Tag: homosexuality

What’s Up With Linkin Park’s New Singer?

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The media is whitewashing her connection to Scientology. She was raised in the ‘church’ according to Growing Up in Scientology! That said, the song isn’t too bad. As far as I’m concerned, no one will be able to fill Chester’s shoes!

In the end, it wasn’t actually the end for Linkin Park. The rock band is back with new music for the first time in seven years — and a new singer as well. Emily Armstrong joined the band, replacing the late Chester Bennington, who died in 2017. Armstrong has sung in the band Dead Sara since 2005, and makes her Linkin Park debut on new single “The Emptiness Machine,” sharing vocal duties with Linkin Park cofounder Mike Shinoda. (Colin Brittain is also joining Linkin Park as their new drummer, with Rob Bourdon not returning.) She joined the band on stage for the first time on September 5, and will feature on their new album From Zero, out November 15. But Armstrong’s addition has already been controversial, as fans scrutinize her history with Scientology and convicted rapist Danny Masterson.

What’s Up With Linkin Park’s New Singer?

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How JD Vance went from thinking he was gay and changing his name twice to being an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. JD Vance’s journey from a troubled childhood in Appalachia to the halls of the U.S. Senate to being former President Donald Trump’s running mate has been the subject of much ink, yet his contradictory stance on LGBTQ+ rights is coming under scrutiny. Vance’s memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, contains a revealing anecdote about his childhood belief that he was gay. Influenced by a preacher’s condemnation of homosexuality, young Vance feared he was destined for hell simply because he disliked girls and cherished his friendship with another boy.

How JD Vance went from thinking he was gay and changing his name twice to being an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist

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    ‘Gay furry hackers’ steal data from right-wing think tank in massive anti-Project 2025 cyber attack

    Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

    A collective of “gay furry hackers” has claimed credit for hacking into the Heritage Foundation in opposition to its right-wing political and social proposals for next year, known as Project 2025.

    ‘Gay furry hackers’ steal data from right-wing think tank in massive anti-Project 2025 cyber attack

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    Almeda Sperry to Emma Goldman, 1912

    Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

    Almeda Sperry to Emma Goldman, 1912, by Jonathan Ned Katz

    These letters suggest that some kind of active sexual relationship did occur between the two women. There is also no doubt about the character and intensity of Sperry’s feelings, so strongly and unambiguously expressed. The letters indicate that Goldman returned Sperry’s affection, though with less passion and desperate need than Sperry felt.

    In one undated, and atypically puritanical statement, Sperry tells Goldman:

    Never mind about not feeling as I do. I find restraint to be purifying. Realization is hell for it is satisfying and degenerating.

    In another undated letter Sperry writes to Goldman:

    God how I dream of you! You say that you would like to have me near you always if you were a man, or if you felt as I do. Dearest, I would not if I could. I would soon die…. the thought of distance adds to my terrible pain–so pleasurable. I want no calm friendships. The thoughts of annihilation used to appeal to me. Today they do not. …

    The letters do suggest that Goldman in her personal relations with Sperry had come close to that tabooed homosexual activity which she early and publicly defended in lectures, to the chagrin of even her unconventional anarchist comrades. The writings of Goldman, Alexander Berkman, and Almeda Sperry suggest that at least some American anarchists were, at an early date, more than usually tolerant and open-minded about homosexuality.

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    The Letters

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    The Phony War on American Culture

    Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

    The Phony War on American Culture

    Consider how gender is one focus of their culture war campaign. Transgender people hardly affect our personal lives, despite the Republican campaigns to make it a voting issue. In America, only 1.3 million adults and 300,000 children identify as transgender out of a population of 332 million. Only 36 transgender athletes compete in college sports that include over half a million participants. Yet the Republican legislature in Kansas recently banned transgender girls from female high school sports, despite having only three transgender girls out of 41,00 competing in the state. Indeed, they should be respected and accommodated in some way. Yet, GOP legislators are considering a flood of bills to restrict transgender behavior, flooding email boxes with requests for donations, blasting isolated events on Fox News, and making them campaign issues.

    As Ukraine’s LGBTQ soldiers fight on the front line, acceptance grows in the conservative country (not really)

    Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
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    As Ukraine’s LGBTQ soldiers fight on the front line, acceptance grows in the conservative country

    “My fellow soldiers are really impressed with what I’ve done in Bakhmut, the massive scale of work that I did there, and after that they just don’t care about who I sleep with,” Honzyk, whose medical unit evacuates wounded soldiers and provides emergency first aid, said in a hip café in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, while on leave from the front line.

    That doesn’t sound like what Ivan told the following publication, three days later:

    Against Homophobia, For Women’s Rights: Ivan’s Lonely Struggle (original)

    Ivan Honzyk came out as gay in March last year. His sexuality is a problem for others. In Russia, he keeps appearing on television for propaganda purposes. In Ukraine, many homosexuals have a hard time in the army. Many live in hiding, says Ivan Honzyk. Soldiers don’t want to meet him for fear of being mistaken for gay themselves.

    Jordan issues subpoena to FBI director for documents over withdrawn memo on Catholic Churches

    Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

    House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday for documents as House Republicans investigate the circumstances surrounding a since-withdrawn memo from the bureau’s Richmond field office that focused on extremism in the Catholic Church.

    Jordan issues subpoena to FBI director for documents over withdrawn memo on Catholic churches

    H/T: Kim Iversen

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    What is the outrage around Bud Light’s collaboration with a trans influencer

    Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

    What is the outrage around Bud Light’s collaboration with a trans influencer

    “From time to time, we produce unique commemorative cans for fans and for brand influencers, like Dylan Mulvaney,” the statement read. “This commemorative can was a gift to celebrate a personal milestone and is not for sale to the general public.”

    All of these snowflakes boycotting Bud Light for one single can that’s not even available for sale to the public?! I just laugh! It’s all about marketing and sales! It’s not “wokeness”, it’s the “free market”! That’s capitalism! Besides, didn’t have a problem drinking Bud Light, before, and Bud Light was marketing to the LGBTQ+ community long before “wokeness” became a thing!

    [2019] Order From Chaos: What does a Pride parade have to do with NATO? More than you might think.

    Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

    Editor’s Note: The degree of respect for LGBTQ people has increasingly become a measure of democratic health in former Soviet states. If Russia were a place where Pride parades were allowed, its quarrels with the United States, and ours with it, would possibly diminish, writes James Kirchick. This article originally appeared in the Washington Post.

    What does a Pride parade have to do with NATO? More than you might think.

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    *Disclaimer: The views expressed herein are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Ms. Cat’s Chronicles.

    Head of CPAC and chief organizer of the Brooks Brothers riots sexually assaults man

    Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

    For a long time I found it extremely puzzling why so many right wing men seemed to believe that there were all these gay predators out there, just waiting to “groom” otherwise impeccably straight men and boys into “the homosexual lifestyle” if they could just get a couple of drinks into their victims first:

    Head of CPAC and chief organizer of the Brooks Brothers riots sexually assaults man