Melissa McCarthy has become the latest celebrity to voice anger against Tennessee’s drag ban. Melissa posted a series of characters in drag on social media with the quote: “You’ve been entertained by drag your whole
“Rainbowland,” a song by Dolly Parton and Miley Cyrus that celebrates acceptance, was recently banned from a spring concert set list at a Wisconsin elementary school.
Sarah Schindler’s first-grade daughter at the school came home from school saying in shock, “We can’t sing it anymore. We can’t sing ‘Rainbow Connection’ and we can’t sing ‘Rainbowland.’
This week, a principal at a Tallahassee charter school was forced to resign after a handful of parents complained that their sixth-grade children were shown a photograph of Michelangelo’s David—who is famously nude—without the parents being notified about the lesson beforehand.
The Miami Beach Pride Parade is back this spring, returning to Ocean Drive on April 16, 2023. This procession of floats, DJs, and outrageous outfits draws upward of 170,000 people to Miami Beach every year, celebrating everything that’s great about Greater Miami & Miami Beach’s LGBTQ+ community.
A Nebraska state senator is causing waves in the state legislature after a scathing speech where she told her Republican colleagues that she is done being polite with them since they’re attacking her family. Namely, her 12-year-old son, who is transgender. Sen. Megan Hunt (D) said, “My son is trans. And this bill, colleagues, is such an affront to me personally and would violate my rights to parent my child in Nebraska.”
LGBTQ+ companies and organizations that include GLAAD, OUTtv, Trixie Cosmetics, SERV Vodka, and Five Senses Reeling, among others. Tickets for Drag Isn’t Dangerous are currently being sold for $20 at Moment.co/dangerous. The event will be live-streamed on Sunday, May 7 at 7 pm ET.
A proposed Florida Board of Education rule could expand restrictions on classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity. This rule would build up on the Parental Rights in Education law Florida Gov. Ron
A slew of anti-LGBTQ+ bills is moving through the state Legislature, including bans on preferred pronouns in schools and gender-affirming care as well as restrictions on drag performances that could make public events like Pride illegal.
In the aftermath of the Nashville school shooting that killed three children and three adults, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has called on Congress to take action on gun control. Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlin Collins, Jean-Pierre criticized the House Judiciary Committee for postponing a scheduled markup of a gun rights resolution after the shooting.
“My name is Joe Biden. I’m Dr. Jill Biden’s husband,” the president began. “And I eat Jeni’s ice cream – chocolate chip. I came down because I heard there was chocolate chip ice cream. By the way, I have a whole refrigerator full upstairs…You think I’m kidding? I’m not.”
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