One of the most effective LGBTQ propaganda campaigns wasn’t designed to change minds — it was designed to make dissent socially unacceptable.

BlazeTV host John Doyle argues that Hollywood and the media spent years convincing Americans that opposition to homosexuality was itself evidence of hidden same-sex attraction, creating a powerful social stigma around criticism.

“To be homophobic, too, meant that you’re actually secretly gay yourself. There was media depicting this — most famously, I think, ‘American Beauty’ with Kevin Spacey,” Doyle explains.

In the film “American Beauty,” a very masculine character who is blatantly intolerant of gay men reveals himself to be secretly gay at the end of the film.

“Now, that’s a master class in psychology, because they’re literally using the fact that people found this disgusting to then take that and turn it against them, where they would now be more reluctant to actually speak out against gay people because of this propaganda,” he says.

“What it boils down to is that they wanted to shore up and build up institutions and power for themselves and those on their side and then shut down and make their enemies appear to be evil, ridiculous, secretly on their side, but too cowardly to admit it,” he adds.

Once Americans were convinced that they were not allowed to disagree for fear of being labeled gay themselves, the gay community won the right to get married. Shortly after, they much more obviously began pushing their sexual preferences on children and called it progress.

Doyle calls this “growth for the sake of growth,” which he likens to the “ideology of a tumor.”

“It’s why, you know, only after getting legal protections completely enshrined in the law did they then start to push transgender transitions for children, drag shows for children, child drag queens. Again, why are they so focused on children?” Doyle asks.

“Is it perhaps because this isn’t actually, you know, a born-this-way kind of thing? Maybe it’s more, I don’t know, affecting people when they are in their most psychologically malleable state — their early developmental stages,” he says.

“Maybe,” he adds, “it’s a form of vampirism.”

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There’s a reason it’s Jenny from the block, not Jenny fresh off the boat.

Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio was hopping mad when pop singer and actress Jennifer Lopez dared to define what makes a New Yorker.

‘Everybody wants to claim our city.’

“Everybody wants to claim our city, but you have to be born in New York. You have to be born in one of the five boroughs to be a New Yorker,” Lopez said.

Purity test

Lopez’s offhand comments, which she made while appearing on “SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma,” prompted the Democrat former mayor, who led the city from 2014 to 2021, to call Lopez’s definition “absolutely outrageous.”

“There is no purity test,” de Blasio claimed — asserting that New York is the “ultimate city of immigrants.”

The 65-year-old continued his vehement defense of immigration by telling the New York Times the city’s culture is actually the inverse of what Lopez was suggesting.

“In fact, it’s been the opposite. We’ve said, ‘Come here and become one of us.'”

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New York state of mind

De Blasio attempted to explain that his self-identification as a New Yorker comes from “how long I’ve lived here and because I raised my family here,” not the fact that he was born in Manhattan in 1961.

“This place gave me everything in life,” the former mayor went on. “Your definition of home is the place that means the most to you. New York City has been my whole world.”

It’s a definition that Lopez would no doubt reject. In her appearance, she stressed that even if a person had lived in NYC for 50 years, he still wasn’t cut from the same cloth as those who were born there.

“I have to say, no, you live in New York. You take on characteristics of New Yorkers. … When you’re born in New York is when you’re really a New Yorker.”

RELATED: Superstar singer debuts trans kid at high school graduation

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Emotional rescue

Lopez finished the short interview by advocating for schools to teach “self love” from elementary school through college, saying that if students couldn’t pass tests based on being a good person, they shouldn’t be allowed in society.

“Because they teach us things intellectually, but an intellectual motherf**ker with no emotional intelligence is dangerous! It’s a dangerous person. Okay?” she remarked.

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The Department of War has updated its faith codes after excluding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the list of Christian churches and causing a bitter theological debate on social media.

Members of the LDS church, colloquially known as Mormons, were angered that their church, while on the list, was not included among the Christian denominations.

‘The Pentagon’s job is not to adjudicate theological debates.’

