Hey John,

Pride Month is here, and this year we’re drawing a line in the sand with our so-called “allies” in Washington, state legislatures, and civil society.

Every year, lawmakers and organizations don rainbow avatars, post hand-waving platitudes, and show up to our Pride marches as symbolic gestures of solidarity. As queer and trans people face unrelenting attacks from the Trump administration¹, it’s time to tell them that the only way to support the LGBTQ community is with action—not just showing up for photo-ops.

That’s why we’re sending a letter demanding that lawmakers and civil society shut down three kinds of dangerous censorship bills, all of which promise to give Trump and his allies more power to target our communities and eviscerate our rights to free speech online.

This is an email specifically for our queer friends—we’re doing a letter from the LGBTQ+ community, and we’re hoping you’ll sign.

And if you aren’t queer, please forward this campaign to your LGBTQ friends and family!

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As I write this, Congress is advancing the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA)², a misleadingly-named bill that anti-LGBTQ organizations have admitted they will use to censor content that promotes LGBTQ “ideology”—which is MAGA-speak for anything acknowledging the fact that we exist.

Dozens of states are also proposing Age Verification bills³, which would require people to submit to invasive ID checks to access websites that states decide might be “harmful to minors,” including sites hosting LGBTQ health information and online communities.

Finally, with a bill sunsetting Section 230—aka the “Internet’s First Amendment”⁴—online platforms would lose the legal protection that stops the government from punishing them for hosting LGBTQ user content—meaning companies would start “de-wokifying” sites like YouTube and Facebook to remove anything the government doesn’t like.

Some members of Congress claim these bills are necessary to protect children and reign in Big Tech, but the truth is they would be weaponized against LGBTQ people at a time when our rights are being threatened from every direction. The bills’ supporters include groups like the Heritage Foundation, which have explicitly admitted⁵ that they intend to use these laws to remove queer and trans content online.

The ask is simple: help us shut down these bills, or you can’t sit with us.⁶

We’re done with fake allyship. We’re done with politicians who stand by while Trump and his cronies get even more tools to surveil and crush the most vulnerable members of our community.

Click here to read and sign our letter, and help us send a clear message to members of the political class: if you’re going to support these dangerous bills, you are not welcome at Pride.

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Happy fucking pride!

Janus and all of us at ❤️Fight

Footnotes

1. The LGBTQ+ Bar: https://lgbtqbar.org/programs/trump-executive-order-tracker/

2. LGBTQ Nation: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/kids-online-safety-act-reintroduced-in-senate-advocates-fear-itll-block-lgbtq-content-online/

3. Ms. Magazine: https://msmagazine.com/2025/02/25/lgbtq-abortion-censorship-age-verification-laws/

4. Middle Tennessee State University: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/what-would-happen-if-section-230-went-away-legal-expert-explains-consequences-of-repealing-the-law-that-built-the-internet/

5. Heritage Foundation, via Twitter / X: https://x.com/heritage/status/1660111875818790913?s=46&t=cSCIk4PMRMJXS6EBsmJrpg