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richwicks
2022 Jun 3, 7:50pm
richwicks
2022 Jun 3, 7:50pm
HeadSet says
Don't blame the people who voted for Biden, when Biden was installed by our intelligence agencies, and not a vote.
It's easy to think "all the people around me are idiots" - the VAST majority are indifferent and have given up, but those that didn't give up, they didn't vote for Biden. He was installed by our intelligence agencies.
How do you like living under a Banana Republic? You didn't stop your criminal syndicate government from doing this to other nations. How do you like it? Everything our criminal syndicate does comes home in time. Now you know what our criminal syndicate does to us, when they are forced to retract. We should have stopped them decades ago, but deaf ears.
Hope you are prepared.
Well, ladies, I guess that is better than "mean tweets." And how many of you were "open minded" enough to support chastising people who "misgendered" transpeople? You useful idiots just thought the trans agenda would never get around to harming you.
Don't blame the people who voted for Biden, when Biden was installed by our intelligence agencies, and not a vote.
It's easy to think "all the people around me are idiots" - the VAST majority are indifferent and have given up, but those that didn't give up, they didn't vote for Biden. He was installed by our intelligence agencies.
How do you like living under a Banana Republic? You didn't stop your criminal syndicate government from doing this to other nations. How do you like it? Everything our criminal syndicate does comes home in time. Now you know what our criminal syndicate does to us, when they are forced to retract. We should have stopped them decades ago, but deaf ears.
Hope you are prepared.
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NDrLoR
2022 Jun 3, 8:01pm
NDrLoR
2022 Jun 3, 8:01pm
Patrick says
At Taco Bell, the Drag Brunch Goes Corporate
The glittery live shows have long been a staple in many cities, but the fast-food chain is taking that a step further.
The drag queen Kay Sedia partying with guests at a Taco Bell Cantina in Chicago, the second stop on the chain’s five-city drag brunch tour, which kicked off in May.Credit...Anjali Pinto for The New York Times
Erik Piepenburg
By Erik Piepenburg
Published May 27, 2022
Updated May 29, 2022
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CHICAGO — As drag brunch came to a close at a Mexican restaurant here last Sunday, the performers conga-lined their way through the crowd of about 40 party people who were just this side of tipsy on Brunch Punch.
But this was no standard drag brunch; it was a Taco Bell Drag Brunch. And that wasn’t a microphone in the lead queen’s hand; it was a Grande Toasted Breakfast Burrito. That queen — a Mexican American performer called Kay Sedia (pronounced quesadilla) — was the M.C. at a Taco Bell Cantina down the block from Wrigley Field, wearing a frilly, skintight frock with the Taco Bell logo on the belly.
In the 45-minute show, Kay Sedia sassed the crowd (mostly young, mostly white) and danced with her fellow performers: the drag king Tenderoni and the queens Miss Toto and Aunty Chan, who tore it up as a hard-pressed Taco Bell cashier in a lip-synced mash-up of “She Works Hard for the Money” and “9 to 5.” On diners’ tables, a shimmering box held a burrito (sausage, bacon or veggie), a hash brown and Cinnabon Delights doughnut holes. The sound of Taco Bell’s signature “bong” punctuated a drinking game.
Skyler Chmielewski, there to celebrate her 19th birthday, was transfixed. Gripping a Taco Bell Drag Brunch-branded folding fan, she declared her first drag show “breathtaking.”
“I’m at a loss for words,” she said.
There may be gayer ways to spend an afternoon at a Taco Bell, but it’s hard to imagine how. The five-city, 10-show Taco Bell Drag Brunch tour, which has arrived in time for June’s Pride celebrations, is arguably the most mainstream marriage of drag and dining yet — a “phenomenal” stepn the evolution of drag culture, said Joe E. Jeffreys, a drag historian.
For its tour, Taco Bell hired local drag performers to join Kay Sedia in each city. On a recent Sunday, Miss Toto, a Chicago drag artist, embellished her performance with a leggy pose.Credit...Anjali Pinto for The New York Times
“It’s taken drag over a border that it hasn’t been before, to an exciting new place of accessibility,” said Mr. Jeffreys, who teaches theater studies at N.Y.U. and the New School. (He had not been to one of the chain’s brunches.)
