I Didn't Say It ... Happy Pride!

Zohran Mamdani, NYC Democrat Mayor, on Pride Month:

“It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers. From the Cercle Hermaphrodites 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 Yorker’s/ 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!”

This is how you do it. Praise the struggle, praise the march, praise the battle, praise those who came before us.

Remember, praise, Pride.

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Patti LaBelle, legendary entertainer, on her gay fans:

“When I think about it, the gay fans are one big reason I’m still standing, ‘cause they loved me when other people tried not to.”

Patti was very different when she first arrived on the scene and The Gays loved her, loved her difference, loved her fierceness.

And we still do.

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Marlon Wayans, on supporting his transgender son, Kai, through his transition:

"It taught me true, unconditional love. I've never been married because I was never ready for marriage. And I went through this journey with my child, and it taught me to love unconditionally. At the end of the day, are my children happy? And if they're happy, then I'm happy for them. My job as a father is to protect, respect and honor my children, and make sure they feel supported. It's not my job to judge them; it's my job to love them. All of my kids are gifts, and our love is the wrapping paper.  And if you think you're gonna bully my child, go somewhere else. It's not going to happen. I won't stand for it. I'm not here for hate. Transphobia is a form of hate. Homophobia is a form of hate. Racism is a form of hate. All those small-hearted, small-minded people, there's a hell for you. And if you think you’re gonna bully my child, go somewhere else. It’s not going to happen. I won’t stand for it.”

This is how you parent, as I always say … unconditionally, supportive, loving.

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Marcia Gay Harden, Oscar-winning actress and mother of queer children, in a speech at the LA LGBT Center’s A Place We Call Home gala:

“The people I need to talk to tonight are old, staunch, stubborn families. Families who don’t accept the queer community, and because I also believe that mothers are the real vanguards of change and the torchbearers for community, it is mothers that I’m talking to tonight. If you’ve not welcomed the queer community into your life, either as friends or should you be so lucky, your children, you are cutting off your nose to spite your face. You’re missing out on a fabulous life experience and basically you’re making a great big mistake. Saying to your children, you can’t be you and live in my home or be in my family, you are losing out because they won’t come home for [holidays  and] honey, you haven’t seen anything until you’ve seen a lesbian stuff a Thanksgiving turkey. No one chooses the holiday decorations for the Christmas party faster than a gay man. I mean come on, twink twink twinkle. And should your ex happen to show up at that same Christmas party with his girlfriend or perhaps the new wife, the queers will be the first to tell you that you are serving c**t. [So] march with us … help us protect your child. Be an ally. Your life will be extraordinarily enhanced and open up wonderful new doors and new experiences for you. So instead of telling young people all across the country that who they are is somehow wrong or they are undeserving of dignity, join us in pointing out that what other people see as faults or cracks is simply where the light gets in.”

Once you get the mothers standing up for our community the rest of the world will follow because as we all know women rule.

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John Casey, senior editor of The Advocate, on Cher’s 80^th birthday:

“When you’re a gay man of a certain age, and you can remember Sonny and Cher because the two names went together, and then you watch her decades later, still fabulous, still performing, still cranking out the hits, something in you feels zesty and invincible—even though that’s a real stretch considering everything. Yet, Cher is proof. Proof that the number on the calendar doesn’t have to define the size of your life.”

Ageless and timeless, and the only solo artist in history to achieve number-one hits on a Billboard chart in seven consecutive decades, spanning from the 1960s to the 2020s.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Candice Bergen, taking a shot at JD Vance at the 2024 Emmy Awards:

"[On ‘Murphy Brown’] I was surrounded by brilliant and funny actors, had the best scripts to work with, and in one classic moment, my character was attacked by Vice President Dan Quayle when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the baby as a single mother. Oh, how far we've come. Today, a Republican candidate for Vice President would never attack a woman for having kids. So as they say, my work here is done. Meow."

Former Vice President Dan Quayle called out the TV show in May 1992 and said that Brown's character "mocks the importance of fathers."

It seems JD Vance is Dan Quayle 2.0.

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, The Felon’s liar and Press Secretary, seeming to mock Kamala Harris for not having biological children while telling a story about a chat with her daughter:

″‘It’s okay, mommy [she said], one day you can be pretty too.' So my kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble. You would think after four years of straight failure, she would.”

First off, Klannie Oakley, Kamala is a step-mother which makes her a parent, unless you think anyone one who adopts a child or marries someone with children, is not a parent.

Secondly, you wonky-eyed moron, if you don’t like Kamala’s policies, attack her all you want, but this personal attack, woman to woman, is childish and stupid and proves you are just a brainless pawn for the white GOP men.

