By Miss Kubelik
What is it with bakeries and gay people? First we have the hater out in Colorado who didn't want to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. (Thanks a lot, US Supreme Court.) Now a bakery in Texas dared to make some gorgeous cookies for Pride Month, and posted a photo of them with well-wishes on social media. Trouble ensued.
Except with this baker in Texas, there's a happier ending. After losing a bunch of followers online and having a IRL client cancel an order for five dozen cookies that were already made, the bakery was swamped with customers, who waited in long lines that stretched for blocks in the rain. They bought up every one of the canceled cookies, and more.
When the baked goods ran out, people offered money, which the bakery owners redirected to LGBTQ+ and animal rescue groups. Love wins!
On the other hand, there's Florida. Awful GOP Governor Ron DeSantis kicked off Pride Month by signing legislation barring transgender girls from organized sports, and then FDOT ordered the rainbow lights on Jacksonville's Acosta Bridge switched off. (Gee, who could have been behind that? FDOT swears it wasn't DeSantis, but we think we know.) However, once again, a backlash followed — and the bridge lights will go back on. Love wins again.
But gosh, folks, we're a long way from 2015, when the White House bathed itself in rainbow colors after the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality. The US is fracturing into pieces, made up of states where you can marry whom you love, be safe from COVID, have reproductive rights, earn a living wage and have reliable infrastructure and other services because you're willing to pay some taxes — and states where you can't. We cats know which we prefer. Still and all, we wish that our Democratic friends in Red America could enjoy what we do. The fact that they can't makes us HISS.
No comments:
Post a Comment