Tag: politics

Continuing with its litany of anti-LGBTQ policies this month, the Trump Administration and Republican party have further maligned the LGBTQ community by confirming yet another ardently antigay judge to a lifetime appointment on the federal bench. Happy Pride! 42-year-old Matthew J. Kacsmaryk has a long and nasty history of opposing LGBTQ equality, including criticizing the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, claiming members of the queer community are not protected by the Civil Rights Act, and characterizing transgender people as suffering...

In a dubious political announcement, officials close to White House Press Secretary and noted liar Sarah Huckabee Sanders have said she is “seriously considering” a run for Arkansas governor. Sanders, who will leave her position as press secretary on June 30, has already begun reaching out to donors in her home state of Arkansas about a possible 2022 run. Her father, Mike Huckabee, rose to national prominence as governor of the state. Sanders received a major boost from Donald Trump last...

Rumors that former Representative Aaron Schock was getting ready to mount another run for office began swirling earlier this month when a Statement of Organization was filed with the Federal Election Commission for a “Schock for Congress” campaign. Well, you can all stop freaking out because Schock himself has just squashed those rumors… for now. “That’s my committee that’s been in existence for 10 years,” he explained to local Peoria TV station WMBD on Friday. “I’ve simply changed the treasurer position...

Pete Buttigieg on “Meet the Press”Mayor Pete Buttigieg, often cited as the first potentially gay US President, claims he would not be the first. In an interview with Axios on HBO, the South Bend, IN Mayor and Democratic Presidential Candidate based the assumption on statistical probability rather than the innuendo which has become part of political lore. Buttigieg made the observation in response to allegations he’s “too gay” to be president. “People will elect the person who will make the best president,”...

In an interview with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd yesterday, Todd asked Pete Buttigieg whether he thought African Americans would vote for him despite his being gay. Todd read a quote from the Reverend Rodric Reid, a black pastor at the Uplift Church in Indianapolis. Reid said of Buttigieg’s homosexuality: Tood asked Buttigieg, “I know you’re trying to have these conversations with a lot of African Americans. How are they going?” Buttigieg then responded: When Todd followed up by asking how Buttigieg...

Jenny Durkan Mayor of Seattle The question is more like: How hasn’t she contributed? Durkan grew up outside of Seattle, the daughter of a Washington state senator and a newspaper editor. She spent her early career teaching English and coaching girls basketball in a Yukon fishing village in rural Alaska before getting her law degree. Her legal career has been defined by her progressive values: fighting for victim plaintiffs, defending journalists called into court by the government, focusing on police reform and...

In a shocking act of nincompoopery, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) totally eliminated any reference to the LGBTQ community in his official proclamation commemorating the third anniversary of the Pulse nightclub massacre on June 12. After being called out for the glaring omission, DeSantis tried blaming an unnamed “staff member” for scrubbing the reference to the queer community. Pulse nightclub catered to an LGBTQ crowd. The night of the attack was also promoted as “Latin Night,” which was another item overlooked...

Yesterday, four-to-five members of Ecuador’s Constitutional Court voted to legalize same-sex marriage, signaling a cultural shift in the northwestern South American country of about 16 million people. But same-sex couples haven’t started tying the knot there just yet because the Court said the legislature needs to create laws to support the unions. Nevertheless, couples and allies have cheered the ruling. Before now, same-sex couples in Ecuador could legally register their “civil union” and receive the same rights and benefits as...

Continuing on his rise from obscurity to political powerhouse, Pete Buttigieg defeats Donald Trump in a new election 2020 poll. Longtime pollster Quinnipiac University released the results of the nationwide survey which revealed that five of the top Democratic candidates would best Trump if the election were held today. Of the winning candidates, Buttigieg placed fourth over all in terms of his lead against Trump, beating him 47% to 42%. Other Democrats fared even better. Vice President Joe Biden beat trump in a...

Crawling out from under his usual rock, Vice President Mike Pence has stepped forward to defend a ban on flying the Pride Flag at US Embassies. “It’s the right decision,” Pence told NBC. “As the president said on the night we were elected, we’re proud to be able to serve every American. We both feel that way very passionately, but when it comes to the American flagpole, and American embassies, and capitals around the world, one American flag flies.” The move...

Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz (image via Facebook)Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz, a Malaysian cabinet member who serves as the Senior Private Secretary to the Deputy Minister of Primary Industries and Commodities, was outed today after a sexually explicit video of him appeared online. In a separate video, Aziz admitted to appearing in the sexually explicit video and said that it was recorded without his consent on May 11 in his room at the Sheraton Hotel Four Points. It’s unclear what will happen...

The Trump Administration once again thwarted HIV research to appease Evangelicals. Image by National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases via CT Post.The Trump Administration has recently announced that it will be shutting down an HIV research contract because the researchers use aborted fetus tissue, a move that was praised by the Family Research Council, a well-known anti-LGBTQ hate group, according to LGBTQ Nation. This is not the first time that something like this has happened, as the Trump...

Image via Wikimedia CommonsAlmost three years after the Pulse nightclub shooting, we may be on the precipice of a major political nod. Members of central Florida’s congressional delegation are working on a bill that would make the location of the Pulse nightclub shooting a national memorial. U.S. Reps. Darren Soto and Stephanie Murphy announced their plans for the bill on Monday while speaking at a ceremony outside of the infamous location. Federal recognition...

Noted holy roller, evangelist Franklin Graham, posted a bizarre thank you to Donald Trump via Facebook for not flying the Pride flag at US embassies. The reason: Graham claims the flag offends Christians. “I want to thank President Donald J. Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for making the decision not to fly the gay flag over our embassies during June in recognition of gay pride month,” Graham said in his post. “That is the right decision. The only flag...