Tag: politics

Last weekend, a series of screenshots from a revealing video allegedly featuring former U.S. representative Aaron Schock emerged online that resulted in Twitter temporarily suspending several accounts of those sharing the images. Then on Wednesday, a barrage of new even more x-rated photos allegedly featuring the ex-lawmaker in a number of very compromising positions hit the web. Many of them clearly showed his face. Twitter removed the images and suspended the accounts of those circulating them as well. Now, there are few...

A group of Pennsylvania-based transgender women have filed a lawsuit over a statute that forces them to use their birth names. The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund filed the suit earlier this week on behalf of Alonda Talley, Chauntey Mo’Nique Porter and Priscylla Renee Von Noake. All three women identify as transgender, though because they were convicted of felonies in the past, the state forces them to use their birth names on legal documents. “Pennsylvanians with felony convictions who seek...

Proving once again that the United States under Trump has lost all sense of, well, common sense…the Federal Aviation Administration has opened an investigation into airports banning Chick-fil-A. Apparently, terrorists take a backseat to fast food. The FAA probe aims to determine if Chick-fil-A is the victim of religious discrimination after several complaints from airport officials. Of late, several airports have rejected proposals for Chick-fil-A restaurant locations over the company’s history of anti-LGBTQ policies. “FAA’s Office of Civil Rights has notified...

Alabama’s on a roll. First it was abortion. Then it was gay rat weddings. Now, state lawmakers have moved on to marriage licenses. Both houses of Alabama’s legislature have approved a bill that replaces “marriage licenses” with “marriage certificates.” The purpose? To satisfy homophobic county probate judges who are morally opposed to issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Right now, when a couple wants to get married, a county probate judge must issue them a marriage license. Under the new law, the judge will only have...

In news both stupid and stupefying, a former Indiana politician has called on Pete Buttigieg to denounce fisting and rimming as part of his political platform. Really. The all-too-aptly named Don Boys, a former Indiana State Representative, published a wacko post on his blog Common Sense Today earlier this month, denouncing Buttigieg’s lifestyle of “perversion” and calling on the presidential candidate to disclose more about his sexual practices. “Pete and his lover chose to make their perversion a very public matter,”...

Trump and Mike Pence have proposed a revision to a section in the ACA that, if it goes through, will remove protections for LGBTQ people. Image by Doug Mills from the New York Times.I really wish I didn’t have to write about this but I suppose it’s best to bring attention to it. It’s no secret that Trump and his administration has not been kind to LGBTQ people and he and Mike Pence have to the potential to make...

Aaron Schock’s public outing continues this morning with a series of clothes-free sexts courtesy of the site Kenneth in the 212.  We assume it’s safe to say that his political career is pretty much toast, more for his shady financial dealings and hypocrisy than his shedding of clothes. The closeted life of the former U.S. Rep has made him the butt of jokes ever since taking office in 2009. Rumors about his sexuality began when he appeared in Men’s Health...

Governor Kay Ivey has the final say on whether or not Alabama will get rid of marriage licenses. Image via FacebookI’ve written about how Alabama’s Senate voted in favor of getting rid of marriage licenses and replacing them with a probate judge recording the marriage after an engaged couple signs and submits an affidavit. Unfortunately, the House has also recently voted in favor of the legislature, and if Governor Kay Ivey signs the bill, it will become law, according...

Pete Buttigieg truly has the power to bring people together. The dating app Hinge just announced that it’s seen a 30% uptick in new profiles created by gay men since April 1, roughly around the time the 2020 hopeful touted the app in a CNN interview. “We’re proud of all of the relationships we’ve helped set up—including Mayor Pete and Chasten!” Hinge founder and CEO Justin McLeod tells Fortune. “We’re happy to see that their love story has inspired even more members of...

Kenya’s High Court just upheld the country’s antigay laws punishing “carnal knowledge” and “gross indecency” with five to 14 years in prison. The disappointing news comes just as same-sex marriages began in Taiwan and Brazil’s high court issued a ruling declaring queerphobia unconstitutional. Kenya’s three-judge hight court upheld Sections 162 (a) and (c), 163 and 165 of the country’s penal code, ruling that petitioners failed to provide “credible evidence” the law infringed on their rights, according to Quartz.com. The laws are holdovers...

During a live-streamed interview with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa earlier today, Pete Buttigieg was asked if he thought Donald Trump should have served in the Vietnam War. “Well, I have a pretty dim view of his decision to use his privileged status to fake a disability in order to avoid serving in Vietnam,” the former Naval intelligence officer replied. Trump, as you may recall, avoided the draft by receiving not one, not two, but five deferments. Four of them he received by attending...

They say you should never judge a book by its cover. Well, apparently British Labour MP Roger Godsiff didn’t get that memo when he suggested two LGBTQ-themed children’s books be yanked from the shelves of a school library in Birmingham, England. The 72-year-old admitted in an interview this week that he never actually read My Chacha is Gay, which tells the story of a Pakistani kid with a gay uncle, or My Princess Boy, about a boy who likes to dress up like a...

Utah County has been called  “the most Republican county in the most Republican state in the United States.” It is 88 percent Mormon and has consistently voted for Republican presidents since 1992. That’s why it’s remarkable that the county’s 40-year-old Utah County Commissioner, Nathan Ivie, just came out on Facebook as gay. In the video, the soft-spoken politician (wearing a cowboy hat) says, “I’m sharing my story with you here today because I know I need to be honest with my...

During an interview with Washington Post contributor Jonathan Capehart before an audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City this week, 2020 hopeful Pete Buttigieg was asked about remarks made by antigay activists Franklin Graham and Mike Pence about his sexual orientation. “Franklin Graham said that being gay is ‘something to be repentant of, not something to be flaunted, praised or politicized,’” Capehart said. “What would you say to the Franklin Grahams of the world, the Mike Pences of the world,...