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Anti-Drag Activist Questioned Over NC Power Outage

Anti-Drag Activist Questioned Over NC Power Outage

Durham’s ABC affiliate reports:

Acts of intentional vandalism caused ten of thousands of people in Moore County to sleep Saturday night without power. Moore County Sheriff’s Office said the outages began just after 7 p.m. because of damaged caused at multiple substations in the county. Sheriff Ronnie Fields said the mass outage is currently believed to have been caused by a criminal act. Approximately 38,000 people lost power and were forced to deal with the overnight freezing temperatures.

NBC News reports:

Sewer lift stations were also out of order and authorities advised residents to stay off the roads. “There are multiple accidents that have occurred,” Southern Pines administration said in a statement. While typical outages in North Carolina are often resolved within an hour so, the late-night blackout for much of Moore County appeared to new territory for Duke Energy and for law enforcement. “Until we understand the scope of the damage, we can’t yet estimate when power will be restored.”

The Daily Beast reports:

A local conservative activist who organized a protest against a drag show said on Facebook that she was visited by deputies. “I welcomed them to my home. Sorry they wasted their time,” Emily Grace Rainey wrote. Two hours earlier, Rainey had posted the message: “The power is out in Moore County and I know why.” And around the same time, she posted a picture of the Sunrise Theater, which was putting on the sold-out drag show, with the caption “God will not be mocked.”

 

Paula • 5 hours ago

This is domestic terrorism. This bitch is dangerous. She is Military Intelligence. They are dirty players. She might need to disappear into prison.

sherman Paula • 5 hours ago

While this pig high-fived a Proud Boy and said he supported their right to protest, this wasn’t a protest, it was domestic terrorism – using violence or threats of violence to achieve a political goal.

mikeiver  Paula  5 hours ago  edited

Correct. They teach them how to disrupt communications, power, and water infrastructure in the military. A review of her records will likely reveal that she has been thru this schooling. She can’t be to smart having shot off her cock socket like this so they will have a very hard look at her over the next weeks.
Edit: Had a look at some videos and pictures and if they attacked the transformer that is millions of dollars to repair or replace. It appears from the size to be at least a 25 megawatt unit. They don’t keep those laying around in the yard as backup! Allot of these stations also have video cameras stationed facing out and in so they likely have some video.

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And it appears to be a prank to dicredit trans people.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2022/09/25/or-maybe-the-trans-shop-teacher-is-the-hero-we-need-right-now-n1632054

This morning I noticed that Tildeb left a link to a story of a man claiming to be trans who clearly was trying to be offensive.   Bad wig, oversized fake breasts that swelled to almost more than arm’s length hung down over his belt.  The breasts had over large nipples sticking out.    As soon as I seen it I knew it was someone trying to troll everyone and to mock the idea of tolerance and acceptance.  Just like a white person doing black face with exaggerated facial features, way of talking, and gestures.   And I was correct.   Why do some people need to be assholes?  Why can they just not accept that other people who are not like them exist and are just as valid as they are.    Hugs

…or Maybe the Trans Shop Teacher Is the Hero We Need Right Now

 
BY ATHENA THORNE 4:34 PM ON SEPTEMBER 25, 2022
AP Photo/Armando Franca

There is the most titillating rumor being bandied about the interwebs right now. And while it may or may not be true, it’s certainly food for thought. It concerns “Kayla Lemieux,” the infamous trans-woman shop teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School (OTHS) in Ontario, Canada.

 
 

An anonymous poster on an online forum recently made a claim about Lemieux’s shop class back when “Kayla” was still Mr. Kerry Luc Lemieux. The post reads:

This dude is gaming the system. An anon here yesterday was in this dude’s class. This teacher was almost fired for ‘toxic masculinity’ last year, as well as not embracing woke culture. He’d drop redpills to his class, such as how silly gender neutral bathrooms are. The school board hates him.

He’s now upping the ante to exploit the very clown world the school and society itself created. His long game is most likely to get fired, and then sue for discrimination. There is no other explanation.. No better way to troll clown world than to become an over-the-top caricature of a woman.

 

File this allegation under “Huge if True” (lol). Imagine for a moment that the anonymous person is telling the truth. If that is the case, then this teacher is the greatest hero the sane world has fronted yet.

Related: Parents and Students Protest Transgender Teacher With Huge Fake Breasts

If Lemieux is indeed pranking the school board, then he is a genius. When images of the trans-busty high school shop teacher began spreading like wildfire online, the outrage was swift and formidable. OTHS and the Halton District School Board (HDSB) went on the defensive — and it quickly became evident that they had painted themselves into a corner with their mindless commitment to “inclusion.”

