Massachusetts Democratic Governor Maura Healey tapped a woman she was romantically involved with for multiple years to serve on the state’s Supreme Judicial Court.
On Wednesday, Healey officially nominated Massachusetts Appeals Court Associate Justice Gabrielle Wolohojian, who has served on the appeals court since 2008, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/gabrielle-wolohojian-maura-healey-supreme-judicial-court-nomination-massachusetts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The two had previously shared a home and first went public with their relationship in 2013 when Healey ran for attorney general.
&#8220;There is no one more qualified or more well-prepared to join the SJC than Justice Wolohojian. I’m proud of that nomination, and I’m proud of nominating someone who is so deserving and so qualified. It is what the commonwealth deserves,&#8221; Healey said in a press conference, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massachusetts-governor-maura-healey-nominates-former-romantic-partner-states-high-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Healey defended her pick, saying that her former partner was unanimously recommended by the five-member Judicial Nominating Commission.
&#8220;Of course, I had a personal relationship with Judge Wolohojian for many years, so I happen to also know something about her character and her integrity and the kind of person she is,&#8221; Healey added. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want the fact that she had a personal relationship with me to deprive the Commonwealth of a person who&#8217;s most qualified for the position.&#8221;
In 2015, Boston Magazine <a href="https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2015/07/28/unstoppable-maura-healey/2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Healey and Wolohojian had been together for eight years after meeting at the law firm Hale &amp; Dorr where they had both worked at one time. Healey and Wolohojian then moved in together, living in a rowhouse in Boston&#8217;s Charlestown neighborhood. Healey, who became the first open lesbian to be <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-charlie-baker-donald-trump-eed9407d66e03dd87051e46321a36f6f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">elected</a> governor in the U.S. in 2022, now lives with her partner Joanna Lydgate, Boston.com <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2024/02/07/maura-healey-nominates-a-judge-and-former-romantic-partner-to-the-states-highest-court/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Wolohojian’s nomination was slammed by the chair of the Massachusetts Republican Party, who said it is “highly inappropriate.”
&#8220;It is highly inappropriate for the governor to nominate to Massachusetts’ highest court an individual with whom she had a long-term romantic relationship in the past,&#8221; Massachusetts GOP chair Amy Carnevale said. &#8220;This nomination clearly demonstrates a lack of accountability inherent in one-party rule.&#8221;
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Wolohojian must now be approved by the Governor’s Council, an eight-member board that will hold a confirmation hearing on February 21.

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Massachusetts Governor Taps Former Romantic Partner For Seat On State's Highest Court

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California Governor Gavin Newsom will reportedly appoint Laphonza Butler, the president of far-left EMILY&#8217;s List, to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) in the U.S. Senate after Feinstein passed away last week.
Politico broke the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/01/newsom-senate-pick-butler-00119360">news</a> on Sunday evening, which comes after Feinstein <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-dianne-feinstein-dies-at-90">died</a> Thursday night at 90 years old, noting that the appointment comes &#8220;without putting limitations or preconditions on his pick running for the seat in 2024.&#8221; This means that Butler can join the existing field of contenders for the party&#8217;s nominee in 2024.
The current contenders for the 2024 include Democrat Reps. Katie Porter, Adam Schiff and Barbara Lee.
Various reports published on Sunday, before Newsom&#8217;s selection was revealed, indicated that Feinstein&#8217;s replacement was expected to be sworn in this week.
&#8220;This means that California will not only get a Black woman Senator but also its first openly lesbian Senator,&#8221; noted journalist Yashar Ali. &#8220;Laphonza will be the second lesbian to serve in the Senate.&#8221;
Journalists online noted that Butler listed her state of residence on her X account as Maryland.
&#8220;FEC filings from EMILY&#8217;s List record Laphonza Butler&#8217;s residence as Silver Springs, Maryland as recently as 31 days ago,&#8221; said FEC analyst Rob Pyers. &#8220;FPPC and FEC filings indicate that soon-to-be California Senator Laphonza Butler hasn&#8217;t been a resident of the state for over two years.&#8221;
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FPPC and FEC filings indicate that soon-to-be California Senator Laphonza Butler hasn&#39;t been a resident of the state for over two years. <a href="https://t.co/IejF3ndnPO">pic.twitter.com/IejF3ndnPO</a>
&mdash; Rob Pyers (@rpyers) <a href="https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1708683693206974765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Pyers noted that EMILY&#8217;s List was already cleaning up their website to hide where Butler allegedly lives. The organization <a href="https://twitter.com/rpyers/status/1708689675341451297">removed</a> the following line from their website: &#8220;She lives in Maryland with her partner Neneki Lee and their daughter Nylah.&#8221;
EMILY&#8217;s List is a political action committee that helps elect pro-abortion activists to political offices across the country.
This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.

