Gay Marriage + LGBT General News and Discussion Thread - Part 2

[Smues]

We had a trans woman win the D

Huh, I would have figured she wanted to get rid of that.

 

[bigolsmitty]

2/10; keep on digging, Watson

 

[BruiserBrody]

http://www.newnownext.com/mississippi-hb-1523-religious-freedom/06/2017/

Another step back

 

[Damaramu]

Is this going to be our country from now on? Democrats are in charge so we walk forward then Republicans take over and we sweep backwards?

I mean I guess it might have been happening in this country since the beginning, but now I'm more aware of it due to my age and such. Still it feels like it's been really jarring the amount of going backwards we're doing since the election.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

New York Top Court Gets First Openly Gay Judge

"Mid-level appeals court judge Paul Feinman was elevated Wednesday to the state Court of Appeals, with the state Senate unanimously confirming him less than a week after Gov. Andrew Cuomo nominated him for the post.

Feinman, who previously served in the Appellate Division in Manhattan, will fill the lone vacancy on the seven-member Court of Appeals, which was created by the April death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam."

 

[HarleyQuinn]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-christian-right-has-a-new-strategy-on-gay-marriage/

"Colorado bakery owner named Jack Phillips is a devout Christian who closes his shop on Sundays and refuses to take business that he says violates his religious beliefs — including making cakes celebrating Halloween, atheism and “any form of marriage other than between a husband and a wife.” In doing so, he is defying his state’s anti-discrimination law, and the Supreme Court will now hear oral arguments on whether he has the right to do so.

The case, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, represents a pivotal new legal strategy for the Christian conservative movement grounded in religious liberty claims rather than arguments that the law should reflect their values.

The issue of “religious liberty” has become an increasingly high priority for the broader conservative Christian population, particularly white evangelical Protestants, who are overwhelmingly politically conservative and traditionally seen as the core of the Christian right."

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

How do you celebrate atheism?

 

[Hawk 34]

throw a party and nobody shows up.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

take out the probably. The only other ones I found when I googled it were just big "A''s that looked homemade so i really don't think this is a thing.

 

[Damaramu]

Sometimes the Oklahoma in me comes out and I wonder why most LGBT people don't just go to a different bakery? Then I remember I'm a straight white male so I can't identify at all and I quickly shut that Oklahoma line of thinking down when I realize that.

I feel like some business savvy person needs a national chain of gay friendly bakeries. They can even have a tagline like 'We bake cakes for straight people too!"

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Sometimes the Oklahoma in me comes out and I wonder why most LGBT people don't just go to a different bakery? Then I remember I'm a straight white male so I can't identify at all and I quickly shut that Oklahoma line of thinking down when I realize that.

I feel like some business savvy person needs a national chain of gay friendly bakeries. They can even have a tagline like 'We bake cakes for straight people too!"

Some of it is two fold

1: Small town which may only have a single bakery as an option. Most of these "religious freedom" bakeries, to me, tend to seem like they're from areas where they may be the only bakery available.
2: The initial patron(s) may not realize said bakery doesn't cater to them before they request a cake or whatever. Only afterwards they learn the owner doesn't want their business (which seems so stupid on a financial level... yeah, let's reject $$ in my pocket) and they spread the word/spotlight the business as one so that others don't make the same mistake.

 

[vivisectvi]

https://attitude.co.uk/article/17046/young-queer-people-shouldnt-be-obliged-to-care-about-lgbt-history-and-thats-the-biggest-sign-of-success-there-is-opinion/

What an incredibly uneducated and disrespectful (and poorly written) statement to make.

Gay Twitter is raking the author over the coals, and rightfully so.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

https://twitter.com/ifthedevilisix/status/982831011842199552

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/06/asia/india-gay-sex-ruling-intl/index.html

India's Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual gay sex, overturning more than 150 years of anti-LGBT legislation.

The court announced the landmark verdict in Delhi on Thursday, as jubilant crowds cheered and rights activists hugged one another, overcome with emotion.
Section 377, an archaic law imposed during British rule that penalized intercourse "against the order of nature," had carried a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
The decision to repeal the law is a major victory for India's LGBT activists and supporters after years of determined struggle.

Big step forward here and it's really cool seeing how happy and excited people are.

 

[vivisectvi]

Ugh.. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/us/politics/transgender-trump-administration-sex-definition.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/JaneyGodley/status/1169121277648482304

 

[Precious Roy]

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-kayla-kenney-birthday-rainbow-cake-shirt-expelled-kentucky-school-20200114-hqfabqeenbedppwks2uxra56ki-story.html

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

FDA has rolled back the restrictions that have prevented gay & bisexual men (and a lot of trans folks) from donating blood.

Awesome news but GD...did you have to wait until a global pandemic to make it?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/coronavirus-fda-gay-men-blood-ban
Edit: I guess I haven't donated blood in a while. Last time I donated it was you couldn't donate if you had sex with a man in the past 20 years. It was knocked down 1 year in 2015 and 3 months today.

So still pretty homophobic!

 

[Fall of Epic]

A ton of my LGBTQ+ friends always donated blood and didn't give a fuck about the restrictions. I mean, they test the blood anyway, right? So I don't get why this has always been an issue.

 

[vivisectvi]

Seriously, the blood is tested regardless, you're correct, so it's a stupid rule likely enacted by initially religious influences.

 

[BUTT]

FDA has rolled back the restrictions that have prevented gay & bisexual men (and a lot of trans folks) from donating blood.

Awesome news but GD...did you have to wait until a global pandemic to make it?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/dominicholden/coronavirus-fda-gay-men-blood-ban
Edit: I guess I haven't donated blood in a while. Last time I donated it was you couldn't donate if you had sex with a man in the past 20 years. It was knocked down 1 year in 2015 and 3 months today.

So still pretty homophobic!

P. understandable imo, back in the 80s AIDS was incurable but nowadays it goes away in 6-8 weeks. I commend the FDA for adjusting to the times.

 

[vivisectvi]

It's not understandable because it implies that it's a "gay disease", which beyond ridiculous.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Kreese is being sarcastic.

 

[vivisectvi]

https://gen.medium.com/an-anti-gay-crusader-and-her-gay-son-were-making-it-work-then-came-trump-84301547daec

Meet the Mason family: Matthew, a gay activist, Mylinda, his anti-gay adoptive mom, and Kristi, his biological mom. Last summer, Mylinda held a “straight-pride” rally in Modesto, CA.

 

[BorneAgain]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html

Playwright, writer, and AIDS activist Larry Kramer has died.

I largely know him from the details given in "The Band Played On" but the man was remarkably critical in the early efforts against AIDS and didn't care who in the US government or the Gay community he pissed off with either his work or his activism.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Genderqueer woman was badly beaten in a grocery store parking lot yesterday and called a "homosexual" by a local business owner over a minor parking faux pas. I thought Portland, Maine was better than this but apparently not. Ugh.

Assaulter's business has big contract in the city and didn't get arrested at the scene cause he's friends with the PD. Big oof all around.

 

[SFH]

Long version:

Main event:

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Total for Carrie Evans on that. So great.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

The FDA Is Easing Its Ban On Blood Donations From Gay And Bisexual Men Because Of The Coronavirus Pandemic

“The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented challenges to the US blood supply,” the FDA said Thursday.

www.buzzfeednews.com

Edit: I guess I haven't donated blood in a while. Last time I donated it was you couldn't donate if you had sex with a man in the past 20 years. It was knocked down 1 year in 2015 and 3 months today.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1338442131430658049

Update: UK knocked it down today too.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1353757273114472449