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Now, Happy Pride Month, everyone, or as it's called at Mike Pence's house, June Pride is a celebration of queerness, acceptance and club remixes you can actually dance to. And today I'm here at Rue Paul's private pool to tell you how Pride Month came to be because just like all queer people, June has a coming out story of its own. You could say Pride's roots go back to

I learned the hard way.

But then, of course, came Stonewall in sixty nine, when police raided a gay bar in New York City called the Stonewall In and the queer community fought back. It was such a significant moment in America's gay rights movement that to this day that whole block is now a historic site visited by people from all over the world. The only way that corner of Christopher Street would attract more gay people is if Britney had a residency there.

I did not have.

Clinton's executive order referred to June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month. Then in two thousand and nine, President Obama changed it to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. Then President Trump dialed it back a little and just called it LGBT Pride Month, which makes sense, no big words, and it's less scary for Mike Pence. But these days the Biden administration extended the name again to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Pride Month, making it as of now,

Hello, Hello, Hello, we pulls back from vacation.

Early Vermont Supreme Court gives gay couples legal rights. New Hampshire makes a remark under its breath and scratches its ass. The Vermont Supreme Court, grateful for a case not involving SAP rights and tapping permits, made history yesterday when it ruled gay couples are entitled to the same benefits and protections as heterosexual couples. The ruling prompted jubilation among Upper New England's gay community, thousands of whom took to the

The worlds of science fiction and fantasy have long presented positive images of gay characters.

But I was going into Tashi Station to pick.

Up some power converters.

However, this on screen tolerance hasn't been reflected.

Off screen until now.

Welcome to gay Laxicon two thousand. What is gay Laxicon?

Gay Lexicon two thousand is a science fiction convention for gay's, lesbians, bisexual, transgenders. They're friends and family.

Is it hard to tell people you're a science fiction boff?

Yes? Sometimes people have a harder time with that than the fact that I'm by You're bye? Yes cool.

Is it time for gay science fiction fans to come out of the closet?

Yes, it is.

What would that closet of the future look like?

I don't know, wouldn't it be cool if.

The doors themselves didn't roll on little rollers, but have a and little air compressors underneath it. That's the kind of closet you want to come out of, am I right? No matter what form that closet of the future may take. Here at Gay Lexicon, two thousand people are already out donning new experimental personas, attending informative science fiction form, and

Yes, indeed anthropomorphic erotica.

Explain that concept to me, Well, that depends on the artists.

Some of these people are notorious for drawing sexy skunks, some for rabbits, suck for almost any species you can imagine.

Could you describe what we're looking at here?

What I'm looking at is based upon a lifetime of study observation.

I'm trying to make a comment about our society.

And the way we live today.

It's a guy having anal sex with a fox. Clearly, there was something for everyone at Gay Lexicon, But as I soon found out, there was more, much more. If I were gay and a science fiction buff, which I am not either of them. What would you have for me to do here?

The most exciting event? It would be the masquerade?

What's so much fun about the masquerade.

That you find out a little bit about the personality it brings.

It brings out a different side to them.

Yes, it shows a side that is usually hidden.

Could not be dangerous. While Jack Frost denied that there was any danger in the masquerade process, I had my doubts. So I decided to conduct a little experiment of my own. How does one create a costume for themselves? I guess first of all, you have to know what you want to be. As I began to immerse myself in character after character, I realized that, in fact, there was no danger. By revealing my inner self, I found myself childlike, liberated, inspired, and very gay.

Despite the Pope's presence, all is not well in Canada. In fact, many citizens are hoping the Pope can heal some very deep divisions that are threatening to tear Canadian nation apart. Our own Ed Helms.

Reports Bill Watcott is a decent, hard working Canadian citizen who is being persecuted because of his sexuality.

I'm Bill Watcott, and I'm definitely a heterosexual.

I choose to live an openly straight lifestyle. Bill has become an object of ridicule. Is it fair to say that because of your sexuality you've suffered?

