The AggreGAYtor: June 17
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
By David Estlund, 10:45AM, Tue. Jun. 17, 2014
Obama brings out the big guns, Rick Perry and Greg Abbott dissemble, and New York pulls a Texas GOP counter-punch, as your AggreGAYtor works, bitch.
The Good
President Obama is about to ban anti-LGBT discrimination by federal contractors.
The New York State Assembly has passed a ban on quack “ex-gay” therapy.
Alabama’s unconstitutional criminalization of sodomy just bit the dust in that state (Texas’s ban was overturned a decade ago, but remains on the books).
The Bad
Greg Abbott might not be too forthcoming on his stance regarding ex-gay quacks, but he doesn’t mind using their plane.
The Fugly
Rick Perry apparently doesn’t know that “the psychologists and the doctors” have already come out against harmful reparative therapy.
Focus on the Family returns to their old gay-hatin’ hijinks.
It Came from the Tubes
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David Estlund, June 1, 2015
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