A friend used to enjoy quizzing people with “Who is the most famous tall person not famous for being tall?” (Answer: Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, 6’7″, who stopped the inflation of the 1960s and 1970s caused by JFK’s/Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society (Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, etc.) and Vietnam War; Alternative Answer: Michael Crichton, 6’9″, author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, which might be worth rereading in light of coronapanic)
The question for today: “Who is the most famous gay person not famous for being gay?” Let’s limit this to people born within the last 100 years (i.e., 1925 or later) so as to avoid being forced on conjecture/rumor (e.g., Nikola Tesla is out).
My choice: Andy Warhol. He was what we today call “openly gay”, but nobody calls him a “gay artist”.
Happy Middle of Pride Month to everyone who celebrates! (below: at the Milwaukee art museum, July 2024, with a little help from Uniqlo)
Happy No Kings Day to those who celebrate. Also Happy 79th birthday to King Donald I and Happy 250th birthday to the U.S. Army, founded on June 14, 1775 as part of the treasonous rebellion against legitimate British rule.
A Deplorable Californian sent me this event calendar from Grace Cathedral in San Francisco:
Pack up the kids because the online calendar shows that it is almost time for the “Drag Queen Story Hour for families and children” in the East Bay:
As a queer atheist Marshall wants to spotlight and celebrate prominent openly queer leaders in religion. These subjects risk so much personally in order to live in their truth and create positive change within the monotheistic religions. The subjects captured provide a safe space within institutions that historically have promoted queerphobia.
“Without a bit of queerness, religion can grow rigid and sour. Queer people and perspectives offer renewal, an opening out to those who would otherwise turn away. The ultimate queerness we can approach is the divine, the totally other which is also the elusive meaning within ourselves.” — Rabbi Mark Solomon
Maybe this wise rabbi has the explanation for why a lot of things don’t work out, i.e., due to “without a bit of queerness”.
In Boston, the assumption is that everyone who hates Kings also loves 2SLGBTQQIA+ (Boston.com) because the suggested way to demonstrate against Kings is to show up on the route of the Pride parade:
The groups are calling the demonstration alongside the Pride parade, “No Kings, but Yaaas Queen!” Spectators at the Pride parade are being encouraged to bring “Pride flags and signs showing steadfast support for LGBTQIA+ rights and protesting the tyranny of a fascist administration that seeks to erase our communities from public life, American history, and our nation’s future.”
Air Canada demonstrates “inclusivity” by excluding any cisgender heterosexuals from working on a particular flight:
Our first all-2SLGBTQIA+ flight was a heartfelt celebration reflecting our unwavering commitment to inclusivity and equality, in the air and on the ground. pic.twitter.com/OZ2Ic8ob5K
Probability question: We are informed that being 2SLGBTQQIA+ is common/normal and also that in a company with more than 35,000 employees there had never previously been an assembly of 3-6 workers (pilots plus flight attendants) who all identified as 2SLGBTQQIA+ (the flight in the video was the “first all-2SLGBTQIA+ flight”.
— London International Airport (@flyyxu) June 2, 2025
The Irish equivalent of the FAA:
June is here, and that means it’s time to celebrate Pride Month — a time to honour the LGBTQIA+ community, reflect on the progress we’ve made, and continue advocating for diversity, equity and inclusion.
This Pride Month, we’re proud to spotlight our 25+ year partnership with NGPA. Kevin O’Reilly & Lauren Curbelo recently represented Atlas at NGPA’s Winter Warm-Up, reinforcing our commitment to a more inclusive aviation community. 🏳️🌈 ✈️#PrideMonth#NGPA#AtlasAir#FlyWithPridepic.twitter.com/to3Zaf7B5B
Happy #PrideMonth everyone! #Airbus proudly supports #LGBTQ+ rights to create a working environment where everyone can be their authentic selves. We celebrate diversity and inclusivity to ensure equality and respect across our 25 UK sites. 🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ pic.twitter.com/LIubdxN0WI
Is there any team in the NFL that rejects the U.S. official state religion? What would happen to a team that said they were going to celebrate African American Music Appreciation Month, created by Jimmy Carter, instead of Pride? (And maybe played “Gold Digger” by Kanye West during halftime while a huge fabric disk was paraded around the stadium with the image below, the way that European soccer fans will support an Walmart-sized pro-Palestinian flag or banner.)
Recent email from the Jewish Community Center of Greater Boston…
If you don’t get up early enough for today’s Pride parade or the June 14 all-of-Boston Pride parade, you’ll have a third chance in Newton in two weeks (it’s billed as “fun for all ages” but in fact is only for kids, based on the photo?):
The email also advertises a way for your child to spend some quality alone time with an adult stranger:
Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters This program matches LGBTQ+ youth with adult mentors who share similar lived experiences, offering empathy, guidance, and support while helping build identity, resilience, and confidence.