Taco Bell Drag Brunch is just the latest effort by corporate fast-food chains to grab the attention of L.G.B.T.Q. consumers. Last year, Taco Bell named the out rapper Lil Nas X as its “chief impact officer,” and Burger King said that during June, it would donate 40 cents from every order of its Ch’King sandwich to the Human Rights Campaign, an L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy group.
The political landscape may be changing, though. The creation of “drag queen story hours” for children at public libraries across the country has stirred protests and some cancellations. In April, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a bill revoking Disney World’s special tax status, after the company spoke out against the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would limit or forbid discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida public schools.
The moment is challenging corporations to decide how best to support a brand-loyal group of consumers without alienating conservative customers or legislators. (Taco Bell is taking its drag brunch to Florida, but is not among several companies that have voiced concern about recent legislation there and in other states.)
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Many fast-food brands are embracing this year’s Pride season. Chipotle and Shake Shack plan to donate percentages of their proceeds during June to L.G.B.T.Q. organizations, and the Taco Bell Foundation is giving a grant to the It Gets Better Project to expand work-force-readiness resources for L.G.B.T.Q. youth.
In front of a young, mostly white crowd, the drag king Tenderoni worked the floor to a mash-up of old-school R&B and hip-hop.Credit...
Gillian Oakenfull, a professor of marketing at Miami University of Ohio, said the current political fights over gay and transgender issues don’t necessarily reflect what consumers think. When it comes to queer acceptance, she said, “Gen Z requires it.”
Hosting drag queens, Dr. Oakenfull said, “is no longer a risk,” and if corporations are feeling heat because they use drag as a marketing tool, “it’s not coming from the people they care about.”
When Taco Bell posted a photo from the Las Vegas brunch on Instagram, it generated some negative comments. But so far, complaints about the shows have been, like its breakfast salsa, mild.
The tour kicked off in Las Vegas on May 1 before hitting Chicago and Nashville, and will appear in New York City on June 12 and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on June 26. The events, which are free and limited to customers ages 18 and older, are being held at Taco Bell Cantina locations because they serve alcohol, unlike other Taco Bell restaurants.
All of the reservations — more than 550 — were scooped up quickly in April by members of Taco Bell’s “Fire Tier” rewards program, the brand’s most loyal customers, who had first dibs, according to a company spokesman.
Robert Fisher, a senior production designer at Taco Bell, said the drag brunch idea surfaced a year ago within Live Más Pride, Taco Bell’s L.G.B.T.Q. employee resource group, and made its way to the company’s chief executive, Mark King, who greenlit it.
Mr. Fisher, who founded Live Más Pride, said his managers understood that if a Taco Bell-hosted drag brunch was going to feel legitimate, the company had to act as if it had been invited to be part of the L.G.B.T. Q. community, “not as if Taco Bell was appropriating drag for the sake of tacos.”
Kay Sedia, the drag hostess on the tour, wore a Taco Bell-branded outfit. Across the political spectrum, the performer said, people “find it in their hearts to enjoy my work.”Credit...Anjali Pinto for The New York Times
The company signed Oscar Quintero, who performs under the name Kay Sedia and lives in Los Angeles, as the tour’s drag hostess, and hired local drag artists to perform with her in each city. (Taco Bell declined to say how much the tour cost and how much the talent was paid.) The performers have taken care to keep their language and material fairly clean and nonpolitical.
“I have a ton of people on social media who are across the political and religious spectrum, and yet they find it in their hearts to enjoy my work,” Mr. Quintero said. “When people start to get political, I just say: ‘Allow me to be an escape.’ ”
Drag’s relationship with dining goes back to the mid-20th century, when drag revues in bars and restaurants catered to predominantly straight audiences. Mr. Jeffreys, the historian, estimates that drag brunches began in the early 1990s, during the second decade of the AIDS crisis. Perry’s, a restaurant in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., has hosted a drag brunch since 1991, and it remains popular.
Today, drag brunch is an essential weekend outing in many cities, a draw for bachelorette and birthday parties. Food and drag continue to intersect in new ways, from meal-delivery services to sausage-making parties.
To some keepers of drag history, Taco Bell’s brunch is the commercial torpedo that finally sinks a subversive art form.
But others feel that ship has long sailed. Drag is the mainstream, said Harry James Hanson, a co-author of “Legends of Drag,” a new book featuring photographic portraits of drag elders.
