I don’t know if the bigots that did this to a person’s home were driven by religious bigotry against the almost nude showing of the one woman’s boobs or the fact that a fully clothed Divine was also there, she was in a famous movie Hairspray and is a man in drag. I have no idea of their pronouns, and I apologize if I wrongly gendered them.
Regardless, this is a property crime. This is domestic terrorism causing harm to others for a political gain or point. No one had the right to do what these four individuals did, but due to their right wing or religious views, they felt they were entitled to do so. Their god’s happiness comes before the happiness or security of any human or people. The right demands total obedience to their views, or they feel free to hurt and harm those that won’t do as they say. This is how far the right has fallen into total fascism and dictatorship. Do as we demand, live as we tell you, or we destroy your home, and even threaten your health and life. It is very anti-democracy and the things the US use to be, but it is very much the way things went in the 1930s Germany. That was when Hitler supporting Brownshirts did just what the gang thugs enforcement arm of the Republicans are doing today, attacking those that resisted the restrictions and ascendancy of their preferred fascist leaders. It is a very scary time in the US as most people today don’t know or understand that history. Hugs
They were seen on surveillance taking their time to douse the mural for nearly five minutes. The paint rained down on the roof the art, the porch, and the windows. Nothing was spared.
The owners of the house say whoever did this seems intent on destroying iconic feminist images.
Every other time, the owners have been intent on restoring the murals. This time, the entire house will have to be repainted. Anyone with information is asked to call Seattle police.
Seattle’s CBS affiliate reports:
Vandals targeted an iconic mural in Seattle early Sunday morning, according to the homeowner and video from the scene. The home – located off Interstate 5 near the Northeast 65th Street exit – has a mural on an outside wall that faces the freeway featuring 1950s pinup model Bettie Page and historic drag queen Divine.
Just after midnight Sunday, suspects approached the home with what appeared to be pressurized containers with red paint, which they used to cover the mural and much of the house. They were seen on surveillance taking their time to douse the mural for nearly five minutes. The paint rained down on the roof, the art, the porch, and the windows. Nothing was spared.
Read the full article. Watch the video. The owner of the home and his wife say repairs might cost $20,000, but the mural will stay.
So here’s the 2 of them again, later that same evening…
This video is from ten years ago. Not that long ago, right. Yet this boy describes some of the same feelings of being the only one that I did. My gods his story was so close to mine except no one came to help me back in 1970s. I suffered, took the abuse, tried to fight the bullies who had the backing of the teachers. All on top of being abused at home. If I only had someone to talk to about it all, any positive role model to turn to. So much a lifetime of harm I could have been avoided / saved from if I had just had someone to go to who was LGBTQ+ friendly. That is why we need the rainbow stickers and flags in classrooms, that is why we need pride rainbow merchandise in stores. Social acceptance, and safety along with being able to be open by the LGBTQ+ kids. This is what the right is desperate to remove and take away. They don’t want acceptance of gays, lesbians, trans, and non-binary people. They want a strict heterosexual 1950s cisgender role’s society. Hell and be damned to those people that don’t fit that mold. Their god and their comfort come first. How many more kids need to suffer this way? If your concern is for children, understand there are LGBTQ+ children in schools. Hugs
This is a very important short video because it shows both what I have been saying about these dressing as drag bans and the goal of the fundamentalist driven right. A trans woman was to give a talk, a presentation, at a library. But due to the new ban on dressing in drag in Montana the library had to cancel the talk because the person was trans.
Governor Greg Gianforte signed the extreme, vaguely worded drag ban just last week. The law bans drag performers, which are defined as “a male or female performer who adopts a flamboyant or parodic feminine persona with glamorous or exaggerated costumes and makeup,” from performing where children are present. It is also the first measure to specifically ban drag story hours in public libraries, meaning it does not only restrict performances that might be more openly sexual.
Jawort is not a drag queen, and the lecture was intended for adults, although children could have attended if they wanted. The library’s decision is a sign that the drag bans are having their intended effect: forcing LGBTQ people out of public view. The law is so confusing, and the punishments are so high, that many people and organizations are trying to avoid the risk.
Notice two things, the law doesn’t say the person or act has to be sexual or have exaggerated sexual characteristics and that even reading to kids is considered a performance. People have tried to argue with me that these drag bans are only to stop kids from seeing burlesque type sex shows. You know, events that could sexualize kids, what ever that means. But reading to kids dressed in a costume in a public library with adults present with parental consent is considered sexual under this ban. How? Well it is a guy dressed in what is thought to be the clothing of the female gender. A person dressed in the other genders clothing would defy or break the strict gender stereotypes from the 1950s that these people are desperately trying to regress the country back to.
