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Because while establishment Democrats like Newsom babble on about the Democrats needing to become more “culturally normal,” it is actually the right wing that is pushing our country toward the culturally abnormal, and it is them that are creepily obsessing over increasingly bizarre issues like investigating trans people’s genitalia in public bathrooms, arbitrarily invalidating citizens’ identification documents based solely on demographic characteristics, imposing their will on people’s private medical decisions, and demonizing the infinitesimally tiny demographic of trans child athletes. The cultural norm is set by the standards that we as a society agree to, and the cruel behavior of the right wing on this issue should not be considered that of a “culturally normal” person. It is a completely fabricated moral panic that should not be dignified as requiring any serious consideration beside outright condemnation. Trans people deserve to exist. To say so is not a radical belief, and it is something that we would all benefit from hearing our country’s leadership say more often. The only way forward is to proudly stand in solidarity with the trans community, and to consistently, without compromise, advocate for their right to live happy, healthy, safe, and fulfilling lives.

🏳️‍⚧️ New in @currentaffairs.bsky.social today from Conor Clary: "The only way forward is to proudly stand in solidarity with the trans community, and to consistently, without compromise, advocate for their right to live happy, healthy, safe, and fulfilling lives." www.currentaffairs.org/news/this-ne...

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A Warning About Media Consolidation as We Face Another Senseless War Trump and his allies are working to consolidate the media into the hands of right-wing oligarchs. This is especially dangerous in a time of war.

Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is a grave threat to democracy — especially in a time of war.

More here:

www.freepress.net/blog/warning-about-media...

Federal Prisons Bar Gender-Affirming Care for Trans People ‘People will die,’ an advocate warns, as standard treatments for gender dysphoria are replaced with therapy and antidepressants after Trump’s order.

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Filmmaker Q&A: Jenni Olson reflects on her Harvey Milk film 575 Castro. St. ahead of 2026 Berlinale retrospective screening Queer filmmaker, film historian, archivist, and writer Jenni Olson’s acclaimed documentary short film, 575 Castro. St., which originally world premiered at Sundance in 2009 and received its i…

Filmmaker Q&A: Jenni Olson reflects on her Harvey Milk film 575 Castro. St. ahead of 2026 Berlinale retrospective screenings this weekend #Berlinale @teddyaward.bsky.social @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social #berlinale thequeerreview.com/2026/02/09/f...

WATCH: 575 Castro St. by Jenni Olson Being queer in the Bay Area in 2026 is a strange experience: to be in a site that holds so much pivotal gay history but that has also been so deeply transformed and overwritten by gentrification and tech money is disorienting to say the least. I find that to resist this alienation I must go digging for queer history, looking for the archives and tiny pockets that have managed to hold on. I find one such pocket in filmmaker Jenni Olson’s short film 575 Castro St., which uses the set of the Castro Camera Store, faithfully re-created for Gus Van Sant’s 2008 film Milk, as a backdrop for a tape recording Harvey Milk presciently recorded shortly after becoming one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S., to be played in the event of his assassination. “I’d love to see every gay doctor come out, I’d love to see every gay lawyer, every gay judge, every gay bureaucrat, every gay architect come out. Stand up. Let the world know,” Milk’s voice intones on a scratchy tape recording, as light plays across the walls of his camera shop. “That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anyone could ever imagine. Urge them to do that. Urge them. Come out.” In a moment when it often feels like our rights are backtracking, I find comfort and power in returning to queer history, and the knowledge that no matter how forces in my city might try to erase it, our memories remain. Olson’s film is screening as part of retrospectives at Sundance and Berlinale this year, but you can also watch it online here. —Oliver Haug, contributing editor

A sweet appreciation of my 2008 short 575 Castro St. from @cohaug.bsky.social for @xtramagazine.com today. Proud to have my film showcased as part of this year's legacy programming for both @sundance.org and the Berlinale. Please click thru to read and to watch! mailchi.mp/xtramagazine...

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Tomorrow's SCOTUS Case Is Not Just About Transgender Sports; Ruling Could Impact All Trans Rights Though much of the reporting on the Little v. Hecox court case is about transgender sports participation, the SCOTUS ruling could impact all rights of transgender people.

Tomorrow, there will be oral arguments in a major SCOTUS case on transgender sports.

At least, that's how it's being reported everywhere.

But it's not just about sports. The ruling could change transgender rights for a generation, and impacts EVERYTHING.

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Classics Newly Streaming: Daddy Dearest and Juice and more

❤️‍🔥 🏳️‍🌈 📽️ Great to see these 2025 gay adult classic restorations from the Bressan Project (Daddy Dearest and Juice) at the top of the @pinklabeltv.bsky.social Classics Newly Streaming list! Available worldwide — click to check out the gorgeous NSFW trailers. pinklabel.tv/on-demand/di...