And lastly, Aunt Lydia, aren’t you the one who rolled back child labor protections in Arkansas, including removing the requirement for employers to secure work certificates for minors under 16? Yes, and a month before the bill was enacted, a food sanitation company was fined $1.5 million for employing minors in hazardous meatpacking roles in Arkansas.

Please don’t talk about children at all and leave them the fuck alone.

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Kerstin Emhoff, Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife, and documentary filmmaker, firing back at Sanders with an instant fact-check:

"Cole and Ella keep us inspired to make the world a better place. I do it through storytelling. Kamala Harris has spent her entire career working for the people, ALL families. That keeps you pretty humble."

I’ll take one Kamala over a thousand Klannie Oakley’s any day.

One Kerstin, too.

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Melanie, promoting her upcoming $250—yes, you read that right—book, on her nude photos:

“Why do I stand proudly behind my nude modeling work? The more pressing question is why has the media chosen to scrutinize my celebration of the human form in a fashion photo shoot? Are we no longer able to appreciate the beauty of the human body? Throughout history, master artists have revered the human shape, evoking profound emotions and admiration. We should honor our bodies and embrace the timeless tradition of using art as a powerful means of self-expression.”

No, Melanie, the more pressing question is why this story has been around since before 2016 and yet only now are you talking about your soft-core porn photo shoot.

It’s to sell books, that’s all; you have no altruistic motive other than to make money so save your holier-than-thou celebrate the human body bull shiz for anyone who believes you.

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Steph Curry, on Haitians, Kamala  and the debate:

“My beautiful half Haitian mother will be roasting a pig tonight, just like Kamala Harris did during the debate.”

Snap.

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Marlon Wayans, on Elon Musk disowning his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson:

“I don’t like what he be saying about his trans child. You don’t treat them babies like that, you don’t disown your baby. Love your child! But as hard as it was, I think that it’s not important. It’s important what you went through; the five steps of grief, but I think it’s important that you get to acceptance and I’m proud to say it took me a week—but it felt like forever. I’m sad to say some parents, some family members, and some people it’ll take them a lifetime. They’ll never get to that magical place that I’m at which is just acceptance. Still my child. That’s my baby.”

One father who admits to not quite understanding the trans issue but loving his child unconditionally and listening and learning, and another father who deadnames his trans child and then disowns her.

That’s the difference between a father and a sperm donor.

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Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation , condemning false claims lies by The Felon and The Couchfucker about Haitians eating dogs:

“This is a strategy to get us talking about the latest crazy thing that he did [because] the last thing he wants us to do is to talk about his record or his agenda. So what he wants us talking about is whatever crazy nonsense he can thrust into the center of the internet and the media conversation, which this week happens to be this stuff about eating cats or dogs or geese or whatever. He doesn’t want us talking about the fact that we lost manufacturing jobs on his watch even before Covid, which is why the United Auto Workers are against him. He doesn’t want us talking about the fact that his main economic policy promise he actually kept was to cut taxes for the rich. He doesn’t want us talking about how he demolished the right to choose in this country, that he’s the reason that even IVF could be banned in many places in this country. This is a country of 300 million people. They’ll probably sooner or later find some case where somebody somewhere did something weird to a cat and try to make that into a reason to prolong this so that we could be talking about anything but [The Felon]’s track record of destroying jobs in this country and destroying the right to choose, and the fact that if given the chance to do so again, that’s what he would double down on. Every election is about the future. Kamala Harris [is] talking about the future, [while] [The Felon]’s talking about the past. He wants us talking about people allegedly eating cats, which is not happening.”

Once again, Pete boils it down to simple facts.

Pay attention to the lies and nonsense, but don’t get swallowed up by them. Remember who The Felon is, and what he’s done, and who he’s chosen as his running mate, and what that fool stands for, and then vote Blue, all the way.

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Bobservations

Every morning Carlos recounts his dreams to me, and I always turn them into sex dreams just to annoy him. But recently he told me of a dream where a group of young-looking people were examining him in this ultra-modern lab in a room filled with water. And these ‘people’ took Carlos aside and told him of several health issues he had that they could take care of for him. He began to ask questions and suddenly he woke up.

“That was a weird dream.”

“That was no dream, my friend, you were abducted by aliens.”

“What? I was not!”

“You were being examined in a modern lad by a group of ‘young’ people who knew of your every health issue? Oh, you were abducted all right.”

“I was not!”

“But then why are you smiling now? Is it because you were also anally probed?”

And cue silence! 

This Tuxedo Memory is from June 2018 and is entitled: ‘Resting Tuxedo Face’

Isn't it perfection? I have never had a cat with a more expressive punim that the Great Tuxedo.