This is the goal of the fundamentalist Christian nationalist that have taken over the Republican Party and controls the right, to return to the expected gender norms of the past, and to keep the strict gender roles of the past that they love. No men dressing like a woman or acting womanly, and the same in reverse, no woman dressing or acting manly. It basically outlaws trans people.
Read that last paragraph again please. It outlaws trans people. Next will be to remove the rights from gay people such as same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. The goal as I keep repeating is to drive the country back to the society and social standards of the 1950s. Churches were automatically considered good (Christian churches only of course) and had automatic authority in society. White males were always in charge and could act is what ways they wished towards women and minorities. Women were second class to men and needed a man’s approval in most things and kept the home for the comfort of the man while raising the expected brood of children. Women couldn’t get a divorce without exceptional circumstances, and were stuck in marriages that they did not want and maybe being abused in. Blacks knew their place and kept themselves there. But most important to these people the LGBTQ+ had no rights, gays / lesbians / trans people were not seen or heard from, staying hidden while scared of being found out. When found out, the white males could make their life hell and face no negative consequences.
This is the society these people crave and have obsessively worked for decades. A place with no freedoms or civil rights except for white males, more for those who gave a glancing nod to the Christian church. Oppressive to everyone else, with no personal freedoms to live your life freely if you differed from the church doctrines strict norms and dress codes. For those that have said these laws won’t target cross-dressing and were for protecting kids from being sexualized are not true and never were. Great informative video, I strong hope you will all view it. Hugs
This is more information on the LA school board meeting that the enforcement arm of the right, the maga brownshirt gang thugs the right uses to terrorize the LGBTQ+ community along with other minorities. As I wrote in a reply to Roger, the maga brownshirts gangs don’t want any mention of the LGBTQ+ or pride. They don’t mind using violence and harming those that they disagree with, including trying to intimidate the board members by releasing their names with an implied threat. These people won’t be happy until every gay, trans, lesbian, or not straight cis person is removed from public view and society. They want the LGBTQ+ people hiding and scared to be outed. They want the Russia / Uganda laws against the LGBTQ+ community fully active and enforced today in the US, and they started this by claiming it was just to protect the kids same as those countries did. As if just the existence of gays or trans people are a threat to children somehow, many who are gay or trans themselves. Just being alive is a threat in their world view. Sound familiar? I remember some other country who had gangs that tried to remove a segment of the population and force them into hiding by violence and harm. Now a Fox host Jessie Waters is attacking Furries as sexualizing children just like the gays, trans, drag queens, and pride signs with rainbows. Why? Because they are looking and dressing different and having fun doing dress up. That is a fundamentalist religious person’s nightmare. They dread the idea that somewhere someone is having fun and being happy. They cannot tolerate that, the idea that someone is allowed to be different and happy. They think their god doesn’t want happy people who are doing their own thing, their god wants unhappy people who live their lives under strict codes that eliminates any free thought or acting different than the church doctrines. Hugs
The Los Angeles Times reports:
Three people were arrested Tuesday at protests held outside a meeting of the Glendale Unified School District board, where pro-and anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrators faced off over how schools teach gender and sexuality.
Law enforcement declared an unlawful assembly after fighting broke out outside the building, officials said. The situation temporarily disrupted the meeting, which was about an hour into public comments on an agenda item calling for recognition of June as Pride Month — which board members unanimously approved late in the evening.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of protesters had swarmed outside the building, some waving American flags and others waving Pride flags, with many documenting the scene with their smartphones. Those who were protesting the board’s LGBTQ+ policies chanted, “Leave our kids alone” while naming each of the five members of the board.
Los Angeles’s NBC affiliate reports:
Large barricades set up by Glendale Police to control crowds were seen containing hundreds of demonstrators outside of the Glendale Unified School District headquarters.
A dispersal order was issued around 6:15 p.m. as police were heard using a loudspeaker to order the crowds’ removal, declaring an unlawful assembly. A large barricade was placed in the middle of the parking lot, separating the two contentious groups.
While most of the protest remained peaceful, police said a “small group of individuals engaged in behavior deemed unsafe and a risk to public safety.” Officers were also heard saying they would not hesitate to use a chemical agent against the crowds.
Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports:
Footage from AIR7 HD captured the chaos as punches were thrown in the parking lot. After the skirmishes, police in riot gear kept pro-LGBTQ+ protesters and conservative groups separated. Three people were arrested for various charges, including allegedly using pepper spray and obstructing officers, according to the Glendale Police Department. Close to 500 people showed up at the protest at GUSD headquarters.
“While most of the protest was peaceful, a small group of individuals engaged in behavior deemed unsafe and a risk to public safety,” police said in a statement. A dispersal order was given just after 6 p.m. and additional police resources were requested “to ensure the safety of the Glendale community would not be compromised.” Board members later unanimously adopted the resolution to declare June as Pride Month.
You can count on it: This is coming soon to wherever you live.
Be prepared to stand against the hatemongers. We must, we absolutely must.
Welcome to Facebook Terrorism.
Check the background of those who chant “Leave our kids alone”. Chances are they are the one who are doing unimaginable things to their children and other people’s children. Also they are probably the ones who won’t leave the women bodies alone.
They probably don’t even have kids and just get off on being an agitator
Paid to show up.
They’re very careful not saying it, but my money is on the bigots using pepper spray and getting arrested…
Maybe. But don’t forget the cops might be on the side of the bigots.
The proper response was for the board to ignore “Meal Team 6” and the “Gravy Seals” agitation and go forward with declaring Pride Month. Ironically, all these Qtards did was reemphasize why Pride month declarations are necessary.
If any of the protesters are non-parents of kids in the school system it’s fair to assume they have travelled from elsewhere with the express purpose of causing trouble. There should be an extra charge brought against them.
There are Professional Trouble makers that make the rounds. The threat that close our local school months ago over a Satan Club here in Pennsylvania, came fro North Carolina.
All of this over pronouns?
Really?
You life is so well organized and so successful that this is what you decide to take a stand on?
Grow up.
Their new tactic seems to be the same as their old tactic. Equating us with child molesters seems to be their go to.
Now we have a new twist though. Apparently a declaration of pride is the same as teaching kids the mechanics of anal sex. This is the argument I’m getting from the idiots on the MSN boards. While I enjoy fucking other guys up the ass, we all know that being gay doesn’t immediately mean that all of us participate in that act. It also doesn’t mean that Pride is inherently sexual, nor is it a seminar of sexual instruction.
Pride has its own unique meaning to all of us, but for me, it means I can be proud of the person I am. I don’t have to feel ashamed of myself, which is the primary message of religion and society when it regards homosexuality. I don’t have to be ashamed of the people I love.
It says more about the other side that they are against pride than it says about me for being for it.
As usual conservatives are disgustingly void of empathy. It seems to be a requirement for membership in that group.
Psst. During the whole Purity Ring thing…they discovered anal sex.
They also discovered oral sex! O…M…G!
And this is what happens when homophobic MIS-information is shoveled out as fact. I doubt there is a teacher anywhere in the world that is making sexual preference or gender identity a part of their 3rd grade lesson plans – but the right wingers will use that to push their theo-facist agenda.
yes, the kids aren’t alright.
“Today we will be learning the times tables and how gays have sex in the butt since there is no vagina involved. I will also be handing out the Pride issue of Highlights where you should look at Goofus and Gallant, because who don’t like a bad boy once in a while?”
If it hasn’t been mentioned, this is the same group of antis who spearheaded last week’s Saticoy Elementary School protest against anything LGBT. Quite near by but different city, different school district, same Christians and Armenians plus the same t-shirts. Way to close to where I live. All over the Glendale School Board issuing a Pride month proclamation same as they have done for past 5 years. Now it’s all about grooming and how mentioning 2 moms or 2 dads is only about sexualizing children.
They are quickly getting bolder. I am a pessimist in how this ends. Fascism is rising faster and harder than any of us would have imagined 5 years ago when it felt like we were achieving positive acceptance and the hate group would have to grudgingly move on. It turns out that those who stoke their base instincts weren’t moving on at all. They weaponize the hate for financial gain in the fringe and social media.
