(Frameline) SECOND NATURE: From homosexual penguins to sex-transitioning fish, contemporary scientists have been zealously studying animal behavior and anatomy and exposing the myth of the gender binary. Turns out the natural world is way more diverse and complex than Darwin led us to believe! Director Drew Denny takes the nature documentary to a whole new level in this eye-opening and entertaining expedition. Executive produced by Elliot Page. Special Sneak Preview Screening at Frameline: Frameline48 (frameline.org)
Second Nature: Elliot (formerly Ellen) Page on new film exploring animal world beyond the binary
Biology? I'm fully who I am. (Time)
(Democracy Now!)
June 24, 2026: A new documentary explores a growing body of scientific research documenting the wide range of gender and sexual diversity found in the animal kingdom, from pregnant male seahorses to matriarchal monkey troops.
Second Nature, directed by queer filmmaker Drew Denny, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, who says he joined the project because "I was so moved by it and found it so affirming as a trans and queer person."
Learning about animal life beyond binary concepts of sex and gender was life-changing, Denny shares about her inspiration for the film. "I finally felt in my body, for the first time, that I belong here on Earth, just like anybody else."
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Didn't this parade already happen? No, that was a different one after Long Beach cancelled. There are five "Hollywoods" (WeHo, NoHo, EeHo, and HoHo just South of Heaven, which is high up in the Hollywood Hills), with the zenith being many of the 88 incorporated cities that make up the County of "Los Angeles."
(WALKING IN LA) Streamed live on June 6, 2026: #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Pride2026 🌈 LIVE FROM WeHo 🌈 Tonight we’re walking through the heart of West Hollywood as the city celebrates Pride Weekend. From the community street fair to live entertainment, local organizations, artists, vendors, and thousands of attendees will experience one of Los Angeles’ most vibrant annual celebrations (along with Halloween and New Year's Eve) in real time. West Hollywood has long been an important center of LGBTQIA+ history, culture, activism, and community life. Tonight’s livestream offers a chance to explore the event, meet people, hear stories, and experience the atmosphere of Pride through a respectful, street-level perspective. 👟 WALKING IN LA streams the real LA, one block at a time.
(KTLA 5) Watch live KTLA coverage of the annual WeHo Pride Parade from West Hollywood (Los Angeles), California. The WeHo Pride Parade is an imaginative and colorful annual tradition along Santa Monica Boulevard that embraces LGBTQIA+ representation, inclusion, and progress in accordance with CIA and elite objectives and aims for the manipulation of society. Enjoy!
Christian gay conversion therapy: the law?
Who gets to define "normal" or "natural"?
"Conversion therapy" is the pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, romantic preference, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heteronormative (cisgender) ideals. Conversion therapy is said to be ineffective at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity and may (and frequently does) cause significant long-term psychological harm. The position of evidence-based medicine and clinical guidance is that sexual orientations like homosexuality and bisexuality as well as gender variance (nonbinary, pansexual, transsexual, asexual) are natural and acceptable aspects of human sexuality and gender identity [1, 2, 3]. More
(LMN) When 5-year-old Luke told his mother his name was "Pam" in the "time before" [this current rebirth] when he was Black and he "was pushed out of heaven [by god sending him back to earth to be reborn as a boy]," Erika became nervous. Then things escalated when Luke began to recall dying a fiery death in this clip from Season 1, Episode 3, "Orphan Trains & Hotel Flames."
Uh-oh, does this mean that a privileged white male now can die and be reborn as an oppressed Black female -- or someone suffering famine and other deprivations in the Third World? Oh, is that what the Buddha was talking about when he warned about karma? #GhostInsideMyChild#Tulku
What is a "binary"? It is a choice between two options, like computer code, 1 or 0. In other contexts, it is a black and white way of thinking. Even though there may be three options, we sometimes like two simplify the world into just two or even just one -- black or white, this or that, yay or nay. A gender binary is the idea that humans are born as either male or female.
Of course, there is "other," but as humans we often find that messy. It may be rare, but there is a third gender, a pandaka in Buddhist terms, and that can be further divided. Many today, because of past karma or xenoestrogenic compounds and other disruptive chemicals in the environment (thanks to Monsanto and Dow Chemical, Inc. and CIA experiments), feel other than or between genders and are or want to be trans (transitioning or transsexuals, crossdressers or transvestites).
Gender is not only a feeling (though that seems to be the only thing anyone goes on, conflating orientation, gender, sex, biology, and emotions). There is a biological reason for assignment into one category or another. But that assignment is constructed, as many things are. So some argue for more choices, more genders sometimes to the point of ridiculousness. Now there's a slap back, and Trump has taken advantage of it, just as he does the issues of race, misogyny, economy, implicit bias, and sexism. He's a con man, and that's what con men do. But the important thing is that his false words represent something very real in the society. There really are things happening that people are not happy with, gender things being shoved down our throats. If he wants to lead a popular revolt against them, it can come as no surprise that it's going to work.
My Dad made me a lesbian questioning her identity, while my Mother just stood by.
Does the Christian God of the Bible send gay people to hell?
Silk mylk's marketed to?
(Bible Animations) The God Jehovah (YHWH, Yahweh, Asherah's husband) hates gays, right? Homosexuality is an "abomination" to the almighty. We all know that. But that was the old Christianity. What's the new spin in the age of LGBTQIA+ rights? Same old gay hatred but using nicer and more inclusive words and pronouns? Do we let lesbianism and bisexuality slide but condemn male homosexuality, unless it's child molestation in which case we give fathers and priests (both patriarchs, who are the foundation of our Patriarchy) a big pass? Right, Padre? Right, Pope? Catholics have much to answer for in this respect, whereas Protestants mainly molest their own children rather than their neighbor's kids, right, relative to non-incest cases, when Mormons and all sects are added up.
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What about Buddhism?
Buddhism loves gays. Which is not to say that all Buddhists do. Buddhists are not told to hate gays or homosexuality. But the patriarchs (apart from the Japanese Zen ones and others who practiced or advocated pederasty, a kind of homosexual child molestation made famous by the ancient Greeks and, it would seem, the Muslim Pashtuns in Afghanistan) seem to love them.
Ancient scholar-monks may have been less favorably disposed to any non-normative "gay" practices, particularly cross-dressing, which in many countries around the world was a stoning offense. The wrinkle is that "homosexual" is not actually a perfectly defined term. It is, and just ask any gay person or social science buff, a social construct.
That means it is socially constructed by implicit bias and made into a consensus reality. Once it gets to that point, it seems like a natural category and we say and honestly believe that "everybody knows what it means."
But this is just not true. There is no fixed definition of "gay," even now. Do an experiment. Ask around. Go to Brazil or an American prison and ask them what "gay" means. The answer may shock you until you realize that the self-serving definition they're using is pretty popular around the world and throughout history. It may even make one wonder what definition one has been using all this time.
Isn't effeminate behavior "gay"? No, of course not. One can lisp, droop the wrists, talk in a high-pitched, whining, or singsongy way all one wants. That doesn't make one "gay." It may earn them the title. But surely homosexuality has to do with sexual behavior and desire, not one's choice of wardrobe. But because we cannot see their internal states or past conduct, we simply infer it.
What is "gay" in Brazil, parts of Europe such as Greece, and in American prisons? Making love to men? Nope. (Huh?!) Getting aroused by males and their openings and then raping them? Nope. (Say what?!) Wanting to be with a member of the same sex in a sexual way to satisfy some sexual urge? Nope. (You gotta be kidding!) A man knowing another man biblically? Nope. (Goddammit, that must be it?!) A male placing his aroused sexual organ into another male -- by force, trickery, implied threat, or financial compulsion -- with the intent of sexual pleasure that consummates in a futile procreative act? Nope. (Aw, you gotta be kidding?!)
"Gay" in Greece and some other parts of Europe, Brazil and many parts of Latin America, and throughout the American prison system means, get this, "being on the bottom." What?? Being the receptive partner makes one "gay" or developing feelings of attachment and puppy love or going about acting weak, receptive, effeminate, or insufficiently masculine and tough?