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Former New York City Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, who previously identified as a lesbian, have decided to separate.
The two are splitting romantically to date other people, but they are not planning on divorcing or even moving out of their Brooklyn home, the pair announced in a lengthy <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/nyregion/de-blasio-marriage-chirlane-mccray.html?smtyp=cur&amp;smid=tw-nytimes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The New York Times published Wednesday.
De Blasio, 62, and McCray, 68, said their decision came after a discussion at home about two months ago that began with de Blasio querying why they weren&#8217;t “lovey-dovey anymore?”
“You can feel when things are off,” de Blasio told the Times, “and you don’t want to live that way.”
“You can’t fake it,” McCray said.
“I just want to have fun,” she said. “It’s not that we haven’t had fun.”
De Blasio was mayor of New York for eight years, from 2014 to 2021. He was succeeded by the current mayor, Eric Adams, also a Democrat.
The two pointed to several specific events when they felt their marriage took a hit. One is the COVID pandemic in 2020, while de Blasio was still mayor. Another was de Blasio&#8217;s run for president in 2020, which McCray called &#8220;a distraction,&#8221; but she supported him anyway.
“This is not the kind of thing where you can break ranks,” McCray said. “That’s part of the difficulty of being part of a package.”
De Blasio is convinced their marriage would not have encountered its current difficulties if he had never been elected mayor, according to the Times.
“Everything was this overwhelming schedule, this sort of series of tasks,” de Blasio said. “And that kind of took away a little bit of our soul.”
During their &#8220;trial separation,&#8221; the couple will continue to live “for the time being” in the Park Slope townhouse where they raised their two children, now adults.
De Blasio met McCray when both worked for David Dinkins, New York&#8217;s first black mayor from 1990 to 1993. At the time, McCray identified as a lesbian and was not immediately open to her future husband&#8217;s attempts to pursue her, but she eventually fell in love with him, she said.
“He was very easy to fall in love with,” she told the Times.
The two married in 1994 in Brooklyn.
However, de Blasio said he continued to ponder his wife&#8217;s sexual orientation.
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“For the guy who took the chance on a woman who was an out lesbian and wrote an article called ‘I Am a Lesbian,’” de Blasio told the Times, “there was a part of me that would at times say, ‘Hmmm, is this like a time bomb ticking? Is this something that you’re going to regret later on?’ So I always lived with that stuff.”
Since his election to mayor in 2013, de Blasio and McCray have weathered their share of criticism and scandals together.
While he was mayor, de Blasio was criticized for making McCray extremely influential within City Hall, including boosting her potential run as Brooklyn borough president.
In 2019, McCray&#8217;s city-run $850 million mental health initiative, called ThriveNYC, was <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2019/02/27/with-opaque-budget-and-elusive-metrics-850m-thrivenyc-program-attempts-a-reset-873945" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criticized</a> for operating without much scrutiny or metrics to measure its success.
Just last month, the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board ordered the former mayor to pay nearly $500,000 in reimbursements and fines for having his security detail accompany him on trips during his failed presidential campaign.

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Former NYC Leftist Mayor Bill De Blasio Splitting From Wife, Who Identified As Lesbian

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-ben-shapiro-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> blasted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/johns-hopkins-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johns Hopkins University</a> Tuesday for defining a lesbian as a “non-man attracted to non-men,” in an “LGBTQ glossary” posted to its website. 
Amid the backlash, Johns Hopkins removed the glossary, which had been featured as part of the prestigious university’s &#8220;Gender and Sexuality Resources.” Prominent commentators, including Daily Wire co-founder Shapiro, mocked the definition which has also been removed from the website as the university <a href="https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/lgbtq/education/glossary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> it gathers “more information.” 
“So if you are a lesbian, you are now a non-man attracted to non-man, which is great because that includes squirrels. Squirrels are now lesbians because they&#8217;re non-men attracted to non-men. Zebras are now lesbians. In fact, the entire animal kingdom is now lesbian,” Shapiro said, reacting to the definition on his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1745-if-no-one-is-above-the-law-when-does-biden-get-investigated-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tuesday podcast</a>. “Slow clap for the geniuses over at Johns Hopkins University, one of the foremost medical institutions in America.”
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Lesbians are now officially squirrels <a href="https://t.co/wx3htjgPjt">pic.twitter.com/wx3htjgPjt</a>
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The glossary said that the definition of lesbian had been updated to be more expansive. 
&#8220;While past definitions refer to ‘lesbian’ as a woman who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to other women, this updated definition includes non-binary people who may also identify with the label,” the definition of &#8220;lesbian&#8221; read. 
During his show, Shapiro also pointed to Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s documentary, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>” and said that the medical university had failed to answer one of life’s most important questions. 
“We literally have gone all the way on Matt Walsh&#8217;s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman">What is Woman?</a>” There is no definition. There&#8217;s no definition of the word woman. It&#8217;s just a non-man,” Shapiro said.  
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Other commentators ripped the university for its definition, accusing the glossary of erasing women. 
“Man: no definition needed. Non-man (formerly known as woman): a being definable only by reference to the male. An absence, a vacuum where there&#8217;s no man-ness,” Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling wrote. 
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Man: no definition needed. Non-man (formerly known as woman): a being definable only by reference to the male. An absence, a vacuum where there&#39;s no man-ness. <a href="https://t.co/cpSaSR2Vfg">pic.twitter.com/cpSaSR2Vfg</a>
&mdash; J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1668589229046112258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In response to the backlash, Johns Hopkins announced it would be re-examining the glossary. 
&#8220;The LGBTQ Glossary serves as an introduction to the range of identities and terms that are used within LGBTQ communities, and is not intended to serve as the definitive answers as to how all people understand or use these terms,” the page for the glossary now says. “Upon becoming aware of the language in question, we have begun working to determine the origin and context of the glossary’s definitions. We have removed the page from our website while we gather more information.&#8221;