🙏 @chasestrangio.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️ “And so I’m a big believer, just like Marsha was, in terms of the bigger the problem, the bigger the solution — right? — and that when we’re in these harsh conditions, that is the perfect time to imagine what is the world that we deserve.” — @tourmaliiine.bsky.social

Top 30 Most Read Pieces on Tech Policy Press in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press In 2025, Tech Policy Press published over 1,100 posts, including articles, analyses, perspectives, transcripts, trackers, podcasts, and more.

💪 As part of my tech accountability work at @glaad.bsky.social — my piece: "LinkedIn Joins Meta and YouTube in Abandoning Policies Designed to Counter Anti-Trans Hate" lands at #26 on the @techpolicypress.bsky.social Top 30 most-read pieces of 2025! www.techpolicy.press/top-30-most-...

"The bill passed with 216 members voting for it and 211 against it. Three Democrats, Texas Reps. Henry Cuellar, Vicente Gonzalez, and North Carolina Rep. Don Davis joined all Republicans in supporting the bill’s passage." — @advocate.com

I'm extremely proud to be a consulting producer on Barbara Forever — an amazing new documentary by Brydie O'Connor about experimental lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer. If you're going to Park City in January, I look forward to seeing you at our World Premiere!

So proud that we've been able to restore and re-release so many of the films of Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. — these are two of his other most important releases from the 1970s.

Brian — you're the best! Thank you. I need to remember to do this next year! And I just checked and sadly it did not make the list. But very happy to see Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) on there. Looks like the other LGBTQ films are My Own Private Idaho and The Chelsea Girls.

IFC Center - Cruising the Movies 2025 “Cruising the Movies” is IFC Center’s monthly screening series that explores the fringes, the underground, and the oft ignored chapters of queer cinema history. Each month, series programmers and host...

Please come out to see me and special guests present this 40th Anniversary screening of the landmark gay film BUDDIES (the first feature film about AIDS, by Arthur J. Bressan, Jr.) at the NYC @ifccenter.bsky.social on Mon Dec 15 @ 7pm. Thx @schlockvalue.bsky.social! www.ifccenter.com/series/cruis...

Walmart Removes Nazi Salute T-Shirt From Website Walmart.com offered a shirt from a third-party vendor that featured an image of the Nazi salute over a raised fist and the caption "Paper Beats Rock."

FYI — Good news update on this from @newsoneofficial.bsky.social newsone.com/6608706/walm...

🥹 💪 40 years ago today: "For AIDS, while it has made us cry, has made us strong. It has taught us how to fight." — @glaad.bsky.social co-founder Darrell Yates Rist (November 14, 1985)

What happened to TikTok's transgender flag emoji? Some TikTok users are no longer able to use the transgender flag in comments, sparking alarm and calls to action from GLAAD.

🚨🏳️‍⚧️ Good news! TikTok has fixed the trans flag emoji bug! "TikTok’s swift action fixing this problem, and being attentive to the needs of countless LGBTQ people and allies, is a best practice that other tech and social media companies should follow." - @glaad.bsky.social www.out.com/media/tiktok...

"It is more important than ever right now that companies are loud and clear in their values and that they practice inclusiveness and safety for transgender people on their platforms," the [@glaad.bsky.social] statement concluded. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Seriously, WTF WSJ?! @wsj.com Would you take this kind of approach to covering any other historically marginalized community? Absolute garbage clickbait (and 100% manufactured fear-mongering) shit.

“A screenshot of a webpage from fns.usda.gov showing a warning message in a brown box. The message claims Senate Democrats voted 12 times not to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), states there will be no benefits issued November 1, and accuses them of holding out for healthcare for illegal immigrants and gender-related procedures. The USDA Food and Nutrition Service logo appears at the bottom, along with a blue ‘Menu’ button.”

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Yay! Will book my flight this weekend! And yes! A little bit rusty in my poker skills but would love to be a dealer! See you at @mocart.bsky.social! ♠️ ♣️ ♦️ ♥️

Dyke Deck | Catherine Opie | V&A Explore The Collections Playing card from the 'Dyke Deck', a pack of cards with screenprint photographs by Catherine Opie. USA, 1995.

Ah sweet to stumble across this in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum! Vintage pic of me as the 2 of spades in @csopie.bsky.social's legendary 1990s Dyke Deck! Yes, I'm reading Dennis Cooper's Frisk. #LGBTQHistory collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O176694...

@macdowell1907.bsky.social is amazing.

👍 "Debate me bro” culture: "creates a false equivalence between good-faith expertise and bad-faith trolling. When you agree to debate someone pushing long-debunked conspiracy theories or openly hateful ideologies, you’re implicitly suggesting that their position deserves equal consideration."

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