Category: Pride festivities
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Blue Jays pitcher Anthony Bass cut from roster after promoting anti-LGBTQ2S social media post
The Toronto Blue Jays are moving on from pitcher Anthony Bass after he made headlines last week for sharing anti-LGBTQ2S posts on social media. Rating: Transneutral, Global News, June 9, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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Gay congressman Robert Garcia honours RuPaul on House floor
Gay Democrat Robert Garcia has celebrated Pride Month by celebrating drag icon RuPaul’s legacy on the US House floor. Rating: Transsupportive, Pink News, June 8, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Corie Mattie Trolls Ron DeSantis With Guerrilla Street Art Campaign In Orlando
Corie Mattie, aka the LA Hope Dealer, returned to the Florida city she once called home with a blunt message for the 2024 presidential candidate. Rating: Transsupportive, Huffington Post, June 8, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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Right-wing protest turns violent outside school board meeting in Glendale, California
Rating: Transsupportive, Boing Boing, June 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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Too much alike? Oxfam forced to deny ‘TERF’ video depicts J.K. Rowling
British-founded charity Oxfam faces backlash after posting a now-deleted video showing a woman wearing a ‘TERF’ badge – with some comparing the likeness to the controversial Harry Potter author. Rating: Transneutral, euronews, June 7, 2023 (PDF archive) (original Video archive) (updated Video archive)
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3 arrested as protesters clash over Pride curriculum outside Glendale school board meeting
Demonstrators clashed and fights erupted during a protest Tuesday evening outside a meeting of the Glendale Unified School District board, which was scheduled to vote on recognizing June as Pride Month. Rating: Transneutral, ABC, June 6, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Jen Psaki Spots ‘Awkward’ Thing About Fox News’ Phony LGBTQ Outrage
The Biden White House press secretary-turned-MSNBC anchor also exposed Republican hypocrisy over Fox News’ boycott calls. Rating: Transneutral, Huffington Post, June 5, 2023 (PDF archive) (Video archive)
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Parents Protest Pride Event at Los Angeles Elementary School
Police officers had to separate protesters and counterprotesters outside a Los Angeles elementary school that has become a flashpoint for LGBTQ+ issues involving children in California during Pride month. California18, June 3, 2023 (PDF archive)
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I Am Not Proud to Be Transgender
Today — June 1 — marks the beginning of Pride Month 2023, a nebulous period both for those in the rainbow community as well as out. Medium, June 1, 2023 (PDF archive)
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Target’s Capitulation To The Anti-Trans Mob and The Pitfalls of Corporate Pride
As soon as Pride month rolls around, we are greeted with a huge number of corporations paying lip service to Pride, usually by changing their social media profile pictures so that their logo is shown with the rainbow colors as a supposed expression of support. Correspondingly, we are also given a number of very surface-level…