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A Norwegian woman could spend up to three years in prison for saying that men are not able to be lesbians. 
On November 17, Tonje Gjevjon was told that she was being investigated by the police over hate speech because of a Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/725046402/posts/pfbid0yeD1SPYtdnAv34MYNZUycFZoiFe47VmfjparGVCAhRPEJWZr5NxwtHJsU1Kr62EZl/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> that criticized men who said they were lesbians.
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EXCLUSIVE: A Norwegian woman is facing criminal charges for stating men can not be lesbians.
Tonje Gjevjon is the second woman in the country to be investigated for criminal &quot;transphobia&quot; in 2022. She faces a potential prison sentence of three years.<a href="https://t.co/L2qBNMcj8k">https://t.co/L2qBNMcj8k</a>
&mdash; REDUXX (@ReduxxMag) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1602585113149292544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Gjevjon is a lesbian artist who has faced intense pushback for standing up for women. In her post, she also criticized <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> activists who try to prosecute women who are against gender ideology. 
“It’s just as impossible for men to become lesbian as it is for men to become pregnant,” Gjevjon <a href="https://reduxx.info/men-are-men-norwegian-artist-facing-criminal-charges-potential-prison-sentence-over-gender-comments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “Men are men regardless of their sexual fetishes.”
In the post, translated on Facebook, Gjevjon wrote, “men with fetishes have been protected as a vulnerable minority through the foolish and constructed concept of gender identity is koko. [sic]”
Gjevjon said she posted her Facebook message on purpose to bring attention to Norway&#8217;s hate speech law. The law was changed in 2020 when the parliament in the country <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/norway-lgbt-lawmaking/norway-outlaws-hate-speech-against-trans-people-idUSKBN2852DL" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> to make hate speech against people who identify as transgender illegal. Gjevjon is also not the first to be confronted with charges over saying men cannot be mothers or lesbians.
Last year, Gjevjon asked Anette Trettebergstuen, a politician in the Labour Party, what she was going to do to safeguard women and girls’ rights. She also asked if she thought that men could be lesbians. 
“I believe it is absolutely necessary to place biological sex as the basis in all contexts where sex has legal, cultural, or practical relevance, and that equating sex with gender identity has harmful, discriminatory consequences for women and girls – especially lesbians,” Gjevjon said in her question. 
“Will the Equality Minister take action to ensure that lesbian women’s human rights are safeguarded, by making it clear that there are no lesbians with penises, that males cannot be lesbians regardless of their gender identity, and by tidying up the mess of the harmful gender policies left behind by the previous government?” She asked. 
Trettebergstuen replied, “I do not share an understanding of reality where the only two biological sexes are to be understood as sex. Gender identity is also important.” 
Gjevjon has also described being pushed out of the art community over her views, even though she was a prominent member of the music and art establishment for over 15 years. 
“I have stated that women are female, that lesbians do not have penises, that children should not be responsible for decisions they do not have the capacity to understand the scope of, and that no-platforming is harmful to democracy. For these opinions I have been canceled several times,” Gjevjon wrote in Klassekampen, a Norwegian oulet.
“I was not prepared for the extent of how queer organizations, politicians and activists would demonize a lesbian artist who was not in step. Trans activists contact people I work with, portraying me as hateful and warning against being associated with me,” she said.

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Norwegian Lesbian Artist Being Investigated, Faces Criminal Charges For Saying Men Cannot Be Lesbians

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A California judge ruled Friday in favor of a bakery in Bakersfield whose Christian owner refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.
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Breaking news! Cake designer Cathy Miller has been vindicated in the California courts for practicing her Christian principles on the job. <a href="https://t.co/uKjag4XgzT">https://t.co/uKjag4XgzT</a>
&mdash; @ThomasMoreSoc (@ThomasMoreSoc) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThomasMoreSoc/status/1583630801560039424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Cathy Miller, owner of Tastries Bakery and a schoolteacher for 30 years, was asked to bake a wedding cake by Eileen and Mireya Rodriguez-Del Rio in October 2017. After Miller politely suggested they look somewhere else, the lesbian couple first found another bakery that would make the cake for them, then complained to the Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
“The uncontroverted evidence showed that Miller’s sincere faith permeates her life and work, and is ‘founded on God’s words,’” Judge Eric Bradshaw of the Superior Court of California in Kern County <a href="https://s4f4x7d5.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BCV-18-102633-Decision.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in his decision</a>. “As the owner of Tastries, Miller considers herself a ‘steward’ of ‘the Lord’s business he put in (her) hands,’ and that she ‘cannot participate in something that would hurt him and not abide by his precepts in the Bible.’”
“We applaud the court for this decision,” Special Counsel Charles LiMandri of the Thomas More Society, which defended Miller, <a href="https://thomasmoresociety.org/california-court-delivers-victory-for-cake-artist-targeted-for-religious-discrimination/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>. “The freedom to practice one’s religion is enshrined in the First Amendment, and the United States Supreme Court has long upheld the freedom of artistic expression.”
The plaintiffs cited California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, which provides protection from discrimination by business establishments on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion, to buttress their claim against Miller.
“There’s a certain irony there that a law intended to protect individuals from religious discrimination was used to discriminate against Cathy for her religious beliefs,” fellow Special Counsel Paul Jonna of the Thomas More Society pointed out.
After the judge ruled in her favor Miller <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11346241/California-court-rules-favor-Christian-baker-refused-bake-cake-lesbian-wedding.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Facebook, “&#8217;We appreciate your prayers and support as we joyfully continue to do business with you in the future. I&#8217;m hoping that in our community we can grow together and we should understand that we shouldn&#8217;t push any agenda against anyone else.&#8217;
During the trial, Anthony Mann, an attorney for the California Department of Fair Housing and Employment, tried to impugn Miller’s Christian faith, asking her, “Do you try to follow everything that the Bible says?”
“I do my best, but I&#8217;m a sinner, but I do my best,” Miller replied.
“Do you follow some of the eating practices from the Old Testament in terms of not eating pigs, not eating shellfish, et cetera?” Mann pressed.
“The state was actually questioning the sincerity of Cathy&#8217;s faith,” Jonna declared. &#8220;The fact that they called Miller&#8217;s open and sincerely held beliefs into question is almost as disturbing as quibbling over her status as an artist.”
Bradshaw noted an incident in which a man wanted Miller to make a seven-tiered caked for his wedding anniversary at which he would tell his wife he was divorcing her. “Miller declined to make the cake,” Bradshaw noted, “telling the man that she was ‘not going to be a part of something like that.’”