Yes, that would be a fair.

Statement, suffered because he lives in Canada, our gay neighbor to the north, where if you don't like gay music, gay sports, and gay cops, you're an outsider. And to make matters even worse for Bill Whatcot, he lives in Canada's gayest city, Regina. That's right, Regina, a hotbed of heterophobia, where local gay supremacist Duncan Campbell has this to say about Bill Whatcot.

I don't think a lot of people like him ouch.

Even in the face of straight bashing like that, Bill has nothing but kind words for the gay majority.

Homosexual sex is a sin, doesn't matter what gender. That's disordered sex, and it's a disordered desire and attraction. It's filthy. What have you found to think about the damage they're going to do to each other? And when they're going down that path, they're going down a path that'll lead to a lot of disease and unhappiness.

He's tolerant, he's well spoken, and he has a mustache, but the gays still refuse to accept Bill Watcot. So in a heroic act of defiance, Bill decided to stand up for his kind and organized a parade in the name of Straight Bride, a colossal demonstration that brought downtown Regina to its knees. It was Straight Canada's finest hour, but the gay majority continues to make Bill's life a living hell.

One time in Toronto, I had a homosexual try to pick me up. I actually I didn't even know you was gay. I was just trying to help him. You know. We were at a YMCA and he wasn't using crack technique.

I'm sorry you were aware.

Okay, the YMCA? Do you have that in America? It's like a health club is it's a gay club? This one turned out to be a gay pickup spot because he asked me to go for coffee.

And I did.

Nothing else happened, we swear. But despite these brushes with gayness, Bill has remained impressively grounded in his masculinity. He showed me his gun collection.

I am actually giving it a decent polish. Now, yeah, polish that thing up.

And even indulged me in a frontyard tussle. Later, we enjoyed a relaxing moment together where Bill shared even more details about his life as a heterosexual, including the fact that he's a male nurse.

Not many nurses are hunters and gun owners.

When will gay Canada accept people like Bill what cut Probably never, and yet Bill what Cutt carries on fighting for the rights of all straight, parade loving Canadian male nurses who sometimes get coffee with people they meet at the y m c A.

I know, excellent, really nice, really nice job.

That's I have to say.

Uh an in depth report is excellent reporting it well done, well, thank.

You, thank you very much.

You will it's really interesting. In doing this report, I uh, I realized something about myself.

Yeah, I uh, I'm straight. I said it. I'm straight.

It feels pretty good.

And that's really not the bigg deal. I mean, like ninety percent of the country, I'm straight and I don't go announcing it. But you know, it's it's not.

That you're straight too.

Yeah yeah, ladies and Gentleman TV's Jon Stewart also straight. I had no idea you were. You should hang out yes, yes, because no we could. We could go to the YMCA.

We help each other, work out, give each other massages.

Do you slow dance because that's that's gay. That's that's.

Right.

I'm straight.

At helms everybody.

We'll be right back, you know.

I had a crazy weekend yesterday, like every year in the end of June last week and dress up in glitter like a peacock, and and I marched down Fifth Avenue to raise awareness of exotic birds. And I gotta tell you, this year, almost more than any other year, it went really, really well. I couldn't believe this.

Supported I was getting.

People are like, this is a great day. It's been too long, you know, And I was like, yeah, exotic birds, you know what I mean. And then people are like, it wasn't Friday. Amazing, And I was like, why what happened Friday?

It is a history making night.

With a vote that just happened a short time ago, New York becomes a seventh jurisdiction in America to recognize marriage for same sex couples.

Wow, that's a major civil rights victory. New York was so applauding. Finally, New York State's gay and lesbian community are free from the burden that was having to set foot in Connecticut.

In order to get married.

Really, the nupshows there in Stamford. Yes, it was last Friday night at ten thirty pm Eastern gay rights time. After a week of tense negotiations and dueling protests featuring brutal gay versus ju bullfighting, the Senate and already finally made an honest state of New York by a vote of thirty three to four, destroying society as we know it and twenty nine against.