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah heavily criticized the list.

I’m a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” he wrote Saturday. “My church membership is inextricably intertwined with my Christianity, as it is for 17 million other Latter-day Saints. Regardless of what the Pentagon thinks.”

Others argued that the theological positions of the LDS church separated it from traditionally defined Christianity.

“In strictly theological terms, Catholics do not consider Mormons (Latter-day Saints) as Christians,” explained Father Ronald Vierling, a priest who listed rejection of the Trinity as one of the differences.

Lee later indicated on Sunday that he has spoken to President Donald Trump about the issue.

“I won’t speak for him, but I’m thrilled about where this is heading,” the senator wrote.

On Monday, the Department of War updated the list and said the omission had been a mistake.

“Last week, a proposed list of simplified faith codes was released to the media. The Pentagon list included redundant and unnecessary labeling, and the mistake has been fixed,” reads the statement from the agency posted on social media.

The agency went on to explain that it was trying to simplify the coding system, which had ballooned to over 200 codes.

RELATED: Are Jesus and Satan brothers? Allie Beth Stuckey challenges LDS podcaster on Mormon theology.

“The Pentagon’s job is not to adjudicate theological debates, but instead to ensure sincerely-held faith is respected and encouraged in our ranks,” the agency added.

Lee thanked War Secretary Pete Hegseth for the change in the policy.

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Former reality TV star Spencer Pratt remains optimistic about his chances in the Los Angeles mayoral race despite losing his 40,000-vote lead and second-place position to far-left L.A. City Councilwoman Nithya Raman.

Critics of California’s delayed vote-counting are raising concerns that the primary election may have been stolen from Pratt, as the process has already dragged on for nearly a week.

‘Raman has conveniently received a WILDLY disproportionate amount of “late mail-in ballots” compared to both Bass and Pratt.’

Pratt’s nearly 10-point advantage over Raman on Election Day slowly shrank in the days following, with Raman eventually taking the lead. As of Monday, Raman is up 3,000 votes, according to the Associated Press.

“Folks, we’re dealing with a fraction of a percentage point difference, there’s still hundreds of thousands of votes outstanding, and LA officials have given us the next 3 weeks to count! Let’s git-r-dun!” Pratt wrote in a post on social media on Monday.

President Donald Trump chimed in on the latest ballot results, calling it “not possible” for Pratt to have lost to Raman “after the big lead he had.”

“3rd World Nation. Rigged Elections!” Trump wrote. “Won’t have results for, possibly, TWO WEEKS, according to officials.”

RELATED: Spencer Pratt’s 40,000-vote lead vanishes in Los Angeles mayor race as California continues counting ballots

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Political commentator Benny Johnson stated that the recent ballot drops heavily favoring Raman were “statistically impossible.”

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck noted that Raman, a third-place candidate, “suddenly” began winning “1st in every new ballot drop.” He shared a graph showing incumbent Karen Bass gaining roughly the same percentage of votes with each new ballot drop while Raman surged.

Journalist Nick Sortor declared the election “absolutely RIGGED” and called for authorities to open an investigation.

“Raman has conveniently received a WILDLY disproportionate amount of ‘late mail-in ballots’ compared to both Bass and Pratt,” Sortor wrote.

RELATED: ‘BIG cheating’: Trump drops bombshell on California for vote-counting delays

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Trump announced last week that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles was investigating California’s vote-counting delay.

On Sunday, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli stated that California allows residents to register to vote using gym membership cards, employee ID cards, credit and debit cards, insurance cards, and prescription drug labels.

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A very crude joke about LGBTQ+ sex for a social media promotion has put a subscription meal delivery company in hot water.

HelloFresh advertised its Pride Month discount with the code “bottoms up” and added a reference to gay sex.

‘Such a stupid marketing decision. Sale food — get out of the culture wars.’

“We know eating isn’t always a top priority this month. We respect that. But for those of you who are… prepping… we have an extensive lineup of high-fiber recipes available. Happy Pride,” the company said in its advertisement.

