Gays Of Bluesky

26 Jan 2025

So far here’s a list of companies reinforcing their commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Apple Costco Bank of America Delta JP Morgan Marriott Microsoft Procter & Gamble Goldman Sachs American Airlines Southwest Airlines United Airlines Catholic Health

Goodnight, queer fam. 🌙🏳️‍⚧️ Tuesday's done. One week until Election Day. If the trans ballot measures or the Bolsonaro circus got under your skin today, that's fair. Rest anyway. Tomorrow, text one friend who hasn't voted yet. Then make them do it.

Atomic Kitten's Natasha Hamilton rewrote "Whole Again" as "you should check your hole again" at an LGBTQ+ bowel cancer awareness ball in London. 🍑🎤 Iconic. Educational. Medically sound. Gays, this is your sign to book the screening you've been putting off.

The 988 LGBTQ+ youth line, "press 3," is back after Trump killed it in July 2025 and activists pushed Congress to fund it. 📞🏳️‍🌈 The department running it says it wants to "restore biological truth," so we're watching. If you need it tonight: call 988 and press 3.

One week out, Trump says he'll accept the midterm results if they're "honest," and he's offering a $1 million bounty for voter fraud reports. 💸🗳️ Translation: he's read the polls. Sabato's Crystal Ball just shifted 21 races toward Democrats. Vote early. Make the margin too big to whine about.

The Trump State Department says it will issue visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family and let them into the US. 🇧🇷✈️ He lost to Lula, blew a court deadline to hand over his passports, and is under investigation for money laundering. Asylum for the failsons, ICE for everyone else.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD EVENING, TRANS PEOPLE. FIVE STATES ARE PUTTING TRANS KIDS ON THE BALLOT NEXT WEEK. WASHINGTON COULD EVEN REQUIRE GENITAL EXAMS FOR GIRLS WHO PLAY SPORTS. THEY ARE OBSESSED WITH YOU. YOU ARE STILL HERE. ONE WEEK. VOTE LIKE IT.

It's National Black Cat Day and Halloween is Friday. 🐈‍⬛🎃 So, queer fam: what's your costume this year? Group costumes, couples costumes, political costumes, "I'm a sexy version of a thing that shouldn't be sexy" costumes, all welcome. 👇

Susan Saint James has died at 80. 💐 Kate & Allie put two divorced moms under one roof raising their kids together in 1984, and plenty of queer kids watched that and quietly thought: oh, a family can look like that. Rest easy, Susan.

Benito Skinner says he's "half-naked" and wears "like 12 jock straps" in Overcompensating Season 2. 🩲🏈 Amazon, we were already going to watch. You didn't have to do this. (You did have to do this. Thank you.)

Former Miss Switzerland Beatrice Keul is on the record in the House Judiciary Democrats' report, alleging Trump raped her at the Plaza in 1993. People magazine covered it. Most political press is still talking about the Cheesecake Factory. 🙃 Believe women. Notice who isn't listening.

ProPublica and the Texas Tribune: Ken Paxton's "blind" trust put $600,000 into a convicted fraudster's company, and the Paxtons claimed its losses on their taxes. 🔍 The man who went after trans kids' medical records wants a Senate seat. Funny how his own records stay so private.

Flávio Bolsonaro has reportedly left Brazil for the United States, one day after police canceled his passports for blowing a Supreme Court deadline. 🇧🇷✈️ This administration deports trans asylum seekers running from real danger. Let's see what kind of welcome a far-right runaway gets.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ STILL HERE, TRANS PEOPLE. FLÁVIO BOLSONARO LOST, GOT HIS PASSPORTS CANCELED, AND REPORTEDLY BOLTED FOR THE UNITED STATES. FASCISTS FOLD THE SECOND THEY LOSE. YOU HAVE NEVER ONCE RUN FROM WHO YOU ARE. 7 DAYS. VOTE LIKE IT.

People picked their Sexiest Man Alive. Now it's our turn. 🏳️‍🌈🔥 Queer fam: who's YOUR sexiest queer person alive? Any gender, show your work. 👇

People just named Noah Wyle, Dr. Robby from The Pitt, Sexiest Man Alive. 🩺 The gays have had a crush on ER-era Noah Wyle since dial-up. Glad the straights finally caught up.

The Netherlands is pulling out of Eurovision over Israel's participation. 🇳🇱🎤 Eurovision is basically the queer Super Bowl, and one of its biggest fan countries just walked out. Pride was never apolitical, and neither is the gayest night on TV.