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‘Founded On God’s Words’: Judge Rules For Christian Baker Who Refused To Make Cake For Lesbian Wedding

Judge Rules For Christian Baker Who Refused To Make Cake For Lesbian Wedding Cake

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Melissa and Aaron Klein, the Christian bakers who faced $135,000 in penalties that were later dropped for refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, are working on relaunching a new business.
Following the shutdown of their Oregon-based Sweet Cakes, the Kleins are raising funds to start a new business while their case is potentially headed toward the Supreme Court.
“Over the last several years we have been strong as a family and strong as part of our church body. With life’s stresses comes a void that can sometimes be overwhelming. That void for me was my loss of love for baking and the joy that came with that. I’m here to say it never went away but it was a struggle to fall in love with it again,” Melissa wrote in her fundraising description.
“Almost 2yrs ago we moved to Montana. I had said I was never going to open a bakery again, but God has seemed to change my heart with this. It’s been 10 years since having my shop in Oregon and I greatly miss it along with all my sweet customers, she added.
The Kleins are seeking $50,000 to fund the downpayment of a new location in Montana. More than $17,000 has already been donated toward the goal.
“Showing resilience and faith that God is the rock we stand on and His love will conquer all fears,” Melissa wrote in thanking supporters for their help.
The Kleins faced a government mandate from the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) over refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2013, claiming doing so would violate their religious beliefs.
In January, the BOLI reversed a previous attempt to stop the fine.
“We adhere to our prior decision upholding BOLI’s determinations that Aaron unlawfully discriminated against the Bowman-Cryers based on sexual orientation,” <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-bakers-punished-for-not-baking-gay-wedding-cake-to-relaunch-business.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> Circuit Judge Erin Lagesen, the author of the panel opinion. “We reach a different conclusion with respect to our prior affirmance of BOLI’s noneconomic damages award,” ruled Lagesen.
Earlier this year, however, an Oregon Court of Appeals upheld its original finding and threw out the fine over a claim of subtle bias against the religious beliefs of the Kleins.
“The court was right five years ago and is still right today,” attorney Jennifer Pizer, who represented the lesbian couple, said in a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.opb.org/article/2022/01/26/oregon-appeals-court-sweet-cakes-bakery-same-sex-discrimination-ruling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “The Kleins’ faith does not give them a pass to ignore Oregon’s Public Accommodation Law.”
“The court adhered to the position that the Oregon courts had previously taken that nondiscrimination laws can be taken to protect same sex couples, regardless of religious beliefs,” Jim Oleske, a law professor at Lewis &amp; Clark, <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/JimOleske/status/1486376826754592776" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Twitter. 
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Oleske noted that the court’s conclusion in the ruling emphasized “that the hostility potentially evidenced by the prosecutor’s statement may have influenced the agency’s decision to award damages.”

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Christian Bakers Who Faced $135K In Penalties For Refusing To Make Wedding Cake For Lesbian Couple Plan To Relaunch Business

