It is with a heavy heart that we share with you the news that effective today, due to ongoing financial difficulties, The Spahr Center has indefinitely suspended all programs. Along with the Executive Director, the Board of Directors made the difficult decision to lay off most of the staff yesterday. They are a dedicated and passionate group who together embarked on an incredible journey to serve the LGBTQ+ and HIV communities in Marin County. They have our deepest gratitude for their commitment to Spahr’s mission and clients.
The Ryan White HIV Services team will remain in place for the next week to transition clients to the County of Marin for continued care and support. The Food Pantry will be open next week Wednesday through Friday as scheduled.
As for the future of The Spahr Center, we have entered into conversations about a strategic partnership with a community partner. The hope is this partnership could ensure the viability of our programs and services moving forward. We will share more information when the time is appropriate.
We want to express our deepest gratitude to each and every one of you for your unwavering support, collaboration, and passion for the work we have done together. Your resolve in creating an inclusive and supportive environment for the LGBTQ+ and HIV communities has been truly inspiring, and it has been an honor to work alongside such dedicated individuals.
While this news may come as a disappointment, please know that the decision was made with careful consideration, and our commitment to supporting the LGBTQ+ and HIV communities remains steadfast.
We want to take this opportunity to thank each of you personally for your commitment to the work and your support over the last few months. Your enthusiasm and dedication have been instrumental in our collective efforts to make a positive impact, and we are deeply grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this community.
For any inquiries regarding The Spahr Center and its programs, please direct your questions to info@thespahrcenter.org. This inbox is monitored regularly.
While this may mark the end of one chapter, we are filled with hope and optimism for the future of the LGBTQ+ community. Together we’ve achieved great things, and we have no doubt that your continued dedication and passion will lead to even greater successes in the years to come.
Years before Annise Parker was elected Houston’s mayor in 2010, she encountered a 17-year-old unsheltered youth. Much like most urban areas across the country, the city was amid a homeless crisis, and she was putting together early efforts to get people off the streets and into housing.
Rather than see him as just another number, Parker got to know the young man, Jack, and his story. “His mother was dead, his dad’s in jail, and he’s being raised by grandparents who were trying to beat the gay out of him. But he was tough — he’d run away, so I’d seen him on the streets over the last few years. He wasn’t doing drugs; he was doing survival sex.”
She could see the young man’s potential. “During the Pride parade, I ran into him again. He had this little duffel bag in his hand, and he had a street name. And I said, ‘Jack, are you on the street again?’ He wanted to enjoy Pride, but he was sleeping on the street again. His grandparents had kicked him out. He was just angry at the world. So I reached in my pocket, gave him my house key, wrote my address, and told him to put his stuff down and get cleaned up and enjoy Pride.”
There was only one problem. Parker had yet to alert her partner, Kathy Hubbard. “Then I went to find my wife and tell her what I’d done,” Parker recounted with a laugh in an interview with LGBTQ Nation from her colorful home in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston. “The thing is, we couldn’t find a place for him to stay because the only overnight place to stay was Covenant House, and it didn’t take kids. And we spent two weeks trying to find him someplace to go so he didn’t have to sleep on the street, and there was just nothing. And so he just never left. It’s like the stray cat you eventually adopt. We just loved him.”
Former Houston mayor and LGBTQ+ Victory Fund President and CEO Annise Parker accompanied by her wife Kathy Hubbard. Photo by Marie D. De Jesus / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images.
Today, Jack is 47 and a successful businessman who credits his adopted moms with saving his life.
The experience taught Parker a profound lesson in dealing with housing insecurity — not just personally, but in politics and policy: Humanize the unsheltered, give them a roof over their heads, show them love, and they will thrive.
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That lesson remains relevant to this day when far-right attacks and legislation drive queer youth to the streets. According to the Trevor Project, 28 percent of queer youth experience homelessness. Those who experience unsheltered existence have at least double the odds of reporting depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.
As GLSEN executive director Melanie Willingham-Jaggers told LGBTQ Nation, “These legislators [would] rather have a dead kid than a queer adult.”
