Target's Pride displays allegedly made the value of Target stock drop, costing investors money

Small-time investor Brian Craig and America First Legal filed a lawsuit saying that conservative backlash to Target's Pride displays - which included rainbow onesies and a T-shirt with a drag queen on it - hurt the company enough to lower its stock price. They say this is a violation of federal securities law.

Target misstated how it was monitoring “social and political risks” to the company and instead was beholden to progressive activists, resulting in lost value for investors, according to America First Legal. This is part of a larger strategy on the right to stop companies from marketing to LGBTQ+ people.

J.K. Rowling

In a blog post, the museum announced that "She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" will be removed from the museum's pieces associated with Harry Potter. 

“While the Harry Potter series is a major player in the pop culture sphere,” exhibitions project manager Chris Moore wrote, “we wanted to give credit to the work of the actors, prop makers, and costume designers in our Fantasy gallery… which is why you’ll see the artifacts without any mention or image of the author.”

Moore, who calls himself a transgender Harry Potter ex-fanatic, described Rowling as a “cold, heartless, joy-sucking entity.”

He claimed U.S. generals secretly supported it

Courts and Congressional Democrats tried for years to get proof that Trump consulted anyone in the military about his ban on transgender people serving openly in the military and could never get that proof. This week, he claimed that he talked to multiple unnamed generals about it and they all wanted it, despite the directors of the four branches of the military publicly saying otherwise.

“And then I’d say to another one- You know, they were all afraid to talk about it, but, you know, I had to do what’s right,” Trump said, effectively calling U.S. military generals cowards.

Former Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX)

Hurd, a moderate Republican, went so far as to attack his fellow GOP contenders for being anti-LGBTQ+.

“It would be hard to make the case if Ron DeSantis was the Republican nominee that folks in Black and Brown communities would support him,” he said in a recent interview on NBC.

“Folks in the LGBTQ community won’t support him because of his hateful rhetoric towards my friends in the LGBTQ community. Then he hired a guy who had known for being anti-semitic and then wrote it and created a video that they tried to propagate on their system. Then he had to be fired. So this is a trend. One is an exception, a three is a trend and this is a big problem.”

Harry's Razors

Right-wingers targeted Harry's Razors after social media users resurfaced its 2022 video ad featuring trans influencer Luke Wesley Pearson celebrating his first Pride with facial hair.

The profits of the shaving kit advertised by Pearson will benefit the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization supporting LGBTQ+ youth. However, a Twitter account named End Wokeness falsely claimed that the organization “promotes gender surgeries for minors.”

Uganda

The World Bank announced it has halted all new lending to Uganda because the country's vicious Anti-Homosexualtiy Act "fundamentally contradicts the World Bank Group’s values.”

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti-Homosexualiy Act earlier this year. While homosexual sex was already punishable by life imprisonment under the country’s colonial-era penal code, the new law imposes a 20-year sentence for “recruitment, promotion and funding” of same-sex “activities” and even bans identifying as LGBTQ+. It makes what the law describes as acts of “aggravated homosexuality” – defined as same-sex relations involving HIV-positive people, children, and other vulnerable groups – punishable by the death penalty. 

A ban on trans athletes participating in school sports

To have their dishonorable discharges turned into honorable discharges

The lawsuit seeks to have the dishonorable discharges overturned without making the veterans go through a lengthy bureaucratic process. It also asks the DOD to update the language on their discharge forms to no longer include anything about their sexuality.

Wayne Brady

Daytime Emmy winner Wayne Brady came out as pansexual in an interview with People magazine. Brady said he felt unsure and anxious about his attraction to other genders because he grew up hearing accusations of gayness used as an insult against other men's masculinity.

Brady said he didn’t want to keep his sexuality a secret because it made him feel like he was living a “secretive” life “in the shadows.” However, he added that his ex-wife and adult daughter were both supportive of his coming out.

Have teachers call them by their nicknames.

The Orange County Public School District (OCPS) is requiring students to get their parent’s permission if they’d like teachers to refer to them by their nickname. For example, if Florida Gov. Ronald DeSantis (R) were an OCPS student, he’d have to get his mother’s permission to be called by his preferred name, “Ron.”

This is a direct result of the infamous “Don’t Say Gay” law. The law requires schools to tell parents when students receive mental health services, which some have interpreted to include calling transgender kids by their preferred names.