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Author Jill Gutowitz celebrated that &#8220;Lesbian fashion&#8221; has gone &#8220;mainstream cool,” and she said it&#8217;s thanks to A-listers like Kristen Stewart, Bella Hadid, and others sporting the anti-glam look.
&#8220;Sweater vests, Dr. Martens, leather trench coats—these are simply tools for warmth and endurance,&#8221; Gutowitz, author of &#8220;Girls Can Kiss Now,&#8221; wrote in a Harper&#8217;s Bazaar <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a39357585/sapphic-style-is-going-mainstream/">article</a>, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/15/dressing-like-a-lesbian-is-fashionably-sexy-for-straight-women/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=NYPTwitter">reported</a> the New York Post in a piece published Tuesday. &#8220;They’ve also become mainstream cool.&#8221;
&#8220;Outfits that were once the domain of queer women have been popularized on red carpets and in street fashion,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Seeing a straight-identifying woman wearing overalls, Tevas, and a bandana is somewhat disorienting, sure. But as a millennial who came of age in a deeply homophobic culture, seeing lesbian fashion mainstreamed feels validating, like we were right this whole time.&#8221;
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&#8216;Dressing like a lesbian&#8217; is the sexy and &#8216;powerful&#8217; new fashion trend <a href="https://t.co/ohr3Z80uEu">https://t.co/ohr3Z80uEu</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZbI6yBedmA">pic.twitter.com/ZbI6yBedmA</a>
— New York Post (@nypost) <a href="https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1503794444935573505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
The author shared what she thought were several examples of the lesbian look having arrived, citing &#8220;Kristen Stewart&#8217;s Spencer press tour, clad with tweed jackets, wide-leg pants, and two-piece skirt suits,” and straight stars like Dakota Johnson — who &#8220;wore an oversized suede jacket and baggy jeans, an outfit that felt crafted in a test tube by a lesbian scientist from the &#8217;70s” — Zendaya, Cate Blanchett, and others.
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To celebrate the release of my book &#8216;Girls Can Kiss Now,&#8217; I wrote about the mainstreaming of lesbian fashion for <a href="https://twitter.com/harpersbazaarus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@harpersbazaarus</a> <a href="https://t.co/hJhUwg6e65">https://t.co/hJhUwg6e65</a>
— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard) <a href="https://twitter.com/jillboard/status/1501686099709554690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
However, she said while she&#8217;s excited to see the latest fashion trend, she&#8217;s &#8220;resentful&#8221; that straight women are being praised for adopting the style, which she said gay women were previously “shamed for.”
&#8220;While I feel joyful that lesbian fashion is so beloved today, part of me also feels resentful,&#8221; Gutowitz wrote. “Androgynous looks that lesbians were once shamed for, that were once visual identifiers among our own community, are now Urban Outfitters staples.&#8221;
Supermodel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/supermodel-bella-hadid-finally-responds-to-plastic-surgery-rumors">Bella Hadid</a> recently told <a href="https://www.vogue.com/article/bella-hadid-cover-april-2022">Vogue</a> that she dresses like a boy.
&#8220;I dress like a little boy,&#8221; Hadid explained in a recent interview. &#8220;You couldn&#8217;t catch me in a dress willingly at this point in my life. I look outside and I see a hundred people dressed exactly like me, just because of what Instagram is.&#8221;
Not everyone seemed to agree with the author, and some took to Twitter to point out that the trend toward what she labeled Lesbian-wear instead looked a lot like a return to the fashion trends of the 80s — a time when stars and runway models sported a more so-called menswear look with oversized jackets, loose pants, and chunky Dr. Martens.
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So… Lesbians dress like they’re from the 80s? <a href="https://t.co/j3l3HSleEo">https://t.co/j3l3HSleEo</a>
— BiasedGirl (@BiasedGirl) <a href="https://twitter.com/BiasedGirl/status/1503916038693523459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
There were even pictures of ads from that time.
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It really was a thing… <a href="https://t.co/9QsuZOnKnF">pic.twitter.com/9QsuZOnKnF</a>
— Jonathan Sabin (@jonathanwsabin) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanwsabin/status/1503918837460254723?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
One person asked since when was &#8220;dressing in a suit a Lesbian fashion trend.&#8221; Another wrote that &#8220;Lesbian is not some weird fashion noun.&#8221;
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any person could &#8220;dress like a lesbian&#8221; because lesbians do not have one lone fashion sense that they share. wearing a suit does not automatically make you a lesbian. wearing a skirt does not automatically make you a lesbian. lesbian is not some weird fashion noun. <a href="https://t.co/WteyrsotQ0">https://t.co/WteyrsotQ0</a>
— ice (@lgbtkendrick) <a href="https://twitter.com/lgbtkendrick/status/1504039628705304578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Dressing like a lesbian or dressing because you&#8217;re in fact a lesbian<a href="https://t.co/VOY88UmOam">https://t.co/VOY88UmOam</a>
— Eve Barlow (@Eve_Barlow) <a href="https://twitter.com/Eve_Barlow/status/1503824063310958593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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any person could &#8220;dress like a lesbian&#8221; because lesbians do not have one lone fashion sense that they share. wearing a suit does not automatically make you a lesbian. wearing a skirt does not automatically make you a lesbian. lesbian is not some weird fashion noun. <a href="https://t.co/WteyrsotQ0">https://t.co/WteyrsotQ0</a>
— ice (@lgbtkendrick) <a href="https://twitter.com/lgbtkendrick/status/1504039628705304578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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I need to have a word with my lesbian friends. They’re doing fashion wrong. <a href="https://t.co/MchrJx9YFg">https://t.co/MchrJx9YFg</a>
— Paul Burston (@PaulBurston) <a href="https://twitter.com/PaulBurston/status/1504046366959587335?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Author Celebrates ‘Lesbian Fashion’ Going ‘Mainstream Cool’ Thanks To Kristen Stewart And Other A-Listers