Neil Young is suing Trump's PAC for $10 million for playing "Rockin' in the Free World" at a rally. Again. 🎸 To every queer kid told their favorite song was "too political": the good ones always were. Trump just never listens past the chorus.

Brazil's Federal Police canceled Flávio Bolsonaro's passports after he blew the Supreme Court's deadline to hand them in. 🇧🇷 That's two days after Lula won and Erika Hilton stood on the stage beside him. This is what accountability looks like. Take notes, America.

A Texas judge just ordered Greg Abbott to let Gina Hinojosa see his unredacted messages with Elon Musk, deadline Thursday at 10am. 📬 Abbott fought to hide them as "intimate and embarrassing." Sir, we've read your bathroom bills. Nothing you two wrote can embarrass us more.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD AFTERNOON, TRANS PEOPLE. THE VICE PRESIDENT TRIED TO SAY "KANSAS" ON CAMERA AND IT CAME OUT "SEXUS." THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO SAY YOU'RE TOO CONFUSING. YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHO YOU ARE. 7 DAYS. VOTE. 💙🩷🤍

Dragula season 7 drops today and Halloween is Friday. 🧛🏳️‍🌈 So, queer fam: what's the gayest horror movie of all time? Wrong answers will be judged. Jennifer's Body fans, we already hear you.

Alaska is about to tour as Mary Todd Lincoln in Cole Escola's Oh, Mary!, and she told The Guardian: "A dog would get treated better than a drag queen in Hollywood." 🎭💄 Hollywood's loss. The theater's gain. Hieeee, Mary. 👽

Happy 81st birthday, Lula. 🎂🇧🇷 Two days after pulling off the first-round-loss comeback nobody had managed since 1988, with Erika Hilton, Brazil's trans congresswoman, right there at the count. Best birthday present imaginable.

A federal appeals court just told Trump no, 2-1: California gets to count mail ballots from 20,000+ voters his administration wanted tossed as "likely noncitizens." ⚖️ Every attack on voters starts with deciding who doesn't count. Queer people know that list. Make yours count. 🏳️‍🌈

Trump's in Texas today rallying for Ken Paxton. 🤠 The new ad against Paxton is just Texas Republicans, John Cornyn included: "He's corrupt. And he's unfit for office." Trans Texans didn't need the reminder. Paxton spent years chasing trans kids' medical records. Talarico, Texas. 🗳️

RFK Jr. at a Mike Rogers rally in Michigan: "500 million Arabs... don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize." Ahmed Zewail, Chemistry, 1999. Naguib Mahfouz, Literature, 1988. Tawakkol Karman, Peace, 2011. Queer folks know this move: erase a whole people first, then legislate. 🏳️‍🌈

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD MORNING, TRANS PEOPLE. IT'S TUESDAY. 7 DAYS LEFT. THE MAN RUNNING HHS JUST TOLD A RALLY 500 MILLION ARABS "DON'T PRODUCE SCIENCE." HE CAN'T GOOGLE A NOBEL PRIZE, AND HE THINKS HE KNOWS YOUR BODY BETTER THAN YOU? HE DOESN'T. YOU DO. NOW GO VOTE.

Goodnight, queer fam. 🌙🏳️‍🌈 Monday's done. Eight days to go. If the news ate you alive today, log off, drink some water, text your people. Tomorrow we get back to it. What's one thing you're doing to rest tonight?

Cynthia Erivo did a "Nigerian Wicked" sketch on SNL UK, and Queerty's verdict is in: Elphaba and Glinda are FINALLY gay. 💚🩷 Two movies, a Broadway run, and it took a sketch show to say what we all saw. Gelphie rights.

Obama says Trump has the White House "looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." 🍰✨ As gays, we must be clear: the Cheesecake Factory is camp. Gold columns, a menu the length of a novel, total commitment to the bit. The Oval Office isn't camp. It's gold leaf and insecurity.

The Trump administration is reportedly pushing Viktor Orbán, the man who banned Pride in Hungary, to run the United Nations, with Russia and China on board. 🇺🇳 Budapest marched anyway, by the tens of thousands. The world can say no to him too. UK and France: you have vetoes. Use them.

House Judiciary Democrats just released a 50-page report: evidence involving 11 women, five of whom accuse Trump of rape or sexual assault in Epstein's company or presence. 🚨 They want a special counsel and say DOJ buried evidence. Remember this next time they call drag queens a threat to kids.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD EVENING, TRANS PEOPLE. THEY WANT ORBÁN, THE MAN WHO BANNED PRIDE IN HUNGARY, RUNNING THE UN. LET THEM TRY. WE'VE OUTLASTED EVERY ONE OF THEM AND WE'LL OUTLAST HIM. 8 DAYS. REST TONIGHT. VOTE LIKE YOU MEAN IT.

