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Monday Mini: 2025 Pride Wrap-Up · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told you, prodicction of iheartright you. And today,
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  Speaker 1: as it comes out, is June thirtieth, just the end
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  Speaker 1: of Pride month, June thirtieth, twenty twenty five. And I
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  Speaker 1: hope that people had a great time and that you've
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  Speaker 1: got to do some really fun things and hang out
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  Speaker 1: with some really cool people. That being said, we are
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  Speaker 1: doing a quick roundup of Pride related news, and most
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  Speaker 1: of it's bad and sadly, this is only a handful
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  Speaker 1: of what we could mention in a Monday MANI, and
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  Speaker 1: we're not going into too much detail on a lot
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  Speaker 1: of it, so just that caveat, but I figured we
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  Speaker 1: should go over some of these things, starting with the
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  Speaker 1: continued attacks on the trans community here in the US
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  Speaker 1: and elsewhere, but specific here in the US. So we
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  Speaker 1: had the Supreme Court which upheld Tennessee's ban on gender
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  Speaker 1: affirming care for transgender youth, which is sort of setting
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  Speaker 1: up the stage for a lot of other states to
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  Speaker 1: do it as well. We've got the ban of trans
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  Speaker 1: people serving in the military. We have the Administration threatening
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  Speaker 1: to sue California over a state law that allows for
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  Speaker 1: trans athletes to compete in sports, and then removing the
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  Speaker 1: tea from government documents and websites so it's LGB including
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  Speaker 1: the Stonewall National Park, this website. So that is something
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to have to be really vigilant about.
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  Speaker 1: This is a concentrated attack.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so funny.
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  Speaker 3: It's I don't think this is going to land in
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  Speaker 3: people speaking about it because it's too.
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  Speaker 2: This is it looks so weird.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like you're talking about someone specifically the initial LGB.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like like Lyndon John, Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah, this doesn't make sense and I'm glad for that,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to remain.
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  Speaker 2: It like that because that's just seething anger.
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  Speaker 1: Continue yes, yes, seething anger. And again that's only a
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  Speaker 1: handful of things. Unfortunately, there's also continue to text on
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  Speaker 1: Pride and the LGBTQ plus community at large. So there
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  Speaker 1: was the doing away with the specific funding for LGBTQ
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  Speaker 1: plus support on the suicide Hotline, the National Suicide Hotline.
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  Speaker 1: Since it's debuted in twenty two, it received over a
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  Speaker 1: million calls. And this is happening as numbers indicate that
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  Speaker 1: suicidality goes out for trans and non binary youth in
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  Speaker 1: states enacting restrictive laws that we're seeing happen, and numbers
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  Speaker 1: also indicate that the percentage of LGBTQ plus youth who
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  Speaker 1: experienced suicidality within the past year is disturbingly high. So
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  Speaker 1: that's a pretty big, pretty big thing too. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean the thing is like it was a you would
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  Speaker 1: call in and if it was something specifically related to
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  Speaker 1: your identity or something, they would connect you with someone
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  Speaker 1: who was like the qualified person to help with that
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  Speaker 1: specific thing. So they're kind of just removing that. Also, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the canceling are relocating any Pride events at the Kennedy Center,
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  Speaker 1: which is like the main place for government events in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: d C. There was like a way some people got
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  Speaker 1: around this.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 1: The interim director of the Kennedy Center, Richard Grennell, who
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  Speaker 1: is gay himself, said in a recent interview with Politico,
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  Speaker 1: you go to a I parade and it's embarrassing. It's
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  Speaker 1: real French and it's too sexual. And I think that
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  Speaker 1: we have to start critiquing ourselves. By the way, this
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  Speaker 1: opinion is extremely popular with normal gaze. We shall return
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  Speaker 1: to this point of normal gaze in a minute, but
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  Speaker 1: for now, put a pin it. Yep. But this brings
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  Speaker 1: us to why intersectionality is important, or at least that
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  Speaker 1: is one of the things I kept thinking about when
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  Speaker 1: I was researching this. So, for instance, we have instead
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  Speaker 1: of Pride Month, the White House has dubbed June Title
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  Speaker 1: nine month as another attack on trans women, claiming it
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  Speaker 1: protects Title nine protects women and girls and keeps trans
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  Speaker 1: women from competing in women's sports. So this is like
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  Speaker 1: another way of kind of splitting marginalized peoples of sea.
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  Speaker 1: But we're protecting the women here.
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  Speaker 3: Dis mentally any like government mental organizations that are supposed
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  Speaker 3: to help women.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, that's like my whole thing. Like you've just
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  Speaker 1: basically put into.
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  Speaker 2: Not shell, the whole thing of this level like we care,
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  Speaker 2: we don't, we don't don't, we don't, but we will
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  Speaker 2: use this, will pretend like we.
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  Speaker 1: Will use this until we take it away from you
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  Speaker 1: as well, so straight pride. I also saw some things
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  Speaker 1: about this. We've talked about this before. The only reason
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  Speaker 1: I bring it up that they are kind of laughably
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  Speaker 1: poorly attended, but they're very regularly embroiled with racism. And
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  Speaker 1: other like sexism, other things, but like racism specifically. So
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  Speaker 1: I think this is another issue where we have to
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  Speaker 1: look at why these things are connected. Why like the
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  Speaker 1: interest being like straight white, yes, but right, nothing else.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see that recent festival where the dudes like,
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  Speaker 3: it's a straight festival and everybody's so excited and they
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  Speaker 3: were having.