 

“We are aware of discussion on social media and in the media regarding Oakville Trafalgar High School. We would like to take this opportunity to reiterate to our community that we are committed to establishing and maintaining a safe, caring, inclusive, equitable and welcoming learning and working environment for all students and staff,” said OTHS in an email sent to parents and obtained by feminist new site Reduxx.

HDSB similarly tied its own hands when it released its “Gender Identity & Gender Expression in Schools” policy a year ago. The policy states, in part:

The Halton District School Board (HDSB) recognizes the rights of students, staff, parents/guardians and community members to equitable treatment without discrimination based upon gender identity and gender expression.

The HDSB is committed to establishing and maintaining a safe, caring, inclusive, equitable and welcoming learning and working environment for all members of the school community including students, staff, parents/guardians and community members who identify as, or are perceived as Two-Spirit, Queer, trans*1, Non-Binary, Intersex, and those who are questioning their sexual orientation and/or gender identity(ies).

 

Is Lemieux actually an undercover conservative activist engaging in the Alinskyite tactic, “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules”? Is he exposing the utter folly of the transgender craze with his “gender identity expression”?

Some speculate that Lemieux is pulling his stunt so he can force the school board to fire him — and then whack them with a big-money lawsuit. That would be an excellent next development: please, please let transgender first-world made-up gobbledy-gook be forced to defend itself in court.

The HDSB policy states that “The student’s self-identification is the sole measure of their gender.” The Ontario Human Rights Commission, which the school board cites as the authority behind its code, defines gender identity and expression thusly:

Gender identity is each person’s internal and individual experience of gender. It is their sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum. A person’s gender identity may be the same as or different from their birth-assigned sex. Gender identity is fundamentally different from a person’s sexual orientation.

Gender expression is how a person publicly presents their gender. This can include behaviour and outward appearance such as dress, hair, make-up, body language and voice. A person’s chosen name and pronoun are also common ways of expressing gender.

 

The lunacy of insisting that “gender” is nothing more than what anyone says they are feeling at any given moment is the most ludicrous and socially destabilizing tenet the Left has come up with yet. While the fascinating rumor may be just that, a rumor with no basis in reality — if Madame Lemieux turns out not to be the awesome troll I hope he is — then here’s hoping someone else gets on it at once.

Here is another story that repeats the idea that this guy is trolling a school board that he has fought with for years, trying to get fired so he can sue.   Hugs

https://www.rebelnews.com/ezra_levant_show_september_26_2022

Dozens Of Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Armed Extremists, And Nazis Gather Outside Canceled Ohio Drag Event – JMG

Dozens Of Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Armed Extremists, And Nazis Gather Outside Canceled Ohio Drag Event

This was at a church for dogs that love gravy.   But no dissent will be tolerated from the maga thug rule.   The Christian Taliban has spoken, and head priest DeathSantis says no men wearing dresses except priests.   Please note that these thugs did manage to get the event canceled as the church and the promoters were scared, worried about violence to the people coming to see it, the performers, and the kids.   The harm was not the show, but what these thugs would do to the people at the show.   Complete lawlessness.    And all these police that can smash down black peoples doors, arrest little old ladies for a $77 dollar trash bill wouldn’t provide safe access and coverage for the event.   So what do these thugs shut down next?  A Muslim event?  A political event from the party they don’t support?  So far they have shut down school board meets and got their way on changing how things are done in schools.   No masks, no LGBTQI+ acceptance programs, so what next limiting girls to only certain grades?   Or shutting down Buddhist temples?  Hey that is the way we do government now, attack anyone who disagrees, lash out and demean others.  The republican party has shown the way with trump, Christ Christy, DeathSantis, and the entire Marge Greene congressional crew.   In one of the clips a Proud Boy protester demands to know what bible are they reading at (from).   Also for people claiming the moral high road they love to shout the word fuck over their bullhorns on public streets.  I don’t get upset over swearing but I bet the parents driving / walking by with their children were not too happy about it.  Think of this Nazi shit marching down your sidewalk in front of your home and going to attack … well you name the establishment that Nazi’s love to attack and destroy  Hugs

The Associated Press reports:

An Ohio school says an internal dispute over security prompted a last-minute cancellation of a weekend children’s storytelling event featuring performers in drag amid a planned protest by a far-right group.

