⁉️ Is it gay to hook up in a Senate hearing room? ⁉️

Happy Saturday,

🌈 We spent our Friday evening reporting on two men who were filmed getting it on in a Senate hearing room. How did you spend yours?

Police are actually investigating after a video was leaked of two men having sexual relations in a hearing room in what appears to be the Hart Senate Office Building, which sits on Capitol grounds. Right-wing media is making a big deal about it. But they do tend to freak out over anything to do with gay sex, right? Cough, Speaker Mike Johnson, cough. I mean, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert and her male date got handsy during a family-friendly production of Beetlejuice the musical and got escorted out by security. I wonder if right-wingers will treat the stories the same...

📣 And speaking of Mike Johnson, Pete Buttigieg hasn't been shy about calling the new speaker out on his attacks on LGBTQ+ rights. "I wish that [Speaker Johnson] could have a little more focus on building up and improving our transportation systems and a little less focus on other people’s personal lives,” Buttigieg said during a talk at the University of Richmond. 📣

Did you know that Gen Z, while the queerest generation of them all, is also weary of labels? While Gen Zers are more likely to identify as LGBTQ+, they also aren't so much a fan of labels like "gay" or "lesbian" and instead identify more with "queer."

📚 In a move to combat book bans, U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley has introduced a bill that calls for the Government Accountability Office to study the impact of book bans on underrepresented communities, aiming to provide data to inform future policies.

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Onward and upward,

Alex