Politics, pop culture and entertainment news of interest to the LGBTQ community
Anti-LGBTQ activist Ethan Schmidt (screen capture)Anti-LGBTQ activist Ethan Schmidt-Crockett told his Twitter followers in a video this week: “We need to quarantine and isolate all the folks of the LGBT community. We need to find all of them. We need to hunt them down and put them into isolation camps for their own protection.” Continue reading “Anti-LGBTQ Activist: Hunt Down LGBT People, ‘Put Them Into Isolation’”
(image via Depositphotos)Online anti-LGBTQ rhetoric implying queer people are “groomers” or “pedophiles” or “predators” quadrupled the month following the passage of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill. Continue reading “Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric Quadrupled In Month After Don’t Say Gay Bill”
(stock image via Depositphotos)A middle school librarian in Louisiana filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday after two men and a conservative organization falsely labeled her a pedophile who wants to teach 11-year-olds about gay sex. Continue reading “School Librarian Sues Anti-LGBTQ Activists For Defamation”
(image via Depositphotos)Robert Fehring, of Long Island, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for threatening to “kill, shoot, and bomb” gay rights activists and organizations.
Prosecutors say over the course of 8 years, the 74-year-old sent 60 letters threatening violence towards the LGBTQ community. Continue reading “Man Gets 30 Months Prison For Threatening To Bomb LGBTQ Spaces”
Proud Boys in South Bend (images via Twitter)Shortly before a scheduled Rainbow Storytime program at the Tutt Branch of the St. Joseph County Public Library, men carrying a flag reading ‘Michiana Proud Boys’ entered the room where the event was to be held and demanded it be shut down. Continue reading “Proud Boys Disrupt ‘Rainbow Storytime’ At Public Library”
(stock image via Depositphotos)A public library on Long Island has voted to remove “all Pride displays” as well as all books related to LGBTQ Pride from its children’s sections. Continue reading “Long Island Library Removes Pride Books From Children’s Section”
(images via Twitter)Several witnesses say a group of 15 masked Cape Fear Proud Boys terrorized parents and children – with the assistance of sheriff’s deputies – at a drag queen story event in the Pine Valley branch of the New Hanover, North Carolina library system. Continue reading “Proud Boys Disrupt/Terrorize Children At Drag Queen Story Hour”
(image via Depositphotos)Texas Republicans met for their first in-person convention since the start of the pandemic this weekend and approved several platform changes including calling being gay “an abnormal lifestyle,” and labeling gender-affirming care a form of medical malpractice. Continue reading “Texas Republicans Label Being Gay As ‘Abnormal Lifestyle’”
Winston Durham (screen capture)The concerning trend of active military and veterans taking part in extremist groups continues as Military.com reports several members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front who were arrested on conspiracy to riot charges at an Idaho Pride event last week have military backgrounds. Continue reading “Several Active Military/Veterans Among Arrested Patriot Front Members”
(screen capture via WJZ)Authorities are investigating a Wednesday morning fire in Baltimore as a hate crime after investigators say it was started by burning Pride flags. The fire sent three people to the hospital, two of them in critical condition. Continue reading “House Fire Investigated As Hate Crime After Pride Flags Set On Fire”