Fascism has arisen at the same rate as Dominionism has taken charge of the GQP:
Please notice, the person pushing this bill is a fundamentalist religious bigot who has tried to force their religion into the laws while trying to ban any representation of the LGBTQ+ in society. Their religious views are built on hate, not loving those on the outside of accepted society. It is a self-serving view that pushes not the religion of the Christ mentioned in the bible, but the intense desire to maintain the society that they enjoyed and want to return too or force into being, while showing their bigotry by remaining superior to any others. I did not get the feeling in my time in the SDA church that superiority was the goal Jesus preached. I wouldn’t have needed to wash a few people’s feet, causing such a problem in my abused teen mind. Hugs
** Federal judge blocked parts of DeathSantis anti-trans healthcare ban. He claimed it was clear that gender identity was real. He made the statement several times. I have not read the entire article as I am trying to do many things here at home. Let’s hope all these treatment bans get blocked. Despite the fringe haters groups claims, medical science data over decades of use has shown puberty blockers are safe and reversible and their use prescribed as best care by the major credible organizations. **
The Texas Tribune reports:
Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Friday a bill that bars transgender kids from getting puberty blockers and hormone therapies, though the new law could face legal challenges before it takes effect on Sept. 1.
Senate Bill 14’s passage brings to the finish line a legislative priority for the Republican Party of Texas, which opposes any efforts to validate transgender identities. Trans kids, their parents and LGBTQ advocacy groups fiercely oppose the law, and some have vowed to stop it from going into effect.
Texas — home to one of the largest trans communities in the U.S. — is now one of 18 states that restrict transition-related care for trans minors. “Cruelty has always been the point,” said Emmett Schelling, executive director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas.
Read the full article.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Donna Campbell, first appeared here in 2014 when she introduced a bill to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination by businesses on the basis of “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
In February 2015, she appeared here when she joined a hate group in eating wedding cake to celebrate the 10th “banniversary” of Texas putting a ban on same-sex marriage into the state constitution.
They held that celebration nine months early because the US Supreme Court was about to rule on Obergefell.
My boss is right, The GOP is now run by the Klan.
Uh- “The GOP is now OPENLY run by the Klan“
What was once an honorable American political party was hijacked by theofascists.
The theofascists gained a major hold of the Republican Party when Ronald Reagan occupied the White House.
It’s been downhill for America — an increasing American takeover by the theofascists — since then.
probably the john birchers too
Always worth mentioning that one of the JBS’s founders was Fred Koch (father or Charles and David). Throughout 1963, the JBS put up signs in Dallas calling Kennedy a traitor.
I had a deep discussion with my 18yo granddaughter about her feeling on various LGBTQ issues. She’s cis hetero and absolutely loves the freedom her generation has to be whatever they want to be. She’s had gay friends, trans friends and non-binary friends. They exchange clothing with each other and love experimenting without rules.
My 17yo grandson…the same. He’s cis hetero also and his best friend is gay. He says they laugh at how stupid some people are in getting bent out of shape over gender expression and homosexuality. They just don’t care and accept people for what they say they are and are happy for them when they find love or new friends.
We live in Northern Colorado in a rather Republican area even though the state runs true blue. Our city is about 100,000 people surrounded by farming.
This is what keeps my hopes up when I hear the distressing news. This generation also likes the idea of contributing their voices in voting. My granddaughter and grandson will both be voting age in the next election. While they both said some of their friends are wishy washy on voting, most are excited to be able to finally vote. I don’t think we can compare the last generation to this one. Their experiences were very different and their political savvy amazes me. We have hope for the future!
I just retired from teaching high school after 38 years. I noticed around the late 1990’s that the students in general became kinder and more considerate of others. But if someone was bullied or mistreated, most of the students would be irate at the aggressor. They insisted that everyone be treated fairly.
These young people grew up in a time when our visibility, struggles, and victories as gay people became daily news. Almost everyone found out that they had LGBTQ family, friends, and acquaintances.
Now that Gen Z has reached voting age and tuned out well in the 2022 election, I am encouraged.
The kids are all right.
They’re on the right side but in the right sort of area for that. Kids growing up in corn country are brainwashed to hate and praise gun-toting jeebus, and there are far, far too many twentysomething men who are adherents to Andrew Tate and that brand of toxic masculinity.
We don’t know who will win yet.
Many of these open minded kids are from these farm and ranch families. Will some become their fearful parents, yes. But, not all of them. They go to school in the cities. They aren’t growing up in the cocoon their parents did. They refuse to hate who their parents say to hate. I refuse to give up hope. The pandemic had more of an influence on them than their parental upbringing.
kids brainwashed the same way in the trailer trash states of NC,and esp. SC,but its alll ok ’cause jaysus….
Sadly, that demo is irrelevant to current events because of two reasons: they don’t vote and they don’t donate Dark Money. Those who do both know precisely what’s coming up to vote in larger numbers over time… and they’re pre-empting their power. Right. This. Second.
And yesterday was National Donut Day!
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