The vote was in doubt.

Right up until the last minute. As of Thursday, the state Senate was deadlocked thirty one to thirty one. Marriage rights supporters had to find at least one more Republican to flip, and then upsteped Mark De Santi, state senator from Buffalo's who would run on a platform of banning gay marig Here's what he had to say, as.

A CAFIC, I was raised to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

All right, So we'll just move on from him, and maybe they'll find a vote from someone who doesn't appear to be on Elliott Ness's enemies list.

I cannot leave come up with an argument against same sex marriage. Who am I to say that someone does not have the same rights that I have with my wife? Why love or they have the thirteen hundred plus rights that I share with her? I vote in the affirmative.

Mister President, you know what I'm shows.

I'm show impressed in honor of this man. In honor of this great man, I will no longer do my offensive Italian New Yorker voice.

For his law because it's not off.

And you see, it's son of a big of courage that his mother the bulls, the giant dagoons hanging off with his man.

Like botching balls on a summer after.

I can't. I'm sorry, it's very hard not to do the boys.

It's a very fun voice.

And so with support of Carassanti and his fellow Republican Stephen Salon, gay marriage pass and of course you know what that means.

The city estimates the new law will bring more than one hundred and eighty million dollars to the state in the next three years.

Yes, ex.

Ladies and gentlemen, I also am cashing in. It's a perfect time to roll out my new John Stewart brand tuxpedos. All the elegance and finash of a tuxedo, but with the ball flattering physique.

Yes.

Indeed, while Friday's decision brings the total number of states permitting gay marriage and districts to seven forty one, other states still have laws on the books explicitly banning same sex marriage. It's why many gay activists are looking for federal action to achieve national marriage equality. Last Thursday, Barack Obama addressed that very question.

I have long believed that the so called Defense of Marriage Act ought to be repealed.

Huzza here here yay.

I assume the President's problem with the Defensive Marriage Act is that should be a federal law in support of gay marriage.

Part of the reason that DOMA doesn't make sense is that traditionally marriage has been decided by the states.

Really, the gentleman with mixed race parents playing the states no best card.

You know, when I was born, I was born. When I was born, my.

Parents' marriage would have been illegal in Barden, Virginia, So different strokes. Of course, the implications of legalizing gay marriage can be hard to fully understand, unless perhaps you have a correspondent who works in musical theater. We sent our own Josh Gadd from Book of Mormon out to make sense of this landmark legislation.

Legalization of gay marriage means one thing, best put by Super Bowl hero David Tyree.

This will be the beginning of our country sliding toward you know, it's a strong word, but anarchy.

Now everyone from Albany to Rochester will have to deal with what people here in the city have long had to accept as part of their daily lives. Leather daddies creating traffic snarls and sailors gone a wall, just like an average day in the gay community.

Isn't it. Uh No, this is a very special day that we Oh yeah, tonight's bet Awards.

I forgot.

That's not why I worried, Archie, Sir.

Sir man, I asked you a quick question. How is this not like the apocalypse?

This is a parade, dude.

Yeah, it reminds me a bit of that passage from Revelations And behold, I saw a pale horse and its rider was wearing a chock strap, and health followed.

I don't read the it's in there page forty two. What kind of parade is in store for tomorrow?

I don't think any other parades because we have Pride only once a year.

You're saying, there's all for the parade, yes, But in reality, the Saint Patrick's State Parade is a very accurate portrayal of how Irish people behave every day.

I wouldn't say that at all. Oh, I mean because some of the people who are out making a mess on Saint Patrick's Day aren't even Irish.

Yeah, but Irish people are always getting drunk and vomiting inside subway stations. Take a good look up state, normal, respectable people like this will.

Have nowhere to turn. Are you worried about the repercussions of gay marriage?

Yeah, I'm one of those people.

Are you gay? I'm gay.

I fish with guys like you.

Oh thanks, yep, we look like other people.