Under Parker’s leadership, Houston quickly earned a reputation for creating affordable housing and sheltering people better and faster than just about any metropolis, especially compared with more progressive cities like San Francisco that have struggled to increase the pace of affordable housing development and shelter beds.
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Today, nearly a decade after leaving the mayor’s office, Parker faces another challenge, this time on a national scale. As executive director of LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, she is tasked with electing queer candidates across the country — not to mention President Joe Biden — while fending off the threat to equality and democracy posed by former President Donald Trump.
In her view, re-electing President Biden and electing queer candidates go hand in hand.
“This cycle we could get close to 600 LGBTQ+ candidates we will work with,” Parker said. “And I will tell you that I would happily lose every one of those races if we could keep Donald Trump from the presidency. I mean this because I believe he is an existential threat to our democracy.”
“Are you planning on sitting home on the couch or going to the polls? You say you want better choices, but what changes if you stay home?”LGBTQ+ Victory Fund President and CEO Annise Parker
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Fortunately, she does not face this Hobson’s choice because these queer candidates — many running at the state and local level — are critical to generating the grassroots turnout that will ultimately keep Biden, a queer equality stalwart, in the White House.
Parker mentions several candidates who will inspire turnout, including Virginia state Sen. Danica Roem and Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride.
Six years ago, LGBTQ+ Victory worked this strategy deliberately in Sharice David’s race for Kansas’s Third Congressional District. “Of course, we supported Sharice, but we [also] targeted two state representative races that were within her congressional district,” she notes, referring to Susan Ruiz and Brandon Woodard. “Turnout in those races helped put Sharice over the top and into the House. If we’d just focused on Sharice, those two might not have gotten elected. By focusing on the bottom, all three of them won the election.”
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“I’m going to do this work to the absolute best of my ability because I believe that these candidates that we have run across the country are part of what will keep Donald Trump away from the presidency by energizing voters at the local level because we do the down-ballot races,” Parker adds. “This is what will push back against this MAGA insanity.”
Parker dismisses concerns about the lack of voter enthusiasm for Biden. (In national polls, the incumbent is running neck and neck or slightly behind Trump despite 91 felony indictments filed against the former president.)
“I hear this a lot,” she says. “And the answer is, I don’t care whether you’re in love with Joe Biden. What I care about is this: Are you planning on sitting home on the couch or going to the polls? You say you want better choices, but what changes if you stay home? And, by the way, if you stay home, look at these great local candidates who are also going to lose.”
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The pivotal November presidential election will mark the end of Parker’s six years at the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, an end date she chose intentionally. “I’m at a different stage of my life after 18 years in public office and six here. I don’t love the travel as much as I used to.”
Parker’s departure, of course, would be made far sweeter with the achievement of a queer wave within an even larger blue wave. “Then maybe I can do a victory lap at our annual conference in December,” she says with a smile. “That’s the plan, at least. So we’ll see.”
In that scenario, there may be more opportunities for public service in Parker’s future. Asked whether she’d consider an appointment to a Cabinet-level position in a second Biden term — in particular, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, where she could pick up her crusade to end homelessness in America — Parker contemplates her future and that of the country.
“Well, I do want to stay closer to home here in Texas,” she says. “But yeah, of course. That would be something to consider. I do want to run something. I’m not ready to retire and will be looking for what comes next. It would be an honor to serve the President.”
Out-gay Rep. Robert Garcia has said that Congress would probably work better if it had a few more “radical homosexuals”.
He was responding—possibly a little light-heartedly—to a tweet from an anonymous user complaining that it was “radical homosexuals”, such as Garcia, that “controlled” Congress.
Garcia, a Democrat from California, sits on both the Homeland Security and the Oversight Committees. He’s among the lawmakers who sat through Hunter Biden’s deposition last week.
Garcia was quick to voice the opinion that Republicans had no evidence to connect President Joe Biden to criminal activity.
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In a speech on the House floor on Thursday, Garcia said, “Yesterday I sat in on the Hunter Biden deposition for hours. Republicans once again…provided zero evidence, failing to show any sort of link between Hunter Biden and the president. No links between those business dealings. This entire case is a political stunt and a joke. Donald Trump ordered House Republicans to smear President Biden; they tried and tried and tried and failed.”
