Ron DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, came in second place over former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley — despite this, DeSantis’s representatives complained about media’s “election interference” after numerous mainstream media outlets declared Trump as the winner early into the evening.

DeSantis's second-place win surprised Iowa pollsters who had showed Haley winning second place in the state.

GLAAD

On Monday night, the Television Academy’s Board of Governors bestowed its prestigious Governors Award on the LGBTQ+ advocacy organization GLAAD for its work ensuring accurate representation of LGBTQ+ characters on TV. In her acceptance speech, GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis issued urgent calls for LGBTQ+ rights and visibility.

Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl"

Bridget Ziegler helped kick off a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in Florida, including the state's infamous Don't Say Gay bill, through her work with Moms for Liberty and as a school board member. Late last year, though, police investigating a rape accusation made against her husband learned that she had participated in three-way sexual encounters with him and another woman. 

Angry constituents at a school board meeting this week demanded she resign this week for three hours. One woman read the lyrics to Perry's song: "I kissed a girl and I liked it, the taste of her cherry chapstick.” She then put on her own chapstick, joking that her lips were dry.

Jennifer Lopez

Drag artist Jo Lopez had just finished performing a number to the singer’s new single “Can’t Get Enough” at The Abbey’s Sunday Service drag brunch on January 14, when J.Lo herself snuck onto the stage. The Hustlers star, draped in a full-length fur coat, was greeted by cheers from the crowd and a stunned scream from her drag impersonator.

By telling election officials to stop disqualifying trans political candidates from running for office

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has called for state election officials to stop disqualifying transgender political candidates from appearing on ballots. Officials have disqualified three trans Democratic candidates from appearing on ballots for the state legislature because the candidates failed to list their deadnames on the petitions to run for office.

Idaho

H.B. 384, sponsored by state Rep. Jaron Crane (R), bans both school and public libraries from making any text containing “nudity, sexual conduct, or sad-masochistic abuse” available to minors. In addition to partially defining sexual conduct as all forms of homosexuality (in addition to sexual intercourse and physical contact with a person’s genitals), the bill has another provision allowing librarians to censor “any other material harmful to minors.” This vague language has many worried about how it will be interpreted.

Missouri

Missouri was called "ground zero for a firehose of legislation that touches every aspect of trans people’s lives" by journalist Erin Reed after lawmakers in the state debated eight anti-trans bills on Thursday. The bills would restrict the rights of trans kids to be themselves at school without being outed to their parents, expand the state's ban on gender-affirming care, and prevent trans people from using the correct restrooms. 

All of these reasons

A federal appeals court issued an injunction against part of Texas’ book-banning law that requires book vendors to rate books for “sexually explicit” and “sexually relevant” materials.

The court agreed with the booksellers' argument that the law was vague, violated their free speech rights, and would financially harm the sellers' businesses.

Green Day

Bill O'Reilly

Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is angry that a Florida school district has removed two of his books from library shelves for review in an effort to comply with Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R) book-banning law. O’Reilly told Newsweek that when DeSantis signed the law, he “supported the theme because there was abuse going on in Florida,” but now that it has affected him, he thinks the law is being misused.