Let’s check in with that organization. They say that they’re “actively recruiting” children “between the ages of 6-18”:
Confirming the primacy of the 2SLGBTQQIA+ cause, the organization’s web site header has a one-click link to only a single program, anchored by the sacred official Biden-style trans-enhanced Rainbow Flag:
(every other program requires more complex navigation)
Way back in March of this year (i.e., not during Pride) we were driving from Coral Gables to Jupiter in a Biblical Florida rainstorm. It began to feel unsafe and we’d seen a few accidents so I pulled off the highway in Deerfield Beach to check radar, maybe switch drivers, and possibly simply wait out the rain. I spotted a Target and we decided to make that our rest stop. As we stretched our legs by strolling around the store, our 11-year-old old grabbed a Stella Rosa “Love Series” rainbow-flagged Prosecco bottle and said, “Hey, Dad, for you!”
(One offer rejected by the kids: watching the Disney live-action Snow White movie. In other words, they preferred to die on I-95 than to watch Rachel Zegler.)
Should there be an “irrelevant” choice for people who’ve been in heterosexual marriages for longer than 4 years? Psychology Today:
What’s more, we found that marital satisfaction for both husband and wife deteriorated in step with the wife’s loss of sexual desire. (The husband’s sexual desire was irrelevant to anybody’s marital happiness.) Might wives lose sexual desire because the marriage is turning bad? No: Time-lag analyses indicated that her loss of desire came first, leading to lower satisfaction later. Early levels of (dis)satisfaction did not predict how rapidly the wives lost interest in sex. … Crucially, it was not due to childbirth. Becoming parents made the mismatch worse, as in steeper declines in wives’ sexual desire. … A possible explanation that fits our data is that female sexual desire increases during the brief phase of passionate love. Nature may have arranged that as a way of encouraging the man to make a long-term commitment.
We can also see how the American Medical Association thinks about race, the default for which is “any” (the racial equivalent of “pangender”? Why isn’t it “panracial”?):
1.4 billion people in China, a country with 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, are lumped together as “Chinese”. For cousins of Elizabeth Warren, i.e., the 3,000ish enrolled Chinooks, there are five categories:
I posted the following images on Facebook with no words other than “A walk to the bookstore in Brookline, Massachusetts..” (neglected to include a third period for the ellipsis)
The results were far more dramatic than I had expected. Let’s look at only the comments on a single photo:
Don Hopkins, a software engineer old enough to have worked at Sun Microsystems, kicked off the thread:
(I don’t know anything about Lulu DeParis. I think that she lives in Maskachusetts, but this may not be her real name. And, in fact, I don’t know with any certainty that Lulu DeParis is a she, other than the inference from the name “LuLu”.)
The thread continued despite nobody having any idea why “LuLu” had reacted to the photo (maybe it was a mistake?).
The software expert says “obviously she wanted…”:
I unwisely offer an explanation of why pictures relating to Rainbow Flagism are interested (“Never complain, never explain”, said the pre-Islamic British, and how right they were!):
Don Hopkins then trots out a hero/heroine of transgenderism from the world of nerds. Seth Gordon, a Maskachusetts-based software engineer (his/her/zir/their profile says “Studied Women’s Studies Minor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)”), chimes in with the assumption that the residents of Maskachusetts are, indeed, as intelligent as they claim to be:
I point out that folks in MA set up COVID-tagged death rate as the measure of a group’s intelligence and, by that metric, the residents of MA are not intelligent. The reference to a transistor nerd, of any gender ID, gives me an opening to cite William Shockley:
Don Hopkins doesn’t seem to read the “Classically” part of my statement as referring to the dark past and also “a person” as applying to 100 percent of those who are gender-confused:
Don produces some pictures from the late 1970s when VLSI design rules were fat (3000 nm (“3 microns”) vs. 3 nm today) and electrical engineers were thin:
What is the opposite of being a “hateful bully”? Going back to all of someone’s recent Facebook posts and asking “do you hate gay people as much as you hate trans people? Why or why not?”:
He posted the same question as a comment on this post, which is literally about the weather:
(My response: “I certainly hate whoever was responsible for the steady rain and high-30s temps that afflicted me during my April visit to Boston!”)
I’m sure that Don Hopkins’s opinions of me are substantially correct, but I do find it interesting that pictures, without comment, of the righteous lifestyle are so upsetting to the righteous. You’d think that they’d be proud of their Rainbow-/mask-enhanced streetscapes.
Tonight, an event to which I was invited by email:
Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County warmly invites you to the Inaugural Community-Wide Pride Shabbat, a joyous celebration of Jewish values.
Here’s the page header:
In order to dispel any rumors that children are the targets of Pride events, kids 10 and younger are encouraged to attend via a fee waiver.
Let’s circle back to “a joyous celebration of Jewish values”. Unless End-stage American Judaism is Rainbow Flagism, what is the “Jewish value” within the World of Pride?
See also “The Bible on Homosexual Behavior”, 2015, by a Catholic scholar, on Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13. And here’s Google AI on the intersection between Jewcraft and transgenderism:
In Orthodox Judaism, gender reassignment surgery is generally not permitted, as it is interpreted to be a violation of the laws against castration and alteration of the body. Leviticus 22:24, which prohibits offering sacrifices with “anything which is mauled, crushed, torn or cut,” is extended to cover human castration. Additionally, Leviticus 19:28 prohibits making “gashes in your flesh for the dead or incise any marks on yourselves,” which is interpreted as a prohibition against altering the body.
(Leviticus is generally understood by Jews to forbid tattoos, e.g., the noble Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s full set of not-in-any-way-linked-to-MS-13 hand and arm tattoos.)
