This Week's Quote

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For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Barry Manilow

Source:  Brainy Quote

Trump's Win and Us

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Here's a headline from today's Washington Post:  "LGBTQ+ Americans stockpile meds and make plans to move after Trump’s win."

All I'm stockpiling is chocolate.

But I'm not transgender, and as the Post story makes clear, trans people have much to worry about. For a start, Trump has promised to prohibit gender transition care for kids, as well as end any federal spending on such treatments for adults. He also intends to push Congress for a bill stating there are only two genders and they're assigned at birth.

Small wonder that transgender folks are hoarding hormones. And planning moves. And considering suicide.

The story isn't only about trans fear.  A gay 18-year-old from Missouri withdrew his acceptance from an in-state university and plans to hightail it to California after he graduates because he saw how Trump's win emboldened his classmates. They're saying things to him like, "Without you parading around, we will make America great again like it used to be."

Like it used to be, when queers were closeted and gay-bashing was a varsity sport.

The Donald Abroad

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I saw a headline that Donald Trump attended the reopening in Paris of Notre Dame.

Did he pose out front holding a Bible?

Seasonal Fact

 

This Week's Quote

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The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

Margaret Cho

Source:  Inspiring Quotes

The Toilet Tiff Goes West

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When the people of Delaware elected Sarah McBride to represent them in Congress, Republican House members responded by seeking to ban the openly transgender Democrat from the women's bathrooms.

Some lawmakers in Montana plainly thought that was a fabulous idea. Republicans pushed a measure that would require state legislators to use the restrooms of their birth sexes. The target was Rep. Zooey Zephyr, Montana's only trans legislator.

Today the proposed ban failed, with several Republicans voting against it. I'm not suggesting that cooler heads are starting to prevail in the bathroom wars, but it's nice that, at least in Montana's capital city of Helena, they canned the commode conniptions.

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