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In a historic Sunday night episode of &#8220;Batwoman,&#8221; the lady caped crusader came out as a lesbian to Gotham City, thereby making her sexual orientation official.
According to <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/01/batwoman-comes-out-ruby-roses-cw-superhero-tells-gotham-shes-a-lesbian-1202835688/#comments">Deadline</a>, the midseason premiere episode, titled &#8220;How Queer Everything Is Today,&#8221; featured actress Ruby Rose&#8217;s Batwoman revealing her sexual identity after learning about a teenager whose parents refuse to accept her sexuality.
&#8220;The big reveal came in a magazine article published by CatCo, and the scoop belonged to none other than Kara Danvers, a.k.a. Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), the title hero from Batwoman’s Arrowverse sister show,&#8221; the outlet reported of the big moment.
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&quot;What&#39;s next for Lena? Lena Luthor spotted in Gotham&quot; What was Lena doing there?! jajaja and, also, Kara wrote the article of Batwoman being a lesbian!!!! Kara and Kate BROTP! <a href="https://t.co/TH2QbLMV3B">pic.twitter.com/TH2QbLMV3B</a>
&mdash; 𝗗𝗿. 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 (@lKDanvers_) <a href="https://twitter.com/lKDanvers_/status/1219082978292391937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Speaking with <a href="https://ew.com/tv/2020/01/19/batwoman-coming-out-caroline-dries-1x10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:5;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk">Entertainment Weekly</a>, series showrunner Caroline Dries, who wrote the episode, said she wanted the character to &#8220;stand in her truth.&#8221;
“For me, it was so important for this character to stand in her truth,” said Dries. “The girl underneath the costume is so comfortable with who she is and so comfortable with being truthful, and she never really has been in the closet.”
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The character Batwoman first came onto the comic book scene in the 1950s as a potential <a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/kathy-kane/4005-81174/">love interest</a> for Batman, but she eventually took a backseat in the 1960s and did not become a lesbian until being reintroduced in DC’s “<a href="https://comicvine.gamespot.com/batwoman/4005-9052/">New 52</a>.” A previous Hollywood Reporter <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/batwoman-series-poll-elseworlds-recap-1168339">poll</a> showed that 85% (more than 2,000 people) of respondents wanted a separate “Batwoman” series.
Though Batwoman certainly has her own woke pedigree, SJWs were reportedly upset over the openly gay Ruby Rose’s casting, prompting her to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/34435/ruby-rose-quits-twitter-after-leftist-critics-emily-zanotti">leave social media</a> after enough people complained she was “not gay enough” to play the title character.
“A #RecastBatwoman hashtag started circulating, with people also wondering why the role couldn’t have gone to a lesser-known LGBTQ+ actress in need of an acting break,” <a href="https://www.glamour.com/story/ruby-rose-quit-twitter-after-getting-bullied-about-her-batwoman-casting">Glamour reported</a> at the time. “Critics also accused Rose of not being a lesbian since she also refers to herself as gender-fluid.”
In response, Rose said she could not believe people were actually insinuating she was not gay enough when her entire career has been people accusing her of being too gay. “Where on earth did ‘Ruby is not a lesbian, therefore she can’t be Batwoman’ come from — has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I’ve ever read,” the actress tweeted at the time. “I came out at 12? And have for the past five years had to deal with ‘she’s too gay’ how do y’all flip it like that? I didn’t change.”
The CW network broke barriers on the SJW-themed “Supergirl” with the arrival of Nia Nal, the first transgender hero in television history, played by transgender actor Nicole Maines and based on the <a href="http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Nura_Nal_(Pre-Zero_Hour)" data-rapid-parsed="slk" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:2;elm:context_link;itc:0">DC Comics character Nura Nal</a>. Sometimes called “Dream Girl,” the character Nia Nal is a humanoid alien that also sees into the future.
Marvel has separately announced that phase four in its cinematic universe will feature more LGBTQ representation, starting with “The Eternals,&#8221; which will introduce the universe’s<a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/12/16/the-eternals-marvel-openly-gay-superhero-trailer-mcu-brian-tyree-henry-angelina-jolie-gemma-chan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> first openly gay superhero, Phastos</a>. The character will be married to a man and will be portrayed by actor Brian Tyree Henry.
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According to feminist Amanda Marcotte, a &#8220;politics&#8221; writer at Salon, Hallmark Channel movies are &#8220;fascist propaganda&#8221; filled with &#8220;shiny-teethed, blow-dried heteronormative whiteness.&#8221;
&#8220;Hallmark movies, as cloying and saccharine as they are, constitute the platonic ideal of fascist propaganda,&#8221; Marcotte posits in a think piece for <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/12/25/hallmark-christmas-movies-fascist-propaganda/">Salon</a> published on Christmas day.
The predictable romantic comedies always center around &#8220;MAGA-style ideas about what constitutes &#8216;real&#8217; America,'&#8221; the feminist complains, adding, &#8220;Their money comes from selling a vision of America that increasingly authoritarian conservatives wish to believe once existed and can be restored again — an America that excludes most of an increasingly urban, racially diverse, cosmopolitan nation.&#8221;
If you were unaware that your sweet 60-year-old mother was consuming fascist propaganda in enormous quantities, particularly during the holidays, that&#8217;s likely because the fascist messaging is applied subtly, just like they did in Nazi Germany, the feminist explains:
<blockquote>When most of us think about fascistically propagandistic movies, we think of the grotesque grandeur of <a href="https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/leni-riefenstahl">Leni Riefenstahl&#8217;s films celebrating the Third Reich</a> — grand, but cold sweeping shots of soldiers goose-stepping and flags waving, all meant to inspire awe and terror. But the reality is, even in Nazi Germany, the majority of movies approved by the Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/03/11/archives/escapist-movies-from-wartime-germany-german-war-movies.html">were escapist and feather-light,</a> <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/german-expert-on-nazi-films-and-propaganda/a-2728383">with a Hallmark movie-style</a> emphasis on the importance of &#8220;normality.&#8221;</blockquote>
Kate, a workaholic who finally made partner, getting stranded in her hometown during the holidays only to predictably fall in love with the sweet, simple boy next door seems harmless, but that&#8217;s all part of developing an &#8220;authoritarian worldview,&#8221; warns Marcotte.
&#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of reason that empty-headed kitsch fits neatly in the authoritarian worldview,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;It&#8217;s storytelling that imitates the gestures of emotion without actually engaging with real feeling. The Hallmark movie steers clear of the real passion or deeper emotion that tends to be the engine driving more artful fiction. Characters who have real feelings, after all, can prompt empathetic reactions in the audience, and empathy for others is the greatest single threat to the authoritarian mindset. And so schmaltz walks through the paces of &#8216;love&#8217; without touching on any of the messy but compelling realities of it.&#8221;
Marcotte&#8217;s screed against Hallmark Channel movies comes on the heels of a lesbian kiss controversy surrounding the channel.
As reported by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hallmark-channel-apologizes-will-allow-lgbt-ads-promises-to-work-with-glaad">The Daily Wire</a>, a #BoycottHallmarkChannel hashtag trended easier this month after The New York Times reported that the channel pulled four ads from wedding planning and registry website Zola that featured a same-sex marriage kiss. The company was pressured by activist family group One Million Moms, which denounced the lesbian kiss as inappropriate for the “family-friendly” channel.
Hallmark, however, ultimately <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hallmark-channel-apologizes-will-allow-lgbt-ads-promises-to-work-with-glaad">caved</a> to left-wing pressures after initially pulling the ad.
“The Crown Media team has been agonizing over this decision as we’ve seen the hurt it has unintentionally caused,” CEO of Hallmark Cards, Inc. Mike Perry said in a statement. “Said simply, they believe this was the wrong decision. Our mission is rooted in helping all people connect, celebrate traditions and be inspired to capture meaningful moments in their lives. Anything that detracts from this purpose is not who we are. We are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused. … Across our brand, we will continue to look for ways to be more inclusive and celebrate our differences.”

