AN ARTIST YEARNING FOR TRANSCENDENCE finds an unlikely path toward it in her complicated attraction to an injured ballerina. Lyrical prose both lush and austere traces a many-leveled tale of longing and self-knowledge. B PLUS
Today in Labor History June 28, 1969: The Stonewall Uprising began after an early morning police raid of the Stonewall Inn, in New York. Initially led by trans women, lesbians and gay street kids, the riot grew into several days of street battles with the cops with thousands of LGBTQ people participating. At one point, when the riot squad tried to clear the streets, the crowd formed kick lines and sang: We are the Stonewall girls/We wear our hair in curls/We don't wear underwear/We show our pubic hair. In the days that followed, residents of Greenwich Village and members of the LGBTQ community began demanding the right to live openly, regardless of their sexual orientation, and without fear of being arrested. The next year, to commemorate the uprising, the first Pride Parades were held in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The #Texas Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors Friday, rejecting pleas from parents that it violates their right to seek medical care for their transgender children. #LGBTQ
It's #Friday! (and that means following fantastic folks for fun and f..fascism fighting? frantic flailing? I don't know, something else that starts with Fs)
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I becoming more irate by the minute b/c as I listen to members of the #LGBTQ+ community talking about making preparations to flee the US (or feeling trapped due to lack of finances) in case of a Trump presidency I can't help but think of the hypocrisy of those who refuse to vote in the election.
They claim for moral reasons they won't vote for Biden yet they won't make the smallest effort to protect their friends, neighbours and relatives!
As David Graham notes, while social change stagnated or reversed on many fronts in the last quarter century, it seemed that acceptance of gay rights and same-sex marriage was an exception. By 2022, 55% of Republicans supported same-sex marriage.
But no more. With Republicans making LGBTQ Americans a punching bag as they build to the 2024 election, a reversal is occurring.
A new Gallup poll shows that Republican approval of homosexual rights has dropped from 56 to 40 percent in two years, and that support for same-sex marriage is down to less than half, at 46 percent. …
American law has treated same-sex marriage, like abortion, as a fundamental right since the 2015 ruling. If Dobbs shows that such rights can be taken away, it still doesn’t explain what that would look like."
Aaron Blake reports that though support for same-sex rights has been one of the steadiest trends in the US in recent years, gains in this field have now halted and even reversed somewhat, "largely thanks to Republicans moving in the opposite direction — in some cases, sharply."
"GOP support for same-sex marriage has declined from a high of 55 percent in both 2021 and 2022, to 49 percent in 2023 and now to 46 percent today — a nine-point drop over two years.
Over that same span, the percentage of Republicans describing same-sex relations as 'morally acceptable' has declined from 56 percent to 40 percent — a 16-point drop.
Those are the biggest drops in the decades-long history of Gallup polling these issues."
My take on this: driven by the right-wing Christians that now form their core base, Republicans are looking for someone to hurt.
Immigrants are high on that list. But so are LGBTQ people. Both are vulnerable minority groups useful to the party seeking to demonstrate the power of the faith-based minority over the majority because they serve as object lessons of what can be done to everyone if that minority is in power.
Mark Joseph Stern discusses the alarm Justice Sotomayor has given re: the Supremes moving to abolish marriage equality, with the Department of State v. Muñoz ruling:
"It’s all too easy to imagine this court overruling Obergefell in a few years and citing Barrett’s decision in this case. The court could easily say, just down the road, that it already called Obergefell into question, and overruling it is the next logical step."
"The Muñoz ruling is a soft repudiation of Obergefell that the conservatives buried in an immigration case, hoping none of the voters or activists notice. ...
Muñoz is a poisoned dart to same-sex marriage: It doesn’t hurt as much as a shotgun to the chest, but it will kill you just the same."
"The MAGA Republicans on the Supreme Court will overturn marriage equality. A majority opinion last week made it clear, as the court's liberals urgently sounded the alarm. The only way we can save equality--and democracy-- is by re-electing Joe Biden."
👏🏻President #Biden is expected to pardon US veterans who were convicted by the military over a 60-year period under a military law that banned gay sex, three US officials told CNN. #LGBTQ
The #GOP’s sudden turn away from #GayRights — & acceptance
Americans’ embrace of #SameSex#rights & acceptance of gay Americans has been one of the steadiest trends in recent political history, w/support for #SameSexMarriage rising from <30% in the mid-1990s to ~70% today.…
But there’s increasing evidence that these gains have halted & even reversed, largely thanks to #Republicans moving in the opposite direction — in some cases, sharply.
"At its national synod this week, the Christian Reformed Church in North America voted to put congregational leaders on 'limited suspension' if their churches publicly welcome LGBTQ+ members."
"Before evangelical leaders say a word about the upcoming election, abortion policy or drag queens, they must look at why sexual abuse is occurring in congregations."
In saying this, Nicole Russell speaks as a lifelong evangelical who wonders why her fellow evangelicals think they have the moral high road as they attack LGBTQ people and support Trump, of all people, while ignoring "a clear pattern of abusive and at times criminal behavior among pastors and other leaders in a growing list of evangelical congregations."