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TMZ, the disgraced former Republican U.S. Congressman sought to dispel the notion that Vance was dressed in drag when he was photographed, twice, wearing a blond wig, a black blouse with a flowered skirt, chunky jewelry, and a purse for a Halloween party he attended while studying at Yale Law School.Santos compared the Vance photos to a similar situation that he personally faced last year, when he was accused of being a drag queen by people on the political Left after a former friend leaked a photo of him, dressed as his drag alter ego, Kitara Ravache, at a Pride Parade when he was 16 or 17.

anti-LGBTQ screeds, has been accused of allegedly writing sexually lewd and politically inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board over a decade ago.Robinson, who is Black, reportedly referred to himself on the message board as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, disparaged Martin Luther King, Jr., and made derogatory comments about the Black, gay, Muslim, and Jewish communities, according to a shocking report from CNN.The comments on the message board, which date back to a time period between 2008 and 2012, predate Robinson’s political activism and his stint as North Carolina’s current Lieutenant Governor.The online user, who CNN claims is Robinson, claimed to be a “perv” on the message boards of the porn website Nude Africa, allegedly writing graphic, sexually explicit messages talking about extramarital affairs, physical sex acts, and bodily fluids and claiming to be sleeping with his sister-in-law — all of which may or may not have been part of a fetish or roleplay fantasy scenario.Despite his repeated use of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on the campaign trail, and attempts to cast transgender females as predatory and a danger to women in restrooms, Robinson allegedly claimed, in posts written over a decade ago, that he loved watching pornographic scenes where transgender women have sex with cisgender women.“I like watching tranny on girl porn! That’s fucking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!” Robinson allegedly wrote.

same-sex marriage and protections for gay and lesbian individuals from discrimination. He is also pro-choice and recently praised the U.S.

vitriol directed against members of the LGBTQ community and other political enemies.Louis Money, an employee of several 24-hour adult video stores during the time period, including Gents and I-40 Video & News, told the North Carolina investigative outlet The Assembly that Robinson was a regular customer, sometimes coming in as often as five nights a week to watch pornographic videos in a private booth.According to Money, Robinson typically watched two or more “previews” in private booths for $8 a piece during each visit. While the stores catered to both straight and gay clientele, Money says Robinson’s tastes were fairly standard for a straight man.“I know he might have problems with gay people, but I don’t think he has problems with lesbians,” said Money.Money remembers Robinson as funny, cracking jokes during his visits to Gents and performing a standup-type routine for employees and a few customers, although many of those jokes would target the store’s gay clientele.

Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) was written by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec. Lisec is a professional ghostwriter, and Posobic is a well-known far-right influencer who promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory alleging that Democrats were running a child-trafficking ring out of Washington, D.C.’s Comet Pizza.In Unhumans — which contains a forward written by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon — Posobiec and Lisec argue that the history of left-wing movements shows they are driven by hate and that adherents of such movements wish to “rob” and “kill” conservatives in order to achieve their larger goal of dismantling societal institutions.The two call those on the political Left — regardless of how they identify, including progressives — “unhumans,” whom they alleged are waging an “Irregular Communist Revolution” against American society, claiming they “want an excuse to destroy everything.”“With power, unhumans undo civilization itself,” Posobiec and Lisec write.

Miami Herald that “[p]reparations for a suit in federal court are well underway.”“My civil liberties are not up for debate,” he said of his intention to not only sue Miami Beach Gay Pride, but the city of Miami Beach and Miami-Dade County, which are co-sponsoring the Pride parade.Kent Harrison Robbins, an attorney for Basabe, wrote to Horwich warning him that excluding Basabe from participating in the parade “would be willfully, knowingly, and intentionally abridging his First Amendment right to free speech and to peaceably assembly on a public street.”“Legal precedents from the federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court, have ruled that a concern that there may be physical opposition to [Basabe] is not a legal justification for violating his speech and assembly rights,” Robbins wrote in the letter. “Basabe must be allowed to participate in The Pride Parade and he must be notified immediately through my offices that he will be allowed to do so without any impediments.”Robbins argued that because city and county jurisdictions are among the sponsors of the parade, it doesn’t constitute a private event that would allow for Basabe’s exclusion.

deadline for Congress to pass funding bills to avoid a government shutdown fast approaches, congressional Republicans are pointing to specific programs they would like to see razed to reduce spending significantly.One of those — U.S. Rep.

letter demanding that the NCAA ban transgender female athletes from competing in women’s sports.The letter’s signatories are Governors Sarah Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas, Tate Reeves of Mississippi, Mike Parson of Missouri, Greg Gianforte of Montana, Joe Lombardo of Nevada, Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, Kristi Noem of South Dakota, Greg Abbott of Texas, and Mark Gordon of Wyoming.All except Lombardo — who is saddled with a Democratic-led state legislature — represent states that have passed laws banning transgender participation on female-designated sports teams.The governors decry the NCAA’s current policy on transgender athletes, which allows the individual national governing body of each sport to determine criteria for eligibility.Some of those sporting bodies, including track and field and swimming, have barred transgender competitors from female events.Both bodies have also suggested holding a third “open” category in which transgender swimmers could compete at the elite or post-collegiate levels.“The NCAA has the chance to guarantee an environment where female college athletes can thrive without the concern of inequities,” the letter reads. “We trust that you also want to guarantee just such an environment.

