Gay Marriage - Next MAP's Furies and Trans Queers
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Here's some of what Cowan wrote:
It is not yes. The segment of trans individuals is small, but it is not vulnerable. The trans community is the only one that can demand access to women's spaces, including in prisons, and force people to call them different pronouns under the threat of losing their jobs and -- in some places -- hate speech laws.
In Maine, Republican representative Laurel Libby was banned by the Maine Speaker of the House from talking on the floor and voting for refusing to recant her position on 'trans girls' (read: boys) in girls' sports. The Supreme Court later ruled 7-2 to restore Libby's rights as a state legislator.
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If I may ...
For your consideration ...
Ever wonder what happens when a "normie" is backed into a corner? I'd say it's the fogots that aren't safe if they continue to push it in people's faces.
Ever wonder what happens when a "normie" is backed into a corner? I'd say it's the fogots that aren't safe if they continue to push it in people's faces.
And it’s not just corporate sponsorships, either. Headline from Florida’s Voice, yesterday:
Back in April, Naples City Council voted 5-2 to limit a scheduled “Pride Month” drag show to adults-only and require it to be held indoors, instead of out in family-friendly Cambier Park where it’s been staged in some previous years. Cue the hysterical ACLU lawsuit! The case sprinted all the way to the Eleventh Circuit, which issued a surprise reversal just hours before the tassels were set to twirl.
According to Naples News, the Cambier Park drag event was one of Naples Pride’s biggest fundraisers. Now that it’s inside and free, one imagines attendance will surely sag— particularly without kids in the audience. I’ll leave it there, but feel free to speculate in the comments why that matters.
The lower court had ruled for the Drag Queens, issuing a 49-page progressive sermon disguised as an order, blasting the City of Naples for daring to suggest that grotesque sexualized performances by unattractive cross-dressers somehow don’t belong in public parks teeming with minors.
Coming as it did at the last moment, while the drag performers were warming up their plus-sized high heels, the 11th Circuit’s reversal was welcome but unexpected. It seemed hope was lost. But the last-minute order flipped the script, and now the men must play their games inside.
Although the 11th Circuit based its decision on Naples’ stated reason for the indoor requirement —public safety concerns— it also seemed to imply that even if the limits had been applied because the show was an obscene spectacle, rather than for public safety, it still might not violate the First Amendment. The Court cited a 2024 Supreme Court case, explaining that to be unconstitutional, a viewpoint-based condition (like being indoors) must “target not merely a subject matter, but particular views taken by speakers on a subject.”
In other words, if you’re banning public lewdness, that doesn’t automatically mean you’re banning queerness, or dragness, or whatever it’s called these days.
Happy Pride Month, dragsters.
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Back in April, Naples City Council voted 5-2 to limit a scheduled “Pride Month” drag show to adults-only and require it to be held indoors, instead of out in family-friendly Cambier Park where it’s been staged in some previous years. Cue the hysterical ACLU lawsuit! The case sprinted all the way to the Eleventh Circuit, which issued a surprise reversal just hours before the tassels were set to twirl.
According to Naples News, the Cambier Park drag event was one of Naples Pride’s biggest fundraisers. Now that it’s inside and free, one imagines attendance will surely sag— particularly without kids in the audience. I’ll leave it there, but feel free to speculate in the comments why that matters.
The lower court had ruled for the Drag Queens, issuing a 49-page progressive sermon disguised as an order, blasting the City of Naples for daring to suggest that grotesque sexualized performances by unattractive cross-dressers somehow don’t belong in public parks teeming with minors.
Coming as it did at the last moment, while the drag performers were warming up their plus-sized high heels, the 11th Circuit’s reversal was welcome but unexpected. It seemed hope was lost. But the last-minute order flipped the script, and now the men must play their games inside.
Although the 11th Circuit based its decision on Naples’ stated reason for the indoor requirement —public safety concerns— it also seemed to imply that even if the limits had been applied because the show was an obscene spectacle, rather than for public safety, it still might not violate the First Amendment. The Court cited a 2024 Supreme Court case, explaining that to be unconstitutional, a viewpoint-based condition (like being indoors) must “target not merely a subject matter, but particular views taken by speakers on a subject.”
In other words, if you’re banning public lewdness, that doesn’t automatically mean you’re banning queerness, or dragness, or whatever it’s called these days.
Happy Pride Month, dragsters.
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