While Matt Bomer & Lee Pace’s roommate bonding past and Olympic swimmer Alex DiGiorgio’s speedo pics took over everyone’s social media feeds this week, the political power players were busy doing all sorts of things while nobody was looking. Here’s just a few of the stories that you really need to know about it…
PARTY OF ONE: Ivanka Trump is completely unbothered that the walls are caving in on her disgraced father as she spends her time pretending everything is fine & that she’s America’s sweetheart. [Read all about it on Queerty]
LARA, LARA PANTS ON FIRE: Ivanka’s sister-in-law Lara Trump attempted to be heard above all of her current family’s deafening MAGA nonsense by conjuring up the most insane conspiracy theory about President Joe Biden that sounds eerily familiar. [Read all about it on Into]
CAMEO QUEEN: Expelled ex-congressman George “Kitara Ravace” Santos has turned his fraud-filled brand of Republican gay chaos into a legit business by recording videos for “fans” on Cameo. His latest clip has him sending words of encouragement to a newly out member of the “furry” community. We hate it here! [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
REPUBLICAN DRIVEL: Homophobic GOP Senator Josh Hawley flaunted his faux-masculinity by drooling all over himself as he had yet another hissy fit during a Senate hearing. [Read all about it on Queerty]
DON’T SAY MAN DRESS: Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis took time out from running his flailing presidential campaign into the ground to put his high-heeled foot in his mouth by calling the robe-like cultural garb worn by some Middle Eastern men as “man dresses.” [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
MAGA MENACE: In a rare moment of truth, the one-term, twice-impeached, four-time indicted disgraced ex-president actually spoke facts and said if re-elected he’d become a dictator on “day one.”
THE NEW McCARTHYISM: Ousted Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy went viral after a speech he made earlier this year in the UK showed him complimenting the Democratic party for being more diverse than the GOP. [See and read all about it on Queerty]
PUNCHING DOWN: Anti-LGBTQ+ Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s 2023 homophobia tour entered a new era as he decided to bash gay high school students in order to raise cash to fund more hate. [Read all about it on Queerty]
SHE DID IT, JOE: Vice President Kamala Harris made history with her 32nd tie-breaking vote in the U.S. Senate. We stan a legend!
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GayEGO
We should teach the children – Do say gay! As science proved that we are part of normal civilization back in 1970!
abfab
Let’s not worry about what the right wing wants. We have enough left wing parents who are teaching thier kids lots of things, including what Gay means. Some learn it at 5! Or less! Some are born that way! Some have gay parents! We have lots of kids running around here who know WE ARE GAY AND THEY LOVE IT!
frapachino
Kamala always cackling , only way she will ever be president is if Biden kicks the bucket. Even here in California she’s not liked nor respected.
abfab
Unlike you, VP Harris has some joy in her life. You know nothing about her or about the population who appreciates what’s she’s doing. Go back in your hole, Troll.
Baron Wiseman
@frapachino
It’s hard to believe, but the Kamala Harris polling numbers are even lower than her boss’s numbers.
It’s official: President Joe Biden has the lowest polling numbers of any U.S. president in the modern era dating back to Harry Truman.
dbmcvey
Says Frapper and Baron as they continue to support anti-gay right wing politicians. Consider the source.
abfab
Casey and Ronny are playing ”cleanup” after her mental breakdown screw ball remarks about the Iowa Caucuses. The woman is an idiot, like her pudgy husband.
Cleanup! How Gay!
abfab
What. Nothing on Norman Lear?
By Esther Zuckerman NYT
Dec. 7, 2023
Norman Lear, who died this week at 101, left behind a legacy of groundbreaking television. But there was perhaps no hour of TV on his lengthy résumé more controversial than a two-part episode of the CBS sitcom “Maude,” from the show’s first season.
Titled “Maude’s Dilemma,” it aired on consecutive weeks in November 1972 and follows the 47-year-old Maude, a grandmother played by Bea Arthur, as she learns she is pregnant and decides ultimately to get an abortion. In the aftermath, advertisers dropped the show and network affiliates refused to air reruns.
“Maude’s Dilemma” originally aired two months before the Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal nationwide — it was then already legal in New York, where the series was set. More than five decades later, the episode still seems radical, particularly in an era after the Supreme Court overturned Roe, in 2022.
“It’s completely relevant to everything we’re going through now,” said Tracey Scott Wilson, a TV writer and professor in the radio, television and film department of Northwestern University. “What is actually most surprising about it is that there was actually an ability to have a conversation about it. And I think that’s what makes Norman Lear and his shows so relevant today.”
abfab
(excerpt) ^ ………..and then there’s MAUDE!
Baron Wiseman
Everyone knows how Democrats love to destroy nascent human life.
dbmcvey
Everyone knows Baron is a right wing, anti-gay troll.
Bosch
Everyone knows how republicans love to destroy children once they are actual humans and no longer nascent embryos.
Baron Wiseman
@Bosch
Actually, they don’t know that because it isn’t true.
Who adopts more children than any other group?
Religious conservatives.
Kangol2
Republicans get abortions and have little regard for life (just ask the countless Afghans, Iraqis, etc. blown to smithereens by George W. Bush’s failed wars) but love to be hypocrites about it! Just look the Moms 4 Liberty couple down in Florida–pure fakes and phonies, and there are many more like those two in the GOP!
Bosch
Who molests more children than any other group?
Religious conservatives.
Baron Wiseman
@Bosch
Not even close. School teachers and employees are far more involved with child molestation than any other group.
Your religious bigotry is showing.
Baron Wiseman
@Kangol2
Kind of like Democrats defending deadly Palestinian terrorists?
storm45701
Baron: Everyone knows Republicans love to be authoritarian and tell people what to do with their lives, their bodies, with whom they can have sex with, what books they can read, what words they can speak, and everything else. Republicans= Fascists.
tomamundo
Yes storm45701, we have all watched it since Raygun began the decline of the economy and the growth of fascism in America.
dbmcvey
Did you see where Casey DeSantis was telling people they could commit voter fraud?
Kangol2
She was ready to break the law faster than you could say “Florida fascist Ron DeFascist.”