Anti-Trans Bill Criminalizing Doctors May Be Dead in Florida

No vote will be held in a House subcommittee that heard testimony on the bill Monday.

www.advocate.com/transgender/2020/2/04/anti-trans-bill-criminalizing-doctors-may-be-dead-florida

How are things in Sonoma? California wine country thrives once again
As part of our series of stories about areas that have experienced hardships, GayCities checks in with Sonoma County, which is on the mend after wildfires in 2017 and 2019.

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Coca-Cola Covers Swiss Newspapers Urging Voters to Outlaw Homophobia

The soft drink company launched its “Equality Manifesto” in Swiss newspapers ahead of a referendum set for Sunday. 

www.advocate.com/business/2020/2/04/coca-cola-covers-swiss-newspapers-urging-voters-outlaw-homophobia

GOP politician insists Constitution says it’s OK to murder socialists, ignores calls to resign

An antigay lawmaker from Montana is refusing calls from his own party to resign after he falsely claimed the U.S. Constitution demands that socialists be murdered in cold blood.

Rep. Rodney Garcia made the inflammatory remarks at a Republican party organizing meeting last Friday. The 66-year-old warned his fellow GOPers that socialists were “everywhere,” calling them “enemies of the free state” and saying the founding fathers wanted them all killed.

“So actually in the Constitution of the United States (if) they are found guilty of being a socialist member you either go to prison or are shot,” he claimed.

When asked to point to the specific part of the Constitution where it says that, Garcia refused, instead saying, “I agree with my Constitution. That’s what makes us free. We’re not a democracy, we’re a Republic Constitution.”

Then, borrowing a play from Donald Trump’s book, Garcia rejected calls for his resignation from Republican leaders, saying the “only way I would give my resignation is if God asked me to.”

The 66-year-old is up for reelection in November 2020. On Friday, he filed to run in Senate District 26.

“They can ask me to step down, but, no, I don’t think so,” he told The Associated Press over the weekend. “I’m going to run for the Senate, and I’m going to win. People are going to have to eat their words.”

He continued, “I’m getting my head so big from people saying, ‘Thank you, Rodney, for bringing this up.’”

As for people who don’t like what he said, Garcia had only this to say: “They can’t come up to me and talk to me, but they want to shoot me. That’s fine, but if you miss, I won’t.”

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Jack Falahee, Private Videos, Billy Porter, Frank Bruni, Enemies List, Liza Minnelli, Jake Shears’ Unicorn: HOT LINKS

FRANK BRUNI. Iowa’s unholy mess: “Maybe there’s a moral here about dreaming too big and reaching too high. Maybe there’s just a terrifying repeat of the party’s awful luck in 2016.”

SHANNEN DOHERTY. 90210 star’s cancer has returned…

ENEMIES LIST. Trump is ready to take vengeance on those who have wronged him: “Names that came up in my conversations with Republicans included Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Mitt Romney, and John Bolton. ‘Trump’s playbook is simple: go after people who crossed him during impeachment.’”

PRIVATE VIDEOS. Google sends users’ private videos to complete strangers: “Here’s what happened: Lots of people use Google Photos to back up videos and photos stored on their phones. Google offers an option for people to download a copy of their private data, called Google Takeout. But, when people used Google Takeout to download their own content, they were accidentally given, in some cases, videos uploaded by people they don’t know.”

JUDY. Liza on Renee Zellweger playing her mother: “I hope she had a good time making it.”

TARGETING CNN. Network not invited to pre-State of the Union lunch with news anchors. “Trump, like presidents before him, typically invites anchors from all the major networks to dine with him at the White House in advance of his State of the Union address. The lunch conversation is considered off the record, but it gives the anchors a sense of the president’s state of mind before they anchor SOTU coverage.”

2020. Mike Bloomberg says Bernie Sanders proposals will never get through Congress: “I don’t agree with him on virtually anything,” Bloomberg said of Sanders in an interview Monday at a campaign stop in Compton, Calif. “But I have committed to support the Democratic candidate because I find Trump so unsuited for the job.” 

SUDDENLY TARON. Guess who signed on to play Seymour in movie adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors?

$136 MILLION. HHS says it needs more money for coronavirus response: “The additional money would address growing demands on the CDC, HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and HHS’s Office of Global Affairs, HHS confirmed Monday. About $75 million would be available for the CDC, $52 million for the ASPR and $8 million for the Office of Global Affairs.”

LGBTQ STATE OF THE UNION. With Billy Porter.

MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. Kesha “High Road”.

REVEAL OF THE DAY. Jake Shears was the unicorn on The Masked Singer.

TOO NICE OUT TUESDAY. Jack Falahee.

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