The kick-off to Pride month always has a few fun announcements; this year we got things like the renewal of Our Flag Means Death, Red White & Royal Blue casting news, etc. However, one announcement today out of the White House has left the queer community in an uproar.
Announced on the first day of Pride month, First Lady Jill Biden is set to join Louis DeJoy in unveiling a new stamp from the US Postal Service on Monday in honor of former First Lady Nancy Reagan. You know, the First Lady who directly contributed to the death of thousands of queer people throughout the AIDS crisis alongside her husband? The very same!
Related: Nancy Reagan Abandoned Her Friend Rock Hudson As He Was Dying Of AIDS
Understandably, the gays (and really anyone with critical thinking skills and a heart) are a little miffed.
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Honoring Nancy Reagan?? During Pride Month???? Oh baby not my gay ass https://t.co/lneR3TCbLf
— grant👨🏻🦱 (@urdadssidepiece) June 1, 2022
THIS is what the White House announces for Pride? https://t.co/4IpNWZDLDN
— Lincoln Michel (@TheLincoln) June 1, 2022
To kick off Pride Month, the Biden White House is announcing a stamp celebrating Nancy Reagan, who along with her husband oversaw negligence, indifference and mass death of gay men during the AIDS crisis. https://t.co/3IsK4o2cpw pic.twitter.com/Ka7nirOiKN
— Alexander (@purplechrain) June 1, 2022
the fucking nancy reagan stamp thing on the first of june is just. cackling over it. remembering when hillary in 2016 praised nancy reagan for “very effective, low key” advocacy on aids and had to apologize/said she misspoke
— Colin Spacetwinks (@spacetwinks) June 1, 2022
Republicans: We’re actively trying to end democracy.
Democrats: We put Nancy Reagan on a stamp during pride!!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://t.co/aVFS2sqiId
— Max Berger (@maxberger) June 1, 2022
announcing a nancy reagan stamp on the first day of pride month is sick lmao. like it’s not funny but everything is so fucked up where you’re just deliriously laughing and losing it
— oatmeal influencer (@acechhh) June 1, 2022
when nancy reagan’s friend rock hudson was dying from aids in paris, he asked her to pull some strings to get him admitted to a french hospital that could help him. because it was a priority for the reagan admin to not even mention the illness, she declined. https://t.co/UgFFaxMpWD
— mark (@kept_simple) June 1, 2022
Biden Administration: We should honor someone with a new stamp. Let’s do it during Pride Month, too. Who should it be?https://t.co/jjXj7I5T8n
— Craig Calcaterra (@craigcalcaterra) June 1, 2022
To announce this on the first day of Pride is a slap in the face to everyone we lost, and to everyone who still mourns them, while that vile garbage woman was in the White House. Forever fuck Nancy Reagan. And forever fuck this announcement. https://t.co/h2Gjwfm0Qv
— Mike Monteiro🌹 (@monteiro) June 1, 2022
I am so fucking done.
Have fun honoring the AIDS denier with the man who fucked up the post office so badly to help Trump win the election that my dad still can’t get a birthday card sent to his grandchildren out of his local post office in purple PA. https://t.co/5PdbXSNJYx
— Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (she/her) (@ECMcLaughlin) June 1, 2022
There’s still time to walk back this particular decision for a more appropriate time — though the most appropriate time would probably be never.
monty clift
I can never understand why Rock was friends with those two human turds. He was too good of a man.
johncp56
Shame what they had to do in the day, friends with the same people that killed a lot of our friends
FridM
She was such a sorry excuse for a first lady! Bonzo with Alzheimer’s was sooo overrated as a so called leader. Both of them belong together in hell!
johncp56
Ditto, they turned their backs on the AIDS epidemic once again GOP!! republicans trash
stuffedpuppy
Damn, it’s pride month in the UK as well! Therefore why not issue a stamp with a rainbow-faced Margaret Thatcher? I’m sure the LGBTQ ???? ????? would be thrilled (not to mention the various workers union). Damn Alzheimer’s can’t be an excuse for all ‘malignancy’, can it?
stuffedpuppy
BTW why does Louis DeJoy still have a job? He’s a crook, a bigot and a fraud! What more evidence does the Democratic Party need???
m
Only redeeming thing about those killers is their son Ron junior.
Jim
Poor Jill. kinda clueless. Just shows ya what a Phd is worth.
In case you do’t know
B.S. bullish*t
M.S. more of the same.
Phd. Piled hirer and deeper.
Interesting a theology professor told me this.
Kangol2
Dr. Jill doesn’t have a PhD, she has an EdD from the University of Delaware. I chalk it up to really poor advice, but even still, Nancy Reagan? Dr. Jill, what on earth were you and your advisors thinking?
Cam
Republicans like DeJoy always pull this kind of crap, they’ll try to honor some Confederate General during Black History Month, or a homophobe like Reagan during Pride.
Biden should step out of that trap.
johncp56
Ditto
johncp56
F off they let us die in the 80s scummy GOP the Regans were horrible humans
Kangol2
It’s revolting that Dr. Jill Biden would be honoring Nancy Reagan in any way to start off LGBTQIA+ Pride Month. Seriously, pick a pro-LGBTQIA First Lady (among the ones who’ve expressed such support it’s a small group) or honor a real LGBTQIA hero. What on earth are she and her team thinking? Could no one around her see this was an issue? Just issue the Nancy Reagan stamp without fanfare if DeJoy, who should have been fired a while ago, foists it onto the public!
powersthatbe
This is abhorrent. It is also an opportunity for learning. Let’s hope they understand now the impact of something so tone deaf, and do a speedy retreat for this abomination.
RoyM
The Bidens support for the LGBTQ+ community is all just political theatre. This was an intentional slap in the face to our community by the bigoted and very Catholic Bidens. Shouldn’t really surprise anyone I guess.
johncp56
She was a hateful C!!! her husband`s addmenstraion ignored our AIDS pandemic, and the war on drugs never works Cold C!@#$%^&T