All Things LGBTQ+ (9 Viewers)

[Farb]

Didn't really see a place for this so I thought I would start a thread about all things LGBTQ since this is a pretty hot topic in our culture right now

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/sup...y-that-refuses-to-work-with-lgbt-couples.html

• The Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a unanimous defeat to LGBT couples in a high-profile case over whether Philadelphia could refuse to contract with a Roman Catholic adoption agency that says its religious beliefs prevent it from working with same-sex foster parents.
• Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in an opinion for a majority of the court that Philadelphia violated the First Amendment by refusing to contract with Catholic Social Services once it learned that the organization would not certify same-sex couples for adoption.

I will admit, I was hopeful for this decision by the SCOTUS but I was surprised by the unanimous decision.

While I don't think there is anything wrong, per se, with same sex couples adopting and raising children (I actually think it is a good thing as it not an abortion) but I also did not want to see the state force a religious institution to bend to a societal norm.

 

[wardorican]

So, this little post is what got folks all up in a tizzy? Bunch of fragile egos out there. It was a nice thing they did for her. I don't think they're selling those cans, right?

 

[Optimus Prime]

A US court has upheld the right of public schools to force religious teachers to call transgender students by their chosen names and pronouns.

John Kluge, a former music teacher at Brownsburg High School outside Indianapolis, had sued his old employer for trampling on his freedom of belief by asking him to follow its anti-discrimination policy for trans pupils.

The school's principal initially allowed him to simply call students by their last names, but changed course after trans students said it made them feel hurt and singled out in front of their peers.

On Friday, the federal Court of Appeals ruled that carving out an exception for Mr Kluge created an "undue burden" on the school's mission to cater to all its students equally.

It said that Mr Kluge's behaviour had "resulted in students feeling disrespected, targeted, and dehumanised", causing "disruptions to the learning environment".

“Brownsburg has demonstrated as a matter of law that the requested accommodation worked an undue burden on the school’s educational mission by harming transgender students and negatively impacting the learning environment for transgender students, for other students in Kluge’s classes and in the school generally, and for faculty," the court wrote, according to the Associated Press.

Like most people, trans people typically experience stress or distress if persistently called by the wrong name in daily life, and many consider using their chosen name to be a basic component of respect.

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a conservative Christian lobby group that has been representing Mr Kluge in court, said it would consider what to do next…….

Indiana school wins appeal against teacher who refused trans students’ chosen names

Music instructor claims former school’s anti-discrimination policy trampled on his religious rights

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Optimus Prime]

An LGBTQ student group at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU), Spectrum, began organizing a drag show last fall. With the university’s approval, the students advertised and sold tickets to the event—a fundraiser for The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention nonprofit—and reserved the campus’ Jack B. Kelley Student Center for March 31.

On March 20, three days after the venue approved Spectrum’s music selection, University President Walter Wendler unilaterally banned the show from campus. Wendler provided his rationale in a school-wide email with the subject line “A Harmless Drag Show? No Such Thing.”

In the email later published to Wendler’s blog, the president of the public university attempted to justify banning drag from WTAMU on the pretense that the artform is necessarily “derisive, divisive and demoralizing misogyny,” and akin to blackface. (In doing so, he cited a 2015 Slate essay by drag queen Miz Cracker, who actually debunks comparisons of drag and blackface, making the obvious clarification that individual cases of misogyny among drag performers do “not make the entire art form inherently misogynistic.”)

In a March 21 statement posted to Instagram, the student organization responded, writing, “Drag is not a mockery—it is a celebration. Drag is a celebration of many things; queerness, gender, acceptance, love, and especially femininity. To call it mockery or misogynistic is to miss the entire point of what drag is, and what drag means.”

Wendler’s decision comes amid a nationwide right-wing moral panic surrounding drag. In a statement shared with The Daily Beast, Ash Hall of the ACLU of Texas said that Wendler’s decision represents “part of a wave of political attacks against the LGBTQ+ community,” which “stoke misinformation, threats, and violence.”

