Odd how 'protect the children' never quite seems to stretch to the trans children who are frightened, unsupported and still waiting for one adult to listen.
It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.
Banning Hasan Piker has already generated so much more controversy than him speaking at that event ever would have and wins you precisely zero votes from a right that hates you anyway. Truly amazing how bad Starmer and the gang are at politics
The headline talks about Antisemitism fears.
Yet both people were criticising a genocidal Israeli Government.
This constant conflation of criticism of Jewish people with criticism of Israel makes me as a Jewish person feel less safe.
Such a dangerous decision by Labour.
It's an honor to have made Israel's enemies list. I'm very proud to have fought against their genocide.
The mighty United Kingdom is afraid of speech that shows you who's responsible for those war crimes. But no amount of censorship will get us to stop telling the truth.
Your cruel and anti-science demonisation of trans people has seen the country drop behind Serbia in the European table for LGBTQ+ rights.
You can sit this one out.
I can't imagine being gay and active in the fight for equality in the 80s and now siding with the people who were doing the oppressing and would happily see you dead.. all because you don't remember that trans people have always existed.
Queerphobic gays are truly the worst.
The British government is saying they're banning me because I am "a serious risk to the public order" due to my criticism of Israel.
They say that my charge that Israel controls the American government through donations to 94% of Congress, while factual, is antisemitic nonetheless. Don't know if facts will soon be banned in Britain.
I didn't get banned for criticizing the UK, but for criticizing Israel. They broke the irony record by saying it was because I said Israel might control other governments. I wonder if they're going to ban themselves.
Think about it - if I had said that the Israeli government controls the British government so thoroughly that they'll ban someone from coming to the UK just for criticizing Israel, they would have said that was an antisemitic statement. This is absolutely Kafkaesque.
What an insane thing to tweet.
Ben Gvir is literally Israel’s National Security minister!
He is in charge of Israeli prisons and Israeli police!
And everyone knows that the treatment of Palestinians off camera is infinitely worse than the treatment of Westerners on camera
Lo advertí en noviembre de 2025 ante la Comisión de Control y Martin Green lo confirma: Eurovisión abriría la puerta a Rusia en plena invasión de Ucrania solo para justificar su doble rasero con Israel.
Un insulto flagrante a los valores europeos.
Confiamos en que @EBU_HQ rechace formalmente estas declaraciones, que destruyen la imagen del concurso y dificultan el regreso de España. Es hora de un tiempo nuevo en #Eurovisión.
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I warned Parliament in November 2025, and Martin Green confirms it: Eurovision would welcome Russia back mid-invasion just to justify its double standards with Israel.
A blatant insult to European values.
We trust @EBU_HQ will formally reject these statements, which destroy the image of the contest and hinder Spain's return. It is time for a new era in #Eurovision.
It feels so weird to not give a fuck about eurovision. For my entire life I loved this week so much. But i genuinely feel nothing now. No excitement, no hype, no joy. That genocidal state took something that brought us so much joy and connection and completely ruined it.
@AngelaRayner Angela, you're a govt with a 170-seat majority.
You could have nationalised and price capped utilities, capped rents, increased the NMW to a liveable level.
Instead, you've cut benefits, backed a genocide and smeared anyone who objects as a racist.
That is why Labour is dead.
I think it's totally unsurprising to see @TrevorPTweets retweeting this highly politically partisan tweet from a GB News rent-a-gob.
Unprofessional doesn't even begin to cover it...
Imagine this was a Jewish person who wasn't left-wing or pro-Palestinian.
Imagine they spoke about their Jewish identity, and the presenter said:
"No, don't try that one on me!"
That would be a national scandal. Not here, though!
Leftwing Jews Don't Count