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fromAdvocate.com
5 days ago

Elon Musk responds to NASA head Sean Duffy with homophobic GIF amid space-age feud

We are in a race against China so we need the best companies to operate at a speed that gets us to the Moon FIRST," Duffy wrote. "SpaceX has the contract to build the HLS which will get U.S. astronauts there on Artemis III. But, competition and innovation are the keys to our dominance in space so [NASA] is opening up HLS production to Blue Origin and other great American companies.
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fromAdvocate.com
4 weeks ago

N.C. waterfront restaurant mass shooting suspect was obsessed with anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theories

The U.S. Marine Corps veteran accused of killing three people and injuring five others in a mass shooting at a North Carolina waterfront restaurant on Saturday spent years filing federal lawsuits filled with sprawling conspiracies and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric. His final complaint was filed just three days before the September 27 attack. Authorities say Nigel Max Edge, of Oak Island, positioned his center-console vessel alongside the deck of the American Fish Company, a popular bar and filming site for Nicholas Sparks' , and unleashed a burst of gunfire into a crowd gathered for live music.
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fromAdvocate.com
1 month ago

Republican lawmakers Nancy Mace and Ronny Jackson call for transgender people to be institutionalized

Conservative leaders and two members of Congress called for institutionalization, dehumanization, and violent measures against transgender people following Charlie Kirk's killing.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Politicians in at least 51 countries used anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric during elections, NGO finds

As the visibility of LGBTQ+ people has risen in many countries in the last decade, so too has a backlash from conservative parts of societies, fuelled in many cases by far-right activists and politicians using gay and transgender people as scapegoats for other problems. There is a growing weaponisation of hate, said Alberto de Belaunde, a director at Outright International, an NGO that promotes LGBTQ+ rights globally.
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fromAdvocate.com
2 months ago

Nancy Mace scraps South Carolina campaign stop after nobody showed up to see the 'proud transphobe'

Mace, who announced her gubernatorial bid on August 4 with anti- LGBTQ+ rhetoric and declared herself a "proud transphobe," had advertised that more than 100 people would attend a Moms for Liberty event at Forward Church on Thursday. But at the scheduled start time, rows of empty chairs greeted her. Only eight attendees were present, not including reporters and security, according to My Horry News.
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