Occasionally Aunty’s activists, er, journalists, are a few letters short of a BLGT sandwich
Only gender non-binary person in the village? ABC online, Monday:
Australian LGBTIQA+ activist Jacob Thomas made headlines … after being photographed … (with) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex … Thomas identifies as a gender non-binary person and uses the pronoun “they” … Thomas grew up in Shepparton … “I don’t want to speak ill of my hometown … but it was hard,” they said. “I think everyone had the perception I was gay … A lot of us in Australia are still recovering from the (same-sex marriage) survey.” (The) activist is due to speak at … the International Planned Parenthood Federation in Amsterdam. “I’m looking at pursuing new opportunities overseas in the human rights field … But until then, I’ll be focusing on my research … dancing in drag, and celebrating.”
Little Britain, bbc.co.uk:
Committed “homosexualist” Daffyd (Thomas) lives in … Llanddewi Brefi … (sporting) a variety of rubber outfits, to the villagers’ complete indifference.
Myfanwy: So, how did the audition go?
Daffyd: It was a complete waste of time, the director said he couldn’t see me as Hamlet. I’m sorry, Myfanwy, but the Llandewi Breffi Amateur Dramatics Society is completely homophobist.
Myfanwy: Oh well, what audition speech did you do?
Daffyd: It’s Raining Men by the Weather Girls.
Alphabetist? Emily Zak, Ms. magazine blog, October 1, 2013:
The word “gay” emerged … in the 1940s and 50s but lesbians soon felt left out … people constantly need new words or letters … LGBPTTQQIIAA+ … (means) lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, intergender, asexual, ally and beyond … Comments: So, is the “homosexual” agenda to conquer the alphabet one letter at a time? Why not refer to it as the “BLGT sandwich”?
Journalist? ABC 7.30, Monday:
Ellen Fanning, presenter: Later tonight … Donald Trump will sit down with … Vladimir Putin … the American spent the days leading up to the summit playing golf … It has been suggested Mr Putin could pull out maps of Crimea or Ukraine, and say, “Well, let’s put a permanent border here or here.” Would Mr Trump understand the implications of … that?
Sebastian Gorka (a former Trump strategist): Sorry, are you going to pull out weird scenarios from thin air? We could talk about how Vladimir Putin could invite him to play croquet in St Petersburg.
Fanning: (It) seems extraordinary to me that it’s easier to talk to Mr Putin … than talking about (NATO) defence budgets.
Gorka: Why are you so adamant at being critical of the President? I mean, I thought you were a journalist.
Fanning: Why (would) the Putin discussion … (be) easier?
Gorka: Because it is not covered in a layer of empty verbiage and political correctness.
Working for who? Anna Patty, The Sydney Morning Herald, Monday:
Second Class Citizens: ALP pledge to lift pay for labour hire workers. Three months after being made redundant, electrician Alex Capper was rehired by the same company … The second time he worked for a labour hire company was earlier this year … Caption: Alex Capper who has been employed as a labour hire worker.
Something missing from Capper’s job description? Zoom info:
CEPU (Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia) … Alex Capper … Apprentice Project Officer.