Garcia spoke whilst standing next to a blown-up photo of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. He suggested Kushner should be investigated, rather than Hunter Biden. Kushner controversially received $2 billion in funding from Saudi Arabia shortly after Donald Trump left the White House.
Garcia repeated his viewpoint in interviews with the media. His consistent criticism of Republicans and Trump has irked MAGA diehards.
Garcia, who was elected in 2022, laughed off the latest criticism. He said, “Congress would actually be better with more radical homosexuals.”
Online, many couldn’t help but agree.
Since winning office, Garcia has demonstrated a sassy approach to social media. Days after his election victory, he went viral with a tweet warning GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of his impending arrival.
It was a reposting of a TikTok video of NeNe Leakes (who found fame on The Real Housewives of Atlanta) sashaying in a pair of towering high heels. Garcia said, “As a reminder this will be me when I walk by Marjorie Taylor Greene in the Capitol next week at orientation.”
Trans prisoner Tiffany Scott has died in prison in Scotland at the age of 32.
Scotland Prison Service (SPS) officials confirmed she died on Thursday (29 February), at HMP Grampian, in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
An SPS spokesperson added: “With each death in custody, Police Scotland are advised and the matter reported to the Procurator Fiscal.” An inquiry will be held in “due course.”
Scott, who was initially jailed while classed as a juvenile, was serving an indefinite sentence under an order for lifelong restriction for a number of offences, including stalking a 13-year-old girl by sending letters while serving a prison sentence.
She was also convicted of attacking a nurse in Cheshire in 2010. Charges relating to an alleged attack on a nurse and a prison officer in 2017, were dropped. But later that year, Falkirk Sheriff Court was locked down after Scott was brought in for sentencing for a string of offences, including a series of violent incidents at Glenochil Prison, in Tullibody, Clackmannanshire.
Scott became the subject of controversy last year after she asked to be confined in an all-women’s prison. The request was denied by justice secretary MSP Keith Brown, who also announced an urgent review into the government’s handling of transgender prisoners, including rapist Isla Bryson.
Nicola Sturgeon, who was Scotland’s first minister at the time, reversed a decision to hold Bryson in a female prison in early 2023. “I can confirm to parliament that this prisoner will not be incarcerated at Cornton Vale women’s prison,” she said.
“I hope that provides assurance to the public presiding officer, not least to the victims, in this particular case.”
Updated guidance from the SPS, which came into effect on Monday (26 February), requires prisons to recall trans women who have a history of crime against other women to be housed in an all-male prison.
A clause in the policy allows an exemption if “compelling evidence” suggests they do not present an “unacceptable risk of harm to those in the women’s prison”.
HMP Grampian was opened in March 2014 and is the first purpose-built community facing prison within Scotland, capable of housing over 500 individuals: both male and female adults.
Ministry of Justice data from last year shows there are at least 230 transgender prisoners out of a UK prison population of 78,058, with 168 identifying as trans women and 42 as trans men. Thirteen are non-binary.
Houston Rep. Lacey Hull has prevailed in the Republican primary against Jared Woodfill, a prominent anti-gay activist who was backed by Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republican leaders despite his role in an ongoing sex abuse scandal. Woodfill’s campaign — and its endorsement by Paxton, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and Texas GOP Chair Matt Rinaldi — was perhaps the most controversial in a particularly heated primary season.
Woodfill entered the race while still involved in a high-profile lawsuit that accused his former law partner, Southern Baptist leader Paul Pressler, of decades of rape. Woodfill was also accused of enabling Pressler’s behavior and, in a deposition last year, acknowledged that he continued to pay young men to work out of Pressler’s home for years despite being told in 2004 that Pressler had sexually abused a child.
Hull, who ticks all the usual cultist boxes, was targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton because she was among the state reps who voted for his impeachment.
As I reported back in October 2023, US House Speaker Mike Johnson was once hired to head a law school that was to be named for Pressler. In March 2023, Woodfill testified that he knew about the allegations against Pressler and said nothing.
Woodfill appeared on JMG in March 2020 when he represented local anti-LGBTQ pastors in their ultimately failed lawsuit to overturn Texas lockdown rules.