Noting that, in 2012, a charity drag show was held in the same venue that Spectrum’s was set to take place, Adam Steinbaugh of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) also described the development as an apparent “manifestation of… the overall national furor over drag shows.”

Texas’ state legislature is considering a number of bills that would criminalize drag performances, which right-wing proponents claim “are sexually explicit and expose children to issues… that should be reserved to adults.” Critics of anti-drag proposals have pointed out, however, that drag shows (like plays, movies, and other forms of entertainment) are not inherently sexual—Spectrum’s, for instance, was planned to be PG-13, devoid of both lewd conduct and explicit music, and open only to adults and minors accompanied by a parent.............

How a Texas College Banned a Drag Show and Burned the First Amendment

 

[Optimus Prime]

I've said this before but Candace Owens is just awful

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

It is SO funny that the anti-cancel culture people are so fast to try to cancel something they don't like.. Its like they don't even try to hide the hypocricy...
Its at the point where they can't even explain what cancel culure and Woke is without actually describing what they do on a daily basis..

 

[SamAndreas]

Candace would certainly know something about garnering attention.

 

[Optimus Prime]

So the far right is ditching Bud Light (they drink Coors now?), is it just Bud Light specifically, or all Budweiser brands?

What will they do if Ford issues a rainbow colored F-150 with a trans spokesperson?

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

So the far right is ditching Bud Light (they drink Coors now?), is it just Bud Light specifically, or all Budweiser brands?

What will they do if Ford issues a rainbow colored F-150 with a trans spokesperson?

They aren't gonna stop drinking Bud products because of it. Just like when NFL fans were gonna boycott the NFL, but still seemed to know everyting going on.. They just like to "pretend" they are upset, because in their small minds, if they don't say something it makes them gay... Poor little snowflakes...
Most guy beer drinkers i know drink "their" beer and all other brands taste like horse piss.

 

[Optimus Prime]

AUSTIN, Tex. — Amber and Adam Briggle don’t talk to their children about their family’s emergency exit plan. The preparations are made quietly, in the background of daily life: The car is kept up-to-date on maintenance, always with a full tank of gas. The carriers are ready for the cats.

Amber and Adam know the shortest route across the Texas border, and they know where they’d stay for the short term, while they figured out the family’s next step.
Lawyers are poised to tell them when it’s time to leave, should it come to that.

“If the kids know,” Amber said, “it would keep them up at night, and them losing sleep over this is not going to change the situation one way or another.”
This is the situation: Amber and Adam have a 15-year-old son, Grayson. He is a soft-spoken, gentle child, a devoted big brother to his 10-year-old sister, Mae. Grayson is a decorated athlete, an honors student and a gifted musician.

He is also among the more than 29,000 transgender children estimated to live in Texas, where lawmakers this year have filed at least 140 bills that target LGBTQ rights. (All children in this story are identified by their middle names or initials to protect their safety).


What this means is that nothing about Grayson’s future in his home state is certain anymore. After years spent fighting — and mostly defeating — mounting waves of anti-trans legislation, the Briggles and other families of trans children in Texas now find themselves at a place of unprecedented peril.

Lawmakers have introduced the most extreme slate of anti-trans bills to ever come before the state legislature, including bills that would ban gender-affirming health care for trans youth; censor discussions and libraries in public schools; punish district attorneys who refuse to prosecute parents for child abuse for providing gender-affirming care to their children; and preempt a local government’s ability to enact laws that enshrine equality — meaning even trans-inclusive families in progressive bastions like Austin or Houston might not find sanctuary there.

To parents like Amber and Adam, the cumulative effect of this flood of bills can be distilled to one explicit truth: “It is life or death for these kids,” Amber said. Take Grayson, their flourishing child, and strip away his ability to live as himself, and his parents know exactly what’s at stake.

Their fears are echoed by leading medical experts: Trans kids already experience significantly higher rates of depression and suicide attempts, and major medical associations have voiced alarm that the rising tide of anti-trans legislation will put these children at even greater risk.

