LGBTQ news and entertainment
Ending its fight with the state of Florida over rainbow street art, the city of Fort Lauderdale has announced a “Circle Of Love” installation on private land as an alternative solution.
I’m loving all these cities coming up with creative work-arounds to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s war on Pride rainbows. Continue reading “Ft. Lauderdale Announces ‘Circle Of Love’ Rainbow Installation”
Some news stories I thought worth your time: • ABC: You can bet I’ll be watching the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards tonight (8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT) with Schitt’s Creek dad/son stars Eugene and Dan Levy handling hosting duties. Continue reading “76th Primetime Emmy Awards Tonight + More News”
Some news items you might have missed: • Xtra Magazine: A town in Alberta, Canada, has approved a new bylaw that bans crosswalks or flags that support “political” or “social” movements. The town council must now move to ban rainbow crosswalks and Pride flags on public property. Continue reading “Canadian Town Bans Rainbow Flags & Crosswalks + More News”
Some news items you might have missed: • JoeMyGod: A Florida state lawmaker has refiled a proposal that would ban local governments from flying the LGBTQ pride flag. A similar version of the bill died in May 2023 after gaining little traction. Continue reading “FL Proposal To Ban Pride Flags From Civic Buildings + More News”
(screen capture via ABC7)
Some news items you might have missed: • TikTok: After an anonymous homophobe tore up his two Pride flags displayed for Pride Month, Albuquerque resident Addison Foskey decided to replace his vandalized Pride flag with hundreds of rainbow flags. Folks, you can try but you can’t kill the rainbow. Continue reading “Vandalized Pride Flag Replaced With 100s + More LGBTQ News”
(image via Facebook/CMT)
Kurt: “Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve!!” (We told you they weren’t very creative…)
Melody: “It’s ridiculous to celebrate an entire month just for being gay yet our Veterans get one day. Veterans deserve better.” (Umm, May is National Military Appreciation Month, but whatevs…)
Steven: “So sad and juvenile that CMT caves to political correctness.”
Calvin: “Great so now CMT done jumped on the gay pride band wagon what a joke no more CMT for me.”
Mike: “Well the kind of so called country music now days fit their wussafide pop rap crap”
Daryl: “I’m proud to be white and straight.”
Gar: “What you do behind closed doors carry on but when everyone is ramming this in our faces gets beyond a joke. Are we going to have straight day ? Worlds gone mad”
Jason: “Every time I see a rainbow I unlike the page I’m sick of seeing it where is the straight flag”
Sammi: “Disgusting, pandering, money obsessed fools. Country music is officially Godless.”
Perhaps the funniest part of the comments were the number of people still bent out of joint because CMT apparently stopped airing Dukes of Hazzard reruns. There were dozens of remarks about the booting of Bo and Luke Duke.
Keith: “Wrong. Just wrong. Y’all over do the gay and lesbo. I don’t care if you are… but we sure as hell don’t need a whole month of this crap. And bring back Dukes of Hazard you nazi’s.”
(screen capture from Dukes of Hazzard)
Sarah: “Thank you so much! We can love country music and believe in basic human rights!”
H.M.: “Thank you, CMT for standing with ALL OF US!”
Tony: “Happy for CMT I’m gay. It’s not a political thing. It’s to support the LGBTQ. Because there are a lot of haters out there. And it’s time to stand up and support people.”
Tracey: “Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It’s not pie.”
Arlo: “OOOH Yall gonna make the hillbilly bigots maaaaaad!!!!!! But we thank you for those who support !!!! Sincerely, the next transgender country singer”
Kathleen: “I love this. Thanks for posting. As a queer Southern person, I feel seen!”
(Brokeback Mountain screen capture via YouTube)
How horrible do you have to be to spray paint over some kids Pride sign? When two teens went to paint a rainbow on a bridge – which the community reportedly uses as a free speech space – Tabitha Dardeau Travis decided it was a good time to show her bigotry. It wasn’t enough to show them she’s homophobic, she had to make clear that she’s racist, too, claiming she has “more” rights than the young folks. “Because I work, I pay taxes, I’m an American…” Some on Twitter say Travis works at a hospital. Can you imagine how unsafe POC and LGBTQ folks are?
