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☆ On Anti-Trumpers and the Modern Meritocracy - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Yet he is utterly dominating his Republican rivals in the polls, and he is tied with Joe Biden in the general election surveys. Trump’s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time in 2020. But if you are a person of color, a woman who values gender equality or an L.G.B.T. I doubt it.”In this story we anti-Trumpers are the good guys, the forces of progress and enlightenment. I ask you to try on a vantage point in which we anti-Trumpers are not the eternal good guys.

Persons: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, What’s, Marc Hetherington, Thomas B, Edsall, it’s Organizations: Republican, Biden, University of North, Republicans, Trump Locations: University of North Carolina

☆ Pope Francis Embraces ‘Youth Day,’ With an Eye on the Future
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Jason Horowitz | More About Jason Horowitz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“In Lisbon, I would like to see a seed for the world’s future,” Francis, 86, said in video remarks to young people ahead of World Youth Day, which he first attended in Brazil at the start of his papacy 10 years ago. The church, he warned, could not be a “club” for the elderly. The meeting will also be attended by more than 700 bishops and 20 cardinals, and comes as Portugal grapples with an exploding clerical sex abuse crisis. Francis is also preparing for a major meeting of the world’s bishops — and for the first time women and laypeople — to tackle divisive issues like the role of women and L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics in the church.

Persons: Pope Francis, “, ” Francis, Francis ’, Francis, — Organizations: Roman Catholic Church, ” Locations: Portugal, Lisbon, Brazil

Jan Dvorkin had raised and nurtured his adopted son in Moscow for seven years until, one day in May, the Russian authorities notified him they were revoking custody. A woman Mr. Dvorkin knew had filed an official complaint, saying that because he was transgender and gay, he was an unfit parent. When Mr. Dvorkin asked the woman why she had reported him, she told him he had brought it on himself, and “that I could have easily avoided it by staying in the closet.”He managed to find another family to take the boy, who is deaf, so that the child would not be sent to an orphanage. Mr. Dvorkin’s experience underscores the increasingly repressive treatment gay and transgender people are subjected to across Russia — a hardship that seems certain to grow as the government leverages the war in Ukraine as justification for greater restrictions on L.G.B.T.Q.

Persons: Jan Dvorkin, Dvorkin Locations: Moscow, Russia, Ukraine

☆ Opinion | The Radicalization of the Young Right
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When Sitman condemned the right’s cruelty toward trans people, Hochman conceded some of his points. “Do I love the way that some people on the right talk about sensitive culture issues surrounding stuff like transgenderism always? “Could we use more empathy and humility in the way that we approach these questions? Absolutely.”In March, Hochman went to work for Ron DeSantis, who at the time still looked like the most viable standard-bearer for a post-Trump Republican Party. But whatever his motives, his trajectory from conservative intellectual wunderkind to disgraced troll tells us quite a bit about the culture of the young right.

Persons: —, Nate Hochman, Sam Adler, Bell, Hochman, who’d, Matthew Sitman, Adler, Bell’s, Sitman, ”, Ron DeSantis, Axios, he’d, — Hochman, callow, wunderkind Organizations: National, New York Times, Trump Republican Party, Florida City Locations: Nazi

☆ Opinion | L.G.B.T.Q. in America: ‘We Are Never Going Back to the Closet Darkness’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

So?,” by Jane Coaston (Opinion, July 24):Ms. Coaston’s report reveals both a fearsome and an exciting new world for the L.G.B.T. This world could not be more different than most older gay Americans’ experience growing up. I recall the very day and hour, at age 6, that I knew I was gay, although I wouldn’t know what that meant for many years. Boys are cool!”Seeing another gay person, or hearing any speck of validation for gay people, would seemingly never come to me in my more-conservative-than-Mississippi community in South Jersey. But we are a community now with many, many straight allies, and no matter what the Marjorie Taylor Greenes of the world have to say about it, we are never going back to the closet darkness.

Persons: Jane Coaston, Coaston’s, speck, Marjorie Taylor Greenes Locations: Mississippi, South Jersey

☆ Once Wary, Biden to Host Italy’s Meloni at the White House
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-27 | by ( Peter Baker | More About Peter Baker | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In forming a coalition government after last September’s elections, Ms. Meloni became the first far-right nationalist to lead Italy since Benito Mussolini. Like the former president, Ms. Meloni came to office with a long record of skepticism of Western alliances. But Ms. Meloni has shown that she is in charge when it comes to Ukraine. To Washington’s delight, Ms. Meloni has been drawing away from China. Valbona Zeneli, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, said Western leaders misjudged Ms. Meloni after her election.