At this moment of utmost urgency, Amber said, families like hers also feel alone, with no sign of rescue on the horizon. “It feels like nobody cares,” she said. “There’s no pushback coming from the business community anymore. There’s no action coming from the White House. Where are all the allies? We’re out here, left to fend for ourselves.”……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/04/10/texas-trans-children-families/

 

[Optimus Prime]

They aren't gonna stop drinking Bud products because of it. Just like when NFL fans were gonna boycott the NFL, but still seemed to know everyting going on.. They just like to "pretend" they are upset, because in their small minds, if they don't say something it makes them gay... Poor little snowflakes...
Most guy beer drinkers i know drink "their" beer and all other brands taste like horse piss.

FWIW
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Bud Light sales have plunged and its distributors in the Midwest, the South, and rural areas are 'spooked' by backlash after the company partnered with trans TikToker Dylan Mulvaney.

Distributors for Anheuser-Busch products, the company that owns Bud Light, have reported dwindling sales over the weekend, according to trade publication Beer Business Daily.

It comes as a video of a man claiming to be a merchandiser for an A-B affiliate went viral on Twitter as he lamented poor sales and the impact on his livelihood.

'I've never seen such little sales as in the past few days,' he said. 'When people don't buy this beer I don't make money and I can't feed my family.'

The controversy arose when Mulvaney, 26, shared a new promotional on Instagram, including a Bud Light can with her face printed on it. Objections emerged from conservatives, as well as musician Kid Rock, who shot cases of Bud Light in protest.

Beer Business Daily wrote in its report that it sought to unpack the backlash by considering things purely form 'a marketing and sales perspective' and 'ignoring the politics and social issues.'

'By Thursday afternoon, we had reached out to a handful of A-B distributors who were spooked, most particularly in the Heartland and the South, and even then in their more rural areas,' it published on Monday...............

MSN

www.msn.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

 

[UncleTrvlingJim]

AUSTIN, Tex. — Amber and Adam Briggle don’t talk to their children about their family’s emergency exit plan. The preparations are made quietly, in the background of daily life: The car is kept up-to-date on maintenance, always with a full tank of gas. The carriers are ready for the cats.

Amber and Adam know the shortest route across the Texas border, and they know where they’d stay for the short term, while they figured out the family’s next step.
Lawyers are poised to tell them when it’s time to leave, should it come to that.

“If the kids know,” Amber said, “it would keep them up at night, and them losing sleep over this is not going to change the situation one way or another.”
This is the situation: Amber and Adam have a 15-year-old son, Grayson. He is a soft-spoken, gentle child, a devoted big brother to his 10-year-old sister, Mae. Grayson is a decorated athlete, an honors student and a gifted musician.

He is also among the more than 29,000 transgender children estimated to live in Texas, where lawmakers this year have filed at least 140 bills that target LGBTQ rights. (All children in this story are identified by their middle names or initials to protect their safety).


What this means is that nothing about Grayson’s future in his home state is certain anymore. After years spent fighting — and mostly defeating — mounting waves of anti-trans legislation, the Briggles and other families of trans children in Texas now find themselves at a place of unprecedented peril.

Lawmakers have introduced the most extreme slate of anti-trans bills to ever come before the state legislature, including bills that would ban gender-affirming health care for trans youth; censor discussions and libraries in public schools; punish district attorneys who refuse to prosecute parents for child abuse for providing gender-affirming care to their children; and preempt a local government’s ability to enact laws that enshrine equality — meaning even trans-inclusive families in progressive bastions like Austin or Houston might not find sanctuary there.

To parents like Amber and Adam, the cumulative effect of this flood of bills can be distilled to one explicit truth: “It is life or death for these kids,” Amber said. Take Grayson, their flourishing child, and strip away his ability to live as himself, and his parents know exactly what’s at stake.

Their fears are echoed by leading medical experts: Trans kids already experience significantly higher rates of depression and suicide attempts, and major medical associations have voiced alarm that the rising tide of anti-trans legislation will put these children at even greater risk.