The company went viral, with many criticizing the bizarre ad online, which the company still has published as of Monday afternoon.

“Long-term customer account canceled. It’s a shame; we loved the service. This is literally the only reason we canceled our account. Such a stupid marketing decision. Sale [sic] food — get out of the culture wars,” replied Republican Tennessee state Rep. Aron Maberry.

“Interesting choice by @HelloFresh. It wasn’t enough for them to merely celebrate Pride Month, they went the extra mile in associating their food with human a**holes, enemas, and s**t. Bold strategy. Unsubscribed,” responded Wade Miller of the Center for Renewing America.

“I thought there was no way this was real… it had to be parody… so I looked it up myself. It’s real. @HelloFresh are advertising their product as being good for clearing out your rectum in preparation for anal s*x during Pride Month. I’m so done with this timeline,” wrote one critic.

“I’ve used hello fresh many times. Will never again,” said another user.

Even some LGBTQ+ members were upset by the ad.

“As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride,” responded Ani O’Brien.

“The irony is that HelloFresh’s marketing department thinks this is progressive. It’s regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline.”

“As a gay man it’s disgusting that this is all @hellofresh thinks about gay men. This does not honor or respect us. It just paints us as nothing more than rutting animals,” said another critic.

RELATED: Liberals SPEW hatred at DoorDash after marketing stunt with Trump at White House

Others, like LGBTQ+ news outlet Pink News, documented the positive responses from their community.

One person said: “The gays feel seen with this. Bravo.” Drag Race favourite Plasma said: “Girl it’s THEE month for eating.” Others said the post was “true allyship”, and that the company had “clocked the bottoms.”

A Blaze News request for comment to HelloFresh was not immediately answered.

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Republican members of Congress are accusing Minnesota Democrats of knowing about massive fraud in the state and looking the other way.

On Monday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report on fraud scams in Minnesota.

The report claims that top Democratic officials knew about the scams as far back as 2019.

“It’s always worse than we thought,” reads a statement from the committee. “Democrat-run Minnesota knew about rampant fraud since 2019. State officials failed to act. $9 billion was stolen from taxpayers.”

The report said billions of dollars were potentially paid out to fraudsters while Minnesota Democrats like Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison did nothing to stop the scams.

“The report includes testimony and documents obtained by the Committee showing that Minnesota state leaders consistently failed to address known fraud concerns and retaliated against state employees who sought to protect taxpayer funds, allowing criminal schemes to flourish and diverting critical resources from vulnerable Americans,” reads the press release announcing the report.

The report claims that top Democratic officials knew about the scams as far back as 2019.

Rather than trying to stop the fraud, Democrats allegedly allowed the scams to continue in order to avoid the possibility of litigation as well as discrimination claims. The report also accused Walz of retaliating against whistleblowers who alerted officials about the fraud.

The committee called on Vice President JD Vance to fully review social services programs in Minnesota. Vance is heading up the president’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud.

RELATED: Tim Walz says Minnesota is ‘at war’ with the federal government after fatal ICE shooting

Blaze News’ requests for comment to the governor’s office and the attorney general’s office were not immediately answered.

House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York was asked by reporters to respond to the accusations, and he refused to address them directly.

“House Republicans are not serious about rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in the United States of America,” he said. “You know why? Because the biggest fraud being perpetrated on the people of this country right now is coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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An anti-Trump, Democrat-aligned lawfare outfit founded by an ex-Biden prosecutor who cut his teeth trying to lock up Jan. 6 protesters filed a lawsuit on Saturday in the hope of shutting down the UFC fight scheduled for June 14 on the White House South Lawn.

The complaint from the Public Integrity Project claims that the mixed martial arts event planned for the celebration of America’s 250th birthday is unlawful because it supposedly does not “satisfy the Capital Region Regulation’s usual criteria for a special event permit”; the UFC structure erected on the South Lawn lacks congressional authorization; and the estimated cost of repairing the South Lawn after the event is high enough to require a public environmental assessment or impact statement.