Persons: Brothers, Meloni, Benito Mussolini, Biden’s, Donald J, Trump, “, Viktor Orban, Matteo Salvini, Silvio Berlusconi, ” Mr, Berlusconi, Vladimir V, Putin, Valbona Organizations: Conservative Political, Conference, Council’s Locations: Italy, Italian, United States, Germany, France, Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, China, Beijing

On the surface, Newport is what it appears to be: the glamorous “Sailing Capital of the World” with a new sailing museum to show for it. On the Narragansett Bay side, the harbor brims with America’s Cup boats and celebrity yachts. Recently, locals have been reframing Newport’s well-worn nautical narrative with additions like new art galleries and an L.G.B.T.Q. pride center, and by unveiling, if gradually, the town’s leading role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Lesser-known stories about Newport can be found off-the-beaten path, but with the city’s compact grid, free trolley system, and bike-friendly hotels, car-free wanderers are sure to capture the essence of both worlds.

Organizations: America’s Locations: Newport, Narragansett, United States

“I respect you and believe you deserve to hear this directly from me,” he said, reading from a letter he had prepared. “For years, I struggled to accept a part of myself. But now, after all I have been through, I finally have the courage to open up to you about something. I am a gay man.”Such an announcement is extremely unusual in conservative Japan, the only G7 country that has not legalized same-sex unions. Earlier this summer, the Japanese Parliament passed an L.G.B.T.Q rights bill but it had been watered down by the political right, stating that there “should be no unfair discrimination” against gay and transgender people.

Persons: “, Shinjiro, ” Locations: Tokyo, Japan

☆ The Friend Trip: Fun Without the Friction
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Shannon Sims | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Whoever said a friend is a friend forever has clearly never experienced a group trip that has devolved into a maelstrom of conflicting plans and bickering over restaurant bills. All your friends are not travel friends,” advises N’dea Irvin-Choy, a 27-year-old Los Angeles-based travel influencer, on her popular TikTok account. She suggests picking travel partners who share similar interests, and deciding ahead of time what kind of a trip you will be taking — relaxation, partying, adventure. Once you’re in booking mode, Mobili provides a way to see each group member’s travel bookings at once, a tool that is especially useful for larger groups. Others in the group can then collaborate with the same trip by adding their own bookings to create a group itinerary.

Persons: ”, N’dea Irvin, Choy, Robert Driscoll, TripIt, “ It’s Organizations: Microsoft, VentureOut Locations: Los Angeles, ”

In the past two years, book bans have surged in the United States, driven by conservative activists who have targeted books about race and racism or L.G.B.T.Q. While the fight has largely centered on books that are available in school classrooms and libraries, the legislation in Texas has drawn booksellers directly into the conflict. “Some school libraries have books with sexually explicit and vulgar materials,” he said during the bill signing session. But the plaintiffs said that the Texas law would take decisions out of the hands of schools and parents and put the burden on vendors instead. The law’s opponents also argue the legislation will increase the number of book bans in Texas, which already leads the country in removing books from schools, according to an analysis by the free speech organization PEN America.

Persons: Greg Abbott, ”, “ Organizations: PEN America Locations: United States, Texas

☆ Women’s World Cup: Italy Starts a 16-Year-Old, and Germany Leans on Its Experience
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Juliet Macur | The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +16 min

Women’s World Cup: Italy Starts a 16-Year-Old, and Germany Leans on Its Experience Italy’s Giulia Dragoni became one of the youngest players ever to appear in the tournament. Credit... Hannah Mckay/Reuters Morocco’s presence at the Women’s World Cup already has yielded a string of notable moments. Italy vs. Argentina Italy reached the quarterfinals of the last World Cup, a solid result after a 20-year absence from the tournament. The Brazilian legend is appearing in her sixth World Cup at age 37, and still hoping to capture an ever-elusive title. The South Koreans have made it to the knockout stage once in three previous World Cup appearances, in 2015.

Persons: Giulia Dragoni, Morocco Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, Hannah Mckay, Morocco James Ross, Robert Cianflone, Hamish Blair, Argentina Phil Walter, Abbie Parr, David Rowland, Argentina Buda Mendes, Panama Bienvenido Velasco, Naomi Girma, Julie Ertz, Alyssa Naeher, Andrew Cornaga, Vlatko Andonovski, Ertz, Andonovski, Alana Cook, Girma, ” Girma, Becky Sauerbrunn, Sauerbrunn, ” Andonovski, Nouhaila, Nouhaila Benzina, Prince Ali bin al, Hussein, Benzina, Morocco’s, Reynald Pedros, Ghizlane, Chebbak, “ It’s, ”, Megan Rapinoe, Quinn, Pedros, Sam Kerr, Australia’s Sam Kerr, Darren England, Kyra Cooney, Kerr, “, Sam, ” Cooney, we’re, Sam’s, ZT8aF7puDp — Tracey Holmes, Cooney, Cristiana, Phil Walter, Marta, Pia Sundhage, Milena Bertolini, Little Messi, Chiara Beccari, Italy nabbed, Cristiana Girelli Organizations: Morocco, Reuters, Associated Press, Argentina, Getty, Panama, Group, Argentina Cristiana, Brazil Group, Vietnam, United States, Tokyo Olympics, Portugal, U.S, North, Germany, FIFA, Moroccan, BBC, ., Ireland, United, European Locations: Germany, Morocco, Reuters Germany, Reuters Morocco, Associated Press Italy, Italy, Associated Press Argentina, Reuters Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Panama, Alyssa Naeher ., United States, Ertz, Netherlands, United, Vietnam, Melbourne ., Arab, France, Moroccan, Melbourne, Brisbane, Australia, Nigeria, Colombia, South Korea, Argentina Italy

Ron DeSantis of Florida and his advisers waved off his sagging poll numbers with the simple fact that he wasn’t yet an actual candidate for president. Allies are complaining about a lack of a coherent message about why Republican voters should choose Mr. DeSantis over former President Donald J. Trump. His Tallahassee-based campaign has begun shedding some of the more than 90 workers it had hired — roughly double the Trump campaign payroll — to cut swelling costs that have included $279,000 at the Four Seasons in Miami. people and showed Mr. DeSantis with lasers coming out of his eyes. The video drew a range of denunciations, with some calling it homophobic and others homoerotic before it was deleted.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Donald J, Trump, — Organizations: Republican, Trump, Republicans, Twitter, Mr Locations: Florida, Tallahassee, Miami

☆ They Checked Out Pride Books in Protest. It Backfired.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Jill Cowan | More About Jill Cowan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Conservative groups nationwide have pushed to ban books that discuss L.G.B.T.Q. issues from libraries and schools, saying that parents should be able to control what their children are being taught. The group has promoted a “Hide the Pride” campaign that encourages supporters to check out or move books that depict L.G.B.T.Q. Organizers have described such material as pornographic and obscene and said it should not be available to young library patrons. Both were checked out by the protesters in San Diego.

Persons: Amy M, Vance, Martha Martin, ”, Brian Burch, “ Morris Micklewhite Organizations: Rancho Peñasquitos Library, Catholic Locations: San Diego, Indiana, Coney

☆ Does My Fiancé Love Me, or Does He Just Want U.S. Citizenship?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( Kwame Anthony Appiah | More About Kwame Anthony Appiah | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

On a trip home five years ago, I met an Egyptian man much younger than me. We fell in love and decided to marry so we could be together in an open and free society. I applied for him to come to the United States as my fiancé. During that time, I traveled to Egypt every four to six months so we could be together. Either he loves you for you or he wants a better life.

Organizations: U.S, Embassy, Rights Watch Locations: Egyptian, United States, Cairo, Egypt

☆ More Visible L.G.B.T. People Isn’t A Curiosity or Crisis — It’s Normal - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Jane Coaston | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Then, he said, there was an idea that “a certain amount of gender transgression was spectacular. As long as it’s still in that realm, it’s OK and it’s entertainment.” But he told me that when L.G.B.T. But the vast majority of people are straight and cisgender, and the vast majority will no doubt be so in the future. There’s been an objective increase in the number of visible L.G.B.T. There is no maximum number of people on earth who can be trans before we face civilizational ruin or planetary collapse.