Rachel Lang, who works for a Chicago tech company, was among the partygoers. Tickets for all the events were claimed swiftly by members of Taco Bell’s “Fire Tier” rewards program, who got first dibs. Rachel Lang, who works for a Chicago tech company, was among the partygoers. Tickets for all the events were claimed swiftly by members of Taco Bell’s “Fire Tier” rewards program, who got first dibs.Credit...Anjali Pinto for The New York Times
“When it comes to working a corporate drag brunch, that is squarely in drag queens’ wheelhouse,” Mr. Hanson said. “They are those cultural ambassadors.”
Perhaps that’s what is happening at Taco Bell. After all, the company is introducing drag to audiences who might not otherwise go to a drag show if the invitation weren’t from Taco Bell.
Blake Hundley, a 25-year-old straight father, said he drove three hours from his home in Dubuque, Iowa, to be first in line for the second of two Chicago shows — no surprise, considering that he runs a Taco Bell fan site, LivingMas.com, and eats at Taco Bell three times a week “at a minimum.”
After the show, Mr. Hundley said that his first drag brunch was a blast, and that he’d return if the fast-food chain hosted another. “My life is about Taco Bell,” he said.
If not everyone is as thrilled about its shows, the company is fine with that. Drag brunch “is not about politics or worrying about backlash,” said Sean Tresvant, Taco Bell’s global chief brand officer. “It’s about being authentic.”
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Correction: May 27, 2022
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the university where Gillian Oakenfull is a professor. It is Miami University of Ohio, not the University of Miami in Ohio.
A version of this article appears in print on June 1, 2022, Section D, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: At Brunch, Fast Food With a Bit Of Glitter. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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Drag Queen Story Hour,
At Taco Bell, the Drag Brunch Goes Corporate
The glittery live shows have long been a staple in many cities, but the fast-food chain is taking that a step further.
The drag queen Kay Sedia partying with guests at a Taco Bell Cantina in Chicago, the second stop on the chain’s five-city drag brunch tour, which kicked off in May.Credit...Anjali Pinto for The New York Times
Erik Piepenburg
By Erik Piepenburg
Published May 27, 2022
Updated May 29, 2022
Cooking Feast on recipes, food writing and culinary inspiration from Sam Sifton and NYT Cooking. Get it sent to your inbox.
CHICAGO — As drag brunch came to a close at a Mexican restaurant here last Sunday, the performers conga-lined their way through the crowd of about 40 party people who were just this side of tipsy on Brunch Punch.
But this was no standard drag brunch; it was a Taco Bell Drag Brunch. And that wasn’t a microphone in the lead queen’s hand; it was a Grande Toasted Breakfast Burrito. That queen — a Mexican American performer called Kay Sedia (pronounced quesadilla) — was the M.C. at a Taco Bell Cantina down the block from Wrigley Field, wearing a frilly, skintight frock with the Taco Bell logo on the belly.
In the 45-minute show, Kay Sedia sassed the crowd (mostly young, mostly white) and danced with her fellow performers: the drag king Tenderoni and the queens Miss Toto and Aunty Chan, who tore it up as a hard-pressed Taco Bell cashier in a lip-synced mash-up of “She Works Hard for the Money” and “9 to 5.” On diners’ tables, a shimmering box held a burrito (sausage, bacon or veggie), a hash brown and Cinnabon Delights doughnut holes. The sound of Taco Bell’s signature “bong” punctuated a drinking game.
Skyler Chmielewski, there to celebrate her 19th birthday, was transfixed. Gripping a Taco Bell Drag Brunch-branded folding fan, she declared her first drag show “breathtaking.”
“I’m at a loss for words,” she said.
There may be gayer ways to spend an afternoon at a Taco Bell, but it’s hard to imagine how. The five-city, 10-show Taco Bell Drag Brunch tour, which has arrived in time for June’s Pride celebrations, is arguably the most mainstream marriage of drag and dining yet — a “phenomenal” stepn the evolution of drag culture, said Joe E. Jeffreys, a drag historian.
For its tour, Taco Bell hired local drag performers to join Kay Sedia in each city. On a recent Sunday, Miss Toto, a Chicago drag artist, embellished her performance with a leggy pose.Credit...Anjali Pinto for The New York Times
“It’s taken drag over a border that it hasn’t been before, to an exciting new place of accessibility,” said Mr. Jeffreys, who teaches theater studies at N.Y.U. and the New School. (He had not been to one of the chain’s brunches.)
