The death of the transphobic ‘Bathroom Bill’ myth?

For years, efforts to pass laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination in employment and public accommodations have been derailed by the right-wing myth that sexual predators will exploit those laws to sneak into women’s restrooms. In 2014, that myth finally began to lose steam, reports Media Matters For America in their latest post. Anti-LGBT activists…

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NRO’s Dennis Prager: Heterosexual AIDS is an ‘entirely manufactured’ myth

Media Matters for America’s latest post highlights conservative columnist Dennis Prager’s claims that “heterosexual AIDS” is a crisis “entirely manufactured by the Left,” continuing his years-long campaign of peddling dangerous and inaccurate AIDS denialism. Prager’s July 1 syndicated column featured a defense of the Washington Redskins’ name. Prager accused the “American Left” of being preoccupied with “manufactured” controversies and crises, including “heterosexual…

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