#straight — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #straight, aggregated by home.social.
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Discrimination Beyond Marriage
By CAP Action War Room Despite Victory At The Supreme Court, Discrimination Remains Beyond Marriage It has been less than two weeks since the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, granting same-sex couples the freedom to marry nationwide. But despite our progress on marriage equality, LGBT discrimination persists. In 28 states, same-sex couples can now be legally married one day, and then legally fired from their jobs, evicted from their homes, denied […] -
Quote of the Day …
"The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with a Proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them became that between employer and free laborer." -- General Order No. 3, read by Union General Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865 -
#straight : extending in one direction
- French: Droit
- German: geradeaus
- Italian: dritto
- Portuguese: reto
- Spanish: derecho, heterosexual
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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
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https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/12/reform-uk-poll-gay-bisexual-men-lgbtq/. "The data found 25% of #gay & #bisexual #men would vote for #Reform, with 33% of #straight men also pledging #support to Farage’s #Party." Are these people stark mad or just plain ignorant? Talk about a whole load of #turkeys voting enthusiastically for #Christmas! NO gay or bisexual man should DREAM of voting for #Farage & his #Racist, #homophobic mob!
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https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jun/11/pride-musical-national-theatre-lesbians-gays-support-miners. The #film was good - I'm sure the #musical will be, too, even if #coalmining is not an #activity any of us, #LGBTIQA or #straight, can - or should - support any more, because of #climatechange.
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WE ALL REMEMBER how often & loudly #Republicans attacked President #Obama for "handing over pallets of cash"... $450B... as part of his #Iran nuclear deal.
#DonnieDumbass is on the verge of *having* to give the Iranians SEVEN TIMES as much money just to reopen a #Straight that was already open before he attacked them (and destroyed the world's economy.) 🤦♂️
#GOPHypocrisy
https://www.ms.now/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/trump-struggles-to-measure-up-to-obama-s-standard-on-dealing-with-iran-2501908035517 -
'Horrified': That time a journalist made Melissa Etheridge look straight
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/melissa-etheridge-girlfriend
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Holy hell fire. #aibubble + #oilprices and #usa #blocakade and #iran holding the #straight and impact on #oil and #naturalgas and the fact the world eats #methane (Haber process) + the latent effect of #trump disrupting international trade with dumbass #tariffs ? Talk about an #economic mother of all storms, my goodness. Hide some food. We may lose a billion humans in 2027. #mourningstudies
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The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is STRAIT/RESTRICT #wotd #strait #restrict #straight #StraitOfHormuz #Hormuz #IranWar
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#April is #sexualassault #month 1 in 2 women and 1 in 6 men are #sexually #assaulted every year. It is a quietly known issue, and victims must be believed. #meme #information #sexual #assault #women #woman #man #men #nonbinary #trans #cis #queer #gay #straight #lesbian
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Yes, most sexual child abusers are #straight / #heterosexual and not attracted to children, but that isn't what #FarRight wants to hear.
https://zeroabuseproject.org/victim-assistance/jwrc/keep-kids-safe/sexuality-of-offenders/
#GOP #Trump #Epstein #pedophilia #pedophiles #pedophile #pedo #factsmatter
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If his question wasn’t enough to prime the pump for a lively, particularly memorable conversation, my retort did the trick:
“When,” I parried, “did you decide to be straight?”
This counter query was what provoked his incredulous “What?” And our verbal jousting was off to the races.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/when-did-you-decide-you-were-straight-7f83ff970f01?sk=6d141afe5ed28a00c05a0cbb6e85ff7d
