The Stortorvet , Oslo - Theodor Svendsen Aavang , 1916.

Norwegian , 1883-1964

In celebration of Gay Pride Month, I am sharing some of my favorite Gay Icons profiled on this tumblr.

Paul Lynde was everyone’s favorite Gay Uncle (Uncle Arthur that is in the 1960s sitcom “Bewitched” and in syndication ever since. Although Lynde was known to be gay by friends and associates, he never public ally came out. And the press at the time ignored the chance to publicize it.

As the center square in the popular game show “Hollywood Squares” America invited him into their homes for 15 years. And there’s no question that Lynde’s on screen persona was an exceeding campy gay man, with witty remarks and naughty double-entendres.

The American Culture Project is an example of how dark money and “nonprofits” are subtly manipulating people to support Republican electoral goals. According to the article:

Titled Arise Ohio, the Facebook page is the creation of the American Culture Project — a nonprofit whose website says its mission is to “empower Americans with the tools and information necessary to make their voices heard in their local communities, statehouses and beyond.”

Undisclosed on the Facebook page is the nonprofit’s partisan goal. Arise Ohio and similar sites aimed at other politically pivotal states are part of a novel strategy by a little-known, Republican-aligned group to make today’s GOP more palatable to moderate voters ahead of the 2022 midterms by reshaping the “cultural narrative” on hot-button issues.

That goal, laid out in a private fundraising appeal sent last month to a Republican donor and reviewed by The Washington Post, relies on building new online communities that can be tapped at election time, with a focus on winning back Congress in 2022.

“We’ve created a persuasion machine that allows conservatives to reach, engage and move people to action like never before,” the solicitation states. “Now is the time to expand and capitalize on this machine, setting the political playing field in advance of the 2022 election.”

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This won’t be that long of a story. I just saw this tonight, and it made me laugh for one reason. It is something that I am seeing more of the last few years with certain media outlets. — Sportico,.com But let’s start at the beginning. In April 2024, residents of Jackson County, Missouri voted definitively not to extend a 40-year sales tax that would have funded repairs to the Kansas City Chiefs…

Whenever a sports team is asking a city/state for taxpayer money, one of their first moves is to hire a company to write up an economic impact report. The report will claim that a new/upgraded sports venue will bring in trillions to the area. Center Square has written stories about how common it was for sports teams to hire a “marketing firm to put together an economic impact paper that will show…