The Felon said he’d never heard of David Duke, and didn't know who the Proud Boys were, and gave us  'Stormy Who?’ And now he says he knows nothing about Project 2025?

Criminal, please.

Marlon Wayans with an early morning message to his haters after receiving tons of backlash for celebrating Pride month in honor of his transgender son, Kai Wayans, and losing almost 10,000 followers from his Instagram following, because of it.

Good on him. That’s parenting; that’s love.

Male  Cat to Female Cat:

“Would you care to explain why the hairball you just coughed up doesn't match your coat… or MINE?!”

A solid majority of Americans—six in ten—oppose a federal abortion ban highlighting a politically perilous situation for candidates, AKA Republicans, who oppose abortion rights as the November election draws closer.

Cast a goddamned vote for women!

You know, there’s something to that old saying, ‘It pays to advertise.’  Or maybe it just pays to do as you are told.

h/t Voenix Rising

Y'all know I don't need any more reasons to Vote Blue, but if you're still on the fence, here are six more reasons.

As the worst of Hurricane Beryl hit the Houston area, flooding much of the city, Texas Governor Greg Abbott celebrated his overseas trip in East Asia.

Yup, first Ted Cruz runs when it gets cold, and now Abbott rolls away when the floods and sizzling heat arrive.

Karl Kugelmann is a model and a social media influencer, though I don’t need no influencin’, okurrrrr! I just want to know, Would You Hit It?

I Didn't Say It ...

Amy Lynn Carter, Jimmy and Rosalynn’s daughter, reading a letter her father wrote to his late wife 75 years ago while serving in the Navy:

“My darling, every time I have ever been away from you, I have been thrilled when I return to discover just how wonderful you are. While I am away, I try to convince myself that you really are not, could not be as sweet and beautiful as I remember. But when I see you, I fall in love with you all over again. Does that seem strange to you? It doesn’t to me. Goodbye, darling. Until tomorrow.”

That’s love, pure and simple.

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Heath Ledger, in a long-lost quote about love and Brokeback Mountain, and people who called the film disgusting:

“I also feel like [the film] will surprise people. It’s obviously about two men in love and it’s obviously ‘gay-themed’ and it’s very easily labelled, but unfortunately people are quick in life to label stuff they’re uncomfortable with. I think it’s a real shame [to call the story disgusting]—I think it’s immature for one. I think it’s an incredible shame that people go out of their way to voice their disgust or their negative opinions against the ways in which two people choose to love each other. At least voice your opinions about how two people show hate and violence and anger towards one another. Get over the fact it’s two men—that’s the point … We’re showing that love between two men is just as infectious and emotional and strong and pure as it is with heterosexual love. And if you can’t understand it, just don’t go see the movie. We don’t care. Deal with it in your own private life. Don’t voice it out. We don’t want to know.”

Ledger was way ahead of his time back in 2005 when he said this; hell, he’s a little ahead of time today.

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David Cross, stand-up comedian, actor, director, on that history book, The Bible:

“Back when the Bible was written, then edited, then rewritten, then rewritten, then re-edited, then translated from the Dead Languages, then re-translated, then edited, then rewritten, then given to the kings for them to take their favorite parts, then rewritten, then rewritten, then translated again, then given to the Pope for him to approve, then rewritten, then edited again, then re-re-re-re-rewritten again … all based on stories that were told orally 30 to 90 years after they happened, to people who didn’t know how to write so …”

Also take in the fact that parts of the “book” were taken out and lost because perhaps they didn’t fit the narrative that the men in power were pushing.

It’s a history book, y’all, and nothing more.

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Mike Johnson, GOP Speaker of the House, and Satan’s favorite Republican, on Separation of Church and State:

“Separation of church and state is a misnomer. People misunderstand it. Of course, it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that Jefferson wrote is not in the Constitution. And what he was explaining is they did not want the government to encroach upon the church, not that they didn’t want principles of faith to have influence on our public life. It’s exactly the opposite. Faith, our deep religious heritage and tradition is a big part of what it means to be an American. That’s why I think we need more of that. Not an establishment of any national religion, but we need everybody’s vibrant expression of faith, because it’s such an important part of who we are as a nation.”

Hey, Mike, you Christian Nationalist racist f*ck, there are three central concepts derived from the 1st Amendment which became America's doctrine for church-state separation:

1] No coercion in religious matters

2] No expectation to support a religion against one's will

3] Religious liberty encompasses all religions.

Basically that means that any and all Americans are free to embrace or reject any and all  faiths, and support for religion—financial or physical—must be voluntary, and all religions are equal in the eyes of the law with no special preference or favoritism.

