Monday, June 29, 2026
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BREAKING
Republican support for gay marriage just CRASHED from 55 percent to 37 percent, and Pride Month is now being met with official “Nuclear Family Month” proclamations in many red states.That drop happened in just four years. And it is already showing up in real politics: in places like Tennessee and Indiana, Republican officials used June to elevate the “nuclear family” instead of Pride, defining family in explicitly heterosexual terms.
This is how the rollback starts. Not with one giant national announcement, but with a steady effort to make LGBTQ people feel provisional again — accepted until the next backlash, protected until the next governor decides straight families need their own official celebration right in the middle of Pride Month.
The uglier twist is how trans people are being used as the battering ram for all of it. Conservatives spent years building a fear campaign around transgender lives, healthcare, schools, and public visibility. Now that same machinery is bleeding outward, dragging down support for gay marriage and giving the right an opening to revisit fights many people thought were over a decade ago.
And that matters because this is not just about polling. Once support drops inside one major party, politicians start testing what they can get away with. They float symbolic resolutions, rebrand Pride Month, revive old “family values” language, and keep telling voters that one kind of family is more real than the rest.
Marriage equality is still broadly popular across the country, and federal law still protects same-sex marriages. But the people pushing this backlash are clearly not acting like the fight is settled. They are trying to rebuild stigma, redraw the boundaries of legitimacy, and make queer families explain themselves all over again.
So when a governor signs a “Nuclear Family Month” resolution in June, that is not harmless symbolism. It is a receipt. In 2026, while Pride flags went up across the country, Republican officials were literally signing documents declaring June belongs to one husband, one wife, and their children.
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Via GBF \\\ "Embodying Our Truth: The Perfection of Queer Wisdom" with Liên Shutt
A new dharma talk has been added to the GBF website, podcast and YouTube Channel:
Embodying Our Truth: The Perfection of Queer Wisdom
Rev. Liên Shutt explores how the Buddhist path of wisdom can help us fully celebrate and embody our identities as queer people.
The concept of prajna (wisdom) is not an abstract theory, but as an interactive way of being that honors our lived experiences. Liên breaks down the traditional three levels of wisdom and maps them onto the queer journey, showing how we move from simply seeking information about our identities to reflecting on our shared stories and, finally, to an embodied presence. The “perfection of wisdom” is found in how we carry ourselves—without defensiveness or shame—fully alive in the moment and comfortable in our own skin.
Drawing on her own history—from navigating the “cluelessness” of her youth to finding belonging in the queer Vietnamese community of the Bay Area—she describes the transition from being an “object” defined by society to reclaiming oneself as a “subject”.
Liên emphasizes that the heart of meditation practice is discernment, which allows us to recognize the stories we tell ourselves and choose a path of kindness instead. She invites listeners to view their queerness as a gateway to understanding the interdependence of all things, highlighting several key frameworks for this development:
Three Levels of Wisdom:
- Learning/Knowledge: Absorbing information and searching for representation.
- Reflection: Processing experience through shared coming-out stories, community symbols, and discussion.
- Meditation (Bhavana): Developing an “embodied wisdom” that allows one to live fully and authentically without apologies.
Subjectivity and Value: Moving beyond the internalized idea that being “different” is bad, and instead realizing that all phenomena—including ourselves—are worthy and valuable subjects.
Non-Egocentric Awareness: Practicing a “looseness” of self where our queerness is seen as both deeply personal and part of a larger, collective whole.
Discernment as a Tool: Using mindfulness to notice when we are becoming reactive and instead consciously “turning toward” kindness and friendliness
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