Megan Rapinoe Would Beat Trump in Presidential Match-Up, Poll Says
After the USWNT’s World Cup win, Twitter users were calling the Golden Boot winner Megan Rapinoe their president.
www.advocate.com/sports/2019/7/09/megan-rapinoe-would-beat-trump-presidential-match-poll-says
HRC’s Sarah McBride, Who Made Trans History at DNC, Running for Office
McBride — the first openly trans person to speak at a major political convention and currently the press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign — throws her hat in the ring.
www.advocate.com/politics/2019/7/09/hrcs-sarah-mcbride-who-made-trans-history-dnc-running-office
Tell HHS LGBTQ Discrimination in Health Care is Not OK
Another day, another vicious attack on the rights of the LGBTQ community by the Trump-Pence administration.
A proposed regulation from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would strip away explicit health care protections on the basis of gender identity, effectively targeting transgender and gender non-conforming people’s access to critical care.
Erasing these protections from discrimination on the basis of gender identity is not only discriminatory but against the public health and the mission of HHS.
Under the Obama administration, these landmark protections were added under section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. This was the first time sex was covered as a protected class in health care and has proven to be a critical step towards ending the health disparities that continue to plague the LGBTQ community.
This dangerous Trump-Pence proposal is designed to undermine all of that — placing the LGBTQ community at an increased risk for discrimination and harassment when seeking health care.
Let’s shut down this harmful proposal — and let’s do it together.
Report: DC Universe to Introduce Its First Gay Supervillain
Black Mask may make LGBTQ history in Birds of Prey.
www.advocate.com/film/2019/7/09/report-dc-universe-introduce-its-first-gay-supervillain
Rhea Litre serves up San Diego realness for this weekend’s pride festival
San Diego has one of the best pride festivals in the U.S., and drag star Rhea Litre wants to kiki with you there this weekend
Tegan and Sara, Alex Acosta, Cockatoo, Adele, Jeffrey Epstein, Lil Nas X, Eliot Glazer: HOT LINKS
CALL EM IN. House Judiciary Committee to subpoena Jared Kushner, Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, Michael Flynn, John Kelly and Corey Lewandowski: “The barrage of subpoena authorizations represents a major expansion of the committee’s Trump-focused investigation, casting a wider net from obstruction of justice to hush-money payments. The committee has faced repeated resistance from the White House as it investigates obstruction of justice allegations against the president.”
BACK TO THE GAY BAR? Adele is throwing Jennifer Lawrence a bachelorette party.
NO BLOCKING. U.S. appeals court says Trump can’t block Twitter followers: ‘The court found that the First Amendment does not permit Trump “to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialog because they expressed views with which” he disagreed.’
CITIZENSHIP. Attorney General Bill Barr says Trump can ignore the Supreme Court, because of course.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Bill Clinton and Donald Trump say they know nothing about his crimes.
ALEX ACOSTA. Labor Secretary defends role in securing plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein: “The crimes committed by Epstein are horrific, and I am pleased that NY prosecutors are moving forward with a case based on new evidence. With the evidence available more than a decade ago, federal prosecutors insisted that Epstein go to jail, register as a sex offender and put the world on notice that he was a sexual predator. Now that new evidence and additional testimony is available, the NY prosecution offers an important opportunity to more fully bring him to justice.”
Trump just now in the Oval: “I feel very badly, actually, for Secretary Acosta.”
Via ABC pic.twitter.com/b5kZqRf5IP— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 9, 2019
OLD TOWN ROAD. #1 on Billboard Hot 100 for a 14th week (opens in a new tab)”>Lil Nas X is #1 on Billboard Hot 100 for a 14th week.
GROTESQUE. U.S. Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits: “The AP was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been booted from the Army, but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures.
AVIAN VIGILANTE OF THE DAY. Cockatoo don’t like anti-bird spikes. “The trail of destruction is magnificent.”
ALBUM ANNOUNCE OF THE DAY. Tegan and Sara. “We recorded over 40 songs when we were in high school. But the cassettes were lost. Unheard for 20 years. In 2019, while writing our memoir High School, they were found.”
NAILED. Michael Henry interviews Eliot Glazer.
MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. Ariana Grande “In My Head”.