Taco Bell Drag Brunch is just the latest effort by corporate fast-food chains to grab the attention of L.G.B.T.Q. consumers. Last year, Taco Bell named the out rapper Lil Nas X as its “chief impact officer,” and Burger King said that during June, it would donate 40 cents from every order of its Ch’King sandwich to the Human Rights Campaign, an L.G.B.T.Q. advocacy group.
The political landscape may be changing, though. The creation of “drag queen story hours” for children at public libraries across the country has stirred protests and some cancellations. In April, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a bill revoking Disney World’s special tax status, after the company spoke out against the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would limit or forbid discussion about sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida public schools.
The moment is challenging corporations to decide how best to support a brand-loyal group of consumers without alienating conservative customers or legislators. (Taco Bell is taking its drag brunch to Florida, but is not among several companies that have voiced concern about recent legislation there and in other states.)
On Being Transgender in America
Phalloplasty: The surgery, used to construct a penis, has grown more popular among transgender men. But with a steep rate of complications, it remains a controversial procedure.
Elite Sports: The case of the transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has stirred a debate about the nature of athleticism in women’s sports.
Transgender Youth: A photographer documented the lives of transgender youth. She shared some thoughts on what she saw.
Corporate World: What is it like to transition while working for Wall Street? A Goldman Sachs’ employee shares her experience.
Many fast-food brands are embracing this year’s Pride season. Chipotle and Shake Shack plan to donate percentages of their proceeds during June to L.G.B.T.Q. organizations, and the Taco Bell Foundation is giving a grant to the It Gets Better Project to expand work-force-readiness resources for L.G.B.T.Q. youth.
In front of a young, mostly white crowd, the drag king Tenderoni worked the floor to a mash-up of old-school R&B and hip-hop.Credit...
Gillian Oakenfull, a professor of marketing at Miami University of Ohio, said the current political fights over gay and transgender issues don’t necessarily reflect what consumers think. When it comes to queer acceptance, she said, “Gen Z requires it.”
Hosting drag queens, Dr. Oakenfull said, “is no longer a risk,” and if corporations are feeling heat because they use drag as a marketing tool, “it’s not coming from the people they care about.”
When Taco Bell posted a photo from the Las Vegas brunch on Instagram, it generated some negative comments. But so far, complaints about the shows have been, like its breakfast salsa, mild.
The tour kicked off in Las Vegas on May 1 before hitting Chicago and Nashville, and will appear in New York City on June 12 and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., on June 26. The events, which are free and limited to customers ages 18 and older, are being held at Taco Bell Cantina locations because they serve alcohol, unlike other Taco Bell restaurants.
All of the reservations — more than 550 — were scooped up quickly in April by members of Taco Bell’s “Fire Tier” rewards program, the brand’s most loyal customers, who had first dibs, according to a company spokesman.
Robert Fisher, a senior production designer at Taco Bell, said the drag brunch idea surfaced a year ago within Live Más Pride, Taco Bell’s L.G.B.T.Q. employee resource group, and made its way to the company’s chief executive, Mark King, who greenlit it.
Mr. Fisher, who founded Live Más Pride, said his managers understood that if a Taco Bell-hosted drag brunch was going to feel legitimate, the company had to act as if it had been invited to be part of the L.G.B.T. Q. community, “not as if Taco Bell was appropriating drag for the sake of tacos.”
Kay Sedia, the drag hostess on the tour, wore a Taco Bell-branded outfit. Across the political spectrum, the performer said, people “find it in their hearts to enjoy my work.”Credit...Anjali Pinto for The New York Times
The company signed Oscar Quintero, who performs under the name Kay Sedia and lives in Los Angeles, as the tour’s drag hostess, and hired local drag artists to perform with her in each city. (Taco Bell declined to say how much the tour cost and how much the talent was paid.) The performers have taken care to keep their language and material fairly clean and nonpolitical.
“I have a ton of people on social media who are across the political and religious spectrum, and yet they find it in their hearts to enjoy my work,” Mr. Quintero said. “When people start to get political, I just say: ‘Allow me to be an escape.’ ”
Drag’s relationship with dining goes back to the mid-20th century, when drag revues in bars and restaurants catered to predominantly straight audiences. Mr. Jeffreys, the historian, estimates that drag brunches began in the early 1990s, during the second decade of the AIDS crisis. Perry’s, a restaurant in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C., has hosted a drag brunch since 1991, and it remains popular.
