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Self-Hating Log Cabin Group Mocks Failed Pro-Gay Resolution
The gay conservative group s Tennessee chapter says a Republican state lawmaker was right to block an effort to salute T.J. Osborne. May 13 2021 4:12 PM EDT
The Log Cabin Republicans of Tennessee, a group for gay conservatives, has put out a snarky press release about the state legislature’s blocking of a resolution honoring out country music star T.J. Osborne, a member of the Brothers Osborne.
Senate Joint Resolution 609, which sought to honor Osborne as the only out country star currently signed to a major label and a source of hope to artists and fans who’ve felt ostracized by the genre, was approved unanimously by the state’s Senate unanimously but was blocked in the House of Representatives last week by Rep. Jeremy Faison, chair of the body’s Republican caucus, who sent it to a committee that won’t meet again this year. Faison’s move means the resolution won’t pass.
BOSTON GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) joined in solidarity with Black trans leaders and former Boston Pride volunteers in calling for transformation at the Boston Pride organization.
“Pride is about protest, celebration, and community and should be a welcoming, safe space for all,” read GLAD’s statement. “Boston deserves a Pride in which Black and POC LGBTQ+ community members have a strong voice in leadership and which works to address the issues causing harm to our community, including systemic racism and police violence.
“Guided by our organizational values of justice and lived equality; inclusion, equity, and mutual respect; collaboration; and anti-racism, GLAD will not be participating in official Boston Pride, BP, events in 2021. In solidarity with Trans Resistance MA and Pride 4 the People, GLAD supports the Trans Resistance March and Vigil for Black Trans Lives taking place on June 12.”
Log Cabin Republicans mock ‘sappy, gay’ resolution honoring country singer TJ Osborne
Gay political group also urges Gov. Bill Lee to veto bill that singles out businesses with trans-friendly restroom accommodations.
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T.J. Osborne Photo courtesy Brothers Osborne
The Log Cabin Republicans of Tennessee issued a press release mocking the outrage over the defeat of a resolution in the Tennessee legislature honoring country music singer TJ Osborne, of the group Brothers Osborne, after he recently came out as gay.
“Gay media is fainting with shock like Nathan Lane in
The Bird Cage to discover that the Tennessee House did not fall over themselves to immediately pass SJR0609, honoring TJ Osborne of Brothers Osborne for coming out as gay.
The sign for the gender-neutral bathrooms in Boston City Hall on 15 May 2016. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The Log Cabin Republicans have come out in opposition of a Tennessee bill that would require businesses to post a notice that it allows trans people to use restrooms.
Earlier this month, Tennessee lawmakers voted to enact HB 1182/SB 1224, and the bill now sits on Republican governor Bill Lee’s desk to be vetoed or signed into law. The legislation would require that any “public or private entity or business that operates a building or facility open to the general public” and allows a “member of either biological sex to use any public restroom within the building or facility” to “post notice of the policy at the entrance of each public restroom in the building or facility”.