Before that we heard from him in February 2019 when he finally lost his years-long legal battle to stop Houston from providing spousal benefits to LGBTQ city employees.
We are very excited to announce that the 8th Annual Translife Community Conference will be taking place on Saturday, May 4, 2024 at Finley Community Center in Santa Rosa, CA, and… for the first time ever… it will be ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY 100% FREE TO ATTEND.
The Community Conference brings together transgender and gender-expansive individuals from the North Bay to increase connections, share information, provide support, and experience joy with one another. There will be educational workshops, socializing, discussions with legal and medical professionals, networking opportunities, and much more!
This event is for transgender and gender-expansive individuals and their parents/caregivers, children, and partners/spouses ONLY. It is not an allies event.
Registration opens early April. More details coming soon!¡Reserve la Fecha!Estamos muy emocionades de anunciar que la Octava Conferencia Comunitaria Anual de Translife se llevará a cabo el sábado 4 de mayo de 2024 en el Finley Community Center en Santa Rosa, CA, y por primera vez será ABSOLUTAMENTE POSITIVAMENTE 100% GRATIS PARA ASISTIR. La Conferencia Comunitaria reúne a personas transgénero y de género expansivo del Norte de la Bahía para aumentar las conexiones, compartir información, proporcionar apoyo y experimentar la alegría unes con otres. Habrá talleres educativos, socialización, pláticas con profesionales legales y médicos, oportunidades para establecer contactos, ¡y mucho más! Este evento es SOLAMENTE para personas transgénero y de género expansivo y sus padres, cuidadores, hijes, parejas y cónyuges. No es un evento para aliades. La inscripción se abre a principios de abril. Más información próximamente. [En español abajo]
We Need Volunteers!Translife is a small, volunteer-run, nonprofit organization and we can’t do it without YOU! We’re looking for day-of volunteers for our May 4th Community Conference. Jobs include:Set upGreetersSecurityRoom attendantsLunch/snack bar serversTear down… and more! We are also in desperate need of bilingual and/or Spanish speakers!
Our day will begin at 8 am and end around 7 pm (conference will begin at 9 am and end at 6 pm), but will be split into volunteer shifts. You can sign up for as many or as few as you’d like! Please send an email to info@translifecommunity.org or fill out the volunteer form on our website if you’re interested in pitching in. We’ll get back to you ASAP with more information.Fill Out Volunteer Form¡Necesitamos voluntaries!Translife es una pequeña organización sin ánimo de lucro dirigida por voluntaries y ¡no podemos hacerlo sin TI! Estamos buscando voluntaries para el día de nuestra Conferencia Comunitaria del 4 de mayo. Los trabajos incluyen:MontajeSaludadorSeguridadAsistentes de salaServidores de almuerzo y meriendaDesmontaje… ¡y mucho más!
También necesitamos urgentemente personas bilingües o que hablen español. Nuestro día empezará a las 8 de la mañana y terminará aproximadamente a las 7 de la noche (la conferencia empezará a las 9 de la mañana y terminará a las 6 de la tarde), pero se dividirá en turnos de voluntaries. Puedes apuntarte a tantos turnos como quieras. Si te interesas en colaborar, envía un correo electrónico a info@translifecommunity.org o completa el formulario de voluntariado de nuestro sitio web. Nos pondremos en contacto contigo lo antes posible para darte más información.
The bodies of a gay couple were discovered yesterday after a weeklong search following a police officer’s arrest for their murder.
New South Wales cop and aspiring social media influencer Beau Lamarre-Condon, 28, was charged with killing Jesse Baird, 26 – a former TV presenter whom Lamarre-Condon had casually dated until recently – and Baird’s boyfriend, Luke Davies, 29, a Qantas flight attendant.
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The victims’ bodies were found Tuesday stuffed inside surfboard bags and buried in a bush grave.
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Now leadership at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade have disinvited NSW Police from marching at the signature Mardi Gras event on Saturday.
“Having the NSW Police march this year could add to the distress within our communities, already deeply affected by recent events.”
Parade officials added, “This decision was not made lightly.”
Lamarre-Condon was arrested Friday after he turned himself in at Bondi police station, following a widely publicized search to locate the missing couple.
