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Target Takes Down Pride Collection After Right-Wingers Post Threatening Videos
Target has caved to anti-LGBTQIA+ groups online and removed some items and entire displays for its annual Pride month merchandise sale. The move comes after a wave of far-right online groups spread a wave of misinformation on social media in misleading and outright false videos claiming the superstore chain was somehow promoting trans operations for…
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Pride at the End of the World
I hesitated to come out. It was 2020 when I finally, finally started to see my queerness through the clouds. The world was burning (still is), suffering through a global pandemic (still is), reeling from a societal upheaval (still is), and American fascism was gaining strength at a terrifying speed (I repeat myself). The fact…
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Disney+ Willow Series Casts Trans Actress Talisa Garcia
As many people continue to condemn Disney’s lack of action regarding Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Lucasfilm has quietly announced that transgender British actress Talisa Garcia has been cast in the Disney+ series Willow. Deadline reports that Garcia will play a cisgender woman with only a few speaking lines, and that she may only appear…
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Disney Censored ‘Gay’ and ‘Lesbian’ in Tiktok Text-To-Speech Character Voices
As part of its Disney Plus Day promotion last week, Disney partnered with TikTok to release a suite of text-to-speech voices featuring beloved characters like Chewbacca and Stitch from Lilo and Stitch, but wouldn’t let them say words like “queer,” “gay” or “lesbian.”