools by telling them what’s in it

This is where the interview went hilariously south for the Republican.

“You’re saying banned the Bible in school?” Selvig asked Rebandt.

“No, I’m not saying ban the Bible in school,” Rebandt replied.

“You’re saying anything that has a pornographic image should be banned,” Selvig reminded him. “And there are some images in the Bible about, you know, sex and incest and things like that. So it sounds like you’re saying we should ban the Bible.”

Rebandt answered, “What I am saying is that the Judeo Christian principles on which our country was founded need to be brought back into culture. And I can’t say it any more clearly than that.”

“If that means banning the Bible, so be it,” Selvig said, adding, “Protect the kids.”

“No, I—” Rebandt stammered as the interview ended.

Rebandt initially told Selvig, “I’m bringing God back into culture, because I’m convinced that if we don’t get God right in this next election, nothing will matter.”

But while U.S. conservatives nationwide are hot to ban “pornographic” books from schools, including ones that explore sexuality and LGBTQ identity, they seemingly don’t want that standard applied to their own holy book.

In the aforementioned Bible story, Lot and his two daughters live in a cave. One daughter says to her sister that since there are no men around to impregnate them, they should get their father drunk and have sex with him to “preserve our family line through our father.”

They then successfully get their father drunk two nights in a row, have sex with him and end up pregnant. The story claims that the father was so drunk that he was unaware of what happened both nights.

The Bible says all sorts of things that conservative activists say they don’t want in books in schools. It says to kill people in same-sex relationships, to kill women who have pre-marital sex, to smear animal feces on the faces of lazy priests, and that it’s okay to own and beat slaves.

 

Conservatives declare war on LGBTQ suicide prevention hotline & call it pedophilia

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/conservatives-declare-war-lgbtq-suicide-prevention-hotline-call-pedophilia/

As I recently posted there are 2.64+ million LGBTQ+ kids.   One in 4 try to end their lives, some more than once.   That is not think about it, 1 in 4 try to actually die.  The Trevor Project estimates that at least one LGBTQ youth between the ages of 13–24 attempts suicide every 45 seconds in the U.S.   Now math is not my strong suit and last time I got the numbers wrong so let me try dividing the number of kids (2,647,755) divided by 4 = 661,938.75.   So 661+ thousand LGBTQ+ kids try to kill themselves.   A year!   Is that enough?  Well not according to the radical right / Republicans.    Again remember the entire goal of the rights attack on the LGBTQ+ is to make being one more unacceptable than many think it is now.   The goal of the right is to deny acceptance of LGBTQ+ people and kids.  The guy who wrote Florida’s don’t say gay bill admitted he couldn’t stand that kids coming out were treated decently in school, that they were not bullied and ostracized.  They want LGBTQ+ kids to suffer, and if more die I guess that doesn’t matter to the forced birth misnamed pro-birth crowd.   For people that think this is a one off and will go away after the midterms I have four more states in my open news tabs trying to implement these anti-LGBTQ+ laws.   One legislator wants to have public book burning to destroy LGBTQ+ positive books in a Christian celebration of gods morals.   The right is still waging war for the right to discriminate on serving LGBTQ+ people, waging war on same sex marriage, and same sex adoption, so this is another front in the war.  

They’d rather have a dead child than a gay child.
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Conservatives have spent the last couple months calling everyone who disagrees with them a pedophile, and now they’re setting their sights on the Trevor Project, an organization that runs a hotline and other resources to fight LGBTQ youth suicide.

Colin Wright, an editor of the anti-LGBTQ website Quillette, shared a comic from the Trevor Project that explained how teens could erase browser history and escape the site quickly so that they could get help even if they are worried about being outed to their parents.

Wright didn’t seem able to understand how something like this could help young people and instead said that the point of the feature is to “keep parents in the dark.”

Others on the right equated the Trevor Project with pedophilia, implying that an organization reaching out to LGBTQ teens in crisis is the same as a child sex abuser having sexually charged conversations with minors, as if any conversation involving LGBTQ identities is inherently pornographic.

“Why is the Trevor Project encouraging children to keep secrets from their parents?” the far-right organization Moms for Liberty responded to Wright’s tweet.