You're not okay, that's gay. You're not gay.

They're gay, and I'm gay.

Really, David's David Tyne. That was David Tyree, super Bowl hero, bravely showing in face here at day Pride parade.

Unbelievable.

It's become clear to me now that you're not actually David Tyree.

Even though I was on Broadway. Once they found out I was a breeder, the knives came out.

I loved you in the Book of arm Here too bad.

You didn't win.

Are you from the Book of Mormon?

Oh my god, you didn't beat the towny.

I hope you guys have fun with yourselves. As the day were on, it became clear that no one, not even this intrepid reporter, was immune from their takeover.

I think the New York is a part of the world now, and then New York is gonna still be in New York, you know, and just be a part of everything else.

That's really yes.

Then, how did this happen? What? Three minutes ago? I was wearing a suit.

I have no idea how I even got in these Good luck Buffalo.

Energy.

It's Pride months, right which America has been celebrating with huge pride parades around the country from right here in New York all the way to Buford, Wyoming. Now there it was just two guys walking to CVS. But they were having a good time, so it counts as a parade. But but yesterday's Supreme Court news has dimmed the celebration because Justice Kennedy was the swing vote supporting gay rights, and there's widespread concern that Trump's next pick won't be right.

And although.

You guys sound like you were at the birthday for real, And although many are worried about the future of LGBTQ rights, let's take a moment to celebrate how much progress has been made, and not just in America but around the world.

Taiwan will become the first Asian nation to legalize same sex marriage history.

Tonight down Under, Australia's parliament has voted to legalize gay marriage.

Germany's parliament voted to legalize same sex marriage in a historic vote.

Bermuda has now legalized same sex marriage for a second time. The island Supreme Court overturned a gay marriage ban that was signed in the largest four months ago. The Supreme Court first legalized same sex marriage last May. Then in February, from Ua became the first national territory in the world to repeal its gay marriage legislation.

Yeah, that's right. Bermuda legalized same sex marriage twice. Yeah, and I know that seems weird, but that's just how legislation works in Bermuda. You see what happens is you past it in parliament and then it goes to the triangle where it's lost. Then a deep sea diver finds it and takes it to parliament. And it's not just marriage or quality. Around the world, LGBTQ rights were moving

Sixty seven percent now say the same sex marriages should be legal.

That's the highest we've ever seen.

This is one of the most remarkable changes that we have seen in our history.

As the country heads toward mid term elections this fall, some history is being made. An unprecedented number of candidates who are openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender are running for office.

That's an incredible story. It's incredible all around. Right, think of how perceptions are shifted.

And it wasn't easy.

Don't ever forget it wasn't easy. It took marches, it took protests, it took lawsuits and two different will and graces to get America here, but it got here all the same. So happy Pride Month everyone, We'll be right back.

As you know.

June is Pride Months, a time when the LGBTQ community celebrates the rights to be seen and recognized. But our corporations part of that community. Where we send Jabuki Young White to Pittsburgh to find out.

Hi, I'm Jabuki young White, the Daily Show's senior Rustboll correspondent JK.

I'm gay, and so is Pittsburgh.

It's Pride Month and Equality March is the original Pittsburgh Pride. It has bikers, pups, pups, furries, queens, twunks, drunks, cops, bears, and fish creatures. But there's one group that not everyone is happy about a.

Lot of corporations are capitalizing off pride and off LGBTQI plus like merch.

I don't know if they're just making a lot of money off this.

That's what the Q and LGBTQQIA stands for corporations.

Okay, yeah, but surely discriminating against our pride loving corporations can't be the answer.

Pittsburgh Pride Quality March is for everybody.

It doesn't matter who you are, where you work, or who you love.

And just so you know, we love corporations. Viacom, You're great, keep doing what you do. We're really big fans here at the Daily Show.

Viacom love you.

So the answer is obviously to hug these corporations. Close operations are hugging right that Google, KPMG, Eetna, Lyft, not Chick fil A. And here comes the truthlay queen. Walmart is Walmart gay.

