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There you have it
And from an early Batman comic
In fairness, in the early days of the comics there was much discussion as to whether or not Batman was gay by real psychologists/psychiatrists. After all, why would a single bachelor adopt a young teen boy?
And that'st the origin of the use of the name "Bruce" as a gay stereotype
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And from an early Batman comic
In fairness, in the early days of the comics there was much discussion as to whether or not Batman was gay by real psychologists/psychiatrists. After all, why would a single bachelor adopt a young teen boy?
And that'st the origin of the use of the name "Bruce" as a gay stereotype
Homosexuality in the Batman franchise - Wikipedia
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Why isn't there a straight pride month other than the obvious (we don't need one)
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If you don't recognize him the guy in that vid is Sander Jennings (the brother of Jazz Jennings)
Why isn’t there a straight pride month? 🏳️🌈 Over 60 countries still criminalize being LGBTQ+. The ACLU is tracking over 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the United States in 2026 alone. Pride isn’t a celebration—it’s a reminder that the fight isn’t over.
Why isn’t there a straight pride month? 🏳️🌈 Over 60 countries still criminalize being LGBTQ+. The ACLU is tracking over 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the United States in 2026 alone. Pride isn’t a...
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If you don't recognize him the guy in that vid is Sander Jennings (the brother of Jazz Jennings)
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Sen. Kaine: If you’re a trans kid watching this hearing… there is some intentional effort to make you feel bad about yourself, but you have a lot of people who love you. You have a lot of people who support you. … You are a beautiful precious person. You are made and precious and worthy of love as you are. You have a lot of people who love and care about you
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Sen. Kaine: If you’re a trans kid watching this hearing… there is some intentional effort to make you feel bad about yourself, but you have a lot of people who love you. You have a lot of people who support you. … You are a beautiful precious person.
Sen. Kaine: If you’re a trans kid watching this hearing… there is some intentional effort to make you feel bad about yourself, but you have a lot of people who love you. You have a lot of people who...
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By objecting to her being topless he's admitting that she's a woman.
White House bans trans activist for a topless photo at a Pride event
Rose Montoya, a trans model and activist, said she was “living her truth” and wasn’t trying to be vulgar or profane.
White House bans trans activist for a topless photo at a Pride event
Rose Montoya, a trans model and activist, said she was “living her truth” and wasn’t trying to be vulgar or profane.www.nbcnews.com
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I chuckled about the "fatally murdered" phrase as well.
Too bad they did not include the topless image.
But it is in the video at this site.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/13/rose-...-white-house-pride-party-after-meeting-biden/
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Dianne Hensley, a Waco justice of the peace, filed a federal lawsuit in December 2025 asking courts to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges — the 2015 Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. Hensley stopped officiating all marriages in 2015 rather than perform same-sex ceremonies, then resumed in 2016 for opposite-sex couples only — directing same-sex couples to officiants sometimes hours away. The Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct reprimanded her in 2019 for casting doubt on her impartiality. She sued, lost in lower courts, but won a partial victory when the Texas Supreme Court rewrote the judicial conduct code to allow religious exemptions.
Her lawyer is Jonathan Mitchell — the architect of Texas’s 2021 SB 8 abortion ban that circumvented Roe v. Wade using private enforcement. Mitchell openly admits no lower court can overturn Obergefell — but is deliberately building a vehicle to bring the question back to the current Supreme Court. Texas has since passed a new rule allowing judges to perform only opposite-sex marriages. The US Supreme Court declined a similar case from Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused marriage licenses to same-sex couples, in November 2025.
Sources: Texas Tribune, LGBTQ Nation, Houston Public Media, PinkNews — October 2025–March 2026
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I used to not like the fact marriage existed as a legal entity at all, since it gives advantages, like lower tax rates.
But it is better for people to form social bonds, so I grew to accept it.
However, social bonds should have nothing to do with sex, and should not stop at 2.
There should be tax advantages and encouragement for people to live in larger groups than 2 as well.
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Media Alert: on PBS, perhaps Friday (check local listings)
PBS: American Experience
Casa Susanna
An underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men find freedom and acceptance at a house in the Catskills region of New York during the 1950s and 1960s.
The borscht bib?
PBS: American Experience
Casa Susanna
An underground network of transgender women and cross-dressing men find freedom and acceptance at a house in the Catskills region of New York during the 1950s and 1960s.
The borscht bib?
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BREAKING
Vivian Jenna Wilson — who dropped her father’s last name, changed her legal gender marker, and publicly cut ties with him years ago — stepped out in Los Angeles this week for a high‑profile event tied to her new modeling and fashion work. Reporters immediately tried to make it about Musk: what does she think of his anti‑trans posts, his “gender ideology” rants, his habit of mocking pronouns and calling parents like hers “abusive”?
Instead of shrinking, she leaned into her own name, her own career, and her own community. She posed for photos, signed autographs for young queer fans, and shut down attempts to drag her back into his narrative with a simple move: redirecting every question back to her projects and the people harmed by the kind of rhetoric he pushes.
Context matters here. This is a young woman who, at 16, came out as trans, transitioned, and then watched her father — one of the richest men on Earth and owner of a massive social media platform — turn her identity into a punchline and a political weapon.
He amplified anti‑trans conspiracy theories, boosted accounts pushing bathroom bans and healthcare bans, and insisted he was “protecting kids” while his own daughter was quietly filing court papers to remove his name from her life.
For years, she stayed mostly out of view, surfacing in small online posts and a few interviews about living authentically without him.
Now she’s on magazine covers, booked for runway shows in Milan and campaigns with major brands, and using her platform to raise money for immigrant and LGBTQ+ groups.
Watching her glide down a carpet — surrounded by friends, stylists, and queer creatives — while her father spends his days rage‑posting about “wokeness” is its own kind of indictment. He wanted to make her a cautionary tale for right‑wing media. Instead, she’s becoming a reminder that trans kids grow into adults with full lives, careers, and communities that will not revolve around a parent’s bigotry.
It’s also a blueprint. Every time a billionaire or a governor tries to score points by dehumanizing trans people, there are actual families on the other side — kids changing their names, filing paperwork, figuring out how to be safe.
Vivian Wilson can’t fix the damage her father’s platform has done. But every red‑carpet walk, every campaign, every unapologetic photo where she stands in her own name is a small but powerful rebuttal: you can throw all the money and algorithms in the world at erasing us, and we’ll still show up in the light.
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Just one comment - for an article that's about Ms Wilson it's noticeable that her name doesn't appear to the second paragraph but his name is the first words after the "BREAKING"
BTW, ask yourself how much gender affirming care he's had.
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Surprise - Trump lied (again)
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Trans rights are human rights. Medical decisions should be up to doctors, families, and the individual, not the government. Being trans is not a choice. But choosing to believe these lies is. 🏳️⚧️ #transgender #allytoall | Sander Jennings | Facebook
Trans rights are human rights. Medical decisions should be up to doctors, families, and the individual, not the government. Being trans is not a choice. But choosing to believe these lies is. 🏳️⚧️...
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Seems to me there was a time when such report would be cause for alarm.
In the Trump era it barely raises a ho-hum.
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