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Mature, progressive, widow helping younger gay men and couples survive & thrive just as my late husband and I did for 25 years. I'm also doing my best to maintain my sanity as I watch my country slip into a fascist oligarchy.

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December 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This is NOT real.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD
the-concert-mom.bsky.social the-concert-mom @the-concert-mom.bsky.social · Jul 2
@iceblock.app someone is posting saying they have an android version, can you confirm if this is you so people are not downloading a virus on to their phones
July 2, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Hegseth has ordered that the USNS Harvey Milk, named for the iconic gay rights icon, be renamed. Harvey Milk served as a diving officer and later as a diving instructor for four years in the U.S. Navy. That this would happen at the start of Pride is intentional.

www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to take the rare step of renaming a ship, one that bears the name of a gay rights icon, documents and sources show.
www.military.com
June 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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My god...
aubreyjones.bsky.social Aubrey Jones @aubreyjones.bsky.social · Jun 2
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.
Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales
June 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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johnmoralestv.bsky.social
Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺
June 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Happy June 2nd, everyone! It’s time for Marsha P Johnson on the Gay of the Day! Love and share! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #pride #pridemonth #lgbtq #lgbtqia #gay
June 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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dgcomedy.bsky.social
Happy Pride Month! We’re celebrating LGBTQ heroes all month long. Welcome to the Gay of the Day. First up, Alan Turing. Share far and wide 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #lgbtq #Pride #Pridemonth #gay #gayhistory #lgbtqia #GOTD
June 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
atxpolarbear.bsky.social
Well, they probably fired the people who know how SEVIS works and those that he's appointed haven't figured out how to write a report in 5th grade language that he can understand.
dburbach.bsky.social David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · May 25
Every single foreign student at Harvard and every other US institution had to get a visa which required them to specify the school, and is tracked in a DHS system called SEVIS by their school.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 25
Trump: "Part of the problem w/ Harvard is there are about 31% of foreigners coming to Harvard...but they refuse to tell us who the people are...it shouldn't be 31%. It's too much. Bc we have Americans who want to go there...we want a list of those students...I assume with Harvard many will be bad"
May 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
atxpolarbear.bsky.social
Please come perform live in Austin, TX (Paramount Theatre).
blueeyedbluesman.bsky.social Phares @blueeyedbluesman.bsky.social · May 20
John please come preform in Raleigh, NC!
May 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
atxpolarbear.bsky.social
As commentary on the state of affairs in the US, I recently posited the following in a private conversation: assuming (1) there is both a heaven and a hell and (2) I'm destined to go to hell, if I were to die today, would I be able to tell? Now I'm saying this almost daily to people I hardly know.
May 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
atxpolarbear.bsky.social
This is a great example of why I support hard-working independent reporters like @chrisgeidner.bsky.social and @lawdorknews.bsky.social. They don't let even the less flashy stories fall into the shadows.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · May 6
BREAKING: In a challenge to Trump's effort to end refugee resettlement, federal judge issues an order (after DOJ appealed the prelim injunction to the Ninth Circuit, now it's back) that the Trump admin must restart processes for those refugees OK'ed & set to come as of Jan. 20 "immediately."
3. SCOPE OF THE NINTH CIRCUIT'S CLARIFICATION ORDER A threshold question before this Court is the scope of the Ninth Circuit's April 21 clarification order-specifically, which refugees remain protected by this Court's preliminary injunction ("Injunction-Protected Refugees"). It is surprising that there could be any disagreement about the meaning of a judicial order that articulates three specific criteria in plain, straightforward language. The parties agree on the application of the first criterion (approved refugee application) and the COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORK ORDER - 3 Case 2:25-cv-00255-JNW Document 119 Filed 05/05/25 Page 4 of 14 second criterion (clearance by USCIS for travel). ' But they present different interpretations of the third criterion: "arranged and confirmable travel plans to the United States." See Pacito et al. v. Trump et al., No. 25-1313, Dkt. No. 46. Plaintiffs advocate a plain-meaning interpretation of this phrase, under which "arranged and confirmable travel plans" refers, simply, to arranged and confirmable travel plans. The Government, however, would have the Court believe that when the Ninth Circuit used this phrase, it secretly embedded a qualifier requiring that travel must have been scheduled to occur within two weeks of January 20, 2025. The Government finds support for this reading in the Ninth Circuit's language suggesting that its partial denial of a stay was not meant to apply to "tens of thousands of individuals." See Pacito et al. v. Trump et al., No. 25-1313, Dkt. No. 46 at 3. According to the Government, the denial must apply only to those refugee cases furthest along, like Plaintiff Pacito's. This reading would reduce the number of Injunction-Protected Refugees from about 12,000 individuals-those who held plane tickets as of January 20-to about 160 individuals-those whose planes were set to depart by February 3. The Government's interpretation is, to put it mildly, "interpretive jiggery-pokery of the highest order. See King v. Burwell, 576 U.S. 473, 506 (2015) (Scalia, J., dissenting). It requires not just reading between the lines, but hallucinating new text that simply is not there. The third criterion requires that the individual "had 2 arranged and confirmable travel plans to the United States" as of January 20, 2025. 3 Not "had arranged and confirmable travel plans with a departure window within 4 two weeks of January 20, 2025." Not "had imminent travel plans." Not "had travel 5 plans like Plaintiff Pacito's." Just, "had arranged and confirmable travel plans." 6 Had the Ninth Circuit intended to impose a two-week limitation- one that would 7 reduce the protected population from about 12,000 to 160 individuals-it would 8 have done so explicitly. The Ninth Circuit is capable of imposing temporal 9 limitations when it intends to do so. That it did not do so here must be construed as 10 deliberate. And it goes without saying that 12,000 is not the "tens of thousands of 11 individuals" the Ninth Circuit implied to be problematic. This Court will not entertain the Government's result-oriented rewriting of a 4 judicial order that clearly says what it says. The Government is free, of course, to 5 seek further clarification from the Ninth Circuit. But the Government is not free to 6 disobey statutory and constitutional law-and the direct orders of this Court and 7 the Ninth Circuit-while it seeks such clarification. The Government's obligation to 8 process, admit, and provide statutorily mandated resettlement support services to 9 the Injunction-Protected Refugees is immediate. Likewise, the Government's 10 obligation to restore funding, information, and operational support to its USRAP 11 partners as necessary to process, admit, and provide resettlement services to these 12 individuals is also immediate.
May 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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April 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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kwcollins.bsky.social
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.

Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out
February 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM