Hi everyone!
It's Pride Month! But you can barely tell this year amid the steep decline in corporate sponsorship. NFL teams aren't displaying their Pride as much as they used to, corporations are pulling back from Pride celebrations such as those in Toronto, Boise canceled its Pride Season Kick-Off after lower than expected turnout, and 25% of the corporate donors for New York City Pride have dropped out.
In a final blow, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that the Navy will rename their ship the USNS Harvey Milk, which was christened thus under the Biden administration in November 2021. Milk, a California gay rights activist played by Sean Penn in the movie version of his life, was assassinated in 1978. His killer only served 5 years after somehow successfully arguing that he was all hopped up on junk food when he went in for the kill.
It seems the national intoxication with all things Pride is coming to a swift close. No more Satanic Pride merch in Target (literally, they sold Satanic Pride merch), no more tucking swimsuits front and center, no more topless trans TikTokers shaking it on the White House lawn. It's already June 4 and if I wasn't in New York this week, I would barely know it was Pride month at all. Even so, all I've seen are a couple of small flags jammed into the dirt of some potted plants near Madison Square Park and, okay, a giant Pride flag over the main branch of the New York Public Library. But other than that, I'd hardly know it was Pride Month at all.
Replacing the trans extravaganza at the White House this month we have the lawn made over into a 3-par course where Bryson DeChambeau could be seen having a go. "He loves golf, by the way. I think he’s such a great ambassador for the game of golf and for diplomacy, in general. It’s been fun to play some golf with him, get to know him a little bit better, and just recognize that he’s just a normal person," DeChambeau said of Trump.
The Trump administration has even decided to remake June into a different kind of month altogether, one that upholds Title IX and the rights of women and girls. "The Department is recognizing June as ‘Title IX Month’ to honor women’s hard-earned civil rights and demonstrate the Trump Administration’s unwavering commitment to restoring them to the fullest extent of the law. Title IX provides women protections on the basis of sex in all educational activities, which include their rights to equal opportunity in sports and sex-segregated intimate spaces, including sororities and living accommodations," said DOE Sec Linda McMahon.
She's taken aim at the University of Wyoming for letting a fella named Artemis Langford join the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority back in 2022. Langford, coming in at 6.2" and 260 pounds, did not outwardly present as feminine and was known to walk around in an aroused state while looking at all the ladies in the sorority house.
Some of the sisters sued the national chapter for forcing them to accept Langford in all his maleness into the house. Some alum ladies were forced out of the national group altogether over their objections. A judge in the case refused to take up the definition of the word "woman," and the sisterhood has been a shambles. McMahon is putting a stop to that. And that's a good thing.
Here's what's on my desk today:
NEW: Pete Hegseth orders Navy to rename ship named after gay rights activist Harvey Milk
The order to change the name came at the beginning of Pride Month.
California trans serial sex offender found NOT GUILTY of incident exposure at Wi Spa
The jury ruled that they could not convict Merager due to the gender-identity law and insufficient evidence supporting erect penis claims.
WANTED: Authorities search for homeless dad suspected of killing his three daughters in Washington State
Travis Caleb Decker, 32, is wanted on three counts of first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping charges.
Euthanasia enthusiast kills himself after arrest for aiding and abetting American woman’s death in Sarco suicide pod
It has not been disclosed whether Willet used one of the Sarco devices to end his own life.