https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10891021/Texas-State-Rep-Bryan-Slaton-says-file-legislation-BAN-drag-shows-presence-minors.html

https://twitter.com/AnthonySabatini/status/1533980818791604224

I just *love* some of the comments. And the protesters.

"Men in thongs"? That ain't a drag show, honey.

Also the comments about "grooming" and "sexualizing" children.

Ever take a look at kids beauty pageants?

I was reading something and it had a variation on one of the classic bullying memes:

During a PE class a guy who's obviously been held behind a few times (he's much bigger than the other guys) confronts the new kid (who is small for his age and a bit delicate looking)

"You're gonna meet me in the parking lot after school and get the beat down you've got coming. If you don't show up, tomorrow I'll bend you over a bench in the locker room and fuck your pansy ass."

Note, things did *not* go well for the bully. The story is one of the last ones in the Anthology "shadowed Souls" if you want to find out what happened)

Anyway, my more than a bit perverse muse piped up with a very *different* response from the bullied kid:

"Why don't we save a lot of time and you can fuck me in the locker room at the end of this class?"

Fay and I *intended* to get there before Pride opened at noon. Best laid plans and all that, I overslept and was awakened by Fay texting (for the third time)me sometime after noon.

Since we were running late I decided not top go with the outfit I'd picked that night before (a purple satin blouse and a satin skirt in shades of orange and brown). At least in part because there wasn't time to shave and I didn't really want to do genderfuck.

Probably just as well, I sweated buckets in the slacks and t-shirt I went with instead. I might have ruined the other outfit.

We spent something like 5 hours going thru the booths. I think this is the first time I didn't run into anybody I knew there.

We did take a couple of breaks to sit down, but all that walking got to me. We did pick up some nice swag, including some tote bags and a pouch with a net lanyard that fits my cell phone.

Also got some cards for places we couldn't afford to buy stuff from.

And I saw fay drooling over this book on smutty sign language at one booth and bought it for her as an early birthday present (her birthday is in a couple of weeks). I also got myself a dirty coloring book. :-)

Glad I went, but really sore in lots of places from all that time on my feet.

I slept thru much of Coming Out day. But here's a quick sketch...

Bi (ever since I knew about sex).

Somewhat poly.

Switch (but prefer sub though I can be a "service top" for many things and a real top for a few.

Bi-gendered or genderfluid. I present male most of the time just because it's less effort (fewer spoons). Would like to present female more but after all these decades of having to present male for protective coloration, there are so many things to unlearn as well as things to learn.

But ever since I knew the anatomical differences I wanted to switch back and forth. Had some rather detailed fantasies about different sorts of "cycles". Also tried the tape bit when I was in my early teens but couldn't get it to work. :-)

Probably neurovariant, possibly Aspergers or the like.

PTSD, social phobia social anxiety disordedr, all going back to when I was a kid, but getting worse in my later teens.

Hopefully, I'm a lovable mess.

Got a bunch of stressors going on, for one, annual inspection is Friday, but I figured I should get this one out here.

I hadn't really noticed it until Pride. With the shootings in Orlando, I really felt I should go. Even if it might be somewhat risky.

But I didn't. Why? Because I wasn't going to do the jeans and t-shirt I wear every day. But I couldn't bring myself to do genderfuck. I thought really hard about it, and even dug some stuff out, but I couldn't.

What I *wanted* was to go as Brooke. But that involved a lot of effort and a moderate bit of expense. Since my electric rtazor died a few years back (they unplugged it from the wal to thest the GFI outlet in the bathroom, and I didn't notice until weeks later, the batteries wouldn't take a charge anymore. :-(

So to properly "de-hair" myself, I'd have needed a lot of Veet or Nair. Did have the spare cash,, and it just felt like way too much trouble.

There *are* spaces where I'd be ok with genderfuck, but none of them are "public" places. And Pride *is* public in that there are a lot of "allies" around, and then of course there's taking public transit to and from.

