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“Fuck you, fascists!”

Over 2,500 people arrived at the Iowa State Capitol on Thursday to protest the bill

Iowa Becomes the First State to Repeal Civil Rights Protections for Trans People

GOP lawmakers said that they couldn’t enforce bathroom bans with the civil rights protections on the books. … “All of these common-sense policies are at risk so long as gender identity remains in the Iowa civil rights code,” state Rep. Steven Holt, a Republican supporter of the bill, said on the House floor. … Over 2,500 people arrived at the Iowa State Capitol on Thursday to protest the bill, with hundreds filling the building’s rotunda. Their understanding of the situation was far more accurate than the mainstream press. “Fuck you, fascists!” they chanted, as lawmakers took away their fellow Iowans’ civil rights.

Iowa Becomes the First State to Repeal Civil Rights Protections for Trans People

GOP lawmakers said that they couldn’t enforce bathroom bans with the civil rights protections on the books.

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It's Hell, Art Young

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Liquor and Cannabis Board Pauses Enforcement of Lewd Conduct Regulations

After raiding four gay bars last week and finding nothing but a nipple and jockstraps, the Liquor and Cannabis Board has paused enforcement of its lewd conduct rules, according to a signed letter sent to state officials. The Board also paused participation in Seattle’s Joint Enforcement Team, a coalition of police, fire, and other city departments, and will reopen rule-making to amend or repeal the lewd conduct violation regulations. The Board also said it won’t issue citations for anything they saw over the weekend—including a bartender’s exposed nipple at The Cuff Complex and jockstraps seen at The Seattle Eagle—and it will review its past practices and policies, including the use of photographs as evidence.

LCB Pauses Enforcement of Lewd Conduct Regulations After Fierce Community Reponse

Well, that was fast.After raiding four gay bars last week and finding nothing but a nipple and jockstraps, the Liquor and Cannabis Board has

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in case you missed the Seattle/WA LCB Board Public Meeting on the recent gay bar raids, here's a good play-by-play.

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Attached: 4 images Seattle is really trying to have an epic protest spring rn. So if you've been following my account for a bit... you're

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Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been A Homosexual? ONE Magazine cover, volume 1, number 4, April 1953

I'm on the fence with this one…

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Propaganda Wars

blacklists, witch hunts, censorship, silencing dissent… 

‘you’re not in trouble,’ but we’re watching you…

this NEVER ends well… AGAIN…

Dear @brentpruitt,

As part of our commitment to transparency, we want you to know that we uncovered and terminated 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group closely tied to the the Russian government) posing as members of the Tumblr community.

The IRA engages in electronic disinformation and propaganda campaigns around the world using phony social media accounts. When we uncovered these accounts, we notified law enforcement, terminated the accounts, and deleted their original posts.

While investigating their activity on Tumblr, we discovered that you either followed one of these accounts linked to the IRA, or liked or reblogged one of their posts:

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You aren’t in trouble, and don’t need to take any action if you don’t want to. We deleted the accounts but decided to leave up any reblog chains so that you can curate your own Tumblr to reflect your own personal views and perspectives.

Democracy requires transparency and an informed electorate and we take our disclosure responsibility very seriously. We’ll be aggressively watching for disinformation campaigns in the future, take the appropriate action, and make sure you know about it.

— @staff

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Don’t Ask, Don’t Ask

Artists, particularly in theater, are still plagued by the slur "Gay Commie Jew." But how did it come about? by Allen Ellenzweig, 2012

… To some extent, the status that five Jewish American gay men enjoyed within the arts provided them a kind of cover that rank-and-file gay men and lesbians could barely hope to find. The so-called Lavender Scare of the 1950s was as lethal as the Red Scare, with thousands of civil servants, uniformed service members, and teachers across the country fired from their jobs on the presumption that “perverts”—to use a period term—were national security risks or engaged in moral turpitude. In 1950, the head of the Republican National Committee warned his party that “as dangerous as the actual Communists are the sexual perverts who have infiltrated our Government in recent years.” According to Sherry, “[A]gitation about queers in the arts … intensified in the late 1940s and 1950s amid the Lavender Scare.”

And just as the Red Scare had its bogeymen—the defunct “Comintern,” the Soviet-sponsored Communist International with national representations from around the globe—the Lavender Scare had an equivalent coinage: the “Homintern.” This waggish pun is variously attributed to poet W.H. Auden or other English literati who originally used it in the 1930s to evoke a clandestine link among artist-homosexuals, even if the intention was to mock claims of conspiratorial power. The term could cut both ways—an epithet for those who believed in a gay cabal undermining the Free World or a “camp” jeu de mots that queers might use with irony.

Meanwhile, if the McCarthy-era witch hunts targeted a large number of Jews—who in previous decades made the mistake of being “prematurely” anti-fascist, or signed petitions organized by so-called Communist front or “subversive” organizations, or been too enthusiastic in union organizing—it was not for nothing that Hollywood found itself in the crosshairs. In Victor Navasky’s Naming Names, one commentator claims that the source of “animus against Hollywood” by one of the House Committee’s influential early members, Congressman John Rankin from Mississippi, was “the large number of Jews eminent in the film industry. … In Rankin’s mind, to call a Jew a Communist was a tautology. … He took glee in baiting his Jewish colleagues.” A lawyer for the Anti-Defamation League remembered that “Jews in that period were automatically suspect. … People felt if you scratch a Jew, you can find a Communist.”

The suspicion that gays exerted a similarly malign influence on America produced paranoia in the tabloid press and mass-market magazines, and even in respected political journals, belying today’s popular notion that nobody spoke about homosexuality in the 1950s.

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Photo Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins, and Leonard Bernstein being photographed during rehearsal for West Side Story, 1957. [Friedman-Abeles/The New York Public Library]

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history repeats like a needle skips along a broken record. they won’t learn unless we teach them. lift the needle. move it forward. make your own music. create a better sound. 

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i thought these record album covers would be apropos for the times we’re currently in. @brentpruitt​ / @commiepinkofag​

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pixies & faeries

you’re on the list

spy, spy, you’re my guy

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