The NSW senior constable did not apply for bail and remains in protective custody.
Police say Lamarre-Condon shot and killed Baird and Davies at Baird’s home the previous Monday.
On Wednesday, following the discovery of blood-soaked clothing belonging to the victims in a Sydney suburb dumpster, investigators discovered “a large amount of blood” at Baird’s home, according to detective superintendent Daniel Doherty, who spoke to a packed news conference on Friday.
Police also found a single bullet that was a ballistic match for Lamarre-Condon’s own police-issued firearm.
Authorities asked for help from the public tracking a white van that they believe Lamarre-Condon used to transport and dispose of Baird and Davies’ bodies.
Still, the couple’s whereabouts remained unknown.
Then on Tuesday, police discovered the two men’s bodies, which they say Lamarre-Condon stuffed in surf bags and buried sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in a remote area in the Southern Tablelands southwest of Sydney, close to a fence line and partially hidden by rocks and debris.
In addition to his day job as a Sydney cop, Lamarre-Condon’s social media revealed he was a celebrity-obsessed wannabe influencer who managed to project an online image of wealth and privilege despite his modest policeman’s salary.
Photos on his Instagram account, which has since been shut down, show Lamarre-Condon sipping champagne on private jets and posing in exotic tropical destinations, as well as on Mediterranean beaches dressed in designer-label outfits.
He also boasted selfies with multiple celebrities, including Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Lady Gaga and New Zealand singer Lorde. According to the Daily Mail, earlier this month Lamarre-Condon successfully snapped a pic with Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker.
The family of a gay airline employee is demanding his release from Qatari prison, accusing authorities of torture by withholding his HIV medication.
Manuel Guerrero, 44, moved to Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal, seven years ago for his work. He was detained on February 4, according to his relatives, who say that the Mexican-British dual citizen was entrapped by law enforcement through a fake Grindr profile. They also claim that authorities framed him for drug possession by planting a quarter of a gram of methamphetamine in his apartment.
Guerrero’s brother, Enrique, said that their family was not informed of his arrest until 23 days after it occurred. He told Agence France Presse that Guerrero “was forced to sign numerous documents in Arabic that he does not understand. He did not have an interpreter or a lawyer. The embassies were never informed by the Qatari government.”
“It’s not acceptable for a Mexican and British citizen to be imprisoned because of their sexual orientation,” he said.
Guerrero also told his brother that Qatari authorities also forced him to name other LGBTQ+ people, and that they are currently refusing to administer his HIV medication. Enrique spoke further in an interview on Mexican television, via The US Sun, referring to the acts as “torture,” and stating that authorities have also deprived his brother of food and water, and allegedly forced him to witness other prisoners’ whippings.
The Mexican embassy said in a statement via multiple outlets that representatives of the United Kingdom must engage with Qatari officials, as Guerrero was registered as a British resident of Qatar, but that they will “do everything within the power of the Mexican state to safeguard Manuel’s rights, his dignity, and his access to necessary health treatments.”
A spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office only confirmed that it is “providing consular assistance to a British man who is detained in Qatar and are supporting his family.”
Guerrero has a court hearing on March 13 where public prosecutors will decide whether to expel him or put him on trial. Enrique said that “sending the case to trial would imply a process of months which without adequate medical treatment would condemn him to death.”
“Qatar penalizes homosexuality and any issues pertaining to sexual diversity, but … human rights supersede their homophobic laws,” he continued in his interview. “Sexual orientation, sexual diversity is a human right, not a crime.”
For decades, LGBTQ+ people have been explicitly banned from Staten Island’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, with organizers claiming the policy is justified based on the teachings of the Catholic Church. After endless battles to make the parade more inclusive, activists have taken a different approach this year and will host their own separate LGBTQ+-inclusive parade.
The inclusive event will take place on March 17th, about two weeks after the original parade.
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“We join the overwhelming majority of our neighbors in expressing our relief at the news that an inclusive St. Patricks’ Day parade will finally be held on Staten Island,” Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon said in a joint statementwith Michael Cusick, CEO of the Staten Island Economic Development Corporation and Staten Island Zoo CEO Ken Mitchell.