‘This is an obstructionist, baseless, and dilatory lawsuit.’

The lawsuit also alleges that the event does not satisfy the requirements for the National Park Service’s temporary rule that exempts America250 events from various regulations.

While the NPS rule applies to America250 events planned, organized, and executed by executive departments, the plaintiffs allege that the UFC is actually in the driver’s seat where planning and organizing the event is concerned and that UFC “will in every material sense execute the festivities on the nights of June 13 and 14.”

The lawsuit alleges further that the plaintiffs — Susan Douglas, a fanatical Democratic activist, and Paul Romano, a retired cop-turned-protester who recently complained to the Atlantic about President Donald Trump’s D.C.-beautification project — are suffering “aesthetic” and procedural harms as a result of the Trump administration’s preparations for the highly anticipated event.

In addition to complaining about other supposed harms caused by the planned event — the road and park closures related to the event have, for instance, allegedly made it physically harder for Douglas to protest this and other Trump initiatives — the complaint concern-mongered that the event will be profitable.

“This is a profoundly corrupt scheme to enrich the president and his friends,” Public Integrity Project founder Brendan Ballou said in a statement. “If this fight is allowed to proceed, it will be only the beginning, and our national monuments will become little more than branding opportunities for the rich and well-connected.”

The activists want to deprive their fellow citizens of this opportunity to celebrate the nation’s birthday and American athletic greatness outside the White House, asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to intervene and prevent organizers of UFC Freedom 250 from utilizing or building structures on the South Lawn.

RELATED: ‘Far less gay’: UFC fighter Sean Strickland posts fake Bud Light ad commemorating Pride Month

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The lead anti-Trump attorney representing the geriatric activists is Samuel Ward-Packard, a former Wisconsin assistant attorney general who previously worked for the Elias Law Group, a Democrat-founded law firm involved with the Steele dossier.

A Trump administration official said in a statement obtained by ESPN, “This is an obstructionist, baseless, and dilatory lawsuit brought simply to prevent President Trump from hosting what will undoubtedly go down as one of the most historic sporting events in our nation’s history during our semiquincentennial celebration.”

“This iconic event is no different than the various other White House-hosted events on the South Lawn and properly permitted events on the Ellipse and National Mall throughout the year,” the official added.

The White House previewed the event in a video shared to social media on Sunday, stating, “Buckle up. It’s about to go DOWN.”

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Veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson knows what really happened inside CBS News with the firing of “60 Minutes” reporter Scott Pelley — and it’s not what the left is making it out to be.

“The story is she [Bari Weiss] just appointed a new producer for ’60 Minutes’ and Scott Pelley, who you know, one of the lead guys there, he said this guy’s going to kill ’60 Minutes’ … there’s a big showdown in the newsroom, and he’s fired, and now Pelley is upset and making a big deal,” Blaze media co-founder Glenn recounts to Attkisson.

“The left is upset about all of this,” he adds, before asking Attkisson if she has any “insight” about his firing.

“I do, I mean, Scott Pelley was not a popular anchor in terms of his skill as an anchor as well as his personality. And I can’t explain why he persisted in the chair for some years anyway, because gosh, quite a while before they removed him, I was told by a level above David Rhodes that they were trying to fix what they called the Scott Pelley problem,” she tells Glenn.

“One of the issues they had with him was, as it was told to me, he takes his managing editor role too seriously. He was interfering with the correspondent stories in a way that was not productive. And the veterans were complaining, and longtime CBS names that you would recognize, were complaining to the high executives about this,” she continues.

While Attkisson was told that the show would be “all about” her investigative reporting under Pelley, she instead was censored by the anchor.

“The very first week, the very first investigative piece, one of the best ones I think I ever did that I offered them, he censored, never aired. And that was the pattern,” she tells Glenn.

This story was on high school students being lured into going on “amazing global trips” as ambassadors — but instead the children were getting injured, and in some cases, they were killed.

