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New York City has been spending heavily on sending drag queens into its public elementary schools, dropping more than $200,000 on appearances since 2018. Just last month, records show the city paying $46,000 to send Drag Story Hour NYC to public schools, libraries, and street festivals, according to the New York Post. Some parents say the programs were booked without their consent, while city officials have responded with outrage, according to the Post. The news comes as debates rage across the country about how gender identity and young children should interact. In 2022 alone, Drag Story Hour NYC has made...

In a shocking display of “pride,” the startup food delivery service PostMates decided to focus its attention on the act of anal sex as a way to celebrate June’s Pride Month, which highlights LGBTQ+ people.

The temporary restraining order also applies to any families who are members of the LGBTQ organization PFLAG. The judge said the investigations can cause "immediate and irreparable injury," including, "gross invasions of privacy in the home and school, and the resulting trauma felt by parents, siblings, and other household members," as well as negative impacts on grades and school activity, fear and anxiety and "increased incidence of depression." The investigations, carried out by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), come after state Attorney General Ken Paxton released a non-legally binding opinion earlier this year declaring providing gender-affirming...

The United States Embassy to the Holy See raised a pride flag Wednesday to commemorate the beginning of Pride month.The official social media accounts for the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See boasted of their celebration of Pride month on Wednesday, posting a photo of the rainbow banner adorning their historic office building in Rome.(snip)Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department for comment on the potential offense the flag could cause in the Vatican, and why the department did not fly pride flags in other, more volatile countries that actively outlaw homosexuality such as Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia.

Even if you think children should be able to pause puberty and take hormones, shouldn’t you at least want to make sure the drugs are safe?“Don’t do it,” yelled Dr. Anthony Fauci in August. “There is no evidence whatsoever that that works!” Fauci, of course, was referring to the use of ivermectin to treat Covid-19. For the moment, set aside that Fauci should have been fired years ago and has a long record of misleading and politicizing “science.” He and pretty much everyone else in America’s public health infrastructure pointed out that ivermectin had not been approved for treating Covid...

Joe Biden and Democrats weren’t kidding about their pledge to transform public institutions into gender dysphoria contagion zones. K-12 schools must allow boys into girls’ private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration announced this month. A U.S. Department of Education spokesman told The Federalist the Biden administration’s press releases from several agencies announcing this policy will be followed by formal rulemaking in June. “It seems to be playing politics with feeding poor kids, which is really unfortunate,” John Elcesser, executive director of the Indiana Non-Public Education Association, said via phone amid weeks of...