When trans content creator and activist James Rose woke up on a Monday in mid-May, she didn’t expect her normal day prepping for a regional stage production to end with a call-out from the former President of the United States. But Rose, who uses she/they pronouns, tells Rolling Stone that …
Read More »Not Even Chick-fil-A Is Safe From Anti-'Woke' Right Wingers
Fresh off a siege against Target for the crime of releasing a Pride collection, far-right influencers have been roving the digital countryside looking for the subject of their next meltdown and have landed on a surprising choice: fast food chain Chick-fil-A. Why are conservative accounts attempting to gin up outrage …
Read More »This Women's Mag Is Like a Gen Z 'Cosmo' for the Far Right
Last fall, 21-year-old Harrie Baxter, a content creator and a then-university student in New Zealand, stumbled across Evie Magazine, a publication that markets itself as an “unbiased source of truth for women.” At first glance, Evie seemed to Baxter like a fairly typical Gen Z-targeted women’s website — Met Gala …
Read More »Why 'Patriots' Will Always Hate Queers Like Us
Happy Pride Month? This year, it’s more like Happy Wake the Fuck Up Month. Over the last few years, a lot of white, cisgender gay men like me have gotten pretty complacent. Sure, the Right was attacking trans folks and denying that systemic racism exists, but we seemed safe with …
Read More »Why the Far-Right Is Targeting Target
Target has long carried LGBTQ Pride-themed merchandise for the month of June. Sure, they’ve received some angry comments from the right, or even been called out as cringe by the left. But this year — as LGBTQ organizers brace for a particularly hate-filled Pride — Target began receiving intense backlash. …
Read More »Paying Extra for 'Anti-Woke' Spite Products Is a Raw Deal
With so many companies going “woke” nowadays, American conservatives are understandably looking to purchase goods and services from brands that reflect their own values. Or, to put a finer point on it, from hucksters who promise that buying alternative products from them is a surefire way to “own the libs.” …
Read More »Target Removed LGBTQ+ Merch For Employee Safety. Now the Designer Is Getting Death Threats
Designer Erik Carnell, the gay trans man behind the London-based company accessory and apparel line Abprallen, was honored to see his products sold at Target as part of the company’s pride collection. “I’m especially happy at the thought that young closeted people will see it, and I hope that in …
Read More »Dodgers Apologize and Reinvite Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night
Drag charity group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will, after all, be participating at Los Angeles Dodgers‘ Pride Night next month after the baseball team received severe backlash from queer organizations for disinviting the organization. On Monday evening, the baseball team shared a statement on Twitter in which it apologized to …
Read More »Right-Wingers Furious That Fox News Doesn't Hate Trans People As Much As They Do
To say that’s been a rocky month at Fox News would be an understatement. First, in April, the conservative cable news network agreed to pay $787.5 millionto settle a defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems for airing lies about the company interfering in the 2020 presidential election — avoiding a …
Read More »Anti-Fascist. Armed to the Teeth
T he young white nationalist across the street from the drag show starts to panic. He and his friend — two white men, probably in their early twenties, with baseball hats, and faces masked by the kind of stretchy gaiters middle-aged guys wear on fishing boats — hold a big …
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