At this moment of utmost urgency, Amber said, families like hers also feel alone, with no sign of rescue on the horizon. “It feels like nobody cares,” she said. “There’s no pushback coming from the business community anymore. There’s no action coming from the White House. Where are all the allies? We’re out here, left to fend for ourselves.”……

https://www.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2023/04/10/texas-trans-children-families/

I have a high school friend who is leaving Texas because of this to protect his kid. He isn't waiting to find out if he has to flee.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Howard Stern has condemned Kid Rock and Travis Tritt’s transphobic comments about TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney’s new partnership with brewing company Anheuser-Busch.

Earlier this month, Mulvaney, who is transgender, shared a sponsored post on her Instagram account promoting Bud Light’s March Madness contest.

The partnership prompted a wave of transphobic backlash on social media, as well as a boycott of Bud Light.

Last week, country singer Tritt shared a range of tweets in support of the Anheuser-Busch boycott.

“I will be deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality rider. I know many other artists who are doing the same,” he wrote. “Other artists who are deleting Anheuser-Busch products from their hospitality rider might not say so in public for fear of being ridiculed and cancelled. I have no such fear.”

Kid Rock, meanwhile, posted a video of himself shooting three cases of Bud Light with an assault rifle, declaring: “f*** Bud Light and f*** Anheuser-Busch.” The singer was wearing a MAGA hat in the video.

During the latest episode of his Sirius XM show, Stern said: “I wish I could call Kid Rock and have him come on the show and just tell me ‘Why are you so upset about this? How is it hurtful?’ I don’t know why he got so upset.

“Kid Rock, I know him. He’s got a great life. He transitioned from some kid in Michigan to a rock superstar! I’m really dumbfounded by why someone would care so much that they would blow up a can of Bud Light and say, ‘F*** Anheuser-Busch.’ I don’t get it.”

Stern added then read out Tritt’s statement, adding: “I would like to interview the guy. I’m coming from a place of, ‘Why you care so much?’”.............

Howard Stern calls out Kid Rock and Travis Tritt over transphobic responses to Dylan Mulvaney’s Bud Light campaign

 

[SystemShock]

I've said this before but Candace Owens is just awful

The company you keep... everyone associated with the Daily Wire is awful.

 

[Huntn]

The American Taliban is real…a cultural war designed to keep you in their pseudo-Christian straight jacket based on ignorance. What is most alarming is that this crisis is brought on by bigotry and intolerance. Gays, you are in just as much trouble. For all I know Jews, Muslims and minorities are right behind. For anyone who wants historical perspective we have some alarming parallels in the making mimicking Nazi Germany.

 

[superchuck500]

I can’t imagine being both this stupid and this hate-filled at the same time. Must suck to live that way.

 

[Bigdaddysaints]

and in 3 months they will all be drinking Bud light again...lol

People with hate like that are just small minded. Funny part is, they don't even know why they are mad about it. They only know that they are being told to be like that...

 

[Optimus Prime]

As conservative uproar over Bud Light teaming up with a trans person continues, Ted Nugent threw his hat in the ring to criticize the beer brand.

The “Stranglehold” singer appeared on a recent episode of Newsmax’s “Eric Bolling the Balance” to share his response to Anheuser-Busch working with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. “The beauty of my life is that I’ve never spent one red cent on alcohol,” the guitarist said. “But I made sure that my entire crew and my family will never allow any Anheuser-Busch products anywhere near my world.”

After referencing a Pride-related campaign coming from Jack Daniel’s as well, Nugent called out these campaigns for being “disrespectful” to the brands’ “core consumer demographic,” appearing to refer to conservatives. “How can they possibly have a meeting around the table and come to the conclusion that they’re going to piss in the face of the people who pay their salaries?” he said. “This is the epitome of cultural deprivation in an ongoing tsunami of cultural deprivation.”............

Ted Nugent Calls Anheuser-Busch’s Dylan Mulvaney Partnership ‘the Epitome of Cultural Deprivation’