When Will It End.

This morning I wrote about the Lavender Scary from the 50s and 60s but now it is different… there is violence.

Surveillance footage shows someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at an Oklahoma donut shop that recently hosted a drag event
Insider
By Kieran Press-Reynolds
November 4, 2022

• Video shows someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at a donut shop after it held an event by people in drag.
• No one was harmed, and the store in Tulsa, Oklahoma, had minor damages, local news reported.
• Several establishments have been targeted this year for hosting drag-themed events.

Surveillance footage shows someone throwing a Molotov cocktail at a donut shop in Oklahoma that recently hosted an art installation by people wearing drag.

The business' glass door and window were previously shattered in October, days after the event, the local CBS-affiliate News on 6 reported.

The store, The Donut Hole, is located in the Brookside neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Surveillance footage the store posted on Facebook shows a person with a red hat, black hoodie, and dark blue pants walk in front of the building, smash the glass door in, and throw a lit Molotov cocktail inside.

They also tacked anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and Bible verses on the front of a business next door, according to Tulsa World, citing a spokesman from the Tulsa Fire Department. The incident — which resulted in minor damages, as the cocktail didn't have a significant effect — took place at around 2:30 a.m. on Monday, News on 6 reported.

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Numerous establishments that hosted drag events have been the target of disruptions and attacks this year by individuals and far-right organizations, including the Proud Boys.

Violence has been increasing against us around the country, hospitals and doctors have received threat, libraries and businesses have been protested with armed protesters in masks.

Then we have politicians stirring up the demagoguery against us.

Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric roils Wisconsin, providing political fuel for the right
The 'parental rights' movement is upending school board races, leading to book banning and a growing sense of dread among the small number of children who are gay or transgender.
Wisconsin PBS
October 31, 2022


When the anti-transgender movement entered Wisconsin's gubernatorial race, it began with a handout. Somewhere on the Department of Public Instruction's website was a document titled "Resources for Gender Expansive Preschoolers," which listed materials with stories about transgender children.

The document is from 2018. But this September, the right-wing outlet The Daily Caller published a story describing its contents. The next day, Tim Michels, the Republican candidate for governor, released a statement lambasting the resource and his opponent, incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who led the agency back in 2018.

And don’t think their loathing ends with us they see all LGBTQ+ as evil…

Misinformation and fear mongering about LGBTQ people have tainted nearly all realms of civic life in recent years: libraries, churches, health care facilities, federal and state courts — and, especially, schools.

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"Being an LGBT kid isn't political, but it's been politicized," he says. "What we're seeing is that outside forces, outside funding, outside organizers are coming into the local school level and local community levels and introducing these divisions into our school districts."

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Wisconsin Watch identified conflicts regarding LGBTQ inclusion in 21 communities around the state and Wisconsin's largest online school — almost certainly an undercount. These include lawsuits over school districts' gender identity policies, attempts to rescind approved sex education curricula, challenges to library collections and more.

After Tuesday’s elections we will be seeing a lot more anti-transgender and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation!