June is Pride Month, which means anti-LGBTQ folks are losing their goddamn minds.
I attended Motor City Pride in Detroit with my wife, our son and my wife’s 69-year-old aunt. It was a family affair. There were rainbows galore, men holding hands with men, women holding hands with women, transgender and genderqueer people holding hands with men or women or with whomever they wanted because it’s pride and love is love, damn it.
Donald Trump is the most anti-LGBTQ president in recent history. While past presidents might very well have hated LGBTQ people more, Trump has certainly been the most openly hostile.
So forgive me if I am very not impressed that Trump Tweeted recognition of Pride Month. I’m also not super impressed that Trump’s online merch store is selling a T-shirt that reads “LGBTQ for Trump” in rainbow letters.
The Trump Administration has declared war on transgender people. This isn’t a new revelation, but they have succeeded in dismantling every protection the Obama Administration had put in place for transgender people.
Hello LGBTQ Americans! Are you ready to enslave “people of faith throughout these United States of America?”
Because the U.S. House just passed the Equality Act and, according to James Dobson, that’s our job now.
Hopefully by the time you read this, the United States isn’t routinely opening up criminal investigations into women who have miscarriages. And I say routinely because there are already cases where women have ended up in prison after their miscarriages were called baby murders. So imagine how much worse it will get for women if the radical right-wingers have their way and overturn Roe v. Wade. And if you can’t imagine it, I challenge you to talk to your grandma about what it was like back in her day, or just read a goddamn book. Conversely, you could also watch “The Handmaid’s Tale” on Hulu, which is on track to win an Emmy for Best Documentary.