Today, drag brunch is an essential weekend outing in many cities, a draw for bachelorette and birthday parties. Food and drag continue to intersect in new ways, from meal-delivery services to sausage-making parties.
To some keepers of drag history, Taco Bell’s brunch is the commercial torpedo that finally sinks a subversive art form.
But others feel that ship has long sailed. Drag is the mainstream, said Harry James Hanson, a co-author of “Legends of Drag,” a new book featuring photographic portraits of drag elders.
Rachel Lang, who works for a Chicago tech company, was among the partygoers. Tickets for all the events were claimed swiftly by members of Taco Bell’s “Fire Tier” rewards program, who got first dibs. Rachel Lang, who works for a Chicago tech company, was among the partygoers. Tickets for all the events were claimed swiftly by members of Taco Bell’s “Fire Tier” rewards program, who got first dibs.Credit...Anjali Pinto for The New York Times
“When it comes to working a corporate drag brunch, that is squarely in drag queens’ wheelhouse,” Mr. Hanson said. “They are those cultural ambassadors.”
Perhaps that’s what is happening at Taco Bell. After all, the company is introducing drag to audiences who might not otherwise go to a drag show if the invitation weren’t from Taco Bell.
Blake Hundley, a 25-year-old straight father, said he drove three hours from his home in Dubuque, Iowa, to be first in line for the second of two Chicago shows — no surprise, considering that he runs a Taco Bell fan site, LivingMas.com, and eats at Taco Bell three times a week “at a minimum.”
After the show, Mr. Hundley said that his first drag brunch was a blast, and that he’d return if the fast-food chain hosted another. “My life is about Taco Bell,” he said.
If not everyone is as thrilled about its shows, the company is fine with that. Drag brunch “is not about politics or worrying about backlash,” said Sean Tresvant, Taco Bell’s global chief brand officer. “It’s about being authentic.”
Still Here and Still Queer: The Gay Restaurant Endures
May 28, 2021
Drag Queens Deliver Dinner and a Show in San Francisco
Sept. 9, 2020
The Forgotten Queer Legacy of Billy West and Zuni Café
May 28, 2021
Follow New York Times Cooking on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Pinterest. Get regular updates from New York Times Cooking, with recipe suggestions, cooking tips and shopping advice.
Correction: May 27, 2022
An earlier version of this article misstated the name of the university where Gillian Oakenfull is a professor. It is Miami University of Ohio, not the University of Miami in Ohio.
A version of this article appears in print on June 1, 2022, Section D, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: At Brunch, Fast Food With a Bit Of Glitter. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 3, 8:15pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 3, 8:15pm
Kuwaiti citizens respond to US Embassy Kuwait's announcement of Pride Month
https://twitter.com/USEmbassyQ8/status/1532282068830507008?s=20&t=5kJ8rBROCZ9GAR4q_RZOpg
Same post, but Arabic Thread:
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/USEmbassyQ8/status/1532282197616599040#m
https://twitter.com/USEmbassyQ8/status/1532282068830507008?s=20&t=5kJ8rBROCZ9GAR4q_RZOpg
Same post, but Arabic Thread:
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/USEmbassyQ8/status/1532282197616599040#m
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HeadSet
2022 Jun 3, 8:26pm
HeadSet
2022 Jun 3, 8:26pm
richwicks says
Yes, but not the point. These ladies likely supported Biden, Dems and lefty policies including trans acceptance.
Don't blame the people who voted for Biden, when Biden was installed by our intelligence agencies, and not a vote
Yes, but not the point. These ladies likely supported Biden, Dems and lefty policies including trans acceptance.
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HeadSet
2022 Jun 3, 8:28pm
HeadSet
2022 Jun 3, 8:28pm
AmericanKulak says
“All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love.”
Even if they "love" children?
Kuwaiti citizens respond to US Embassy Kuwait's announcement of Pride Month
https://twitter.com/USEmbassyQ8/status/1532282068830507008?s=20&t=5kJ8rBROCZ9GAR4q_RZOpg
Same post, but Arabic Thread:
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/USEmbassyQ8/status/1532282197616599040#m
“All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love.”
Even if they "love" children?
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richwicks
2022 Jun 3, 8:43pm
richwicks
2022 Jun 3, 8:43pm
HeadSet says
Don't allow them to see your fellow man as an enemy. Some are deluded. some are idiots, but they aren't enemies. Biden was not elected.
richwicks saysDon't blame the people who voted for Biden, when Biden was installed by our intelligence agencies, and not a vote
Yes, but not the point. These ladies likely supported Biden, Dems and lefty policies including trans acceptance.