The Red Oak Community School’s “Holi-Drag Storytime” event was to have been held Saturday morning at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbus, where the school is based. The Ohio Chapter of the Proud Boys last month announced plans to attend and protest the event.

About 50 to 70 members of the Proud Boys and other groups had gathered on the sidewalk on roads leading to the church, shouting, chanting and holding signs.

Matter News reports:

Previously, the Columbus and Central Ohio LGBTQ+ Leadership Roundtable, a group that consists of Stonewall Columbus, Kaleidoscope Youth Center, HRC Columbus, Equitas Health and LoveBoldly, requested that the community not show up to counterprotest the Proud Boys at the Holi-Drag event.

“This situation is potentially volatile and dangerous, and the safety of the children, families, performers and our community are of paramount importance,” the Leadership Roundtable said in a statement. “Our actions must be in service to their protection.”

See the final video below for today’s message from the event’s organizers. Give the tweets below a minute to fully load.

Texas man charged with making death threats against Boston doctor treating trans youth

Texas man charged with making death threats against Boston doctor treating trans youth

 

Matthew Jordan Lindner faces federal charges after allegedly threatening a doctor affiliated with the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center.

By Morgan Rousseau

A Texas man has been federally charged after allegedly harassing and making death threats against a Boston doctor who treats members of the transgender community, including trans youth.

Matthew Jordan Lindner, 38, of Comfort, Texas, was arrested Friday and charged with one count of transmitting interstate threats, according to the U.S. District Attorney’s Office. Lindner appeared in the Western District of Texas Friday afternoon and will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date.

Prosecutors say that in August, inaccurate information about procedures at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) for the transgender community was spreading online. According to the charging documents, on Aug. 31, Lindner called the Boston-based National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and left a threatening voicemail targeting one of the center’s affiliated doctors. 

According to its website, the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center provides “educational programs, resources and consultation to health care organizations with the goal of optimizing quality, cost-effective health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and all sexual and gender minority (LGBTQIA+) people.” The education center is part of Fenway Health and the Fenway Institute, which are among the world’s largest health centers focused on LGBTQIA+ communities.

Investigators say the targeted doctor cares for gender-nonconforming children and transgender patients.

In Linder’s expletive-packed voicemail, officials say he allegedly threatened, “You’re all gonna burn. There’s a group of people on their way to handle [the doctor]. You signed your own warrant, [doctor].”

Prosecutors also say Linder accused the doctor of “castrating our children” and said, “You’ve woken up enough people. And upset enough of us. And you signed your own ticket.”

If convicted, Lindner faces a sentence of up to five years in prison, up to three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $250,000. 

“Death threats instill fear and terror in their targeted audiences,” U.S. Attorney Rachael S. Rollins said in a news release. “The conduct alleged here is not protected free speech. The words used here do not amount to someone simply expressing their discontent or engaging in a heated debate. Mr. Lindner’s alleged conduct — a death threat — is based on falsehoods and amounts to an act of workplace violence. The victim, a doctor caring for gender nonconforming and transgendered patients, should be able to engage in this meaningful and necessary work without fear of physical harm or death.”

In August, Rollins announced the creation of the “End Hate Now” hotline (1-83-END-H8-NOW or 1-833-634-8669) for reporting hate-based incidents or potential criminal activity. Callers can report incidents of hate, hate crimes, or individuals believed to be supporting acts of hate-based violent extremism. Callers can remain anonymous. 

Judge blocks Indiana abortion ban on religious freedom grounds

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-blocks-indiana-abortion-ban-on-religious-freedom-grounds/ar-AA14QzO6?ocid=ansmsnnews11&cvid=d874d5bac1ef47e1903cd4581b7c2147

A second Indiana judge on Friday blocked the state from enforcing its law banning most abortions after Jewish, Muslim and other non-Christian women challenged it in a lawsuit.

Special session debating on banning abortion, in Indianapolis
Special session debating on banning abortion, in Indianapolis© Thomson Reuters

Marion County Superior Court Judge Heather Welch issued a preliminary injunction against the Republican-backed law, which prohibits abortions with limited exceptions for rape, incest, lethal fetal abnormalities or a serious health risk to the mother. The plaintiffs have argued that the measure infringes on religious freedom protected by another state law.

The law had already been on hold, as another judge in September blocked Indiana from enforcing it while Planned Parenthood and other healthcare providers challenge it in court.

Indiana became the first state to pass a new law banning abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court in June overturned its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized the procedure nationwide. Other Republican-led states quickly began enforcing older bans.

