Pride Month controversy.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Pride month. June in the United States is Pride Month, when members of the LGBTQ community celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer pride. Pride month is often commemorated in major cities with pride parades. Many companies and workplaces have taken part in pride festivities for several years, offering specialty products or encouraging employees to participate in certain educational events. This year, Pride Month has spurred an unusual level of political animosity and controversy. Major retailers like Target, Kohl's, Walmart, and PetSmart have faced backlash from customers upset by certain promotional items celebrating the LGBTQ community.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking with a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.3 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about Pride Month and some of the controversy surrounding it. |
| 1:09.8 | In case you've missed it, we'll wrap up some of the |
| 1:12.0 | stories that brought this into the Tangle podcast today. Before we jump in, though, as always, |
| 1:18.4 | we'll start off with some quick hits. First up, scholar and activist Cornell West announced he is running as a presidential candidate for the People's Party. |
| 1:33.9 | Meanwhile, New Hampshire governor, Chris Sununu, the Republican, said he will not run in 2024. |
| 1:40.3 | Number two, Robert Hansen, the former FBI agent who spent two decades spying on the United States for Russia, |
| 1:47.0 | was found dead in his prison cell on Monday. |
| 1:50.0 | Hansen, perhaps the most notorious spy in U.S. history, had been serving a life sentence since 2002. |
| 1:57.1 | Number three, the Khovka Dam was destroyed in southern Ukraine and an attack that Ukraine and |
| 2:02.7 | Russia have each blamed on the other side. Thousands of people in Russian-occupied territory |
| 2:07.8 | downstream of the dam are now evacuating. Number four, acting ICE director Tay Johnson announced |
| 2:14.1 | he would be retiring after 30 years at the agency. |
| 2:23.0 | Number five, Oklahoma approved the first ever publicly funded religious charter school, |
| 2:27.1 | setting up a potential legal battle over the separation of church and state. Okay. June is Pride Month. |
| 2:39.8 | It's a celebration of LGBTQ life. |
| 2:42.9 | But after years of hard-won civil rights gains, |
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