Persons: K.J, Rawson, he’d, “, Hugh Ryan, Ryan, ”, Isaac Schorr, There’s Organizations: Northeastern University, Transgender

☆ Jane Birkin, Singer, Actress and Fashion Inspiration, Dies at 76
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Constant Méheut | More About Constant Méheut | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“He wrote for me from 1968 until the day he died,” Ms. Birkin said in an interview with The New York Times in 2018. Ms. Birkin said she had not been able to find a leather bag she liked. Hermès devised the Birkin, which was, as she requested, “four times the size of a Kelly.’'Ms. Birkin was additionally popular in France as an activist for women’s and L.G.B.T.Q. rights and also for her British accent when speaking French, which the French found endearing. “We will never forget her songs, her laughs and her incomparable accent which have always accompanied us.”

Persons: “, ” Ms, Birkin, I’d, Ms, Birkin’s, Kelly, ’ ’, Grace Kelly, Hermès, Jean, Louis Dumas, ’, Anne Hidalgo, ” Organizations: The New York Times, YouTube, Paris Locations: London, France

☆ Don’t Be Fooled by the Fake Uproar Over Woke Capitalism - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Lydia Polgreen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix, the once unstoppable juggernaut that seemed likely to eat Hollywood for breakfast, is an interesting case in point. As its growth has slowed and the political climate has changed, it reportedly shelved a plan to produce an anti-racist video series. Our systems of government increasingly favor electoral minorities — like gerrymandered state legislatures in a polarized environment — rather than common-sense compromise. rights, we are tilting ever more toward a system that allows a fanatical minority to impose its views as law. But woke capitalism is a paper tiger.

Persons: George Floyd, Thomas Frank, “, Reagan, ” Organizations: Netflix, Elites Locations: America

After 17 years on the national team and nearly as many years speaking out to support various issues including L.G.B.T.Q. rights, equal pay, the Black Lives Matter movement and voter rights, Rapinoe will play in her fourth Women’s World Cup and her final season in the National Women’s Soccer League and will end her career at the top of her sport. Perhaps nothing exemplified her ability to perform under pressure more than when she scored twice in a quarterfinal against France at the 2019 World Cup. The Americans went on to win that world title, their second in a row. Her six goals at that World Cup helped her earn the Golden Boot as the top scorer and the Golden Ball as the top player.

Persons: Rapinoe, Donald J, Trump, Megan, ” Organizations: National Women’s Soccer League, France, Twitter, Trump White, WIN, Ballon, FIFA Locations: United States

☆ Ron DeSantis’ Campaign of Contempt - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The version of most politicians that we need to worry about is the one that they don’t want us to see. That’s why campaign reporters dog them; they’re waiting for the veil to slip. But the version of Ron DeSantis that we need to worry about is the one that he proudly shows us. That’s one of the morals of a provocative anti-gay, anti-trans video that the DeSantis campaign shared late last week. But while his viciousness comes through precisely as planned, so does something unintended: an undercurrent of homoerotic kink.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, That’s, Donald Trump, coddling L.G.B.T.Q, DeSantis’s, Brad Pitt, Troy

☆ DeSantis Campaign Continues to Struggle to Find Its Footing
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | More About Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Meanwhile, Mr. Trump hosted a rally in South Carolina that attracted thousands of people over the holiday weekend, a reminder of his enduring popularity with Republicans despite losing in 2020 and now facing at least two criminal trials. The race is still in its early days, but Mr. DeSantis’s rough week highlights the challenges his underdog campaign faces as it seeks a coherent strategy to break through against Mr. Trump. He has also attempted to move to the right of Mr. Trump on issues like abortion and L.G.B.T.Q. The wobbly launch of his presidential campaign makes for a stark contrast with the confident way Mr. DeSantis has governed Florida, where he silenced opposition within his own party and crushed Democrats at the polls during the midterm elections. It also has given hope to other primary candidates, several of whom have jumped into the race in recent weeks, that they can replace him as the party’s most plausible alternative to Mr. Trump.