“Leftwing activists are predatory groomers,” conservative pundit Lauren Chen tweeted. “If you sit around designing and promoting ways to get in touch with kids so you can discuss sexuality and keep it from their parents, you are a groomer.”

“They’re trying to break your children,” said conservative podcaster Jesse Kelly.

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The anti-LGBTQ account Libs of TikTok called the Trevor Project a “grooming organization” in a now-deleted tweet.

James Lindsay, the professor who is best known for getting a fake academic paper published in 2017, claimed that it’s “only a matter of time until solid evidence of serious wrongdoing emerges regarding the Trevor Project.”

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As many people pointed out, having an “escape” feature is fairly standard for crisis hotlines and web services since the people who turn to crisis hotlines often don’t have support from the people around them.

 

A 16-year-old girl’s testimony paints a picture of brutality by Russian soldiers

This is a hard story to listen to.  In fact both of them are.  Child rape hits me hard, but I guess it does most decent people.   The second story is about a civilian man who was tortured for no reason except it seems that is the standard why the Russians soldiers are dealing with men.   I have posted it before.  They take the men’s fingers and cut them to the bone in slashes so that they will not only be painful but fester and decay.  This man lost most of his.   I have posted videos of others with their fingers stitched up trying to save them.  The US could stop this.   NATO could stop this.  But we are allowing it.  For how much longer?   

CNN’s Nick Paton Walsh speaks with 16-year-old Dasha, who says she was raped by a Russian soldier in her village in Ukraine’s Kherson region. CNN cannot independently verify Dasha’s story, but Ukrainian prosecutors in the Kherson region said in a statement they had investigated her account.

He was tortured by Russians for eight days and left in the forest to die

On thing about this.   The Russians seem to like causing pain and being cruel.  These acts are deliberate.  No professional army acts this way.   We must act to stop this.   How many generations will ask why we did not stop it when we could have?  Were they not worthy enough for us to save?  

Oleg Moskalenko is a Ukrainian man who was captured and tortured by Russian troops for several days and left for dead in the forest. He shares his harrowing story of survival on CNN’s New Day.

Florida Man Flips The Script On Republican Culture War

Florida activist Chaz Stevens is taking the culture war to Florida Republicans by starting a petition to ban the Bible in public schools as well as any other book that references the Bible. The request comes as the state lets parents object to educational material, specifically material that contains sexual subjects.

“A Florida activist known for his tongue-in-cheek petitions to local government agencies has asked school districts in Florida to ban the Bible. In petitions sent to public school superintendents across the state, Chaz Stevens asked the districts to “immediately remove the Bible from the classroom, library, and any instructional material,” Stevens wrote in the documents, which were shared with NPR. “Additionally, I also seek the banishment of any book that references the Bible.” His petitions cited a bill signed into law last month by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which lets parents object to educational materials. That bill came about after some parents complained about sexually explicit books being taught in Florida schools. Many of those books, such as Gender Queer: A Memoir, deal with LGBTQ themes and coming out stories. DeSantis celebrated the removal of Gender Queer at a news conference after the signing of the law. It’s “a cartoon-style book with graphic images of children performing sexual acts,” he said last month. “That is wrong.””

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Ultimate Hypocrisy

Indoctrination is supposed to be MY tool – not yours!!!

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Sheriff urges library to yank books with LGBTQ content after “thorough review”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/sheriff-urges-library-yank-books-lgbtq-content-thorough-review/

“Based upon this review, we do not feel that this content is appropriate for young children even though it does not rise to the level of a crime.” The group complaining about the books also wanted to ban a book about the civil rights movement.
 
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The Florida chapter of Moms 4 Liberty (M4L), a far-right “parents’ rights group”, has filed a criminal complaint against the Indian River County School District for having library books with LGBTQ themes. Even more concerning was the local sheriff’s response to the group’s complaint.

This story began in November 2021 when M4L told the district school board to remove 51 “pornographic or sexually explicit” books from school libraries. M4L’s list reportedly included LGBTQ-inclusive titles such as “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”

Related: Two girls briefly kissed at homecoming. Then parents freaked out about “groping.”

