Have you and/or your spouse/legally recognized partner ever rented a car where the additional driver was added at no cost (think Costco deal), **only to be asked for proof of your relationship** (eg marriage, civil union, etc)?

That happened to us today so I’m wanting a reality check!

#GLBTQ

#CommunityVoicesForChange - Maine Women's Lobby

30 mins - First Aired February 23, 2026 on #WMPG-FM
Host: Richard Rudolph

"The podcast for February 23, 2026 is an interview of Destie Hoffman Sprague who is the Executive Director of the Maine's Women Lobby. The show focused on a referendum question that will be on the Maine ballot this coming fall which would restrict transgender students’ access to school sports and facilities. Destie first talked about why the League is involved in this issue and why it has joined a coalition to defeat the proposal. The coalition contends the referendum will increase bullying and harassment, cost schools millions in potential ligation and undermine public education. According to Destie the referendum is spearheaded by the group Protect Girls Support in Maine which seeks to mandate sports by sex, requiring public school students to play on sports teams based on the sex listed on their birth certificates. Destie believes the effort to restrict transgender students from playing sports in Maine is primarily driven by the Trump Administration which has threatened to pull federal education funding if the state does not ban transgender girls from female sports. Maine's Governor, Janet Mills, Attorney General Aaron Frey, and the Maine Principals’ Association are opposed. In closing, Destie encouraged listeners to get involved in the fight to defeat this measure. which would undermine Maine's existing #HumanRightsAct which protects #GenderIdentity."

Listen:
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/maine-s-women-lobby--70154733

#MainePol #USPol #CommunityRadio #BoycottUline #GLBTQ #GLBTQRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TrumpSucks #FuckMAGABillionaireTrash
#SendBillionairesToMars

On today's #CommunityVoicesForChange show, the subject was #AntiTrans legislation proposed in #Maine -- sponsored by #ULine CEO #RichardUihlein -- who paid GOONS to gather signatures from #MAGATs! #Uilhein has also sponsored #AntiAbortion legislation and is a major #Trump donor! He is NO FAN of women -- whether cis or trans!

#Billionaire-Funded Anti-Trans Bathroom/Sports Ban Ballot Initiative Moves Forward In Maine

The ballot initiative is bankrolled by billionaire anti-trans donor, Richard Uihlein, and represents a new line of attack against #transgender people in blue states.

Erin Reed
Feb 23, 2026

"Anti-trans organization '#ProtectGirlsSportsInMaine' has announced that it has collected enough signatures to get a combination transgender sports ban and school bathroom ban onto the November 2026 ballot, making Maine the second state this year to announce a ballot initiative targeting transgender people in a blue state after a similar effort in Washington.

"This comes after Maine Gov. #JanetMills fiercely rejected Trump administration attempts to strongarm the state into enacting such restrictions on its own, under threat of losing school lunch money and more. Now, voters may directly determine the fate of #TransgenderYouth in schools across the state after a massive signature drive bankrolled by billionaire Republican megadonor Richard Uihlein, the latest in an attempt by ultra-wealthy #conservative donors to export anti-trans discrimination across the United States through direct ballot measures."

Read more:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/billionaire-funded-anti-trans-bathroomsports

#BoycottUline #USPol #MainePol #GLBTQ #GLBTQRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TrumpSucks #FuckMAGABillionaireTrash #SendBillionairesToMars

Speaking of #TheWaltons, both Grandma and Grandpa Walton were gay (well, the actors were!)

‘The Waltons’: Married TV Couple Grandma & Grandpa Were Both Actually Gay

by Dana Daly
Published March 7, 2023

"#EllenCorby and #WillGeer brought veteran acting skills as Grandma and Grandpa Walton respectively. Indeed, The Waltons never even considered recasting the elderly couple when each fell on hard times with their health. They became an inseparable unit on screen. However, in their private lives, each was actually gay and in homosexual relationships of sorts.

"Both also maintained a front. They may have fallen elsewhere along the spectrum of who they felt attracted to, but it’s actually widely believed both their marriages acted as safeguards against harassment and damage to their careers. Learn more about the other life lived between the two iconic grandparents."

https://doyouremember.com/142128/grandma-grandpa-walton-gay

#GLBTQ #GLBTQActors

#SameSex #penguin couple hatch rare chick at zoo

July 2, 2025
Angela Ferguson

"A rare chick has been hatched and raised by a same-sex penguin couple at Chester Zoo.

"The Humboldt chick is one of 10 to have hatched at the zoo, in what it described as a 'bumper year for penguins'.

"Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male penguins, 'stepped in to help raise one of two eggs laid by another penguin pair, Wotsit and Peach', the zoo said.

"The chicks are said to now be days away from taking to the water for the first time."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyxr2jweg2o

#GayPenguinsRule! #NatureIsGay! #Nature #Penguins #GayParenting #GLBTQ+ #GayPenguins

Time for some Michigan related country music! Hope you like it! It's a little gritty, a little fun, with a few nods to a summer romance.

https://youtu.be/nUoCwp07wGQ

#AImusic #song #aisong #humanwrittenlyrics #countrymusic #Michigan #romance #GLBTQ

“The weekend of June 27-29,1969 was a turning point in the struggle for glbtq #equality. Gay and #lesbian activism certainly existed prior to this time, but the confrontations between police and demonstrators at the #Stonewall Inn in New York City catalyzed the movement and inspired #gay men and lesbians to move their cause to entirely new heights utilizing entirely new tactics…”

— #GLBTQ Archive 🏳️‍🌈

http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/stonewall_riots_S.pdf

#LGBT #LGBTQ #Queer

A #song from 2006!
I'm learning this now, 18 years on? Had you?
Thank you, belatedly, Willy Nelson💝
‘Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other’

[I wonder about the backstory. What was Burt Reynold's role?
And video / sound could use an upgrade / update. Are there better recordings? Must dig.
PS very interesting reading comments from 15 - 16+ years ago.]
#GLBTQ+ #gay #SFW #happy #dance #video #queer #music
https://youtu.be/hajTNlooZKE

This is student journalism at it's best:
https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/07/06/amherst-ma-schools-teen-journalists-transphobia-investigation/

Tagging @universalhub to share

#glbtq #support