Walmart does take pride and their gay associates as a company.

I don't think you can label a company with a sexual orientation.

Walmart seems like a top to me.

I would I would agree with that.

Yeah, And I think it's amazing that so many people could come out and just live their truth as a marketable demographic for sure, and the really made it like a safe place for everybody, I think for us to yay.

Yeah.

One, It's like here, I am, I'm queer, I have a debit cross and gays love money bitch right right, So queer capitalism is totally chill. Actually, there is a specific issue with corporate sponsorship in Pittsburgh, and it involves the F word. No, not that fracking.

There's a lot of corporations that are seemingly buying.

Last year, this march was called the EQT Equality March. EQT doesn't stand for equality, it stands for are a fracking company? Do you think that it's appropriate that a franking company is a sponsor for Pittsburgh Pride law. I think that is completely inappropriate that a fracking company is a sponsor for anything. EQT doesn't just shoot hot liquid deep into holes in the ground. They also swing both

Pride event represents the people.

Non corporational pride, something that centers RTLGBTQ communities the Pittsburgh.

Do you think corporations can be gay people.

No, corporations cannot be gay people.

The people's pride is non corporate has more color in its rainbow. And I found someone who can keep up with my moves. But are they turning their back on progress?

Don't you think it's beautiful that queer people have been able to come out and live their truth as a marketable, capitalizing demographic.

No, I would think it would be beautiful if those actions were genuine. They want to be a part of what's trending right now, right now, being gay as trendy. You know, pos is out and there are lots of gay celebrities.

Now did you name a couple so on the top of my head right now, Big Freida.

Hider's Dayshaun Wesley and Laomi Maldonado.

They don't even want my brand. This is where I draw the line. There has to be some way for corporations like EQT to prove that they're really committed and not just experimenting. Like maybe they just need to show that they're really about queer subculture in like a more inventive, creative way.

So I'm afraid where you're going with this.

I thought that maybe this could really get across the message of what EQUT stands for.

It's like drilling, but also with a.

But just slow it down. Maybe that that's right.

Progress takes time. Fifty years ago corporations wouldn't touch the gay community, and now they can't wait to show their love in public. And what better way to reciprocate that love than.

With the EQT Very speed.

Deep Cracking, Drill Deep brought to you by EQT.

Let's kick it off with the Supreme Court, America's highest courts and the place Ruth Beteginsburg goes in between workouts. Yesterday, the Court heard oral arguments in a big case that could have major impacts on the workplace.

The Supreme Court is back at work this week, and today it heard arguments and one of the most important cases of its new term. Does existing law protect LGBTQ employees on the job.

The Justice has heard the case of Gerald Bostock, fired from a county job in Georgia after joining a gay softball league. He sued, but lower courts threw his case out. They ruled at the nineteen sixty four Civil Rights Act signed by President Johnson, which bans job discrimination on the basis of race and x, among other factors, does not cover sexual orientation. Vostok's lawyer says firing someone for being gay is discrimination based on sex.

Man, this is gonna be a huge case and we're gonna have to wait to see what the court decides. But if you ask me, it's crazy that you can fire someone for being gay.

You know.

I mean, like, if you're fired at work, it should only be for work reasons, like stealing or not showing up or saying you like the final episode of Game.

Of Thrones, you should be fired. It's like a big deal.

Also, I've always wondered this, like how do you fire someone for being gay? You can't tell who's gay, Like if people haven't come out, you don't know, you don't even know what gay is. Well, you're just gonna have bosses walking up to employees like Bob, you're fired for being gay, and he's like, I'm not gay, I'm just Southern. Like, oh, oh, I'm sorry, I got confused.

I'm sorry.

You realize this ruling could also affect everyone, not just gay people, right, Because by this logic, if you extend the logic, anything you do in your sex life can be grounds for losing your job, right your sexual preference, that's what they're saying. Yeah, if you want of those people who's really quiet during sex, Yeah, you could lose your job at the mall.