Persons: Trump, DeSantis, Biden Organizations: Mr, Republican Locations: South Carolina, Florida

☆ Biden Sidesteps Any Notion That He’s a ‘Flaming Woke Warrior’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Reid J. Epstein | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Republicans have tried to pull him in, but appear to recognize the difficulty: When G.O.P. presidential candidates vow to end what they derisively call “woke” culture, they often aim their barbs not directly at Mr. Biden but at big corporations like Disney and BlackRock or the vast “administrative state” of the federal government. Republican strategists say most of their party’s message on abortion and transgender issues is aimed at primary voters, while Mr. Biden is seen as far more vulnerable in a general election on the economy, crime and immigration. Mr. Biden’s armor against cultural attacks might seem unlikely for a president who has strongly advocated for L.G.B.T.Q. In June, the White House said it had barred a transgender activist who went topless at its Pride event.

Persons: G.O.P, “, Biden, — Organizations: Mr, Disney, BlackRock, L.G.B.T.Q, Black Democratic

☆ Opinion | The Supreme Court’s Ruling on Refusing Gay Business
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “Web Designer Wins Right to Turn Away Gay People” (front page, July 1):Given the Supreme Court’s track record throughout the past year — including, most notably, the gutting of affirmative action and federal abortion protections — I shouldn’t have been surprised when, along ideological lines, it ruled in favor of a web designer who would refuse a same-sex couple seeking her services. But more than that, I was afraid for the futures of L.G.B.T.Q.+ individuals, whose rights are seemingly undermined with each passing day. I would love more than anything else to fool myself into believing that the United States has realized its ideals of justice and equality for all. Yet, the contrary is painfully evident when one of the greatest setbacks the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community has encountered recently occurs during Pride Month. Here’s the thing: My partner and I and our supportive family would never buy a cake or a website from any business that discriminates.

Persons: ”, Ravin Bhatia Locations: United States, Ravin Bhatia Brookline, Mass

☆ On Independence Day, People in Tennessee Are Not Free - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Margaret Renkl | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

NASHVILLE — Two weeks ago, while the rest of America was absorbed by the hunt for a doomed submersible, people in Tennessee discovered that their attorney general was conducting a witch hunt. healththe names of people referred to the gender-affirming clinic for careTell me this isn’t a witch hunt. Tell me this isn’t an open campaign of terror against already vulnerable citizens who had every reason to believe that their medical records — their medical records! — were confidential and every reason to believe that the medical clinic of a major university hospital was a safe space. During the Juneteenth holiday weekend, Vanderbilt notified patients whose confidential medical records were now in the possession of the state attorney general.

Persons: Vanderbilt, Sam Stockard, Anita Wadhwani, “, — Organizations: NASHVILLE —, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Tennessee Lookout Locations: America, Tennessee

☆ The Supreme Court Has Opened the Door to Discrimination in 303 Creative. Here’s How States Can Slam It Shut. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Aaron Tang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Supreme Court has sided with a Christian graphic designer who refuses to create wedding websites for gay or lesbian couples. In 2018, the court faced a similar question when a Colorado baker violated the same anti-discrimination law by refusing to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple. The court ruled in favor of the baker on narrow grounds, ducking the broader free speech question. More than 20 states, including New York and California, have anti-discrimination laws like Colorado’s. By creating a free speech carve-out from these laws, the court’s ruling threatens to obliterate a vital tool in efforts to protect the L.G.B.T.Q.

Persons: Neil Gorsuch, ” Organizations: Creative, Alliance Defending Locations: Colorado, New York, California

☆ DeSantis, Seeking Attention, Uses L.G.B.T.Q. Issues to Attack Trump
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | Maggie Haberman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ron DeSantis’s campaign shared a provocative video on Friday attacking the record of former President Donald J. Trump regarding L.G.B.T.Q. The video, posted on Twitter by the “DeSantis War Room” account, opens by showing Mr. Trump proclaiming, “I will do everything in my power to protect our L.G.B.T.Q. citizens.” Mr. Trump made those remarks at the Republican National Convention in July 2016, after invoking the horror of the Pulse nightclub shooting the previous month. The massacre, at a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, in Mr. DeSantis’s home state of Florida, left 49 people dead. The video goes on to show Mr. Trump expressing support for transgender people using the bathrooms of their choice.

Persons: Ron DeSantis’s, Donald J, Trump, “, Mr, DeSantis, Cloud, ’ Organizations: Republicans, Twitter, Republican National Convention Locations: Orlando, Florida, St

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