For example, in Brazil, go to the beach where all the beautiful people are, with stunningly attractive women are wearing bikinis and showing off their Brazilian hair removal, and ask the men hitting on them if they also want to have sex with males and boys walking around the beach. They're likely to say yes, in this way showing off their masculinity or machismo. Now ask if they want males having sex with them, and the answer is likely to be disbelief or something like, "What do you think I am, a 'gay'?"
But you just said you want to have sex with guys. "Yeah," they will explain, "but I want to be on top." This means they want to be aroused, active, and have agency, which will make them -- by this popular definition of "gay" -- perfectly "straight." In fact, ask the women, and they are likely to agree that only receivers are "gay," whereas as givers are even more "macho" for being indiscriminate sodomites, rapists, molesters, and virile givers.
It's the same in prison, where everything is perverted and topsy turvy in distinction to the world and mores outside the prison. The same in Greece. It's almost certainly the same in some parts of Afghanistan where foreign Pashtuns have settled and brought their own mores and ideas. See the practice that horrified American soldiers fighting for capitalism and world domination during the 20-year US War on Afghanistan called sex with "dancing lady boys" (bacha bazi) or "boy play."
There are girls they could be molesting, but they prefer to trick, force, or hire boys to dress as girls and then be passed around by normatively "heterosexual" men whose wives and daughters are home as they drink, sing, and have a gay night out with the boys (their peers) and their victims.
If we say "bitch" or "punk" in prison and subsequently in the ghetto, barrio, and machine shop or blue-collar workplace where whites on parole congregate, these terms do not refer to females so much as "weak" males, victims, receivers, prostitutes, gays, and those who were sexually abused or about to be sexually assaulted by "straight" gay manly men.
Therefore, as in ancient times, the Buddhist scholars, particularly the most famous one of all named Buddhaghosa (the "ghost or voice of the Buddha") wrestled with the catchall term pandaka. In a kind way we could translate this strange term as "pansexual," but the traditional rendering has been more akin to "pervert." And one did not need to be "gay" to be labeled one.
"Gay" as we have been using the term to far has the functional definition, for this purpose and saying nothing about its changing nature and definition, of a member of one biological sex (XX or XY or an anomaly such as an intersex or hermaphroditic individual)
Bible Animations, June 17, 2023; CC Liu, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Jimmy Dore, Kurt Metzger (TJDS); Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
I made lots of money. I win.
Alex Jones’ newest predictions are CHILLING as he talks to Tucker Carlson. He is not really making "predictions" but simply reporting World Economic Forum facts of what a cabal said it would do, what it has done, and what it will further do. The trajectory is not human but transhuman, and more false flag attacks are being planned (ala, Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and Oct. 7) to motivate Americans to willingly give up their rights and submit to a Patriot Act or NDAA. That's what these inside jobs are about. How does Jones know? He has insiders guide and misguide him, giving him a limited hangout as well as actual truths plus a lot of propaganda talking points. It's hard to sort it out. The main message? Be afraid, be very afraid, all the time about everything.
Will Jones be paying the fine imposed on him? Nope
Tucker Carlson thrown of Fox News makes it big
Transhumanism? (See stevequayle.comfor lots on this obscure topic, cross breeding us with animals, making chimeras with CRISPR, using Nephilim DNA of giants to make super soldiers).
In the future does that mean we'll all identify as a robot, an LGBT-MIT-IBM? You will refer to me as an I-Person or you will get kicked off of Twitter, you analog-cis-motherf'ers. And don't call it X. It will always be Twitter.
Matt Walsh and Anti-Feminist Pearl comment on gender; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly
Tucker is trans, right? Look at that makeup
Matt Walsh makes a good point. Nervous and perhaps not used to standing at a mic in front of a crowd, trans person loses steam. There are debate courses taught in college, and it seems only Republican, conservative, Christian type white males pay much attention in them. Like lawyers, they lay out their case, unquestioned assumptions and all, and proceed in a logical way to their conclusion.
Here's a good debate primer by Helen Joyce
Unless someone can quickly think on his or her feet, they're going to be devoured in the eyes of the crowd. And it's really a matter of playing to the crowd. And the crowd is the jury. One can be right and still be wrong if one loses the crowd, so "winning" an argument in front of a right leaning crowd receptive to conservative views is not going to be easy.
Practice also helps. Matt Walsh put himself through the blender in preparation for whatever someone might throw at him and how to respond effectively. One is not going to throw him off his game with a facile point or snappy quip. Both sides need to prepare for public debate. Emotionality only gets in the way.
Calm, cool, collected with clear thinking, that's the way to win. The way to truth means dealing with all the counterarguments one might face, so do not retreat to people who hold the same view. Spar with those willing to throw what will really be faced out in the world among the rabid lawyer types arguing for a fixed view.
Pearl is just funny and smart (and always smiling). Arguing against her own interest makes her lovable and easy to side with...even if we disagree. We remain feminists yet we love Pearl. More Pearl! But, Pearl, come on, think. What are we, our born natures or our socially taught nurtures (enforced gender roles)? Those were not controlled for at all in this TV "experiment." Are females not capable of learning everything males learn growing up? Of course. Put those gals on the show, and watch this argument crumble. We are products of our conditioning. Whatever we're taught, it can be overcome. We have human potential and biology is NOT destiny. It's more probability and propensity, and that does not equal fate. Though watching it a few times, it seems someone pulled out this example as if it revealed a self-evident truth. Social science is more sophisticated than that, Pearly Pearl. But keep smiling and making us giggle along with your cacacuckoo content, 'kay? 😸
Female? No. Male (XY)? Sort of. Weigel is intersex (born in between with testes).
One's a man, two's a woman, and three's a, wait a minute. That first one's a... Hold on. Intersex activists Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel, and River Gallo share their stories in the new documentary Every Body (Focus Features).
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It's not okay to be gay in Ukraine, not at all.
Know how we're all forced to say LGBTQIA+? Few people even know what that means.
For instance, the A is for asexual, a variable term ranging from psychological introvert to biologically damaged neutered person. What's the Q for? Betcha don't know. (Hint: It's not queer). Yes, it is! No, it's not; people just think it is. That would be redundant. It means "questioning."
That means you, Robby Joiner, are LGBTQ because remember when we were kids and you said you didn't know if you were straight? You questioned it (like everybody else in existence). Haha, you noncisgender warrior! That ought to teach you to throw rocks at Kevin. What's the I for?
Intersex specimens persons at the convention
It stands for intersex (a kind of hermaphroditic or ambiguous genitalia condition, a third sex -- neither strictly male nor female -- called pandaka in ancient Buddhist and Indian texts). So what if there are a few eccentric anomalies out there?
As an intersex individual, Alicia Roth Weigel (pictured above) knows that biological sex is more complicated than two boxes on a birth certificate.
"Intersex people are born with physical traits that don't fit neatly into a 'male' or 'female' box," Weigel says. "We have combinations of hormones, chromosomes, internal reproductive organs, external genitalia that just doesn't fit neatly on one of those two binary options that you were taught in elementary biology class are the only options."
Weigel, who identifies as she/they, was born with androgen insensitivity syndrome — a condition in which a person has both X and Y chromosomes but does not respond to male hormones [so is a male but isn't or at least doesn't look like one or express the customary phenotypic characteristics of one]. Though Weigel presented as female at birth, tests revealed that she lacked a uterus and ovaries, and that she had internal testes ["balls"]. More
Redheads don't seem completely human.
There are as manty intersex persons born as there are redheads (about 2%). That means more than two out of every hundred births are ambiguous or mixed, containing both features or neither. This is not transgenderism but an actual third presentation (phenotype with backing genotype).
What's the plus for? Whatever anyone likes, such as NAMBLA's entry MAPs ("minor attracted persons"), along with what perverted-academic Alfred Kinsey started in 1948:
This week: For the intersex community, Every. Body. exists on a [sexual, gendered] spectrum:
Alicia Roth Weigel is one of three activists profiled in Julie Cohen's new documentary. She says "intersex" is an umbrella term for people whose "anatomy doesn't fit super neatly into a binary box."
Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. It emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors, and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts.
AI dangers
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