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The FCC Wants to Rate LGBTQ as Obscene
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Two years ago these threads were full of ostensibly or self-described queer people who couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Harris. Reasons varied slightly but usually fell into either “she’s transphobic” or “she loves genocide”.
Not everyone, but a lot of posters & commenters.
Because inevitable actions such as those described in OP would be taken by trump, I found such arguments to be unfathomably stupid. Those people are still arguing it was right to not vote Harris and so here we are.
AND we will do it again in two years should Newsom or someone less than perfect get the nomination. Predictable failure to move forward.
I’m not crying my candidate lost. I’m pointing out why the FCC wants to make LGBT+ language “classified”. It’s a direct line of reasoning. People voting against their interests (or not voting at all).
If queer people are telling you and Democrats now, before the primary that they refuse to vote Newsom and Dems decide to go with Newsom anyway, then the party made their bed and they get to lie in it. You don’t get to ignore a marginalized part of your base and then demand they support you, that’s not how politics works. If you want an unquestionable leader that everyone must support you’re talking about religion.
All of which is beside the point when all queer people make up 10% of the population at best, blaming us for the way 90% of cis straight people voted is scapegoating horseshit. Go yell at Karen or Kevin on Facebook 9 times for every 1 you wail and gnash your teeth about how the queers didn’t vote right (despite the fact that is also a bald faced lie, as a group queer people were only behind black women when it comes to voting for a Harris) and I’ll believe this isn’t a knee jerk homophobic reaction to losing.
Newsom has already sabatoged LGBT legislation that was ready to be signed and is hostile to trans people specifically, it is fucking comical to tell me to vote for the guy that wants to defund my healthcare and expect it to happen. As long as you treat the legitimate concerns of queer people like irrelevancies they’re too stupid to understand don’t matter (to you) then you shouldn’t question why everyone doesn’t unwaveringly support them.
Fair enough except it’s the opposite and you’re saying you still won’t.
Okay. Then you won’t. That’s what we have now. Why that should be the desired direction escapes me, but - okay.
We all want the perfect candidate. We’re all not going to get it. Whatever candidate we do get is going to be better than the alternative. Electing the better choice is such basic common sense, it’s just baffling anyone would argue against it but, here we are.
Here we are watching the party with the most votes call LGBTQ “obscene”.
Oh, I’ve been getting emails from the LA LGBT Center about Newsom refusing to fund gender affirming healthcare within the state because they simply got bored and made it up?
If you have no idea about what is going on politically in a state maybe don’t try to explain it to someone who lives there. And if you want a candidate to not be relentlessly criticized by queer people then pick one that isn’t actively courting bigots and blocking LGBTQ legislation.