Don't allow them to see your fellow man as an enemy. Some are deluded. some are idiots, but they aren't enemies. Biden was not elected.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 4, 1:22pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 4, 1:22pm
I believe this is inside, Dallas, TX:
Note:
* The "It ain't gonna lick itself" on a neon sign
* The dollar bills being given by kids to the Pedo Freak
* The music
* The sexual outfit and performance.
It's grooming.
Note:
* The "It ain't gonna lick itself" on a neon sign
* The dollar bills being given by kids to the Pedo Freak
* The music
* The sexual outfit and performance.
It's grooming.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 4, 7:11pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 4, 7:11pm
Here is one of the fleeing perverts spitting on the protesters after the show. This is assault under Texas law. And why is a man with no children attending a Children's Event that was highly sexualized?
He's a pedo enabler IT guy who works for SW Airlines named Dean.
He's a pedo enabler IT guy who works for SW Airlines named Dean.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 4, 7:12pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 4, 7:12pm
Needless to say, he confirms @Patrick suspicions about the real preference of the "+"
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Patrick
2022 Jun 4, 10:44pm
Patrick
2022 Jun 4, 10:44pm
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1532414239695990796
Teacher explains how she tried teaching second graders about non-binary and they said “that doesn’t make any sense!” Based kids 😂
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Patrick
2022 Jun 8, 10:38pm
Patrick
2022 Jun 8, 10:38pm
https://reclaimthenet.org/ellingsen-tweet-censorship/
June 4, 2022
Norwegian feminist faces up to three years in prison over tweet saying biological men can’t be lesbians
"Hateful."
A Norwegian feminist is being investigated by the police for refuting the claims of a trans activist that a biological male can be a lesbian in a tweet.
Christina Ellingsen, of the global feminist organization Women’s Declaration International (WDI), criticized Norway’s trans activism group FRI last October for telling kids that biological males can be lesbians.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 10, 5:04pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 10, 5:04pm
Texas Father - 16 year old and class was taken by Teacher to Drag Queen Event; one of the Drag Queens was previously convicted of sex crime against 8 year old.
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Patrick
2022 Jun 10, 9:39pm
Patrick
2022 Jun 10, 9:39pm
https://reclaimthenet.org/uks-national-health-service-scrubs-mention-of-the-term-women/
UK’s National Health Service scrubs the term “women” from Ovarian cancer website
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AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 11, 8:32pm
AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 11, 8:32pm
Trans with his mangled manboobs twerks his ass at a cop and children at DC Pride.
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Patrick
2022 Jun 11, 9:45pm
Patrick
2022 Jun 11, 9:45pm
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/Not_the_Bee/status/1535346493258964997
Matt Walsh
I have appeared on Fox News many times. I appreciate the platform they’ve given me. If what I’m about to say ruins that relationship, so be it. We have to call this evil lunacy out wherever we see it. Especially on our own side.
Today Fox ran a long segment for Pride Month celebrating a “trans kid” who “came out as a boy” at the age of five. The piece did not simply report on the controversy surrounding child transitioning. It outright promotes the practice.
The reporter says that the child announced a new gender as a toddler. Does Fox want us to believe that BABIES can choose their gender? This is the most extreme, radical, dangerous form of gender ideology. And it’s being promoted on Fox News
The poor kid is 14 now with a permanently altered body, condemned to live forever with an identity imposed as a small child. It is horrifying, evil, and sick. And it is what Fox chose to promote
I know for a fact that many people at Fox do not approve of this and never would have agreed to air radical far left trans propaganda. But Fox reporter Bryan Lenas chose to do this story and someone at Fox chose to put it on the air. Everyone involved should be fired immediately.
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Patrick
2022 Jun 12, 9:19pm
Patrick
2022 Jun 12, 9:19pm
https://www.ntd.com/texas-judge-blocks-transgender-child-abuse-investigations_792640.html
Such barbaric surgery on children is absolutely child abuse and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
A Texas court on Friday blocked the state’s child and youth welfare agency from conducting child abuse investigations of three families who allowed their children to commence sex change treatments and procedures.
Travis County District Court granted a temporary restraining order against the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating the parents of three transgender minors.
The families claimed in a lawsuit that they are providing their transgender children “medically necessary health care.”