M4L then submitted a criminal complaint to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office. After the supervisor of the office’s child sex crime unit conducted “a thorough review”, Sheriff Eric Flowers wrote that the reviewed books’ content “do not allow us to make an arrest in this case.”

“However,” Flowers wrote, “based upon this review, we do not feel that this content is appropriate for young children even though it does not rise to the level of a crime.”

“Some of the content in these books is highly questionable and I certainly would not want my child to have access to it,” he concluded. “I would recommend that the district continue to review their policy to allow for stricter oversight prior to books such as these being made available to children.”

Flowers’ response is concerning because it helps add legitimacy to M4L’s true aim: banning books without full transparency or oversight. The district could start quietly removing titles from school libraries just to avoid public controversy, and one study suggests that many schools do exactly that.

Groups like M4L regularly pressure school boards to ban books without going through the official district policies and public transparency protocols meant to ensure that schools don’t violate First Amendment prohibitions against government officials banning free expression, a recent study by the free-speech organization PEN America found.

Many of the books removed from schools libraries don’t even meet the legal definitions for “obscenity” and “pornography”, PEN reported, despite M4L’s claims to the contrary.

For example, M4L has sought to ban a book about police brutality against 1960s civil rights demonstrators because it had a “negative view of firemen and police.” The group wanted to ban a book about the church’s persecution of 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, writing, “Where is the HERO of the church?” The group also opposed a picture book about seahorses because it contained a “discussion of the male carrying the eggs.”

 
 

Why are Kentucky Republicans so afraid of a mediocre 12-year-old athlete?

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/kentucky-republicans-afraid-mediocre-12-year-old-athlete/

According to her own parents, she’s not a particularly gifted athlete, but the middle schooler is now banned from playing on the field hockey team she helped create.
 
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Why are Kentucky Republicans so afraid of a mediocre 12-year-old athlete?
12-year-old Fischer Wells is the only known transgender youth athlete in Kentucky.Photo: Fairness Campaign
 

Fisher Wells, the 12-year-old field hockey player targeted by Kentucky’s ban on trans athletes, isn’t exactly a competitive threat. According to her own parents, she’s not a particularly gifted athlete. The Courier-Journal reports that her school’s fledgling team, which loses more games than it wins, needed her participation in order to have enough players.

Chris Hartman, executive director of the Fairness Campaign, says Wells is, as far as they know, the only trans student-athlete in the state.

Related link: Rightwing candidate says being gay is unconstitutional because “homosexuals cannot procreate”

“Kentucky’s a national embarrassment today, and it’s shameful that lawmakers would prioritize attacking one trans seventh grader, rather than the real issues facing Kentuckians,” he said. “It’s a sad day in our Commonwealth.”

Wells, who testified against the bill in February, agreed.

“It’s disgusting that this bill is even suggested,” she told legislators. Because of the passage of SB 83, Wells will be barred from playing on the team she helped to create.

Kentucky’s Republican-controlled House and Senate overrode a veto by Gov. Andy Beshear (D) to enact a law barring transgender girls from playing on middle and high school girls’ sports teams. The governor had vetoed Senate Bill 83 the prior week, saying that it likely violates Constitution’s equal rights protections.

Proponents of the bill insist it is necessary to ensure that cisgender girls don’t lose opportunities to competitors who are transgender. But there is no evidence of risk to cisgender athletes, and the state’s only known trans female athlete is actually responsible for increasing athletic opportunities for girls in Kentucky.

“Transgender children deserve public officials’ efforts to demonstrate that they are valued members of our communities through compassion, kindness, and empathy, even if not understanding,” Beshear wrote in a statement.

Despite the rhetoric of trans athletes dominating women’s sports, state efforts to ban transgender youth from participating in athletics are often legislating against an exceptionally small number of students. Kentucky’s actions echo those in Utah, where legislators likewise overturned a veto by the state’s governor to push through a ban on trans athletes that applies to very few students. According to Gov. Spencer Cox (R), only four transgender youth are currently competing in athletics in the state.

“Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports,” Cox said. “That’s what this is all about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.”

Lawmakers have also banned trans youth from participating in sports in Arizona and Iowa, and are poised to override a governor’s veto in Indiana.