 

Welch issued her injunction after a group called Hoosier Jews for Choice and five individual women challenged the abortion law under Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act in a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU said the plaintiffs represented religions including Judaism and Islam as well as “independent spiritual belief systems.”

 
FILE PHOTO: Special session to debate banning abortion in Indianapolis
FILE PHOTO: Special session to debate banning abortion in Indianapolis© Thomson Reuters

“The Court finds that S.E.A. 1 substantially burdens the religious exercise of the Plaintiffs,” Welch wrote, using the formal name of the law, in granting the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction while the challenge to its legality proceeds.

“Although some religions believe that human life begins at conception, this is not an opinion shared by all religions or all religious people,” the ACLU said in a statement.

Laura Ingraham: Trans People Are “Deeply Anti-Human”

Laura Ingraham: Trans People Are “Deeply Anti-Human”

This is what the right wing media is pushing constantly and what the religious right people are hearing.   They believe it, they refuse to look at any other media or ideas that don’t agree with the worst possible thing that can be said about the LGBTQI+.   The parents watching / reading this right wing media then share it with their kids.   The parents go to school board meetings and scream their hate, the right wing board members attack gay and trans kids making their school years horrible and scary.  The right wing parents tell their kids to tell them if any teacher says anything positive about gays or stop their kids from spewing hate and bigotry.  The right wing kids attack the gay and trans kids, if the teachers stops them the kids report that to their parents or if the teacher puts a same sex family picture up the kids report that to the parents that sue claiming their right wing family rights to persecute and oppress are being denied.    My heart hurts over this situation.   Hugs

Laura Ingraham: Trans People Are “Deeply Anti-Human”

“Crusaders for climate change, abortion, euthanasia, gender fluidity, they all lead — eventually, their thinking — to the devaluing of human life.

“At its core, being anti-human means being anti- truth because it involves the questioning or denying of objective facts, including those at the very heart of our existence. 

“The cult of gender deviancy collapses into meaningless slogans and blather. None of it makes any sense, but it’s deeply anti-human.” – Laura Ingraham, last night.


heleninedinburgh • 43 minutes ago

Like those trans people at Dartmouth in the 1980s who took photos of students going into gay students’ alliance meetings and then outed them in the college magazine, leading one of them to attempt suicide.
Oh wait, that was you, you fucking nazi sow.

liondon#traitor-ex-president • 42 minutes ago

Right wing dehumanizes queer people by enacting laws to ban books and discussion about their history.
Also right wing: the left dehumanizes everything!

Buford • 36 minutes ago

…being anti-human means being anti- truth because it involves the questioning or denying of objective facts…

Fascinating, considering that perspective is coming from people who flatly refuse to even attempt to understand the science and objective facts which explain, clearly, that gender is not binary and lots of variations of gender and sex appear naturally and always have.

Bullying of LGBTQ students on the rise this year according to high school principals

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/bullying-lgbtq-students-rise-year-according-high-school-principals/

Seriously is anyone surprised at this news.   This is what the don’t say gay and the anti-trans rhetoric are all about.   The guy who wrote and pushed the don’t say gay bill said the reason he wrote it was he couldn’t stand that gay kids were coming out in school and accepted by the other students.   He wanted them targeted and bullied to stop other kids from coming out.   He said that!   It is the goal.  Oh and yes he claims he is a deeply religious Christian.    It is the Russia model of removing the LGBTQI+ from society / the public.   These red states have now removed any anti-bullying programs or campaigns based on it would violate parents’ rights according to these laws to teach their children that being gay of trans is an abomination to their god and so they need to be beaten / removed to make god happy.   Think of it, kids who get told that gays are molesting kids they are going to beat up and pick on gay kids and right now teachers cannot stop it in places in Florida.   This is the end result the maga religious right thugs love, the right to force others to live as they demand, do what they demand, they are the US Christian Taliban.   Hugs

There has been a marked increase in parents demanding limits to LGBTQ+ students’ rights that may have spilled over to bullying in schools.
 
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A kid being bullied at school
Photo: Shutterstock

Nearly half of the public high school principals who participated in a new nationally representative survey say they faced efforts from parents or the broader community to “challenge or limit LGBTQ+ students’ rights” during the 2021–2022 school year. The new study’s results suggest that adult efforts to limit LGBTQ+ students’ rights has led to increased bullying of LGBTQ+ students in schools.

