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By: Paul Goldberg | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics NEW YORK, NY — (May 24, 2025) — Heritage of Pride, the nonprofit behind NYC's official Pride Month celebrations, has revealed a staggering $750,000 budget shortfall for 2025 —an alarming blow linked to a major pullback by high-profile corporate sponsors. In a statement issued Wednesday, NYC Pride [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics USA AMARILLO, TX — (May 20, 2025) — A federal judge in Texas has just taken a sledgehammer to LGBTQ workplace protections—striking down key parts of Title VII in a ruling that openly defies the U.S. Supreme Court. Related Links: JRL CHARTS – LGBT Politics [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (04-25-25) — LGBTQ+ Pride organizers and performers are trying to find new venues after the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts abruptly canceled all PRIDE Month Events. A week's worth of events that were scheduled to celebrate LGBTQ+ rights during this summer's World Pride festival in Washington, D.C. The decision follows a [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA — (04-11-25) — The multi award-winning pleasure products brand, Our Erotic Journey, confirmed to JRL CHARTS Adult News that it will not raise prices on any products for at least six months, despite President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs, including a 125 percent duty on imports from China. The guarantee comes as [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (03-30-25) — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced plans to open an investigation into the diversity, equity and inclusion practices at Walt Disney Co. and its ABC network, the agency’s chief posted on X last Friday. This marks the latest such attack on minorities and hiring policies into a large media company [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (03-21-25) — Major sponsors such as Comcast, Guinness and Smirnoff, Anheuser-Bush and more have pulled out of the 2025 San Francisco PRIDE event. These sponsors are saying the reason for pulling their sponsorship dollars was due to the Trump administration's constant anti-DEI campaign. (Basically code word for women, minorities and the [...]
COLUMBIA, MO — (03-03-25) — Over 100 LGBTQ+ Americans protested out in the cold and windy weather last Saturday, after the Missouri Senate passed a bill to remove expiration date on transgender health care ban. The anti-Transgender bill now heads to the Missouri House for consideration. Only two Republicans voted in opposition to the bill, [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA — (02-12-25) — Leading pleasure products brand Screaming O vows to absorb president Trump's 25% tariffs for customers. A leading innovator in affordable, high-quality pleasure products, Screaming O is celebrating its 20-year anniversary in 2025 by showing their support for consumers. As a thank-you to its loyal customers and industry partners, Screaming [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — (02-10-25) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) shut down all LGBTQ investigations pertaining to workplace discrimination. They made the announcement last week during the Trump regime's blitz of turning our great country into another banana republic. Not only has the EEOC rolled back LGBTQ protections in the workplace, not one [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C — (02-04-25) — The U. S. Postal Service announced on Tuesday that it has stopped accepting international packages from China and Hong Kong until further notice. Will this be detrimental to the pleasure products industry? With many pleasure product brands dependent on their partnerships with manufacturers in Hong Kong and China, how will [...]