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Wrapping Up Pride 2023

by Stephen Henry Miller on June 24, 2023

Ben Kawaller adds: “If the gay activism I grew up with was about securing equal rights, LGBTQ+ activism looks more like a cultural project aimed at reforming our ideas about gender and sexuality. It also doesn’t seem to be able to help itself from looking absurd.”

Andrew Sullivan makes a similar point:

Below, progressive activists want Republicans to be anti-gay.

And now this!

NYC Pride – 6/25/2023
My name is K. Yang, I'm a former trans rights activist & LGBT non-profit whistleblower. I was just kicked, hit, pushed, mobbed by dozens of people in Washington Square Park. ♂️ who identify as ♀️ called me "bitch" & assaulted me. @KnownHeretic @bjportraits pic.twitter.com/4J9AaFXSEf
— Stop Female Erasure / K Yang (@StopXXErasure) June 25, 2023

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LGB Rights vs. Gender Identity Activism

by Stephen Henry Miller on June 22, 2023

And worth repeating:

And then there’s this:

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The Blowback to TQ+ Extremism Undermines Gay Rights and Accpeptance

by Stephen Henry Miller on June 16, 2023

Gallup: The share of Americans who say that same-sex relations are morally acceptable has fallen during the past year from 71% to 61%. Even among Democrats the falloff was 6 percentage points, from 85% to 79%.

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Gay Kids and Gender Ideology

by Stephen Henry Miller on June 13, 2023

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HRC’s ‘Emergency’ Declaration

by Stephen Henry Miller on June 8, 2023

The Human Rights Campaign issues a warning to be afraid…be very afraid:

🚨 Our statement on the @HRC's "state of emergency" PR stunt.

TLDR: The Human Rights Campaign perpetually fear-mongers that the LGBT community is in grave danger in order to gin up donations and justify their existence.

We encourage them to read a history book. pic.twitter.com/eHL8q9qgii
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 7, 2023

Non-straight Americans have never enjoyed more rights or broad acceptance in our nation’s laws/culture than we do today. To effectively suggest — with a dramatic, first-ever “emergency” declaration — that it’s never been worse (dating back to the early 80s!) is really something. https://t.co/9MOKXiHePv
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 7, 2023

Via the Washington Times:
>>Mr. Moran said the problem is that HRC has redefined support for LGBTQ rights to include “trans surgeries for minors, biological men competing in women’s sports, and sex and gender identity lessons in kindergarten.”<<

“The HRC’s latest PR stunt is so ignorantly detached from the incredible LGBT progress over the past decade that we’d be shocked if their donors even buy it,” Log Cabin Republicans President Charles Moran told The Washington Times.

Check it out! https://t.co/tKR3LHBSlP
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 7, 2023

The gender ideology narrative is failing to convince the masses, so it’s an “emergency”!

Promoting the medical transitioning of gay kids is the real emergency that gay people should be responding to:

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More on Pride 2023

by Stephen Henry Miller on June 5, 2023

Guy Benson on what we should celebrate:

It’s pride month, which means it’s time for a lot of noise — from corporate posturing to culture warriors’ endless competing grievances (sometimes they have a point, on both “sides”). There are any number of things ‘Pride’ *doesn’t* mean to me — but here’s what it does:
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 1, 2023

ICYMI – from @robsmithonline – https://t.co/BkQBbZ7zJx
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 3, 2023

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Reclaiming Gay History

by Stephen Henry Miller on June 4, 2023

The “transgender-led Stonewall” myth is popping up everywhere:

Progressives are erasing gay history in favor of a false narrative. https://t.co/LMBzgs2iE7
— CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) June 4, 2023

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No Longer a ‘Gay’ Movement, for Sure

by Stephen Henry Miller on May 31, 2023

For gay men and lesbians, the LGBTQ+ movement has marginalized our identities and erased our history with false narratives. It’s also put gay and lesbian youth at great risk of being lured into horrific medicalized “gender affirming” conversion therapies. And nothing will change (except things getting worse) until gay men and lesbians realize what’s happened and work to recreate a movement focused on our rights and well-being.

Added: The appropriate response to rightwing attacks focused on TQ+ extremism (but also extending to undermine acceptance of gay people) should not be to circle the wagons and defend TQ+ extremism!

Worth repeating:

There’s clear evidence that pediatric gender identity services can amount to conversion therapy. LGB youth, particularly effeminate boys and masculine girls, are being pressured into falsely identifying as transgender, thereby “transing away the gay.”https://t.co/BQVy0KSIBz
— Adam Zivo (@ZivoAdam) April 10, 2023

Posted by Andrew Sullivan:

If we’re supposed to take trans adults at their word that they knew—not believed, but knew—they were trans when they were kids, why shouldn’t we take gay/lesbian and former tomboy adults at *their* word when they say they would have identified as trans and sought unnecessary…
— Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) June 5, 2023

Oh I would've been fast tracked. Tomboy. Trauma. BPD. Autistic. Bi. Yah, I'm so glad I'm old.
— bubbachomps (@bubbachomps_) June 6, 2023

L.A.’s Major League Baseball is inviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, drag street performance group to accept a “community hero award” on the field of Dodger Stadium at LGBTQ+ Pride Night on June 16.
This is one of their performance. pic.twitter.com/XvnR9BtAkc
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 24, 2023

And worth repeating:

IGF CultureWatch