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Leo Herrera, Mexican writer and LGBTQ+ activist, on
‘Don’t say Gay’: “’Don’t Say Gay’ gives me church giggles. They’re still trying to get rid of us? When will they understand our Queerness floats to the top like cream and explodes when it’s buried? They can draft their bills, and ban our books and social media, wipe the cream pie off Anita Bryant’s face, clear their priests Grindr history but it’s too late. Queerness can’t be contained because it is the container. The hinges on Pandora’s box and the rub marks on Aladdin’s lamp. The sea glass their child already picked up, while they shielded their eyes from our sun and turned their back on our ocean. Volatile, elemental, sacred, everywhere, sacred. Always.” Everywhere. Always. That’s Gay. |
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Dan Ball, OAN host, saying Ukraine is
bombing its own country: “I know as a vet, our country’s guilty of it, other countries do it all the time. During war, there’s propaganda. Today we learn that a hospital was hit. Children were killed, dozens were injured, right? In Mariupol, in Ukraine. Russia immediately says, we didn’t hit that hospital. They’re saying Russia did. We know there’s special operatives and, if you will, undercover forces within the Ukrainian military that do Zelenskyy’s bidding. I’m not saying somebody staged this to make things look worse, but they haven’t denied other—hitting other stuff. They immediately denied hitting this hospital. And we know there’s been false stories out in the media already about this war.” So, in not saying Ukraine is bombing
itself, he tries to suggest Ukraine is bombing itself. Ball is the same moron who claimed hundreds of
thousands of—nameless and faceless—people have died from COVID vaccines. He says the things he says without a shred of proof and expects people to simply buy his lies. |
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William Barr, Thing
45’s lying cheating henchman, on his former boss’ reaction to the 2020
election: “It was certainly unsettling when I went in to talk to the president about the election and you know, he was livid and shaking and showed a lot of temper and yelling. That was a little unsettling. But the other thing that was actually unsettling was later when I went in to actually give him my letter of resignation, he started talking about how he had actually won the election and how the machines were rigged and that he was actually going to be there for another term. And he was very confident of that. And I just felt this showed a detachment from reality that was stunning to me. He was willing to accept anything, no matter how fanciful, as long as it didn’t make him a loser in the election. The truth is he lost the election. I understand a lot of these very sensational stories come out online and in social media but they’re simply not accurate.” He
saw firsthand the lunatic going off the deep end, and he believes Thing 45
incited the insurrection, and he writes a book detailing the horrors of the
man, and yet he’ll vote for him in 2024 if he runs. Oh,
Billy, you traitorous lying complicit blob of flesh. |
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Stephanie Grisham, former Thing 45 Press Secretary, on her job embarrassing her gay son: “This one is personal to me. Because of my former boss. I have a 14-year-old son who is gay. Recently came out as gay. I have his permission to talk about this. He didn’t want to tell his friends where I worked. He was ashamed of where I worked, rightfully so, but also the fact that there’s this ‘Don’t Say Gay’—even slogan—out there, it’s making children feel different. It’s creating a problem where I don’t think there is one.” How
sad her fourteen-year-old son knew more about life and the homophobia of her
boss before she did. It just proves gay folks are smarter than other folks. |
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Christina Pushaw, Flori-duh Governor Ron DeSantis’ press secretary, about
calls from Florida lawmakers for her firing or resignation for her comments on
that Don’t Say Gay’ bill’—she says opponents of the bill are pedophiles: “I don’t regret raising concerns about child safeguarding. The only people who singled out the LGBT community are the opponents of the bill, who have been baselessly accusing us of homophobia—when the bill itself doesn’t single out the LGBT community or even mention the word “gay.” The
bill says: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.” If
you cannot mention LGBTQ+ people, you dumbass, you’re singling them out. Just
like if Flori-duh had a Don’t Show Ugly bill, it’d single you out. Hon. |
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Joni Madison, the Human Rights Campaign’s [HRC]
interim president on Disney’s refusal to condemn ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ but offered a
$5 million donation to the group: “The Human Rights Campaign will not accept this money from Disney until we see them build on their public commitment and work with LGBTQ+ advocates to ensure that dangerous proposals, like Florida’s Don’t Say Gay or Trans bill, don’t become dangerous laws, and if they do, to work to get them off the books. Businesses have had and continue to have a major impact in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, from marriage equality to the defeat of House Bill 2 in North Carolina and beyond. While Disney took a regrettable stance by choosing to stay silent amid political attacks against LGBTQ+ families in Florida—including hardworking families employed by Disney—today they took a step in the right direction. But it was merely the first step. HRC encourages Disney, and all employers, to continue to fight for their employees—many of whom bravely spoke out to say their CEO’s silence was unacceptable—and the LGBTQ+ community by working with us and state and local LGBTQ+ groups to ensure these dangerous anti-equality proposals that harm LGBTQ+ families and kids have no place in Florida. Every student deserves to be seen, and every student deserves an education that prepares them for health and success—regardless of who they are. This should be the beginning of Disney’s advocacy efforts rather than the end.” Disney has been in hot water ever since it was revealed that
the company not only donated to the GOP sponsors of the bill and refused to
take a public stance against it. But, after public and employee outcry, at the
annual shareholders meeting this week, Disney CEO Bob Chapek declared for
the first time that Disney does not support the bill. Now, come out publicly and say it, Bob, and stop donating to
homophobes and transphobes and bigots. |