“I don’t know if it was people connected at a higher level that didn’t want these stories to air,” Attkisson says.

While Pelley claims that the new editor in chief of CBS, Bari Weiss, is the one “censoring the stories” and that management had instructed him to “inject lies” into his reporting, Attkisson doesn’t believe it.

“I believe that most likely based on my experience, they were trying to make the stories more balanced and fair. And the culture among some at CBS … was not to do so. And I think they don’t understand or came to not understand the very basic tenets of journalism,” she explains.

“Weiss is simply trying to tug CBS News back a little bit closer to the center, but the inmates have been running that asylum for a long time, and they’re going to go down quietly,” she adds.

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Federal officials filed a total of 305 denaturalization cases between 1990 and 2017 — an average of 11 per year. Like the first, the second Trump administration appears keen to make those previous numbers look like child’s play.

The Trump Justice Department announced on Monday that it filed denaturalization actions in a handful of federal courts against 17 individuals accused of various crimes including child sex abuse and fraud.

‘American citizenship is a privilege, and it must be earned honestly.’

Those now facing the possibility of having their U.S. citizenship revoked hail from various nations including China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Haiti, India, Jamaica, and Somalia.

“When criminal aliens exploit the naturalization process by breaking the law, there are consequences,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement obtained by Blaze News.

“Criminal aliens are lying about their past crimes, including drug dealers, sexual predators, and fraudsters,” continued Blanche. “Gaining U.S. citizenship is a privilege, and under the steadfast leadership of President Trump, this Department of Justice maintains a zero-tolerance policy for the abuse of this process.”

Among those targeted under this leg of the administration’s denaturalization campaign is 50-year-old Neeraj Sharma, a native of India who ran a staffing company in New Jersey, where he filed 11fraudulent H-1B visa petitions with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Sharma, who became a U.S. citizen in late 2017, has been convicted of fraud and misuse of visas. The DOJ seeks to strip him of his citizenship for having allegedly “procured his naturalization by: (1) failing to disclose unlawful acts; (2) providing false testimony; and (3) concealment of a material fact and willful misrepresentation.”

RELATED: The case for denaturalization

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Foreigners who manage to naturalize can have their citizenship revoked in civil proceedings under Section 1451(a) of Title 8 of the U.S. Code if a court finds that the certificate of naturalization and citizenship order were either “illegally procured or were procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation.”

To establish that an individual illegally procured citizenship, the government must show that “the naturalized citizen must have misrepresented or concealed some fact, the misrepresentation or concealment must have been willful, the fact must have been material, and the naturalized citizen must have procured citizenship as a result of the misrepresentation or concealment,” according to the U.S. Supreme Court.

There are other grounds for denaturalization, including affiliation with an organization that is opposed to organized government or favors totalitarian forms of government; conviction of criminal contempt for refusing to testify before Congress on alleged “subversive activities”; and dishonorable discharge from the military, if naturalization was conditional on service in the military, reported the Congressional Research Service.

Jamaican native Talman Harris is also facing possible denaturalization. Harris was found guilty in 2016 of wire fraud and conspiring to commit securities fraud and wire fraud and sentenced to prison the following year for his role in a penny-stock fraud scheme that resulted in a $39 million loss to investors. This scheme took place over an eight-year period, including during Harris’ naturalization proceedings.

The DOJ alleges that during the period in which Harris was pursuing naturalization, “he was statutorily required to demonstrate good moral character, he committed a crime involving moral turpitude, committed unlawful acts that adversely reflected on his moral character, and falsely testified about his crime.”

Armando Medoza, a 39-year-old originally from Mexico, might also be sent packing for claiming during his naturalization application and interview that he had never committed a crime or offense for which he hadn’t been arrested when in fact he had been receiving sexually explicit images of children for years — a crime to which he pleaded guilty years later.

