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156 LGBTQ Elected Officials Phone On President-elect to Advance LGBTQ Equality During His Presidency
Letter to Trump signed by concerned LGBTQ elected officials, including U.S. Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney and Mark Pocan
Washington, D.C.—Today, Victory Institute applauded LGBTQ elected officials showing millions of Americans from across the country for calling on President-elect Donald Trump to respect LGBTQ Americans and continue actions to advance equality. In an open letter to the President-elect, 156 elected officials express grave concerns about his Cabinet appointees, and implore Trump to “be a president for all Americans.” The letter is signed by U.S. Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney and Mark Pocan, as well as openly LGBTQ mayors, state legislators, municipality councilmembers and other LGBTQ elected officials.
“These LGBTQ elected officials represent America at its best – diverse leaders who create the values of inclusion, fairness and justice the cornerstone of their policy positions and decision-making,” said Aisha C. Moodie-Mills, President & CEO of Victory Institute. “This letter urges the President-elect to control by those core American values, and to set forward legislati
Queer & Now & Then: 2013
In this biweekly column, I look back through a century of cinema for traces of queerness, whether in plain sight or under the surface. Read the introductory essay.
Watching “The Gal Who Got Rattled,” the centerpiece episode of the Coen Brothers’ tricky and terrifying anthology motion picture The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, many of us were mesmerized by the shuffling manner and timid masculinity of the character Billy Knapp. Making generous promises of love affair and financial protection to Zoe Kazan’s no-nonsense Alice Longabaugh, who’s on the Oregon Trail pursuing what sounds appreciate a rather dubious marriage prospect, Billy is the flawless thwarted romantic companion. Undeniably handsome, as a weather-beaten cowpoke ought to be, this appealingly humble do-right dude nevertheless is emasculated by the film at every turn, shying away from an awkward confrontation with a duplicitous wrangler, reluctant to bear out the task of disposing of a yapping small dog, and, ultimately, unbeknownst to him, unable to keep his bride-to-be from a climactic tragic turn of events. One leaves this episode doubtful that Billy’s laudable gentility ever would own been much
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