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  1. CW: Homophobia effectively erasing queers from public life

    A little rage to start your Monday off horribly. chron.com/news/houston-texas/a

    Houston's only lesbian bar denied insurance for hosting drag shows

    "This seems to be a consistent theme emerging with anti-LGBTQ legislation: they're using less direct language in the legislation, and then in enforcement being very selective," said Alejandra Caraballo, clinical instructor at Harvard Law School. "Appeals to the prurient interest in sex... that is a highly subjective standard," Caraballo continued. "The people who are against LGBTQ folks and drag inherently view LGBTQ people as sexualized, even though they're not. And that's the subjective part that allows them to say 'this is sexual in nature,' even though it's not."
    ...
    Caraballo said that Pearl Bar's situation illustrates conservatives' greater strategy for legislating against the LGBTQ community more broadly. "The goal is essentially to regulate these establishments out of business, to make it so that these businesses cannot function," Caraballo said. The true aim of measures like SB 12, Caraballo explained, is to target the LGBTQ community as a whole. "They use children as the pretense but the reality is, they want LGBTQ people out of public life." 

    #texas #homophobia #dragBans #genocide #fascism

  2. CW: US Politics • Florida • DeSantis

    As a gay teacher in Florida, I'm somewhat disappointed with this piece.
    My guess, without looking first, is that this AP reporter, Brendan Farrington, is a white, cis man.
    It feels very dismissive of the Black perspective and the LGBTQIA+ perspective.
    It is an interesting read. He nails the economic plight here, which has been ignored for too long.

    #Florida #Education #LGBTQIA+ #BlackHistory #BookBans #DragBans #CanceledPride #DeSantis #Disney #RisingCostOfLiving

    https://apnews.com/article/florida-laws-change-politics-desantis-a23fd484a1fc4fee8acbfc2d2adb4297

  3. 15/x Die #LGBTQIA-Community bekommt aktuell auch viel Zuspruch im Netz. So trendet gerade dieses Video von Hollywoodstar Kevin #Bacon. #DragBans bringen schlechtes Karma, schreibt er dazu. Die #Drag-performer bräuchten die Unterstützung von uns allen.

  4. CW: Coming after "no fault" divorce, U.S. Politics

    Remember how all those "serious" political analysts kept telling us that Roe was law and that any concern we had about it was hysterics?

    Then there was #Dobbs, there's #Mifepristone still on the chopping block; conservatives want to bring back "dress like your gender" laws (#DragBans), and they are going after no-fault divorce.

    Get ready.

    #USPolitics #NoFaultDivorce #Bostock

    jezebel.com/conservatives-are-

  5. In case you think #DragBans only happen in the South ... a small town in Massachusetts has banned drag because it's too "sexual"

    Hmm. Are local #Dance studios next? After all, they sexualize and objectify #YoungGirls.

    wgbh.org/news/local-news/2023/