The AggreGAYtor: August 6
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
By David Estlund, 12:30PM, Wed. Aug. 6, 2014
Houston gets hankey-panked, Ginsburg sees what's up, and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster experiences its first heresy, as your AggreGAYtor strengthens hir smile.
The Good
Houston will keep its LGBTQ protections, which is old news, but this time Mayor Annise Parker is accused of “hankey-pank.”
Marriage equality keeps moving up through the nation’s courts, with surprisingly consistent results so far.
Et tu, Texas? (Lookin' good, Paul Huddleston.)
The Bad
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sees LGBTQ progress while women’s rights erode.
It turns out the trans woman who was raped in a private prison awaiting ICE processing was not even being held in a women’s facility.
The Fugly
A group of anti-gay activists have grossly offended the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and will soon be struck with the fury of His noodly appendage.
Utah’s attorney general is using the same old tired defenses to uphold marriage inequality.
It Came from the Tubes
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