“We look forward to once again donning our green, sharing perhaps a pint of Guinness, and kicking off a St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Staten Island that will not exclude participants based on who they are or who they love.”
McMahon has boycotted the parade in the past, as has New York City Mayor Eric Adams, due to its exclusionary policy.
A statement from Adams’s team also indicated he’d be participating in the March 17th event.
“From day one, Mayor Adams has been clear that celebrations in our city should be welcoming and inclusive. That is why we are thrilled to be collaborating with the Staten Island Business Outreach Center for their first-ever St Patrick’s Day parade this year where everyone interested – regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, race, or beliefs – will be welcome to march together.”
The Staten Island parade is thought to be one of the only St. Patrick’s Day celebrations left in the world that still excludes LGBTQ+ people, according to the Staten Island Advance.
Carol Bullock, executive director of the Pride Center on Staten Island, told the publication, “I’m just so excited to walk down Forest Avenue in celebration of Irish heritage with The Pride Center banner.” Bullock has reportedly applied to join the original parade for years but has always been rejected.
In 2022, Bullock spoke about submitting her application in person to the president of the parade committee, Larry Cummings, who immediately placed it in the rejection pile when she handed it to him. He then did the same with applications from organizations supporting LGBTQ+ firefighters and officers.
“That made it a little more painful because you have F.D.N.Y. and N.Y.P.D. people who are protecting our community, but they can’t march in a parade,” Bullock told the New York Times.
But Cummings has long stood his ground.
“Our parade is for Irish heritage and culture,” Cummings reportedly told The Irish Voice in 2018. “It is not a political or sexual identification parade.”
In 2020, he maintained that position, griping at the Advance that “it’s a non-sexual identification parade and that’s that.”
According to the Times, parade organizers have not only been hostile to the participation of LGBTQ+ groups, but they have even physically removed folks from the parade who they felt supported LGBTQ+ people. In the past, they have also banned individual people from participating.
In 2020, Miss Staten Island, Madison L’Insalata, couldn’t march because she came out as bisexual, and Republican City Councilman Joseph Borelli was barred by parade marshals because he had a rainbow pin on his jacket.
“They physically blocked me, my wife, and two boys in strollers,” Borelli said at the time, adding, “I didn’t come with it looking for an argument. My friends handed a pin to me. I really didn’t think it was a big affront to the Irish.”
But activists are thrilled that this year there will finally be a place for everyone to celebrate.
Bullock told the New York Times, “I am so happy we have taken this parade back for the Staten Island community.”
The facility will be held at The Connie Norman Transgender Empowerment Center on North Martel Street for the nominating contest in California on 5 March. The centre is open to all voters, but organisers have stressed that it especially serves as a safe and empowering place for trans, non-binary and the LGBTQ+ community to vote.
The centre is open between 2-5 March and will also serve as a voting centre in the general election, which will take place on 5 November .
Aside from opening to voters, the centre provides resources, training, support and access to medical services for trans people in the community.
Across the weekend of 24 February, 119 voting centres opened across Los Angeles to allow residents to cast their votes. On 2 March, 525 further centres in LA will open for people to have their say and cast their vote before election day.
And it’s more important than ever for the LGBTQ+ community to have their say this year on the presidential vote. Whoopi Goldberg has expressed concerns about the potential of Donald Trump being elected for a second time.
During 9 January’s episode of The View, some of Goldberg’s co-hosts commented that young voters might not vote for Biden – or possibly not vote at all – as an act of protest against America’s support of Israel in its ongoing conflict with Palestine.
The Ghost actress seized the opportunity to plead with viewers at home to get out and vote not matter what, in order to keep Donald Trump from being re-elected.
“I’m here to say, it is ours to lose. This is what it’s all about. Either you want it to work forward-thinking, you want everybody to have the ability to say how they feel, what they want, to move forward, or you don’t,” she warned.
“Or do you want somebody who says, ‘I’m going to be, on day one, I’m going to be a dictator’? Who says it to you, tells you, ‘I’m going to put you people away. I’m going to take all the journalists, I’m going to take all the gay folks, and I’ll move you all around and disappear you.’
“If that’s the country you want, you know who to vote for. If that’s not the country you want, you have to make a decision.”
