I Didn't Say It

Chris Evans, actor and hunk and LGBTQ+ ally, who voices the main character in Pixar’s animated movie Lightyear, on people reacting negatively to a gay couple in the film:

“The real truth is those people are idiots. Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good. It’s incredible, and a real hats off to Disney and Pixar for having that kiss be a part of this story. The kiss is a greeting and a gesture of love that is tender. It does establish who they are as people, but it is not the singular identifier for who either of them are. Seeing a loving gay couple in a meaningful way is important for everybody. There’s always going to be people who are afraid and unaware and trying to hold on to what was before, but those people die off like dinosaurs. I think the goal is to pay them no mind, march forward and embrace the growth that makes us human.”

While I agree in part about ignoring them and moving on as they, hopefully, die off, some of these bigots are in office and seeing things like a simple same-sex kiss as grooming of children and then use that as a weapon against the whole community.

We need to speak up, loudly, and we need to have our allies speak up even louder.

Case in point: Lightyear was banned in the United Arab Emirates because it depicts homosexuality, and Disney has been unable to secure permission to show it in 13 other Middle Eastern and Asian countries, including Saudi Arabia.

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Ron DeSantis, Florida’s fascist GOP governor, and now apparent dumbest man on Earth, responding to Elon Musk’s Tweet that he was leaning toward supporting DeSantis for president in 2024:

“I’m focused on 2022, but with Elon Musk, what I would say is, I welcome support from African Americans, what can I say?”

Musk is white and from Pretoria, South Africa.

DeSantis is white and a dumbfuck from Florida.

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Candace Owens, conservative wingnut, on Pride:

“I have been covering the wonderful month of Pride, for which I feel no pride for at all. I think it should be called shame month. It’s absolute debauchery. You’re seeing right now that adults are getting behind this narrative so they can have a woke t-shirt on and say, ‘I love my children. I allowed my child to pick their gender and pick their species.’ And they feel proud of themselves because they can go and they can say this on Facebook that they are wonderful, accepting, and loving adults. When, in reality, they are underqualified to have children. They should have their children taken away from them because it’s child abuse.”

Yes, Candace believes people can choose their gender or even choose their species, but the only thing Candace Owens chose was to be an ignorant, hate-filled, delusional, homophobic bigot.

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Dave Rubin, homocon podcaster, on the backlash he received after announcing that he and his husband are expecting two children via surrogate later this year:

“There’s a lot of mean people and trolls and clickbait people and all of that stuff. 99% of what I got, especially from the public people that I’m associated with. So are there gonna be some traditional religious conservatives that are not happy with same-sex marriage and same-sex couples having kids? Of course, there are, I believe in religious liberty. And, as long as your beliefs don’t impede on my life and my ability to have a family and all of that stuff, then I still think we can live in the same country. And I would hope that they can too. You’re allowed to believe what you want.”

Does anyone else find it odd that Dave Rubin is the same guy who recently said that Karine Jean-Pierre got her job as White Press Secretary because she’s a “Black lesbo” is whining that people are saying mean things about he and his husband having kids.

Look in the mirror, Dave, the hateful things are in you, too.

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Dwyane Wade, on why he fights for his trans daughter Zaya:

“Just being a father and seeing our child grow up every day, and doing what you are supposed to do as a parent [which is] is to make sure that you sit back and see what it is in life that they want to do and try to go there with them, and try to help them … and believe them when they tell us who they are. The moment when you were in the hospital and you grabbed your daughter and you looked at your daughter, all the emotions that went through your mind and how much love filled your heart at that moment. Don’t let that ever leave you—no matter what. The one thing we do as parents is: We find our mini-mes and we try to make them just like us, but our kids are going to be who they are.”

Believe your children, your friends, your co-workers, your family,  when they tell you who they are.

It really is that simple.

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