Below are posts associated with the βLGBTQβ tag.
π linkblog: A far-right plan to riot near an Idaho LGBTQ event heightens safety concerns at Pride : NPR'
Given the aggressively queerphobic language I’ve read on Gab, events like this are worrying but not surprising. More worrying is the way that this queerphobic language is increasingly used in the mainstream GOP. How do Republican politicians and voters feel about these events?
Dallin Oaks and Marjorie Taylor Greene on heterosexual extinction
Thanks to a recommendation from BoingBoing, I just finished reading a Business Insider article describing a recent video in which Marjorie Taylor Greene:
predicted that identifying as heterosexual will be a thing of the past within a period of less than 200 years thanks to LGBTQ-inclusive sex educators, who she called “trans terrorists.”
More specifically, Greene was quoted as saying that heterosexual extinction would come about “probably in about four or five generations.” Referrring to “generations” in the context of a purported heterosexual extinction felt familiar to me. In fact, as horribly queerphobic as Greene’s message was, she was actually more optimistic than Latter-day Saint General Authorities have been in the past.
π linkblog: Richard Scarry's 21st Century Classroom | Boing Boing'
Tom the Dancing Bug is usually just the right level of dark.
π linkblog: Brittney Griner's detention in Russia: What it says about basketball's pay gap : NPR'
Seems to me that folks truly concerned about the integrity of women’s sports would have more to say about this.
π linkblog: The Far-Right Is Doxxing School Officials They Think Are βGroomersβ'
This matches rhetoric I’m reading while doing research on Gab. We need respectable conservative movements in the U.S., but our contemporary mainstream right is flirting with these ideas instead of denouncing them. It’s troubling
π linkblog: LGBTQ biases led to uproar after board message, KY teacher says | Lexington Herald Leader'
Worries about this picking up. General Assembly took steps in a bad direction this session, but they could go further next time.
π linkblog: LGBTQ advocates raise alarm against trans attacks in Ky. legislature β 89.3 WFPL News Louisville'
I have spent a few hours this week reading violently anti-trans posts as part of a research project. My patience for queerphobic dog whistles disguised as feigned concerns about girls’ sports is at zero. So disappointed in the Kentucky legislature.
π linkblog: Pride flag displayed at Lexington KY manβs house gets burned | Lexington Herald Leader'
I bike past this house and its flags every day; seeing them is always a boost. How upsetting that people would want to burn one.
π linkblog: Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Openly Advocating Violence Against Trans People'
Greene is repeatedly awful, and the GOP’s refusal to do anything substantial about it is telling.
π linkblog: Tabletop Designers Rally to Support Trans Kids in Texas'
Shut up and take my money! This is why itch is one of my favorite game-related places on the internet.
π linkblog: Texas Is Going to Start Investigating Parents of Trans Kids for Child Abuse'
Kentucky has taken some bad steps in this direction lately, but this is horrific.
π linkblog: just finished 'Ky. Republicans advance another bill banning trans girls from girls sports β 89.3 WFPL News Louisville'
Disappointed to see more legislation like this under consideration.
π linkblog: just finished 'Lexington KY gets βperfect scoreβ for LGBTQ protections | Lexington Herald Leader'
Good news for Lexington! π³οΈβππ³οΈβππ³οΈβπ