This is classic bully behavior. Oh I didn't mean to. All that unchecked #homophobia makes me think you wanna try it there bud. I'm free at 7pm but I want dinner and drinks first. No? Well damned #news #trump https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/19/trump-white-house-harvard-funding-mistake.html

Tran is now feeling both the “pressure of representing a community in a specific way,” and the struggle of continuing to work through her own internalized misogyny, racism and homophobia. But the actor wants “to live in a world where there is a generation after me that does not have any of that.”

https://www.them.us/story/kelly-marie-tran-the-wedding-banquet-queerness-relationship-rom-com-interview

Myself, as a young teacher during the Bicentennial. I'm glad I didn't know then how rife with homophobia and bigotry public education is. 1976. #publiceducation #bigotry #homophobia #racism #sexism #xenophobia #institutionalizedbigotry #humanist #humanists #education

Covid is no worse than the flu?

I know, I have now led dozens of posts over the past few years with this sarcastic question. But now, with the pandemic officially declared over by the politicians and the majority of the public behaving as though Covid19 is no longer a threat, it seems particularly apropos in light of the reasons for declaring the pandemic over: to get people back to work and back to consuming. Yet, as the data from this study show, Long Covid has had an enormous negative impact on the income and quality of life for millions of Americans, particularly the poor and working class, and particularly for African Americans and women.

*Nearly 1 in 7 working-age adults in the U.S. had experienced Long Covid by the end of 2023
*Socially disadvantaged adults were 152% more likely to suffer from Long Covid
*Groups with higher risk for Long Covid include being Black, LGBTQ, Hispanic, Female, or low income
*In 2022, people with Long Covid lost $211 billion in wages
*In 2023, people with Long Covid lost $218 billion in wages

One reason for the disproportionate effect of Long Covid on marginalized communities, particularly BIPOC and poor people, is that these groups suffer disproportionately from chronically elevated levels of the stress hormone, Cortisol, due to the stress caused by racism, sexism, homophobia, and poverty. Elevated Cortisol levels are also associated with increased risk of heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes, as well as impaired immune function.

For a really good documentary on the Social Determinants of Health and the relationship between racism and poverty on stress/cortisol levels and negative health outcomes, please see the Unnatural Causes video series

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/studies-1-7-us-working-age-adults-report-long-covid-heaviest-burden-poor

My fav transphobic/homophobic remark is "how can I explain it to my KIDS" because it would necessarily mean that EVERY time this couple sees a straight couple they lean down to their little kid and explain:

"YOU KNOW JUNIOR THAT'S A MAN HE PUTS HIS BOIL-COVERED COCK RIGHT UP HER YEAST HOLE EVERY NIGHT KNOWWHATIMEAN"

NOBODY fucking "explains" random strangers sex lives, genders, or parts, to their kids.

Mickey Rourke attacks JoJo Siwa in homophobic ‘CBBUK’ outbursts https://www.inbella.com/993376/mickey-rourke-attacks-jojo-siwa-in-homophobic-cbbuk-outbursts/ #CelebritiesNews #CelebrityBigBrother #CelebrityNews #Entertainment #homophobia #JojoSiwa #lgbtqia #MickeyRourke #movies #rants #RealityStars #REALITYTV #tv

I want to live in a world in which BIGOTS are the only despised minority. #bigotry #endbigotry #sexism #racism #homophobia #equality #equalrights #civilrights #humanity #humanist #humanists #transrights #transgender #transgenderrights

Children are never racist, sexist, or homophobic. Until they're taught to be. Bigots are our society's real groomers. #endbigotry #endracism #endsexism #endhomophobia #bigotry #racism #sexism #homophobia #equalrights #civilrights #equality #protest #bicentennial #publicschool

Kristin Du Mez, Gene Weingarten, and John Ismay report on the 381 books that Trump-Hegseth have removed from the Naval Academy Library in a purge of books by and focusing on Black authors, women, LGBTQ people, etc.

For those of us looking for good books to read, a valuable list….

#Trump #Hegseth #DEI #racism #misogyny #homophobia #education #libraries

https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/problem-protest-insult-dog

https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/the-whitewash

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/naval-academy-dei-books-removed.html

“A surge of grant cancellations hit researchers focused on the health of gay, lesbian and #transgender people last week, as the Trump administration continues to target what it describes as ideologically driven science.”

Trump administration cancels at least 68 grants focused on #LGBTQIA+ health questions — CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/health/lgbtq-grants-canceled/index.html

"We want you to know that this doesn’t take away the incredible times we’ve had together. Remember that year we featured a single attractive white gay couple chastely holding hands in one of our ads? It was you and us against the world."

From McSweeney's satirical response to the real news that San Francisco #Pride lost $300k in sponsorships: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-regret-to-inform-you-we-will-no-longer-sponsor-your-pride-parade

Singapore ‘politician’ (who has never won anything): I will stop using homophobia as my party platform if you don’t field an openly lesbian candidate

Fuck off, GMS and your ‘party’

I feel like I can laugh about him coz he’s such a loser and has no chance in hell, but all of this is making me concerned about what happens when we have a homophobic populist politician

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2025/03/17/goh-meng-seng-ppp-will-withdraw-from-nee-soon-grc-if-no-lgbtq-candidate-is-fielded/

Trump reposts Nazi-era gay symbol
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/reposts-era-gay-symbol/

The pink triangle represented imprisonment and death for gay men in Nazi Germany.

Pamela Hilliard Owens says that Musk and Trump "are actively attempting to erase anything and everything referring to non-white Christian and straight males":

"It took centuries of Constitutional amendments and new local, state, and national laws to ostensibly give basic civil and voting rights to everyone, including women, Blacks, other People of Color, the LGBTQA community, and the lower and middle classes."

#Black #LGBTQ #women #racism #homophobia #patriarchy
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https://wearespeaking.substack.com/p/trump-and-musk-are-trying-to-make

This Republican homophobia is already childishly absurd. Defense Department to remove photos of WWII plane Enola Gay because it has 'gay' in its name.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/defense-department-enola-gay-dei #DefenseDepartment #DOD #Homophobia #Republicans #Trump #Hatemongers #Censorship #Military