So we are not now, nor have we ever been a Christian nation, no matter how many bigots say God told ‘em so.

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Jenna Ellis, convicted former Thing 45 attorney, spilling the tea on Thing 45’s social media director Dan Scavino on “The Boss” leaving office:

“And he said to me, in a kind of excited tone, ‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave. And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said ‘Well, the boss,’ meaning [Thing 45]—and everyone understood ‘the boss,’ that’s what we all called him—he said, ‘The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.’ And I said to him, ‘Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?’ and he said, ‘We don’t care.'”

And still she did nothing other than goose-step along with a lunatic. Jenna is trying to play both sides of the fence but she is a traitor to this country and to her alleged faith.

She can politely fuck all the way off.

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Marlon Wayans, comedian and actor, on having a transgender child and his acceptance and “complete unconditional love” for them and his struggle with the pronouns:

“Skittles, or Rainbow Child [a new comedy special], is about my daughter—I have a daughter that transitioned into a son. My daughter Amai is now Kai. And so I talk about the transition. Not their transition, but my transition as a parent going from ignorance and denial to complete unconditional love and acceptance. I think there’s a lot of parents out there that need to have that message, and I know. I’m dealing with it. It was a very painful situation for me. But, man, it’s one of the best, funniest hours I could possibly imagine. They know I love them. They see I’m trying … but I gotta respect their wishes, right? And as a parent, I just want my kids to be free. I want them to be free in spirit, free in thought. Free to be themselves. The more you know yourself, the more you can govern yourself, the more you live your truth, the happier your existence. So if they can’t get that in the household, with their father and their mother, how the fuck do I send them out into the world with that kind of confidence? I’m just so proud of them for being them, but that don’t mean I don’t got jokes. I felt like I want to do this set right here because it’s important to me. What’s important to me? Comedy. What’s important to me? My children who I love. And what’s important? Change. And so all you world leaders … I want you to think about these people, and this synapse, and how to be inclusive of this next generation. Because I see a lot of gray hair here, but these kids we’re dealing with here, they’re different. And we can’t have our old ways and expect to do new things. So please embrace the new.”

Pretty simple, no?

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Snarky Thoughts

I like it when rich privileged celebrities get checked, especially at an airport. Take Marlon Wayans, for example, who was set to board a United flight to Kansas City where he was set to perform. Marlon had three bags to carry-on and we all know the limit is one; he was asked to consolidate the three bags to two bags before taking his First-Class seat, and then told one of the bags would be checked. Marlon got pissy, slammed his ticket on the counter and boarded the plane. Security was called and Marlon was removed, and then took to social media to play the Poor Rich Celebrity card; he can’t believe they would treat one of their first-class passengers in such a horrific manner … that’s for Coach. Wayans took to social media to blame United for him missing his KC gig, and then said he was getting a DM from United who would, no doubt, apologize, and fly him to KC on the wings of a dove. Not so fast … Marlon says United did reach out to him but it was only to stand behind their policy.

My Thought: Once again, celebrities, rules should apply to everyone, including mega-star … hold for laughter … Marlon Wayans.

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Well, it looks like the Surprise Divorce between Kevin Costner and Christine Baumgartner is gonna get messy. We know Christine’s filing was a surprise for Kevin, who says he wasn’t sleeping around this time and he did not impregnate anyone on the Yellowstone so the drama is now that, according to the couple’s prenup Christine is supposed to vacate the manse, but she has now decided not to leave.

My Thought: Maybe Christine saw herself living in a much smaller home without the perks of a movie star husband, and is changing her mind? The sudden loss of coins can do that, you know.

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Anita Baker announced last week that legendary record producer Kenneth Babyface Edmonds will no longer be part of her 15-city “Songstress Tour” due to the online harassment she has allegedly faced from his fans. See, it all began with a sound system problem that would have had Anita’s headlining portion of the tour delayed for over an hour so it was decided that Babyface would not go on. And that’s when his fans went after Baker online, so hard, that she deemed it necessary to remove him from the tour; Babyface has complained that it’s unfair because he was a co-headliner.

My Thought: It can’t be a co-headlining tour because it’s called Songstress and last I checked Baker was the one who had an album called The Songstress, and a songstress is a female singer.

My Other Thought: who knew Babyface’s fans could go so hard?

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Real Housewife of Beverly Hills, Erika Jayne says she stopped keeping track of all the men she’s f**ked over the years because she’s too old to remember all of them.

My Thought: I imagine the same can be said of hookers? Look, Erika, have all the sex you want, but to brag that you’ve been done so many times you can’t even recall them, is a pathetic, thirsty move.

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