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Lesbian Legend Scoffs at Transgender Men, Gets Fired by Gay Group
The organizers of the Milwaukee Pride Parade have fired this year’s lesbian Grand Marshall because she is critical of so-called “trans-women,” that is, men who wear female clothes and think they are women.
Lesbian Legend Scoffs at Transgender Men
Caitlin Clark Olympics snub down to the 'black gay mafia'
Dyke March Canceled for San Francisco Pride
Julie Bindel claims she was visited by police after her tweet was ‘reported by a trans man’
Transgender police officers can strip-search women under new guidance
Will the Democrats finally start listening to the TERFs?
Trump to remove all trans people from US military ‘on day one’
Nancy Mace Slams New York Times For Woke Transgender Language
An LGBTQ+ student was suspended for rapping...
According to Lower Hudson Valley outlet The Journal News, the lawsuit filed in federal court earlier this week argues that Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York, violated the student’s First Amendment rights when officials suspended him for three days for violating the district’s policy against hate speech.
An LGBTQ+ student was suspended for rapping...
High school student is suspended for saying 'illegal alien' in class
Rep. Ilhan Omar's Daughter Suspended From Barnard
DeWitt Public Schools cancels pronouns lesson after threats
HS Principal Replaced After Video Surfaces of Drag Queen Performing at Local Prom
Ca. district pays $360K to teacher who refused to use students’ pronouns
Athletic director’s claims that she was fired for being gay are rejected
“UMD says it relieved Banford of her hockey duties because, when a Division I head coach is fired, it is typical to fire other staff members who work closely with them,” according to the opinion.
Athletic director’s claims
Amandla Stenberg accuses lesbian critic of objectifying her
Lesbian social worker is accused of making sexual advances toward at least FORTY moms
Biological males blocked from competing in women's school sports
Basketball team forfeits tournament rather than play against trans
Trans cyclist wins female race to prove males are physically superior
Home health aide accused of sexually assaulting patient
California school district changes gender-identity policy
School teacher tells parents she is being forced out because she is gay
Florida resort being charged with discrimination
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is charging 21 Palms RV Resort, Inc. and its owner, Nathan Dykgraaf, in Davenport with discriminating against a former tenant because of her gender identity.
Florida resort being charged with discrimination
Trans woman sues Chick-fil-A
11-year-old Texas trans activist & family flee state
Girl, 17, who transitioned back reveals how puberty blockers and surgery have ruined her body
Trans woman returns to life as man
Most Americans back gay rights, but oppose societal changes for trans people
Britain Rejects the Sinister Fiction of the ‘Transgender Child’
Bakery Told to Stop Hosting Gay Events
A bakery in a Chicago suburb that planned to host a family-friendly drag show has already been the target of hate, and now the local government is telling its operator to quit hosting public events.
Bakery Told to Stop Hosting Gay Events
Drag Race Star Accused of Stealing Hundreds During Show
Drag acts are a gross caricature of femininity
In 1947, Florida shut down a popular drag club
Kirk Cameron is banned from hosting readings of his children's Christian book because he was cute once
No more drag queen storytime?
Arkansas moves forward on criminalizing drag shows
Drag bans could result in arrests at Pride parades
Bakery that hosted drag event closes
California City Voted to No Longer Fly Pride Flag
Pat Burns, a new member of the council, had proposed the new list without the Pride flag, stating in a report that the city “should avoid actions that could easily or mistakenly be perceived as divisive.”
California City Voted
Bill Allowing Teachers To Not Hide Students’ Gender Identity from Parents Passes
It’s Now Legal “in Some Instances” to Discriminate Against LGBTQ
Catholic schools can’t fire teachers for being gay
Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn ruled that the Charlotte Catholic High School and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Charlotte, North Carolina wrongfully fired gay substitute drama and English teacher Lonnie Billard in 2014.
Cogburn ruled that the school violated federal protections against sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The judge wrote that the school’s actions weren’t protected by constitutional rights to religious freedom. He also ruled that “the school’s action didn’t fit into exemptions to labor law that give religious institutions leeway to require certain employees to adhere to religious teachings,” the EDGE Media Network reported.
Catholic schools can’t fire teachers for being gay
Iowa Teacher Placed on Leave After Coming Out to Students
Half of LGBTQ workers have faced job discrimination, report finds
Student Facing Charges After Ripping Pride Flag Away From Classmate
Gay Junior High Teacher Resigns After School Says No to Pride Flag
North Carolina Cops Cracked 1986 Murder of 4-Year-Old Girl
National Lottery defends handing thousands in funding to anti-trans LGB Alliance
Head pastors at Hillsong Church are accused of using volunteers as their personal babysitters for little or no pay, insiders said
After celebrity pastor of Hillsong NYC Carl Lentz was fired for cheating on his wife in November, sources told Insider that the issues at Hillsong run much deeper than one affair.
Several former volunteers said top pastors regularly took advantage of free and underpaid labor, and in some cases paid little or no money for volunteers to babysit their children.
In 2017, former Hillsong Boston volunteer Tiffany Perez said she was asked to take care of the top pastor Josh Kimes' daughter, Lyla, who was 4 at the time for $150 a week.