TOO HOT FOR TUESDAY. Bryce Willard Smithe.
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GLAAD Issues New Report on Anti-LGBTQ Activists Leading State Department’s New “Commission on Unalienable Rights”
GLAAD CEO: “This ‘Commission’ is a farce and further illustrates the bold-faced anti-LGBTQ agenda of this administration…”
“Commission of Unalienable Rights” is the 117th attack against LGBTQ Americans since start of the Trump Administration
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released a new report highlighting the records of the anti-LGBTQ activists appointed to serve on the U.S. State Department’s new “Commission on Unalienable Rights.” According to reports, the “Commission” will provide the federal government “an informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy” – putting LGBTQ acceptance at risk on a global scale.
“This ‘Commission’ is a farce and further illustrates the bold-faced anti-LGBTQ agenda of this administration,”said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. ”The Trump Administration is knowingly appointing activists who have made careers out of fighting against LGBTQ progress and is now providing them an opportunity to export their anti-LGBTQ activism around the world through the U.S. State Department.”
GLAAD’s new report dug into the records of the ten members appointed to serve on the State Department’s Commission and found troubling, anti-LGBTQ history in seven of its members. The Commission includes members like Mary Ann Glendon, a longtime anti-LGBTQ activist who claimed marriage equality was a “radical social experiment,” and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson, who claimed marriage equality was “one of the signs of the End Times.” The launch of the “Commission on Unalienable Rights” now marks the 117th attack against the LGBTQ community by the Trump Administration since the start of 2017.
GLAAD REPORT: Anti-LGBTQ Members of the State Department’s New “Commission on Unalienable Rights”
Peter Berkowitz
— Criticized the Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling overturning sodomy laws as “dangerous,” writing that “Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion seemed to follow the logic of his moral and political judgments rather than the logic of the law.”
Mary Ann Glendon (Chair)
— Has written extensively on her view that marriage equality is a “radical social experiment” that harms children. She alsorecently wrote a blurb for a viciously anti-trans book, calling the book—which culminates in a plan of action that calls for the complete erasure of trans people —“eminently readable and insightful.”
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson
— Lectured that his belief is for Muslims to repress being gay, and (at 3:23) that homosexuality and same-sex marriage are prophesized as “one of the signs of the End Times.”
Jacqueline Rivers
— Delivered a speech at the Vatican, insisting that LGBTQ activists were “abolishing in law the principle of marriage as a conjugal union and reducing it to nothing other than sexual or romantic partnerships or domestic companionship.” She went on insist that LGBTQ activists have “unjustly appropriated” civil rights language.
Meir Soloveichik
— Called the notion of gay people’s marriages “nonsensical” (see page 71); he went on to suggest that arguments favoring bestiality will follow same-sex marriage (page 72); Also, blurbed an anti-LGBTQ book written by the National Organization For Marriage’s cofounder.
Christopher Tollefsen
— Wrote an anti-trans essay that culminated in the opinion that “…attempts to change one’s biological sex all fail. That is an undefeatable reason against trying to do so.” In a follow up, he further argued that “…it is a mark of a heartless culture that it encourages such confusion even to the point of encouraging bodily mutilation as a solution to gender dysphoria and prohibiting therapy that might be psychologically and spiritually beneficial.”
F. Cartwright Weiland (Rapporteur)
— Served as policy analyst for the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, an anti-LGBTQ think thank that advised the Texas legislature and Governor’s office; also served as speechwriter to anti-LGBTQ US Senator John Cornyn.
LGBTQ acceptance has been threatened by President Trump and his administration since the start of 2017. Not only has President Trump banned transgender Americans from serving in the nation’s armed forces, but his administration has also opposed the Equality Act, a bill which would provide across-the-board protections for LGBTQ Americans at home, at work, and in their communities. A full list of the Trump Administration’s anti-LGBTQ actions can be found by going to GLAAD’s Trump Accountability Project.
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Former College Wrestler Convicted of HIV ‘Exposure’ Freed From Jail
After being unjustly sentenced to 30 years, Michael Johnson walked out of prison today a free man.
www.advocate.com/health/2019/7/09/former-college-wrestler-convicted-hiv-exposure-freed-jail
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