This is Tabitha Dardeau Travis of Maryville, TN. She works at @Blount_Memorial’s Wellness Center. pic.twitter.com/I1FDhwujTr
— Opossum Press (@OpossumPress) June 9, 2021
— Billjockstud2 (@billjockstud2) June 11, 2021
If this person is working there, its not a safe environment for minorities and queer folks. pic.twitter.com/fUdPtyZG1f
— Bella Rose (@BellaRose888) June 9, 2021
While living in a neighborhood with a Homeowners Association (HOA) can often ensure your neighbors probably won’t be painting their house Martian green (no offense to Martians), sometimes the rules can inadvertently step on well-meaning toes.
A Redditor recently posted that their HOA had recently revised the rules regarding flags being displayed outside residents’ homes.
“Due to some neighbors flying BLM flags, thin blue line flags, and other opinion flags, our HOA decided last month that we’re only allowed to fly the USA flag, and nothing else,” wrote the poster. “The day after the decision, we received an email that someone reported our Pride flag (that we had on our house since 2016), and that we needed to take it down. We complied and removed the flag.”
But wait – there’s more!
The poster went on to share that they sat down and studied the full set of rules regarding what is and is not allowable in adorning their house. It turns out removable lights are “permitted without restriction.”
So the intrepid Redditor went out and bought several flood lights and bathed the entire home in rainbow pride colors.
Here’s the result:
(image via Imgur)The post has received over 81,000 upvotes and 6,000+ comments.
Here’s just a few of the supportive comments on the thread:
“It looks far more beautiful than just a flag. Bravo on your fabulous compliance!”
“Call that Home-O-Sexuality”
“This is awesome. F*ck HOAs”
“No Home-of-Phobia allowed”
“Woah. The lighting is much better than a simple flag imo”
Readers – have you ever been told to remove a rainbow flag or other Pride symbols from your home? If so, what did you do?
Some news items you might have missed: • CNBC: The labor market continues to improve as initial jobless claims fell to 385,000 last week. The last time claims were lower was the week of March 14, 2020, with 256,000. The number spiked to nearly 3 million the following week and peaked at more than 6.1 million in early April as governments across the U.S. shut down businesses in an effort to slow the coronavirus spread. • Instinct Magazine: In honor of Pride month, the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) will stream for one week only Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City The Musical. The 2011 show will stream at Broadway On Demand’s National Theater Network. • Edge Media: A viral video about a 73-year-old man coming out and being celebrated by his neighbor has taken the internet by storm. “My dad’s neighbour just came out as gay at 73!” reads the video’s caption. “His family aren’t supportive. So Dad did this to show him he is not alone.” https://www.instagram.com/p/CPlDYz8DR0e/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link • Washington Post: U.S. prosecutors this week put a price tag for the first time on damage to the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6 breach — $1.5 million so far — and are asking defendants to cover some of that in plea offers. Prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington are seeking to require restitution of $2,000 in each felony case and $500 in each misdemeanor case. • Delusional: Writing for the National Review, Charles Cooke reports, “Donald Trump does indeed believe quite genuinely that he — along with former senators David Perdue and Martha McSally — will be ‘reinstated’ to office this summer after “audits” of the 2020 elections in Arizona, Georgia, and a handful of other states have been completed. • Twitter: The U.S. Embassy at the Vatican is flying the rainbow flag for Pride Month and a host of Republican politicians, religious right leaders, and far right media figures are losing their minds that the government would promote tolerance.
This is a deliberate provocation from the US embassy to the Vatican. It is intended to offend devout Catholic sensibilities. Trampling on human hearts is what the Left does best. https://t.co/J7CizPWBT9
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) June 1, 2021