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Team Star Wars actually listened to the fans while creating the ninth and final film in George Lucas’ space saga.
“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” lacks the ghastly woke nods of its predecessor, “The Last Jedi.” The minds behind the franchise even dramatically cut back Asian actress Kelly Marie Tran’s screen time. Her Rose Tico character played a sizable role in “Jedi,” which some saw as a sop to politically correct casting. It’s not Tran’s fault that writer/director Rian Johnson gave her so little to do, dramatically speaking.
Yet J.J. Abrams, who co-wrote and directs “Skywalker,” still couldn’t help himself.
The film’s final moments reveal a celebratory kiss between two female characters. Abrams bragged about the buss in recent interviews, letting the LGBTQ crowd <a href="https://ew.com/movies/2019/12/05/rise-of-skywalker-gay-lgbtq-character/">know he hadn’t forgotten them</a>.
<blockquote>&#8220;And in the case of the LGBTQ community, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re being represented in the film.&#8221;</blockquote>
Because if there’s one thing integral to the 42-year-old series, it’s sexual diversity.
Only Abrams’ victory lap comes with an asterisk.
The scene in question lasts a literal second of screen time. Maybe less. This critic thought he saw the kiss, but left the theater unsure. Only when <a href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/10578662/the-rise-of-skywalker-star-wars-same-sex-kiss/">the media confirmed</a> the “historic” event was it crystal clear.
Now what?
Does anyone think the LGBTQ community will be satisfied with a second or less of inclusion? Everyone else will read the Abrams’ quotes and figure “Skywalker” cared more about virtue-signaling than solid storytelling. (And, after seeing the actual film, they’ll have a point).
It’s a lose-lose choice, and it’s not the first time we’ve seen it.
Earlier this year, “Avengers: Endgame” shoehorned two moments into the three-plus hour movie for the woke crowd. The first? Chris Evans’ Captain America talks to a gay man about his first date following the tragic fallout from Thanos’ “snap.” The second? The female superheroes gather en masse to take the fight to Thanos’ army.
The former proved short but poignant, a shrewd way to be inclusive while moving the story along. The second? If your eyes didn’t roll in response, then your central nervous system might be on the fritz.
Even The Mary Sue, the unofficial home for the Woke Police, called out the female Avengers assembling for what it was: <a href="https://www.themarysue.com/endgame-girl-power-did-it-work/">Pandering 101</a>.
The site didn’t stop there.
<blockquote>Carol was not the only underserved female hero in this movie, as Princess Weekes explored in her recent piece on Marvel’s inability to handle powerful women. Did Okoye even have three lines of dialogue? I sure can’t remember them. Black Widow deserved better than her abrupt ending, sacrificing herself so that Clint could be with his family, a fate that Age of Ultron set in motion when it revealed Natasha believed her forced sterilization made her a “monster.”</blockquote>
The “you go, girl” moment didn’t protect the film from the feminist Left.
Even the gay sequence, captured with care, caught the far-left Vulture site <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/avengers-endgames-gay-moment-just-feels-exhausting.html">unimpressed</a>.
<blockquote>In large part, it feels like Avengers: Endgame’s moment is part of a trend of big movies paying lip service to the idea of representing a great variety of people on screen, rather than the (mostly) straight white men who have consumed dangerous amounts of protein powder, without putting in the hard work to make that representation meaningful. Star Trek Beyond made John Cho’s Sulu gay with a man-hug that you probably wouldn’t have noticed if it weren’t for the discourse that sprung up around it.</blockquote>
Social justice types are <a href="https://www.hollywoodintoto.com/buzzfeed-booksmart-just-isnt-woke-enough/">never, ever satisfied</a>.
Which means the angry think pieces about “Skywalker’s” “historic” moment should arrive any day now, if they haven’t already.
More importantly, it shows the fallacy of forced diversity. Audiences rallied behind “Wonder Woman” because it’s an excellent superhero tale, not because we needed to check off a gender diversity box. They rejected “Charlies Angels” not for any misogynist reason, but because the film lacked the sexy fun of its predecessors.
Squeezing microscopic nods to the progressive Left in a film neither placates progressives nor traditional crowds. So why bother in the first place?