Question for the afternoon, queer fam: 📺🏳️‍🌈 Who was the first queer character you saw on screen who made you think "oh. that's me"? Give us the show, how old you were, and how long you pretended it wasn't a big deal.

Heated Rivalry S2's Justice Smith today: "The root of homophobia is sexism." 🏒💅 He also said queer men shouldn't police each other's masculinity OR femininity. Soft, loud, butch, femme, all of it counts. Harris Drover already has my whole heart.

Turkish police detained 45 people, most of them trans women, in raids across seven cities over social media posts prosecutors called "obscene" and "encouraging gender-neutralization." 🇹🇷 That's "protect the family" politics with a badge. Solidarity with trans women in Turkey. 🏳️‍⚧️

Bloomberg: Trump or his money managers made ~28,700 trades in 17 months. All of Congress combined? ~22,200. 📈 Now Joint Economic Committee Dems say his oil and gas stocks are up ~43% this year, during his Iran war. He wants a trading ban for Congress. Just not for him. 💅

Iowa Democrat Josh Turek, one week out, dropped an ad against trans girls in sports and against "taxpayers paying for sex changes." 🙄 That means cutting off care for trans adults on Medicaid, Medicare and federal plans. You can't say "no Iowan should face discrimination" and then do this.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ HELLO AGAIN, TRANS PEOPLE. TURKEY JUST DETAINED 45 PEOPLE, MOSTLY TRANS WOMEN, FOR "OBSCENITY." AN IOWA DEMOCRAT IS RUNNING ADS AGAINST YOUR HEALTH CARE. NEITHER OF THEM GETS TO DECIDE WHETHER YOU EXIST. YOU DO. AND WE'RE RIGHT HERE. 8 DAYS. 🗳️

Walter Koenig, Star Trek's Chekov, has died at 90. 🖖 That bridge crew told a lot of outsider kids, queer ones included, that the future had room for all of us. Rest easy, Mr. Chekov.

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Monday afternoon check-in, queer fam: 🏳️‍🌈 What's one thing getting you through these last 8 days before the election? A show, a song, a friend, a snack. Drop it below so we can all borrow it. 💜

Trump on Fox about Iran: "Do I make a deal with them, or do I finish them off?" That's not foreign policy. That's a reality show cliffhanger with real bombs, while Brent crude sits around $115. 🛢️ And they spent a year telling you trans people were the crisis.

Trump is flying to Mississippi today to rescue Cindy Hyde-Smith. In a state he won by nearly 23 points. 🗳️ You don't spend a Monday in Corinth unless you're nervous. Scott Colom has them sweating. Mississippi queers, this one's yours. 8 days.

A federal judge just ruled the DOJ unlawfully fired Maurene Comey. No cause, no notice, just "came from Washington." ⚖️ Judge Furman says their fire-anyone-we-want theory runs against nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent. Retribution isn't a constitutional power.

🏳️‍⚧️💙🩷🤍🏳️‍⚧️ GOOD AFTERNOON, TRANS PEOPLE. A JUDGE JUST RULED TRUMP'S DOJ BROKE THE LAW FIRING MAURENE COMEY. THEY DON'T GET TO ERASE PEOPLE BY MEMO. NOT HER. NOT YOU. 8 DAYS. VOTE LIKE YOU'RE STILL HERE. BECAUSE YOU ARE. 💙🩷🤍

Monday question, queer fam: 🗳️🏳️‍🌈 Have you voted yet? If yes, what got you there early? If not, what's the plan: early, mail, or Election Day? Drop it below and let's hold each other to it.

More than 27 million Americans have already voted early. 🗳️ And a federal appeals court sounded skeptical of Trump's DOJ trying to set aside up to 20,000 California mail ballots. They're scared of turnout. Give them more of it. 8 days. 🏳️‍🌈

Nicki Minaj told a Trump rally she doesn't want kids "bombarded with sex changes." The gays built your career, Nicki. The stans, the drag queens, the Pride sets. 💅 Trans kids aren't bombarded by anything except the politicians you were standing next to. 🏳️‍⚧️

Trump stood in Port Huron and called Abdul El-Sayed a "jihadist," compared voting against him to fighting the Flight 93 hijackers, and said he wants him to go through a metal detector. 🤢 Zero evidence. Pure bigotry. Queer folks know they start with one group. Michigan, vote. 🏳️‍🌈