Tag: LGBTQ+

Sophie B. Hawkins Gave Us A Queer Pop Hit In The ’90s. Then Came The Backlash.

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

I sat on a mountainside with peace of mind
And I lay by the ocean
Makin’ love to her with visions clear
Walked the days with no one near
And I return as chained and bound to you

Sophie B. Hawkins Gave Us A Queer Pop Hit In The ’90s. Then Came The Backlash.

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‘I’m glad people call it a lesbian anthem’: how Sophie B Hawkins made Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover Original Music Video Sophie B. Hawkins

The original banned version of the video for Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover by Sophie B. Hawkins. Sophie’s record label at the time requested she film another version – the black and white version you’re probably more familiar with. Note the blue butterfly hands and the fingers walking up her cheek and how those moves reappear in her later videos.

I Think About the Song ‘Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover’ a Lot

Navy set to rename ship honoring Harvey Milk amid DEI purge

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to rename a naval vessel named after gay rights activist Harvey Milk, with several other ships honoring civil rights activists and women also potentially being rechristened.

Navy set to rename ship honoring Harvey Milk amid DEI purge

Even naval vessels aren’t safe from anti-DEI purges—funny how the same crowd that raged over base renamings under Biden is now fully committed to historical revisionism.

Dems Demand Pete Hegseth Halt ‘Orwellian Book Purges’ In Military Schools

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Dems Demand Pete Hegseth Halt ‘Orwellian Book Purges’ In Military Schools

After DoDEA last month directed its schools to pull lessons from its curriculum related to immigration, gender and sexuality, the schools responded with things like book bans, a portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama being removed, a Harriet Tubman poster being pulled down, rainbows being taken down in kindergarten classrooms and bans on school clubs for LGBTQ+ students and girls in STEM.

Ironically, Vice President JD Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” was also banned. 😹😹😹

USAID, Front Organizations, & KyivPride

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Why was the US funding LGBT “Pride” marches in Ukraine?

KyivPride’s partners

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Such programs continued unperturbed during the First Trump Administration, when a touching project meant to increase transgender visibility in Ukrainian Fashion Week was funded through USAID’s program to “Enhance Non-Governmental Actors and Grassroots Engagement” (ENGAGE) in Ukraine:

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Don’t worry, homophobes and transphobes; as long as capitalism exists, there will always be a “non-governmental organization” that will be willing to exploit the LGBTQ+ community and “sex workers” for corporate interests.

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