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TOTO: I Saw The New ‘Star Wars.’ Its Lesbian Kiss Scene Won’t Satisfy Anyone.

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Director J.J. Abrams has delivered on his promise to promote LGBTQ inclusivity in the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; universe by featuring the first lesbian kiss in the famous franchise&#8217;s history.
According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/star-wars-rise-skywalker-features-franchise-s-first-same-sex-kiss-1263256?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_medium=referral">The Hollywood Reporter</a> (THR), the big moment comes during a celebration sequence in the film — effectively putting this on par with the supposedly first gay moment in &#8220;Beauty in the Beast&#8221; that hardly anyone seemed to notice.
&#8220;In a celebration sequence in the film, two female members of the Resistance share an exuberant kiss during the joyful moment. They are minor characters and not heavily featured in the film,&#8221; reports THR.
Leading up to the film&#8217;s release, J.J. Abrams promised that the LGBTQ community would feel represented in &#8220;The Rise of Skywalker.&#8221;
“In the case of the LGBTQ community, it was important to me that people who go to see this movie feel that they’re being represented in the film,” Abrams <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j-j-abrams-the-rise-of-skywalker-will-have-lgbtq-representation">told Variety</a>. “I will say I’m giving away nothing about what happens in the movie. But I did just say what I just said.”
The director&#8217;s pronouncement for LGBTQ representation had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jj-abrams-promise-add-gay-characters-star-wars-joseph-curl">long promised</a> since the release of the earlier entrant in the Disney &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; trilogy, &#8220;The Force Awakens.&#8221;
“When I talk about inclusivity, it’s not excluding gay characters,” Abrams previously told The Daily Beast. “It’s about inclusivity. So of course. I would love it. To me, the fun of &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; is the glory of possibility. So it seems insanely narrow-minded and counterintuitive to say that there wouldn’t be a homosexual character in that world.”
Originally, fans of the new series wanted Disney to go in an ultra-revolutionary direction by sparking up a gay relationship between the characters Finn (John Boyega) and Poe (Oscar Isaac). Those hopes were dashed in the lead-up to the release of this latest installment.
“Personally, I kind of hoped and wished that maybe that would’ve been taken further in the other films, but I don’t have control,” Oscar Isaac told Variety. “It seemed like a natural progression, but sadly enough, it’s a time when people are too afraid, I think, of … I don’t know what.”
“But if they would’ve been boyfriends, that would have been fun,” added Isaac.
John Boyega simultaneously told Variety that the relationship between Poe and Finn “wouldn’t be too weird” if it suddenly advanced beyond the platonic.
“They’ve always had a quite loving and open relationship in which it wouldn’t be too weird if it went beyond it,” Boyega said. “But at the same time, they are just platonic at the moment.”
Most recently, executive producer Justin Ridge of the show “Star Wars: Resistance” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/producer-confirms-these-two-star-wars-resistance-characters-are-gay">revealed that two cartoon characters</a>, Flix and Orka, are in fact gay lovers.
“They’re absolutely a gay couple, and we’re proud of that,” Ridge said, confirming what many fans had already suspected. “I think it’s safe to say they’re an item, absolutely.”
As stated earlier, the moment of LGBTQ representation in &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; recalls the &#8220;exclusively gay moment&#8221; that director Bill Condon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-unleashes-its-first-exclusively-gay-moment-amanda-prestigiacomo">exhibited</a> in the live-action remake of &#8220;Beauty and the Beast&#8221; involving Gaston&#8217;s sidekick LeFou.
“LeFou is somebody who on one day wants to be Gaston and on another day wants to kiss Gaston,” Bill Condon <a href="http://attitude.co.uk/world-exclusive-beauty-and-the-beast-set-to-make-disney-history-with-gay-character/">told</a> Attitude magazine. “He’s confused about what he wants. It’s somebody who’s just realizing that he has these feelings&#8221;

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