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Isaac Humphries, former professional basketball player came
out in November 2022 as the first openly gay player in Australia's National
Basketball League, on retiring from the sport because of a knee injury: “I am so sad to say goodbye like this. Sometimes life deals you cards that tell you story for you, and due to my continued knee injury I’ve had to make the incredibly difficult decision to retire. I’ll miss my teammates. The laughs. The trenches. I’ll miss the fans, those, and the feeling of having an entire community behind you. I gave so much of my life to this sport, and it gave a life I never could have imagined right back. There is so much more to say, but for now, just thank you. I hope the identity I’ve created lives on in every person who wears my jersey, and in every place I was lucky enough to call home. It’s not exactly a 'Goodbye,' but maybe an 'Until I see you again.' So for now, and from your number 8, thank you.” One of only six men’s pro basketball players to ever come
out, Humphries instantly saw his popularity increase as most people realized
you can be an athlete and gay; and you can be a member of a team and still be
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James Talarico, Democrat for Senate from Texas, on his
opponent Ken Paxton: “Ken Paxton says I don’t have his experience and he’s right: I’ve never been indicted for fraud. I’ve never been reported to the FBY for bribery. I’ve never been impeached by my own party; and I’ve never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile/ I have a different kind of experience. Simply put Ken Paxton is an adulketrous lying pedophile
protecting criminal … just like that man in the White House. And we don’t need any more of that. Vote Blue. |
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Scott Dworkin, co-founder of The Democratic Coalition,
suggesting Chief Justice Roberts should be impeached: “Chief Justice John Roberts handed [Cankles] a Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card and called it constitutional law. He thinks a lifetime seat makes him untouchable. It doesn’t. Congress can impeach a Chief Justice. Most Americans don’t know it. Spread the word.” Take down the criminals and the cheats and the liars and the
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Dan Rather, former CBS News anchor, on Cankles trying to
circumvent law and the Constitution: “Fiercely debating how we should govern is completely acceptable. Wrestling over how we adjudicate power, how we weigh the accumulation and spending of our resources, how we plan for the future and make sense of the past—all this is also fair and open to disagreement. But that presidents can be brazenly above the law must be considered un-American. That they should rule only for their supporters at the expense of the rest of the nation must be rejected. And that they should not accept the verdict of the people in free and fair elections is to make a mockery of our most basic democratic necessities.” We can disagree; we can argue; but we cannot do nothing when
faced with a criminal racist, traitorous regime. Stand up and be counted. CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!! |
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Trixie Mattel, drag superstar, on drag queens and kids: “We don’t think about your kids. We don’t hope they’re gay. We don’t hope they turn out trans. We don’t hope they become drag queens. What we hope is that, if they are trans or gay, they find a community faster than many of us did.” Goddess I adore Trixie. Sadly many on the Right still
live in the gutter spewing filth and hate and lies when they of gay people, trans
people, or drag queens, when all we want is equality and to be able to live our
lives as we want to live them. |