Perez often worked up to 25 hours a week babysitting, she said, which comes out to about $6 an hour, or half the minimum wage in Massachusetts. Perez also cleaned their home and looked after their dog, she said. She was not paid extra for the cleaning or dog care.
Head pastors at Hillsong Church are accused of using volunteers as their personal babysitters for little or no pay, insiders said
Older LGBTQ workers face special jeopardy from widespread workplace ageism
Last June’s surprising Supreme Court decision granting LGBTQ employees protection under federal law would seem to put an end to workplace discrimination. But if you’re 50 or older, you may still experience an equally invidious form of discrimination: ageism.
According to a 2018 AARP survey, about three in five workers have experienced age discrimination in their jobs. A whopping 76 percent worried that ageism would hurt their job hunting. That fear is well-grounded. An analysis of employment data by the Urban Institute and ProPublica found that half of older workers were pushed out of jobs and 90 percent of them ended up taking a pay cut when they were finally rehired.
Being an older LGBTQ worker can make things even worse. Out LGBTQ workers have already had to deal with much higher levels of job discrimination and wage disparities. Now, despite the promise of job protections for being LGBTQ, they are finding that the pervasive problem of ageism serves as yet another threat to their careers and financial security.
Worsening the problem is the internalized ageism that many older LGBTQ people carry. A 2015 study of 312 gay men with an average age of 61 found that many felt aging was harder due to the perception that gay men primarily value younger men. No doubt, some of that carries over into the workplace as well.
Older LGBTQ workers face special jeopardy from widespread workplace ageism
‘They Just Dumped Him Like Trash’: Nursing Homes Evict Vulnerable Residents
On a chilly afternoon in April, Los Angeles police found an old, disoriented man crumpled on a Koreatown sidewalk.
Several days earlier, RC Kendrick, an 88-year-old with dementia, was living at Lakeview Terrace, a nursing home with a history of regulatory problems. His family had placed him there to make sure he got round-the-clock care after his condition deteriorated and he began disappearing for days at a time.
But on April 6, the nursing home deposited Mr. Kendrick at an unregulated boardinghouse — without bothering to inform his family. Less than 24 hours later, Mr. Kendrick was wandering the city alone.
According to three Lakeview employees, Mr. Kendrick’s ouster came as the nursing home was telling staff members to try to clear out less-profitable residents to make room for a new class of customers who would generate more revenue: patients with Covid-19.
NY Times
Gay Guys With Small Penises Share Their Hookup Horror Stories
“Are you hung/XL”?
If you’re a queer guy, chances are that question has shaped a good chunk of your Grindr experience. Sure, it’s a casually posed enquiry. But the question reinforces the stigma surrounding penis size – particularly in male-male hook-up culture – that drives many men to feel ashamed, embarrassed or undesirable.
When it comes to penis size in male-male hook up culture, individuals can end up afraid of dating, put off sexual activity and in some cases abstain from sex altogether to remove themselves from the risk of being shamed, or feeling shamed. Yet, penis size-shaming continues to be broadly presented as a joke in popular culture, as this recent Guardian article surmised so well.
So in the interest of smashing the stigma and humanising the situation, here are four men with smaller penises who have told VICE the reality of their experience, and how it feels to be discriminated against.
“I asked if everything was OK, and my hookup said: ‘Only men with big cocks can fuck me’”
Vice
Man claims discrimination in lawsuit filed over breakfast
A North Carolina man has filed a handwritten lawsuit against a fast food chain, saying he was discriminated against because he had too few hash browns with his breakfast order.
ABC News
'She's a monster': Laura Ingraham's gay brother lashes out in interview
Conservative commentator Laura Ingraham is no stranger to public castigation, but the source of the latest attack on the Fox News host hits close to home.
In a interview with the Daily Beast, Curtis Ingraham, the cable star’s brother, lashed out at his famous sibling and her controversial views.
“I think she’s a monster,” Curtis Ingraham said in the interview, which was published on Wednesday. “She’s very smart, she’s well-spoken, but her emotional heart is just kind of dead.”
NBC News
Gay guys over 45 are way more likely to be single, survey finds
A new survey has found that the majority gay men over the age of 45 living in the United States are single.
The survey was conducted by the AARP and interviewed a total of 1,782 LGBTQ adults across all 50 states about their thoughts on age and aging.
Here’s what it uncovered:
57% of gay men over the age of 45 reported being single.
39% of lesbians over 45 reported being single.
48% of bisexual men and women over 45 reported being single.
Queerty
Being Queer in a Juvenile Detention Center: A Survivor's Story
My name is Sasha. I am 24 years old and I am from the North Philly section of Philadelphia. As a kid, I didn’t have a problem openly expressing my own sexual orientation. I started liking girls at the age of 9 and started dressing like a boy at the age of 14. My home was very supportive of my self-expression and I was never treated differently because of it. I didn’t have to deal with the topic of being gay all the time. My family didn’t like that I was “this way,” but they accepted me. They never brought it up and that was enough support for me.
Advocate