A new study shows that nearly 40% of Florida residents have considered leaving the state since the passage of the “Don’t Say Gay” law, with local Republicans encouraging the law’s detractors to follow through on such plans. According to a new survey by the Williams Institute, an LGBTQ policy think tank at UCLA’s School of Law, half of the 40% considering leaving Florida claimed they “very much so” wished to leave the state.Overall, 11% of survey respondents said they would likely move within the next two years.

allegedly fled Brazil after being charged with using stolen checks to purchase $700 worth of clothing from a high-end shop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro in 2008. Santos will next appear in court on June 30.According to prosecutors from the U.S.

occasional deviations from GOP orthodoxy on select issues — with her conservative bona fides.In those tweets, Mace also sought to push back against accusations of gender nonconformity — which might hamper a future campaign in her Republican-leaning district — by pointing out other women who have worn tuxedos in the past, while also arguing that her style of dress was a form of expressing her freedom to wear whatever she wants, as reported by LGBTQ Nation.The offending tweet came from Randan Steinhauser, a conservative public relations expert who describes herself in her Twitter bio as a “Counter-Cultural Christian Conservative WOMAN.”Steinhauser largely used the tweet to attack Mace’s somewhat-nuanced position on abortion — wherein the congressman opposes abortion but has called for finding “middle ground” during appearances on weekend TV news shows.“@NancyMace – I have known you for a longtime. But your recent anti-life statements & positions are very concerning,” tweeted Steinhauser, before shifting her focus to attack Mace’s style of dress.“Further, as our culture continues to undermine women by celebrating men who pretend to be them” — an apparent reference to transgender women — “why would you choose to wear a tux to the WHCD?” Steinhauser continued.Mace responded to a tweet from another conservative criticizing Steinhauser for attacking Mace’s choice of clothing.“When they can’t win the policy or the debate, they go straight for your appearance.

Respect for Marriage Act, which would require the federal government and states to recognize same-sex marriage licenses issued in states with laws that allow same-sex nuptials. The Act is a safeguard in case the conservative-leaning Supreme Court reverses its own decision legalizing marriage equality nationwide.She also attacked Democrats for their support of a bill to guarantee a right to an abortion, falsely repeating a Republican talking point that the bill would allow abortions up until the moment of birth (in fact, the bill would only allow such extreme cases to occur in cases where the mother’s life is at risk). “The truth has to be told. And we’re down to a point in America where the truth is being canceled.

Metro Weekly in an interview she’s hopeful and optimistic that the “cured” ballots will break in her favor, determining the winner of the race.“It’s strange, but I always felt calm about this race in a lot of ways,” she says. “I felt there was a chance I could actually win because I was born in Trenton, I grew up here, and I know my city enough to know I wouldn’t have problems getting elected as an openly LGBTQ person.

Podcaster Joe Rogan pushed back against critics who claim he is a “secret Republican,” making a vigorous defense of gay nuptials and criticizing elected Republicans for voting against a bill to codify the right to same-sex marriage into law.Rogan made the comments during the July 23 episode of his influential podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. Speaking with comedian Andrew Schulz about current events, Rogan brought up the 157 Republicans  who voted against the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill that would require states to recognize same-sex marriages as valid. The bill passed last Thursday, with 47 Republicans voting in favor of the measure.Rogan criticized opponents of the bill, including U.S.

video to the right-wing platform Rumble. In the video — which touches on a number of topics and conspiracy theories popular among the right-wing, including the Religious Right and people with anti-government views — Jackson starts off with a rant about Pride Month, calling homosexuality “unnatural” and “disgusting.”In the video, first flagged in a June 7 rundown by Right Wing Watch, a project of People for the American Way that reports on right-wing falsehoods and extremism, Jackson urges Christians to speak out against homosexuality as sinful and even to ridicule it. He says Christians must do this in order to get their message across that fornication of any kind — including homosexual behavior — is immoral and counter to God’s plan.“Pride Month is in full swing,” Jackson says.

gay “panic” defense, in which defendants argue for leniency for violence crimes committed against an LGBTQ person by blaming the victim’s identity.Marston opposed the bill, suggesting that banning the defense was unnecessary  saying he didn’t “want to have special privileges for special people.”“If you kill somebody you should be charged for murder,” he continued, “and you should be tried on it, and there’s no way in heck that you’re going to be able to say ‘Well because he or she was some deviant sexuality that I’m not…'” Marston said, before he was cut off by fellow Republican Rep.