LGBTQ news and entertainment
Smart guy Matt Baume answers the question: Do we need to be worried about this SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch?
The answer: yes, yes you do, unless you don’t like having the freedom to marry, to get medical care, to have a place to live, or to use the bathroom.
Smart guy Matt Baume takes a look at some of this week’s LGBT headlines:
• Arkansas lawmakers just took a step closer to banning marriage equality nationwide
• Texas says marriage equality is “open to debate”
• There’s been a wave of violence against LGBTs
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Super-smart guy Matt Baume has looked at the data, and he concluded: so-called “bathroom bills” do protect people – just not the ones they say.
What’s the REAL reason for “bathroom bans”? Those are laws that prevent transgender people from using the bathroom unless it matches their birth certificate. The politicians pushing them claim that they just want to protect people. And they’re right — stopping trans people from using the bathroom will protect people. But not the people they say.
Watch Baume break down the stats for you below:
From super-smart guy Matt Baume (via Huffington Post):
If the ACA is repealed, as Republicans are trying to do, not only would 32 million people lose health care, according to the Congressional Budget Office, but LGBTs would be disproportionately affected. And “disproportionately affected” is a phrase which here means “get sick and die.”
For example, HIV treatment can cost thousands of dollars per month. Insurance companies that don’t want to pay for that treatment could just refuse to cover all gay people on the basis that gay men are more likely to be HIV positive. Or they could raise monthly premiums just for gays. Or they could create a lifetime cap, so you pay into their system and then as soon as you need expensive treatment, they drop you. All this was legal until the ACA banned it.
Matt Baume reminds us that there were significant advances for LGBTs in 2016, and then shares his thoughts on how to KEEP those advances in 2017. Hint: stand up and make some noise!
From Baume: “Do we have to do a year in review for 2016? This was a rough one, but what if I told you there were some really great milestones for LGBTs this year? It’s true! Amidst all the bad news, 2016 had some real bright spots. And 2017 could have more — or it could be much, much worse.”
All-around smart guy Matt Baume is concerned about what Donald Trump’s election will mean for the LGBT community, and especially marriage equality. And when Matt’s concerned, I pay attention.
Although I don’t think anything will happen any time soon, Baume outlines exactly how our marriage rights could be taken away:
1. Weakening marriage protections
2. Making strategic appointments
3. Using lawsuits to overturn marriage
“It would be very weird if the US Supreme Court reversed their marriage equality decision after just a few years,” Baume says, “but very weird things have been happening a lot lately.”
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Donald Trump’s the most pro-gay Republican president-elect in history, right? Well, no — he’s stacking his administration with people who’ve spent their entire careers going after queer people.
Here are the ten most dangerous people Donald’s appointed, the harm that they could do in their new jobs, and what you can do to stop them.
All-around smart guy Matt Baume asks “Is Donald Trump a friend of ‘The Guys?'”
“Ask the gays,” Donald said, “who’s your friend?”
Well, the gays are ready with their answer, and it’s probably not what he wanted.
Here are some of Donald’s quotes about marriage equality, civil unions, and job protections for LGBTs … and also some “friends” that Donald Trump might not want the gays to know about.
Super smart guy Matt Baume follows up on Sam Smith’s Oscar flub where he mistaken said that no openly gay man had won an Academy Award before.
Sam Smith just won an Oscar and noted that he’s the first openly gay man to win an Academy Award — but wait, that can’t be right, can it? Well, no. Here some of Oscar’s queerest moments — and honestly, I think it’s a GOOD thing that Sam lost count.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day (on Sunday), Matt Baume shares the stories of how several of his viewers met and fell in love.
“How’d you meet the people you love? I asked my followers how they met their partners, and they sent me some really sweet stories. I’ve gathered some of my favorites and I’m so excited to share them with you.”