Haters lose their shit because the rightwing network dares to follow NY state employee law. — They took on Anheuser Busch by branding American rednecks’ second favorite beer* as taboo. (*Bud Light has long trailed #1 Pabst Blue Ribbon in popularity with the boot-kickin’ sawdust set.) Target employees are next to fall into bigoted boycott crosshairs, forcing stores to remove Pride merchandise from their shelves.

This year, we’ll have to celebrate PRIDE under the cloud of constant threat. It’s a quandary, one I hate to even consider. But, with the mainstreaming of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment, rampant fear-mongering, and a plethora of hateful erasure laws being passed across the country, along with the dramatic uptick in violent…

According to The Oxford Dictionary, The Bible is most definitely obscene. — Gov. Bill Lee has signed a new law that puts book publishers, sellers and distributors at risk of prosecution for providing written materials to the state’s public schools that may at any point be deemed obscene. — Tennessee Lookout The new Tennessee statute is somewhat unclear as to what “may…

Activist reveals the rising threat to queer and trans folk in Uganda — “The homophobia and transphobia we are seeing in Uganda is from the West. It is mostly peddled by extreme American evangelicals.” — Frank Mugisha, Executive Director, Sexual Minorities Uganda Frank Mugisha is a veteran LGBTQ activist, a very risky calling in an African country that seeks to erase, incarcerate, or…

So Much For Queer and Trans Folk believing… “If You Knew Us, You’ll Love Us” (Part Two) — It should come as no surprise that Montana’s Republican Governor Greg Gianforte put his signature on SB 99, thus banning gender-affirming care for minors in the Big Sky State. After all, Gianforte tends to go out of his way to appear tough and ultra-masculine. You may recall that he became…

The Montana State House tells a different, far uglier tale. — In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court — by the narrowest of margins, 5 to 4 — legalized same-sex marriage. This landmark decision, joyfully celebrated by the long-suffering LGBTQ+ community and its allies, would never have happened had it not been for a massive shift in public opinion in favor of…

Trying to convince a conservative Christian that advertisers’ only real agenda is making a buck — For reasons that have no bearing on this story, let’s call him Larry. “Why,” Larry asks me, “do these advertisers have to foist their woke agenda on the whole country?” I know Larry is not a hateful person. I’ve seen him interact respectfully with persons of color, without the slightest…

… by blowing bad beer to smithereens — I can understand the overwhelming urge to shoot a case of Bud Light full of holes. If there were such thing as capital punishment for bad brew, Bud Light’s flavor alone (what there is of it) would qualify it for the firing squad. Shooting at cans is, after all, a…

What’s the perfect amount of hate required to win as a Republican? — Republican Fixation on Trans Issues Could Backfire, Pollsters Say… (Headlines like this make my blood boil!) Certainly, there are political implications to each and every policy position a politician embraces. But, we’re talking about human beings and human lives here. Yes, political candidates have long relied on polling to check…