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  Speaker 2: They called it. I forgot what they called it. It wasn't
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  Speaker 2: just general awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, And then the one podcast like and there's
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  Speaker 4: no black people and you're like, yeah, that's thank you,
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  Speaker 4: We're exactly and then the person who created it is like, no,
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  Speaker 4: that's not what we meant. I'm just I'm just saying
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that out loud. He didn't sa out loud,
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  Speaker 4: but I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 3: But the person like it was somebody who represented everything
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  Speaker 3: that happened there, and he was trying to like pretend
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  Speaker 3: it was head Like, no, bro, that's what you meant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well there was another instance of exactly that where I
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  Speaker 1: think that the funding behind I believe it was in California,
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  Speaker 1: a straight Pride event was brought into question and it
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  Speaker 1: was at a I don't know, the city council, meaning
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  Speaker 1: or something, and the organization was like, we're a peaceful
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  Speaker 1: racist group, and somebody like laughed aloud and was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, you said it.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 3: I think we talked about that at the very beginning
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  Speaker 3: of this new administration. Is like, at the very least,
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  Speaker 3: now we get to really see who we have to
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  Speaker 3: stay away from.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of the new administration, let's go back to
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  Speaker 1: this normal gase thing here. So I had actually never
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  Speaker 1: heard this term before in like the context of a thing.
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  Speaker 1: But when I heard it, I was like, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure I know exactly what they're talking about. And I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yep, okay, I got it. So we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the rise of this conservative push to create a
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  Speaker 1: narrative of their being normal game, which JD. Vance said
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  Speaker 1: that they could get the normal gaze vote in the
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  Speaker 1: election in an interview with Joe Rogan. And so if
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  Speaker 1: you're thinking, well, what prey tale is a normal gay?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So normal gays don't dye their hair, they
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  Speaker 1: don't have any pride related items, and they would certainly
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  Speaker 1: never display them if they did, And they're conservative politically
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  Speaker 1: and think that Trump is right to erase pride and
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  Speaker 1: protect children from indoctrination, and from what I've seen, are
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  Speaker 1: largely white men. I can't confirm that, but I from
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  Speaker 1: what I've.
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  Speaker 2: Seen, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And then this comes back to when we talked about
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  Speaker 3: like the pride events in Georgia and Atlanta specifically, and
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  Speaker 3: why they are segregated events essentially, like this is that
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  Speaker 3: same level of like, no, but we do it in
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  Speaker 3: this classy way, in this way, they do it in
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  Speaker 3: this way, and like obviously he's just talking about closet
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  Speaker 3: gay people at this point again where they were not
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  Speaker 3: doing out they were fine with as long as you
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  Speaker 3: weren't acknowledging that a's life, that this exists in general.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: Well yes, so it's also we've talked about this a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but this is sort of the same, at least to me,
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  Speaker 1: this is sort of the same, like proximity to a
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  Speaker 1: white supremacy or proximity to power of I will be
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  Speaker 1: fine as long as I play along, as long as
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  Speaker 1: I don't get my pride flags out and make a
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  Speaker 1: big deal out of it. I'm definitely not a token.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a big group called the log Cabin
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  Speaker 1: Republicans who are gay people who are conservative and are
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  Speaker 1: like we're the new kind of conservative gay voices, and
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  Speaker 1: they have like a listing of what they have, a
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  Speaker 1: whole artic about being what a normal gay is, and
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  Speaker 1: they basically are like very wishy wash. It's not the
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  Speaker 1: right word they're they're saying in a nice way, like
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  Speaker 1: we just want our money and our borders to be
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  Speaker 1: secure and all of those things. But yeah, if you
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  Speaker 1: want to look it at you can. But it's again,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a very us versus them arguments. It's very
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  Speaker 1: everyone else in the queer community who doesn't think like
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  Speaker 1: me is not a normal gay, but I am all
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  Speaker 1: while the administration is widdling down rights that impact the
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  Speaker 1: entire queer community. And yes, it will impact you one day,
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  Speaker 1: Yes it will. I promise you it will. So that
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  Speaker 1: is some of the bad that's going on. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: Pride is about resistance. That's why it got started stone
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  Speaker 1: Wall Like, if you want to learn more about the
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  Speaker 1: history of that, you can see the podcast that we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about on the show after Live season two.
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  Speaker 1: But it started out as resistance and people are fighting
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  Speaker 1: in court at the local level and organizations that we
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in Feminess around the World segments for instance, like
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  Speaker 1: people are fighting. So I know it's been a rough
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  Speaker 1: pride in a lot of ways, but we will keep going,
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  Speaker 1: and I really do. I've been happy to see people
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  Speaker 1: who celebrated and who still had joy during this pride
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  Speaker 1: and are still keeping fight going. So yes, yes, listeners,
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  Speaker 1: please let us know if there are any organizations or
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  Speaker 1: topics around this you would like us to come back
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  Speaker 1: to or shout out, or if you had to it's
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  Speaker 1: like a fun pride, let us know about it. You
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