🏳️‍🌈🗓️ What the gay is going on this week? 🗓️🏳️‍🌈

2nd Week of June 2026

📚 Wed: Queer Horizons Book Club 6:30 — Last Night at the Telegraph Club

💅🏾 Wed: Hot Girl Drag 9:30 — Amber St Lexington + Natalia & Nova!

🍿 Thu: Queer Fan Cinema 7:30 — The Celluloid Closet (1995) + free popcorn! A landmark doc tracing a century of Hollywood hiding queer characters on screen.

✍️ Thu: Queer Carnage Poetry 8:30 — Pride in Poetry Workshop

🎤 every Fri: Karaoke with Jason at 7

🎲 Sat: Shadowdark D&D one-shots 4:30 — limited seats!

🏳️‍⚧️ Sat: Trans Joy 9pm with NBphobic DJs BunnyBoyGirl & DJ TwinkDeath 9

🤼Sun: Singlet Sunday in the lounge 5-7pm, with plenty on new ones to borrow

🎲 🎶Every Tue: is BYO-Vinyl DJ and Board Game Night at 6

🐻 Bear Book Club will discuss Christodora by Tim Murphy on June 24 @6:30

Save the Date for Pride Beyond the Data a conversation with Richmond City officials July 2nd at 5pm at Thirsty’s (link below)

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🌈 THE GAY NEWS 🌈

1️⃣🏳️‍🌈 “Title IX Month” — the Trump DOE again rebranded June to erase Pride Month, they also tried “Family Month”, now using women’s rights language as cover to roll back trans protections.

2️⃣📉 Gallup Poll: Republican support for same-sex marriage collapsed from 55% to 37% in four years. Their acceptance of gay relationships is back to 2010 levels. Democrat support held steady.

3️⃣💸 Corporate Pride Pullback — LGBTQ corporate participation in Pride events is down 65% this year. Major parades are losing $200K–$350K each in sponsorships

4️⃣🎗️ HIV Military Ban Challenged — A federal appeals court revived a case that could end the military’s blanket ban on people living with HIV serving in uniform.

5️⃣🤦 Aaron Schock Watch — The disgraced gay ex-GOP congressman reportedly allied with anti-LGBTQ Lara Loomer to undermine Rubio, all while chasing a gold mine deal with Venezuela. He never changes.

6️⃣✊ NYC Pride Theme: “For All of Us” — drawn from Marsha P. Johnson: “There is no pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”

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