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Idaho banned Pride flags. Boise’s mayor wrapped the flagpoles in rainbow instead.

Idaho Governor Brad Little signed HB 561 into law last week, prohibiting government buildings from flying non-official flags, with fines of $2,000 a day for non-compliance. Boise had been flying a Pride flag for over a decade.

Within a week, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean had the city’s flagpoles wrapped in Pride colours. The rainbow wrapping sits on the pole itself, not as a flag. The city is also displaying a large “Creating a city for everyone” sign on City Hall and rainbow lighting around the building at night.

The city’s response was precise: “The city of Boise remains in compliance with the law and is not flying any city official Pride flags on our properties.”

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Ted Hill, has openly stated his bill was specifically designed to target Boise for flying the Pride flag. The mayor’s response: comply with the letter of the law, and ignore its spirit entirely.

“To our LGBTQ family, friends and neighbours, you are an essential part of Boise,” McLean said. “You are welcome here. You are valued here. And no law can or will change that.”

fashion-runways

TUNGVU Couture Spring/Summer 2026 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com

junkyarded

there is a genre of star's trek episode called "kidnapped by pervert"

#star trek

lou-stat

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | Photo Stills from Episode 2 "Toledo"

#the vampire lestat #The vampire lestat spoilers #Tvl spoilers #Tvl

butchdyk

Things that leveled me up as a Dyke Pt. 2

When I had dyke sex in the parking lot of the fire and brimstone church I grew up in

When a girl drew protective sigils on my arm for weeks after she overheard me tearing apart her old roommate for saying transphobic shit about her

When the sleep study doctor told me I have a medically large tongue and my wife shouted "I KNEW IT"

When the butch at the hardware store told me the shelf cutting machine broke and we spent 20min cutting shelves with bolt cutters for my wife's closet.

At the RenFaire, my wife tried the knife throwing but couldn't get it, then got huffy when I told her how to do it. She handed me the last knife and told me it's not that easy. I did not tell her I threw knives a lot as a kid, so with all her bags and jewelry balanced in one arm, I flipped the knife a couple times and sunk it into the wooden target guy. Felt like a damn hallmark movie and I loved it.

When an Aussie woman in a hotel lobby asked me to please please keep talking because she was fascinated by my american southern accent. I called her darlin and she blushed.

When my wife's grandfather was fine with her being a lesbian largely because I was such a big help with the cattle

When I moved an iron bedframe into the garden for my wife's coworker and she asked how long we'd been together. The answer was that morning. We'd been going steady for about an hour.

When I taught my wife how to waltz

dragonwitchbitch

this is precious and lovely and you inspire me to create more wonderful dyke moments in the world

notbecauseofvictories

actually, the central romance of Music Man makes more sense if Harold Hill is wildly desirable, floats from town to town selling the Brooklyn Bridge on the strength of his charisma and how much everyone wants to fuck him.

mostly because that means when he shows up in river city and hears that Marian the Librarian seduced a secure and permanent position out of the elderly town miser, he would think: ah, another creature like me.

(not that “sadder and wiser girl” isn’t a phenomenal song on its own, but it takes on a different tenor if it’s game recognizing game rather than HH just refusing to go after nice, church-going girls.)

plus, leaning into that characterization would mean that marian is sadder and wiser, did in fact befriend (or seduce) specifically to have access to books and then later, to keep accessing them; she’s a con man too, just on a lesser scale due to lack of opportunity.

romance between two people who think of sex as largely a way of getting what you want, except that one of them likes to read, and the other can play the piano by ear.

notbecauseofvictories

also….who are we kidding when it comes to her ‘‘little brother’‘ Winthrop.

notbecauseofvictories

#let’s all be honest: marian and her mother left to “help out a cousin in Chicago” and then came back with a baby #marian only ever referred to this baby as her brother. mrs. paroo only ever called him her son. #but if you were the family doctor. or maybe someone who knows a little bit about gestational math and menopausal women. #you might have some follow up questions. #anyway stay tuned for other hot takes about this american musical from the 1960s.

notbecauseofvictories

“What’s the other thing I’m entitled to know?”

[Harold Hill gazes meaningfully at Marian, then looks back to Winthrop]

“Well, the other thing’s none of your business, come to think of it.”

#the music man

glumshoe

someone fired a bullet through our bathroom wall the other day when we were gone, which is scary (but probably accidental), but the weirdest part is that we can’t actually find the place where it entered from outside... the wall inside is fucked up and you can see the hole where it came through, but there is no corresponding entrance hole on the exterior of the house. somehow the outer paneling was undamaged.

glumshoe

I think the exterior of the house is asbestos siding which apparently hides bullet holes really well.

There’s also a dent on the opposite wall where the bullet bounced off, and it looks like it had a really bizarre trajectory. Anyway, the neighbors say it was from a car chase where bullets went flying everywhere, so I’m not actually worried beyond “wow hope that doesn’t happen near me again”.

mythopoetry

This is the most American post I have ever seen

glumshoe

“someone fired a bullet through my asbestos from a car chase” yeah fair

urgetocreate

Sheila Anderson Hardy (Scottish b.1956), Silver Moon, 2022, Oil on canvas

bisexualdinahlance

Percolating thoughts about the fact that a lot of Shane's "weird" and neurotic habits would likely have been tolerated and looked upon with a certain fondness by friends and teammates once he hit a certain level of "good enough". They'll razz him about it to the press sometimes but like, accept it wholeheartedly as something that helps make him as good as he is.

#Heated Rivalry

saltlessseaotter

Every so often someone decides they should add more letters to the LGBT+ initialism and it always starts discourse every single time it happens, and every time I'm just further convinced that we need to be using Queer instead of a bunch of individual letters that represent specific granular identities

saltlessseaotter

Pros of "queer":

Inherently inclusive (a lot harder to pull acephobic or "LGB without the T" type bullshit when you don't base the legitimacy of your community on an arbitrary and ever changing list of individual identities)

Less susceptible to misguided or bad faith attempts to center non-queer identites in discussion of queer topics

An actual word that can be comfortably used in a sentence and take on grammatical functions without sounding like a government organization

Cons of "queer":

Tiktok iPad babies think it's yucky for some reason???

Queer bigots get big angey they don't get to be special morally upstanding LGBTs, unlike those degenerate pervert Other Queers™

sleeepy-sun

Its also so funny when people say "yeah but queer was a slur!!!!!"

Ok? So was gay? So was lesbian? But youre fine with those. Curious.

ymutate

Bob Crooks, b1965, London

Glasswork

https://www.bobcrooks.com/index.html

shamebats

luckynein

Ah, trans broken arm syndrome.

#Transphobia

ymutate

William Hawkins (American Artist, born 1962)

"Glory Clouds", 2025.

Oil on Canvas, 50.8 × 40.6 cm.

Private Collection.

king-carnivore

what really fucks me up about watching the truman show in 2025 is how it's not fictional. truman is fictional, but the truman show isn't.

there's thousands of truman shows. you find them on youtube, tiktok, instagram... family and mommy vloggers, sad beige moms and now the trend of neglectful moms showing the "reality" of parenting. all of them using their kids for entertainment. each child their own truman; living a life manufactured by their parents, a camera watching their every moment, broadcasted for the entire world to see.

king-carnivore