Another pair of depraved individuals on the DOJ’s denaturalization list are Jean Claude Alfred, a 68-year-old Haitian native convicted in 1996 of sexually abusing his minor daughter at the same time that he was pursuing naturalization, and Tahir Lekaj, a 43-year-old from Yugoslavia who was convicted of sexually abusing a young child the year before he applied to naturalize.

Abdikadir Ali Kadiye’s days as an American citizen may also be numbered. The Somali native admitted to a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent that he had used two identities for admission to the country, according to the DOJ. After he was unable to secure immigration benefits under one name, Kadiye tried again, this time with some success.

“American citizenship is a privilege, and it must be earned honestly. If you come here, break our laws, and lie in your immigration proceedings, you forfeit that privilege,” said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “DHS will not stand idly by while Americans are harmed by criminals including sex offenders, perpetrators of fraud, and drug traffickers who have exploited our generosity and gamed our immigration system.”

There have been signals in recent months that the Trump administration intends to file far more denaturalization actions in the coming months.

For instance, internal guidance reportedly issued to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices obtained by the New York Times in December asked that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” throughout the remainder of fiscal year 2026.

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At first, Graham Platner was under scrutiny for having a Nazi tattoo — but it has only gone downhill from there for the Democrat candidate.

“This story is a bizarre one,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments, explaining that now, Platner has been exposed for sexting other women while married to his wife.

“They’ve only been together for like a year and a half at the point that he gets caught sexting other women,” Stu says.

The wife had “told the campaign about the messages she had found earlier in their marriage in the spring of 2025.”

“She said, ‘Well, he’s been sexting tons of women on these apps,’ and you know, she apparently told this to one of the aides, who then has now kind of come out and made it more public after being fired during a previous controversy about the Nazi tattoo,” Stu says.

“So, again, this all comes back to ‘don’t get a Nazi tattoo,’” he adds.

“Well, correct,” co-host Dave Landau agrees. “They also had a very lovely press conference where he looks at his wife and says, ‘You know, we love each other very much.’ And she looks like he’s holding a gun to her back or that she’s rigged with dynamite ready to explode.”

Platner has also come under fire for controversial posts from his own Reddit account, which included comments playing down sexual assault and crude posts about sex workers and masturbation.

But the controversy doesn’t end there.

His account on Kik was exposed, which is apparently a popular private messaging app among child predators.

“I don’t know that it’s popular among anyone else in the world except child predators, but they essentially have no moderation. So this is where child predators go to message children without moderation,” Stu explains, pointing out that Platner’s profile on the app contained a shirtless mirror selfie with a towel wrapped around his waist.

“But I’m about to tell you the worst part about the story. The worst part about Graham Platner. This is the part that’s going to turn your stomach more than anything else in this story,” he continues, explaining that it’s Platner’s user ID on Kik: phustle0331.

“It makes me have chills that I don’t want to describe,” he adds.

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A star pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers would not bow to gay Pride on Friday night, marking another instance of what has become a consistent occurrence for the organization for the last few years.

The Dodgers’ 2026 Pride Night against the Los Angeles Angels at Dodger Stadium was not without controversy, but the most contentious moment was saved for the end of the game.

‘Blake Treinen is not a team player.’

In a year when MLB teams have significantly toned down home-game promotions of certain sexualities — most teams are simply offering special ticket packages — the Dodgers opted to wear hats that celebrate transgenderism, among other things, for the fifth straight year.

However, the team’s progressive celebrations hit a bump in the road of total compliance when pitcher Blake Treinen entered the game in the ninth inning. “Blake Treinen’s coming in!” the announcer said as Treinen entered the game.

As he jogged out to the mound, it was obvious to all that he was wearing a standard Dodgers cap, devoid of special themes. Viewers were apparently triggered over the idea that the 37-year-old wouldn’t simply comply.

“Imagine hating gay people so much that you refuse to wear a hat with a rainbow on it,” one viewer wrote on X.