But according to a legal opinion by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, certain sex change procedures, such as “non-medically necessary, gender-based procedures or treatments on a minor,” could constitute child abuse under Texas law (pdf).
Such procedures include orchiectomies, hysterectomies, vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, and mastectomies.
This prompted Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) to issue a directive in February ordering the DFPS to start investigating parents of children who undergo “sex change procedures.”
Such barbaric surgery on children is absolutely child abuse and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent.
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Patrick
2022 Jun 12, 10:30pm
Patrick
2022 Jun 12, 10:30pm
https://reclaimthenet.org/paypal-and-etsy-ban-evolutionary-biologist-dr-colin-wright/
https://www.womensliberationfront.org/
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Dr. Colin Wright, an evolutionary biologist, has been banned from PayPal and Etsy. The online financial service and e-commerce platform did not specify why he was banned.
At the end of May, Dr. Wright provided an expert declaration for the Women’s Liberation Front, which is working to protect single-sex prisons.
“The only factual, objective meaning of the words ‘woman’ and ‘man’ are as references to adult human females, and adult human males, respectively,” Wright wrote in the declaration.
“From an objective standpoint, a person’s subjective feelings do not define or change their sex, which is factually and statically either male or female, determined before birth, and defined by objective reproductive anatomy.”
https://www.womensliberationfront.org/
In April 2022, WoLF and Independent Women’s Voice (IWV) developed the Women’s Bill of Rights. This model legislation clearly states exactly what a “woman” is, and why women deserve single-sex spaces and opportunities.
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AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 14, 2:24am
AmericanKulak
2022 Jun 14, 2:24am
Inuit Canadian Kindergarteners receive masturbation instructions, straight from a woke textbook for "3-7 year olds"
https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/kindergarteners-sent-home-with-masturbation?s=r
https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/kindergarteners-sent-home-with-masturbation?s=r
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Patrick
2022 Jun 15, 10:00am
Patrick
2022 Jun 15, 10:00am
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/proud-of-yourselves/
Five-year-old children generally have no idea what adult sexuality is about. Should perhaps their first exposure to a realm so fraught and complex that many adults do not understand it be the presentation of women as monsters? And why are the mommies so avid for their children to be introduced to sexuality this way? Are some of the children perceptive and astute enough to suspect that drag queens on display are not really women? That, for instance, they might be… men? (A beard can be a give-away.) And might they take that thought a step or two further and ask themselves: why does this man want to pretend to be a monster-woman? Why doesn’t he want to be a daddy? Are mommies monsters? Can they turn into something like this when I’m not around? Are daddies who try to act like mommies monsters?
How exactly is a child supposed to process all of this? All on its own, without any inversions, distortions, and misconstructions, sex is difficult for some young humans to process. ...
Of course, we have not begun to probe what might animate a man to present himself to the world as a monstrous parody of a woman. Suffice it to say that such behavior suggests some complicated psychodynamics. And why, exactly, are they suddenly on-display so extravagantly now across the country, supposedly for the edification of children? I’ll tell you why: It’s not actually for the sake of the children. The children are just pawns in what is actually a national political psychodrama. Or rather, they are hostages.
What you’re seeing is the Party of Chaos sending a message to the rest of us — those who are not members of the Party of Chaos. The message is: we will take your children and destroy their minds, and pretend that it’s just another module of their education… and you will know, and we will know, and you will know that we know that this is just a malicious shuck-and-jive to humiliate you while we wreck the machinery of civilization, which we hate because it requires boundaries and norms to function.
And think of it: just days ago the FDA announced that it accepted Pfizer’s application for a Covid-19 vaccine for children between six months and five years old. That’s the same “safe and effective” vaccine they have been giving to the rest of you for over a year, which has produced adverse reactions and illnesses in rather striking numbers. Do you know why they did that? I’ll tell you why: to extend the emergency use authorization that shields Pfizer from legal liability for their mRNA vaccines. They are not content with wrecking civilization. They want to kill you and your children too.
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Patrick
2022 Jun 15, 9:58pm
Patrick
2022 Jun 15, 9:58pm
https://notthebee.com/article/this-heartbreaking-thread-from-a-detransitioning-person-shows-just-how-barbaric-wokeism-is
I have no sensation in my crotch region at all.
You could stab me with a knife and I wouldn't know. The entire area is numb, like it's shell shocked and unable to comprehend what happened, even 4 years on.