This drives home that I''m actually a lot more dysphoric than I thought.

Also reminded me that I wish I'd figured out that I was trans a year or two earlier when I still had the money for laser or electro. *sigh*.

And of course, the depression doesn't help (the whole "way too much trouble" thing)

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alabama-supreme-court-justice-tom-parker-state-courts-must-defy-supreme-courts-gay-marriage-

After making the case that the Obergefell decision does not even apply to Alabama, Parker absurdly asserted that the Supreme Court had no grounds upon which to issue the decision in the first place because gays are not being denied equal treatment under the law since everyone is free to marry someone of the opposite sex.

Gee, one of the big arguments made in Loving v Virginia was that blacks weren't being discriminated against because everyone had the right to marry someone of the same race.

That's what's so amazing about these people.

If you check the records, you'll see pretty much the same arguments that were used against blacks have been used against gays. And not just about marriage.

Back when they were integrating the military you got the same arguments that were used against letting gays be in the military. I mean *word for word*. Just swap a few phrase from being about race to being about homosexuality.

Ditto for more general civil rights for blacks. I don't think anybody said being black was a sin (except maybe for the Mormons before that revelation that changed their doctrine about admitting blacks) But there were a lot of people who said it was God's will to keep the races separate.

In my not-so-humble opinion, this is symptomatic of a xenophobic mindset and/or a certain sort of narrow mindedness.

It'd never fly, but just imagine the time we'd save in the courts if we listed those sort of arguments in "fill in the blank" form and passed a law (probably need to be a constitutional amendment) saying that such argument were not legally admissible.

Or at the very least, that they required *strong* proof in their favor.

Of course, these sorts of people would complain that they were being discriminated against.

To which my reply is "it is not, nor should it be, illegal to discriminate against stupidity, ignorant prejudices and the like"

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-556_3204.pdf

Of course states like Alabama, Kansas andf others will still try to wiggle around it, but they are running out of wiggle room fast.

45 years ago (June 28, 1969 at 1:20 am EDT) A bunch of transvestite, drag guens and other "undesirables" did something unexpected.

When the New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, they didn't go meekly and try to aavoid trouble.

Instead they fought back. And things quickly escalated to a riot.

The riot died down eventually only to revive the next night. Go google "Stoonewall Riots" for details.

Some things haven't changed. TG folks still gret tossed under the bus by the rest of the LGBT "community" when it looks like they'll be an embarsassment. Same goes for bisexuals.

But thing have improved a *lot*. Heck, at the current time marriage equality is either the law or the subject of a lawsuit to make it legal in every state of the US.

Maybe in another 5 years, things will be even better.

Yep, a punk band filmed a (very short) bit of porn on the front lawn of the "church" we love to hate.

http://gawker.com/punk-band-shoots-porn-film-on-front-lawn-of-westboro-ba-1440680143

I don't entirely approve, but then again, the odds of *that* ground actually being hallowed are slim.

Do I have to tell you this is Not Safe For Work?

Seems that the supporters of Prop 8 in California are petitioning the Supreme Court to stop California from resuming gay marriages.

My immediate thought is "What part of "you do not have standing to appeal" don't these folks understand?

I rather hope the SC justices are pissed off enough be this stupidity to administer a major slapdown of some sort. I don't suppose the SC can cite people for contempt of court can they?

I especially love the claim I heard one of them making on the TV that the Ninth Circuit court didn't have the jurisdiction to lift the stay on Judge Walker's order invalidating Prop 8.

Excuse me? The Ninth Circuit *issued* that stay. If they have the autority to issue it (which the Prop 8 supporters were all for) then they damn well have the jurisdiction to lift it.

The *only* remotely reasonable argument I've heard about not resuming same sex marriages in CA is that apparently California law requires an appelate court decision to quit enforcing a law. And with the Supreme Court decision, they no longer have one.

I don't really see that one going very far though.