During the summer of 2022, the Institute for Democracy, Education and Access at UCLA and the Civic Engagement Research Group at UC Riverside surveyed 682 public high school principals and found that culture war issues have their jobs increasingly difficult.

As NPR reports, policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ students’ rights were among the topics that 69 percent of those surveyed said led to “substantial political conflict” with parents or members of their communities.

Researchers found that principals in narrowly divided purple districts were almost twice as likely as those in more conservative or liberal areas to say they faced multiple efforts to limit LGBTQ students’ rights.

A similar 2018 survey found that 15 percent of principals indicated multiple attacks on LGBTQ students. That percentage rose to 24 percent across all schools in the 2022 survey, with the number more than tripling in purple districts.

The 2022 survey also indicated that adult efforts to limit LGBTQ students’ rights paralleled an increase in students harassing LGBTQ classmates.

“It’s quite disheartening to work so hard and care for all our students when so many people are being hateful and threatening,” said one California principal, who reported an incident in which a parent screamed an anti-gay slur at a school counselor over the phone.

Other issues that caused significant conflict, according to 69 percent of the principals surveyed, include teaching issues around race and racism, social-emotional learning, and student access to books in school libraries. They also reported that rampant misinformation is making it harder to teach many subjects, particularly current events and media literacy.

Despite their grim findings, John Rogers, a professor of education at UCLA who helped lead the survey, and collaborator Joseph Kahne, a professor of education at UC Riverside, said that many principals believe that a majority of parents do not support the conflicts raging in public schools.

Rogers told NPR that principals believe that most parents stay silent, however, “because they’re too busy or overwhelmed or are afraid that if they become engaged, they’re going to face danger.”

“If the vast majority of folks are quiet, then folks who have very strong opinions or who are willing to engage in very contentious politics will have an outsized influence,” Kahne said. “If all parents and community members speak up, and if they have reasoned and focused conversations, that dialogue will be good for schools.”

The schools use to be the place to combat prejudice, bigotry, and hate.   But now the teachers are told they cannot support the attacked kids, they cannot affirm anything positive about gay or trans kids.   Meanwhile this is what the right wing parents are hearing all day on right wing media and the kids are being told.   Wonder why a right wing kid would think trans kids are trying to attack them in the bathrooms?   Wonder why right wing kids think all gays are child molesters?   

Laura Ingraham: Trans People Are “Deeply Anti-Human”

 

School board forbids teachers from teaching kids how to eat poop

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/school-board-forbids-teachers-teaching-kids-eat-poop/

A giant WTF!   Seriously what the religious right thinks is going on in schools is so Qanon over the top it is hard to take them seriously, except they are managing to use their fantasies to wipe the LGBTQI+ out of the schools and society.   Kids / students need sexual education that not only covers the body parts, but also healthy ways to take care of those parts, ways to avoid pregnancy and STDs which includes proper use of condoms, and also the social aspects of sexuality such as how to date, porn is unrealistic, consent, and more.  Yes that includes what happens when aroused to the sexual areas.   It also includes teaching the concept of no shaming for those who have different kinks.    That doesn’t mean giving full on demonstrations.    What the hell do these school board members think is happening, the kids getting a porn hub four day pass?  Dogs that love gravy these religious right are so repressed it is scary.   Any kid with a phone and an interest in these kinks already understand how it works, they just need to know how to be safe, what is dangerous, and to understand boundaries.   The teachers seem to think it is just a way to outrage the public to erase any mention or acceptance of gays, trans, and the rest of the LGBTQI+.   Hugs

School board meetings have become the theater of the absurd.
 
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School board forbids teachers from teaching kids how to eat poop
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A Virginia school board has been at the center of the nationwide controversy over including LGBTQ students in the curriculum. Now, the debate – and the school board’s response – has become theater of the absurd.

After Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) rode the frenzy to ban books, fire teachers, and muzzle students all the way to the top and muscled through new laws, the board has come up with a policy that covers “sexually explicit content.”

While religious right activists and politicians have made outrageous claims about students identifying as cats and using litter boxes, the school board took it a step further – in the dog direction. They expressly forbade educators from teaching students how to eat poop.

The new policy also forbids teaching about sadomasochism, bestiality, or pee play. Because while educators are worried about ensuring educational access for LGBTQ students, that’s what the religious right thinks they are being taught in schools.

Loudoun’s policy defines sexually explicit content as “descriptions, pictures, photographs, drawings, films or other visual representations” of “sexual bestiality, a lewd exhibition of nudity … sexual excitement, sexual conduct or sadomasochistic abuse … coprophilia, urophilia, or fetishism.”

So no learning about latex or leather either.

Loudoun will publish “a current list of instructional materials with sexually explicit content intended to be used in classroom instruction, by grade and subject on the LCPS public website.”

One would think that would be an incredibly short list, but the policy “is a guise of using parental notification to erase LGBTQ students,” middle school teacher Andrea Weiskopf told the Washington Post. “This is allowing individual parents to individualize a curriculum for their own worldview.”

Over the summer, a Loudon County school board meeting devolved into chaos after transphobic, religious right protestors screamed at board members in protest of the districts’ proposed pro-trans policies. One man was arrested and another cited for trespassing after the meeting was declared an unlawful gathering.

Death threats against teachers and school board members over fears of pro-trans policies and “critical race theory” in schools compelled U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to ask the FBI and U.S. attorney’s offices to meet with federal and local law enforcement to “discuss strategies for addressing…the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel.”

In response, Youngkin, then running for Virginia governor, claimed that “the FBI is trying to silence parents” and centered his campaign around parents who wish to shut down progressive policies in public schools.

Members of the board received death threats from conservatives before the recent election.

“It is too bad that your Mama is an ugly communist whore,” read one letter addressed to the child of school board member Brenda Sheridan. “If she doesn’t quit or resign before the end of the year, we will kill her, but first, we will kill you!”

The letter came after rightwing media reported a story where they claimed that a girl was sexually assaulted by a boy in a Loudoun County school restroom. They claimed that it was a result of the district’s policy on transgender students, even though the policy hadn’t even been passed at the time of the sexual assault and the assailant was a cisgender boy.

 
 

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Same-sex households surpass 1 million for first time

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3757815-same-sex-households-surpass-1-million-for-first-time/

The politicians love the money that the LGBTQI+ represents but don’t want to be seen as treating us equally.   I hate the idea that far too many people don’t understand what it is like to have your civil rights be voted on.   Should we treat gay people as we treat everyone else, vote now bullshit.   How about we change that to should we treat red haired people as we treat everyone else?  It makes as much sense.   Also the hate religious groups that raise most of their money from stoking fear and anger about marriage equality are seeing their source of income disappear, just like it did when they got their way with abortion and are fighting to the last second to fund raise off stopping the respect for marriage bill.  I am not posting their rants at this point because every one of them is a money beg.   But understand as the stigma decreases more people will feel free to live their lives openly as they really are.   I decided to live openly when it was dangerous and costly to do so, I don’t want our country to go back to that, but Florida is.    The kids growing up in Florida have suddenly been transported to the bigotry of the 1970s / 1980s and the republicans want to drive them all the way back to 1950.    Hugs

Story at a glance

  • There were 1.2 million same-sex households in 2021, up from about 500,000 in 2008
  • The states with the highest number of same-sex households are Washington, D.C., Hawaii, Delaware, Oregon, California, Florida and New York
  • Congress is poised to pass legislation extending federal protection of the right to same-sex marriage

The number of same-sex households in the U.S. surpassed 1 million for the first time, according to new census data.

There were about 1.2 million same-sex households in 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. About 710,000 of those households were married, while 500,000 were unmarried.

The percent of same-sex households included in the American household population as a whole increased to nearly 1 percent across the country.

Over the years, the number of same-sex households in the U.S. has steadily increased, with about 540,000 reported in 2008. And in 2019, the last year the Census reported data, there were about 980,000 same-sex households in the country.

The results are taken from the annual American Community Survey, a leading resource for detailed population and household estimates from the Census Bureau.

States with the highest number of same-sex households include Washington, D.C., Hawaii, Delaware, Oregon, California, Florida and New York, all of which include more than 1 percent of same-sex households in the total household population.

Washington, D.C., reported about 2.5 percent of its population as living in a same-sex household, while California has the most same-sex households at 163,964.

There were about 631,900 female same-sex households and 577,600 male same-sex households, while the average age for both was 46 years old.

A majority in the survey identified as white, while 12 percent identified as two or more races and 8 percent as Black.

The news comes as Congress is poised to protect the right to same-sex marriage for the first time.

The Senate passed a bipartisan bill this week codifying protections afforded in the 2015 Supreme Court ruling Obergefell v. Hodges, which some feared was in danger after the court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade this summer.

The Respect for Marriage Act now heads to the House, which the lower chamber is expected to pass next week to send the legislation to President Biden’s desk.