RELATED: LA Dodgers pitcher Blake Treinen puts Christian faith front and center ahead of World Series: ‘Make heaven crowded’

Popular baseball account “Not Gaetti” said fans should be horrified that Treinen won’t put the rainbow hat on.

“Whatever your beliefs, it should horrify you that a guy who gets paid $11,000,000 per year can’t be bothered to wear his employer-assigned uniform for the 5 minutes he spends in the ballgame,” the fan wrote. “Blake Treinen is not a team player.”

These comments don’t represent everyone’s views, though, especially not all Dodgers players or fans.

Recently retired Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw was famously outspoken about the Pride Nights and even chose to write a Bible verse on his rainbow hat last season.

Kershaw had taken issue with the celebrations for years, speaking out against the team inviting the highly controversial and anti-Christian activist group Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in 2023. Kershaw said at the time he felt the group was making fun of his faith.

The group’s invitation to Dodger Stadium also spawned a massive protest in response.

RELATED: Justin Bieber confesses Christian faith in candid livestream

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The Dodgers debuted their Pride hats in 2022, and interestingly, although Treinen has played on the team since the tradition began, this was the first time he pitched on a Pride Night. Treinen was injured during the 2022 and 2023 events and simply wasn’t put into the games in 2024 and 2025.

Last year, Treinen made headlines for a different kind of political activism when he wore a message in support of Charlie Kirk after Kirk was assassinated during a campus tour stop in Utah.

Treinen’s hat read “Charlie Kirk” across the side, with a cross on both sides.

Treinen pitched one-third of an inning on Friday. The Dodgers won 1-0 on a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth.

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In a quiet Washington suburb, a married couple thought they were raising their three children in a safe and supportive community. Instead, they say they found themselves locked in a years-long battle with school officials and state policies over their daughter’s gender identity.

The couple spoke anonymously to Heywire News.

According to the parents, their 10-year-old daughter was assigned one of her elementary school therapists after she reportedly spoke to a classmate about harming herself. Over the next few months, the parents were left in the dark by the school, not receiving any information on their daughter’s progress, they claimed.

‘The school was hiding things from us, the teacher was hiding things from us.’

One day, the therapist finally informed the parents, but it was not what they expected to hear.

“[The therapist] was using male pronouns and a different name to explain to me that our daughter wanted to come out to us as a boy, and she was giving us a few days to process this,” the mother said.

According to Washington state law, all school districts must adopt a policy that prevents employees from disclosing “a student’s transgender or gender nonconforming status to … the student’s parents” unless the student consents.

Traumatized by the news and worried for their daughter’s future, the parents decided on homeschooling. Years later, she returned to school as a high school freshman.

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The choice to allow the girl to attend public school again would only end up worsening the situation.

“The school was hiding things from us, the teacher was hiding things from us. … There were other students that were working against us,” the mother said.

A staff member in an after-school program even provided the girl with a burner phone and set up a host family so that she could run away from home, the parents claimed.

“They had devised a plan for her to run away. Adults planning with the child to take them from the parents. And hide them and allow the state to control them,” the father exclaimed to Heywire on the brink of tears.

Since Washington state law allows minors seeking gender-related treatment to remain in a licensed youth shelter for up to 90 days without parental permission, the father decided to uproot his family and move across the country to the East Coast in fear of losing control of his daughter.

“The state can house your child, not divulge any details as to their location, physical health, mental health. You’re essentially separated from your child, and the state knows where they are, but the parents don’t. That was the primary concern,” the father explained.

He added, “There’s a lot of kids that we know and families that we know that have been torn apart by this. Not only in our neighborhood, but in the county, in the state. I mean we’re not a one-off here. This has become pervasive.”

Vicki Murray, the director of the Center for Education at the Washington Policy Center, focuses her research on school choice and parental rights in education. In a statement to Blaze News, Murray said, “When there is a real concern about a student’s safety, mandatory reporting and child welfare protocols are the appropriate mechanism — not a blanket policy of withholding information from parents. … Outside of documented safety concerns, the default should be transparency with parents.”

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