I tore a sutra 4 days post recovery, they promised to address it, i begged them in emails to fix it, they scorned me instead.
Years later, I have what looks like a chunk of missing flesh next to my neo-vagina, it literally looks like someone hacked at me.
They still wont fix it
No one told me that the base area of your penis is left, it can't be removed - meaning you're left with a literal stump inside that twitches.
When you take Testosterone and your libido returns, you wake up with morning wood, without the tree.
I wish this was a joke
And if you do take testosterone after being post op, you run the risk of internal hair in the neo-vagina. Imagine dealing with internal hair growth after everything?
What a choice... be healthy on Testosterone and a freak, or remain a sexless eunuch.
And thats something that will never come back and one of the reason why i got surgery.
My sex drive died about 6 months on HRT and at the time I was glad to be rid of it, but now 10 years later, Im realising what [I'm] missing out on and what I won't get back.
Because even if i had a sex drive, my neo vagina is so narrow and small, i wouldn't even be able to have sex if i wanted too.
And when I do use a small dilator, I have random pockets of sensation that only seem to pick up pain, rather than pleasure.
Any pleasure I do get comes from the Prostate that was moved forward and wrapped in glands from the penis, meaning anal sex isn['t] possible and can risk further damage.
Then theres the dreams. I dream often, that I have both sets of genitals, in the dream I'm distressed I have both, why both I think? I tell myself to wake up because I know it['s] just a dream.
And I awaken into a living nightmare.
In those moments of amnesia as I would wake, I would reach down to my crotch area expecting something that was there for 3 decades, and it's not.
My heart skips a beat, every single damn time.
Then theres the act of going to the toilet. It takes me about 10 minutes to empty my bladder, it's extremely slow, painful and because it dribbles no matter how much i relax, it will then just go all over that entire area, leaving me soake[d].
So after cleaning myself up, I will find moments later that my underwear is wet - no matter how much I wiped, it slowly drips out for the best part of an hour.
I never knew at 35 I ran the risk like smelling like p*** everywhere I went.
Now i get to the point where [I'm] detransitioned and the realisation that this is permanent is catching up with me.
During transition, I was obsessive and deeply unwell, I cannot believe they were allowed to do this to me, even after all the red flags.
I wasn't even asked if I wanted to freeze sperm or want kids. In my obsessive, deeply unwell state they just nodded along and didn['t] tell me the realities, what life would be like.
And finally, theres dilation, which is like some sort of demonic ceremony where you impale yourself for 20 agonising minutes to remind you of your own stupidity.
This isn't even the half of it. And this isn't regret either, this is grief and anger.
F*** everyone who let this happen.
When I lost 1600ml blood during surgery, it took days to get a blood transfusion.
The surgery lasted 3 hours longer.
They joked about the blood loss too.
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Patrick
2022 Jun 17, 11:22am
Patrick
2022 Jun 17, 11:22am
https://en-volve.com/2022/06/17/bidens-latest-orwellian-executive-order-bans-speech-suggesting-child-should-not-undergo-medical-transition/
One of the main goals of the new legislation will be to expand access to destructive “gender-affirming” drugs and medical procedures for children despite mounting evidence of the severe long-term consequences (sterility, bone loss, other health issues) and increased suicide rates among young people who are coerced into medically transitioning.
Thanks to a few researchers who are finally doing the work and looking into this issue, the results are becoming crystal clear – ‘gender-affirming care,’ which entails pumping children full of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones, is making the problem measurably worse.
But, it shouldn’t take a scientist or a clinical study to see that we should not be giving young children, who don’t have the faculties to make these types of life-altering decisions on their own, drugs that are used to chemically castrate pedophiles (Lupron, puberty blocker) – let alone giving young, healthy girls’ double mastectomies in the name of ‘gender affirmation’ – it’s unspeakable what these monsters are doing to America’s children.
And now, Biden is mandating this poison with a stroke of a pen.
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HeadSet
2022 Jun 17, 12:12pm
HeadSet
2022 Jun 17, 12:12pm
Hey, maybe we can bring back Castrados. You know, castrate those young boys who want to keep their singing voices in the soprano range.
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So Arkansas overrode the veto from beta cuck governor. But no one is asking why the leftist tran activists trying to fuck kids up before they grow normal since puberty tends to fix this shit. Such murderous jealous fucks, trying to drag kids down with them since they fucked up their own lives.