Huh yeah.

If you're into doomination and humiliating people, you could lose your job at Verizon customer service huh yeah. And if you're the type of person who doesn't believe in the female orgasm, you could use your job as Vice president of the United States.

It could be really bad.

You don't know.

I don't want that to happen to him. But actually, I'll be honest, I'm looking forward to this decision because the people who get mad about other people having sex are always the ones who aren't getting any themselves. So we're gonna know by the way they vote who on the Supreme Court.

You is Pride month or I was called in a State of Florida.

Sh But while you're out there celebrating pride, don't forget that some of its biggest supporters weren't always on its side. For more, we turn to Dulce Sloan for another installment of Dulcean.

Hello friends, it's June, which means this is the first month of the year where it's just hot enough outside to not be sexy. But in America, we know June also means gay bride. Mind, so I want to wish everyone abby bride, and I'm not the only one. This year, it feels like every damn company with the logo is going full rainbow. You've probably seen these ads like Burger King offering whoppers with two top buns and two bottom buns. Listen, it's still bread, and every gay band I know is

It's a good year.

I didn't drink the whole day because I got a work meaning after this, and they said, I gotta be sober this time.

Wow.

Anyway, as gay people became more visible in society, some advertisers slowly started reaching out into the community, until the AIDS epidemic blew up that sick company's flame for the hills again. Oh no, what if the gay is looking at our edge?

Does that how you get eggs?

But you know what company doubled down on their advertising during the AIDS crisis? That's right, Absolute Vocal. Hmm, the second half got a kick.

Damn all right?

Where was I right? By the nineteen nineties, the queer community had once again fought its way into greater acceptance, so brands once again tried to dip their toes into the pool party, but they were still too nervous to jump all the way in so American advertising into the phase now known as gay they, which sounds a lot like being in a fraternity. Basically, it was companies hinting at possible homosexuality, like this Volkswagon ad where two dudes are driving in a car and then pick up this

Now.

A few times during this era a brand tried to make an outright gay ad, like Benetton and Nikia, and the ad completely won over the religious right and they apologized for everything. Psych one Ikea and Long Island even got a bomb threat. What is wrong with these religious fanatics? They know the furniture isn't gay, right. Plus, if there's one place that can reassemble after a bombing.

It's an Ikea.

Unfortunately for the religious right, but luckily for everyone else, their time was ending. Over the next two decades, Americans started to realize that gay people were just the same as everyone else, except with better ads, and as popular opinion improved, companies finally felt it was safe enough to take gay money.

And this time it was major brands.

Amazon started advertising the gay people Coca Cola airor commercial with two dads during the Super Bowl, and just Slid even had a big gay s which come on that was just a regular salad. At least saw some glitter in it. And that brings us to today when practically every company does Pride Month marketing. But just because every June a business acts like their auditioning for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor dream Coat, it doesn't mean their values

Be a crime.

And they aren't the only hypocrites donating to anti queer causes, but hey, why go through all the trouble of listing them here?

I'm no hater?

Oh from that one too? Okay, are we done?

Let's make a mesay.

The point is enjoy all those gay whoppers and paint toyotas, but don't forget what this month is about. Pride is the time to celebrate the right to love who you want and to honor the people who fought to give us that right back when no brand was on their side except for absolute m You know what, what are those gay whoppers?

Sounds real good about maw.

I'm dizzy.

This is June, which means it's time to celebrate the holiday. Jojo Cy invented Pride Month. Pride Months started as an anti establishment protest, but over the last few decades it's gone main stream. They are parades in every city, Pizza Hut puts out gay boxes, and even Exxon changes all these oil spills to a rainbow color hashtag al. But recently the conservative backlash has been growing, and this year some Pride traditions are coming under fire.

In Florida, Ron DeSantis administration has forbidden cities across the state from displaying colorful lights on their bridges during Pride Month, limiting bridge coloration to red, white, and blue. Bridges across the state that normally illuminate in colorful arrays of light to mark holidays won't be able to use any other colors.

The goal of Ron's order.

Is clearly to shut down any celebration of Pride month.

Yo, what is up with Roddy Sanders? I mean, I can't believe a guy who rocks three inch heels is such a dick to the gay community. But by the way, by the way, red white and blue lights on crumbling infrastructure perfect metaphor for America. And it's so sad because having pride colors on bridges also prevent a lost straight people from killing themselves. Guys would be like, hey, I can't jump off this bridge.

That's gay.

But if you think it can't get any pettier than a ban on rainbow ridges. As a bide, Idaho saying hold my heterosexual beer.

And Idaho Barr is offering a break from the pride push that's being forest on Americans by declaring June to be Heterosexual Awesomeness Month. The Old State Saloon offering deals all month long, including hetero mail Monday when any heterosexual male get this who must be dressed like a heterosexual male gets a free pint of beer.

You must be dressed like a heterosexual male. So this straight bar is going to be critiquing everyone's outfits as soon as they walk in the drawna. It sounds super straight to me. What what if that actually hadn't even saying here like our bar is so straight, I will offering special deals to pack it entirely with dudes. I mean,

The Colorado Republican Party is calling on people to burn all gay pride flags, proclaiming in a mass email to supporters that quote God hates pride. The Republican Party's message attack so called godless groomers, and it echoes the anti gay slur used by Westboro Baptist Church protesters.

Okay, awful story, but hang on, did wait? Did Jesus have laser eyes? Was that in the Bible? I mean I knew he had powers, I didn't know he was in the X men. I don't get how anyone can be so angry about rainbow flags. I mean, it must be exhausting being that homophobic, you know, just eating a bag of Skittles like no homo, no no no, no homo no homo. So there's back last of Pride Month

Target says it will no longer sell its Pride Month collection in all of its stores. The decision comes after conservative groups came upset over the chain's decision to sell LGBTQ themed merchandise last June. The company says the backlash harm sales.

Are you kidding me? Target stops selling gay stuff? But the logo is literally a butthole. Well, you know that's it. From now on, I will be going somewhere else to pretend to shop so I can poop in the bathroom. For more on the story, we go live to Targo. If our senior lesbian correspondent Grace Coolansmith, Right, Greg, Greg?

What's her feeling at Target?

It's pretty amazing. Did you know if you use the self checkout machine you don't have to pay?

Yeah?

Okay, I don't think that's right, but that's not what I'm talking about. How do people feel about Target banging gay merchandise?

Oh?

Yeah, it's so disappointing. Gay people just want equality. If Target wants to ban gay items, fine, but if they want to be equal, then they also need to ban all the straight items like golf clubs or cargo shorts are two and one shampoos?

Wait, no, that's that's that's a shampoo I use I mean it saves time and my head looks great. Yes, all right, So anyway, so straight items items that straight people use.

No, it's more of a vibe. Every product has a clear orientation.

Every product. Okay, what about like water bottles gay cell phone cases?

Great?

Okay, I think I get it. So a slotted spoon that feels gay?

Slotted spoons are so straight they're serving nothing.

Okay, okay.

What about what about sweaters?

Straight sweaters?

Electrical sockets gay?

Obviously they're power bottoms. Okay, about calculators, so that one's interesting. Standard calculators are straight, but graphing calculators are gay because they're doing way too much.

Okay, Okay, I think I'm getting it. Print does us straight and humidify as a gay.

Ronnie, don't out them.

They haven't told their family yet.

Okay, wait, I'm okay, I'm sorry, I don't know what.

Look, Hey, that's besides the point. Okay, Pride isn't about rainbow tank tops at Target. It's a way for the queer community to remember how far we've come from the violence and discrimination we once faced. And most importantly, it's about me hooking up with my ex girlfriend's ex girlfriend and a cabin in Vermont. Let's just say that I'm the electrical socket, Okay.

Good.

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