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A majority of Colorado Democrats in the state House voted against a measure that would enhance criminal penalties for indecent exposure in view of a minor, and one state lawmaker claimed the bill could be used to "ban" drag shows and harm transgender people. Outlining her frustrations with the measure from the House floor Saturday, state Rep. Leslie Herod, a Democrat who has represented a Denver-area district in the state House since 2017, said the proposed law uses language like other measures around the nation meant to "target" transgender people.

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... one state lawmaker claimed the bill could be used to "ban" drag shows and harm transgender people ...

Yeah, what was defined as "indecent exposure?"


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 06:38 PM | Reply

@#1

imo, having to listen to a press conference of Pres Trump could be considered to be "indecent exposure" to minors, as it seems to encourage lying.



#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 06:40 PM | Reply

Indecent exposure to minors is already a crime.

So is grabbing them by the pussy.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 06:46 PM | Reply

Yeah, what was defined as "indecent exposure?"
~ Gaslighter

Indecent exposure to minors is already a crime.
~ Snoofy

You two should get together and sort this out.

#4 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-08-22 06:52 PM | Reply

@#4

Do try harder.



#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 07:09 PM | Reply

Yeah, what was defined as "indecent exposure?"

Having your balls visible during drag queen storytime.

#6 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-22 07:42 PM | Reply

@#6 ... Having your balls visible during drag queen storytime. ...

If that has occurred, I'd agree.

So, when has that occurred?

Links would help.

thx.

fwiw, a quick visit to my search engine of choice revealed this ...

Drag Queen Story Hour performer did not expose self to kids; social media users spread bogus tale (2022)
www.oregonlive.com

... The Associated Press checks out some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. This one from last week is bogus, even though it was shared widely on social media. Here are the facts:

CLAIM: A drag performer flashed their genitals to children while reading aloud in a Minnesota library.

THE FACTS: The performer in this 2019 photograph was wearing several layers of nude tights, said Hennepin County Library Communications Manager Joshua Yetman. "There wasn't any exposure to children," Yetman said.

As hateful and misleading rhetoric aimed at the LGBTQ community has escalated in recent months on social media, Drag Queen Story Hour events hosted by libraries or bookstores have become a frequent target. ...


So, MAGA just seeming to make up stuff? Again?

And again?

I'll wait for the links your current alias has to the contrary.

thx.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 07:56 PM | Reply

Meanwhile Socialist-in-Chief Shitler has taken a 10% share in Intel

TOOOO FUCKING FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#8 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-22 08:14 PM | Reply

I never said it happened.

I said that's one thing that can be defined as indecent exposure.

#9 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-22 08:19 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

But since you wanted a link,

Here you go...

komonews.com

#10 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-22 08:21 PM | Reply

And more..

x.com

#11 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-22 08:23 PM | Reply

Truth Hurts Wisdom of the Day

"Anyone who gets 'news' from Twitter is an idiot"

carry on.

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-22 08:40 PM | Reply

@#10,11

Oh, I do agree (as I noted in #7) that those occurrences are worthy of law enforcement involvement. 100%

So I go back to my #1 comment...

... Yeah, what was defined as "indecent exposure?" ...

I'll ask once again, what is defined as "indecent exposure" in this proposed law?

What is your current alias avoiding that simple question?

And, as a follow-up, when have drag queens exposed themselves in such a manner during library reading events?

Yer up ...



#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 08:49 PM | Reply

I never said it happened.
I said that's one thing that can be defined as indecent exposure.
#9 | Posted by boaz

Coward logic.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 08:50 PM | Reply

Boaz, you don't know what it means to stand behind your word.

Because you know your word means nothing.

Just like when you swore the Oath Of Office, your words meant nothing to you.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 08:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

But since you wanted a link,
Here you go...
komonews.com
#10 | Posted by boaz
Image of child on stripper pole at pride event draws criticism

So then don't let your child go to the Pride Parade.

This is just looking for excuses to be outraged.

Nobody is harmed when children support equal rights for gays and transgenders.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 10:04 PM | Reply

Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo
"Adult males dress in women's clothing, flash their crotches, twerk to the floor, and swing prosthetic penises at small children in schools and libraries. Here's why conservatives are the bad guys."

This is just right wing propaganda.
What's described here isn't outrageous and neither are the pictures.

Seeing that this is Rufo, it's a given that this actually falls under:

LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory
en.m.wikipedia.org

The LGBTQ grooming conspiracy theory is a far-right conspiracy theory and anti-LGBTQ trope alleges that LGBTQ people, and those supportive of LGBTQ rights, are engaging in child grooming and enabling child sexual abuse. Although the belief that LGBTQ individuals are more likely to molest children has no basis in fact, this stereotype has existed for decades in the United States and Europe, dating back to before World War II.[1]

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 10:12 PM | Reply

Having your balls visible during drag queen storytime.
#6 | Posted by boaz

I'm not sure which makes you crazier.

The fact that you think drag queens are going around showing their balls to children,

Or the fact that you think Democrats know it's happening and think it's okay and support it.

Both of those are just so far removed from the realm of possibility, and you can't tell that?

If this actually happened there would be arrests.

Nobody except Trump and the men in the Epstein Files and millions of men like them who are emboldened now that a child rapist is in the White House think it's okay to have sex with children.

#18 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-22 10:21 PM | Reply

Drag queens do not show their balls, nor do they show their penises. That is utterly ridiculous and it goes against the very tenets of drag. This idiocy is dreamt up by truly perverted and clueless self-righteous aasholes looking for a reason to hate.

By the way, it's called tucking. You can find youtube videos on how to do it if you really need to know.

#19 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-22 10:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

@#19 This idiocy is dreamt up by truly perverted and clueless self-righteous aasholes looking for a reason to hate. ...

Yup.

But the question remains, what do those making these accusations think about all the time?

#20 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-22 11:21 PM | Reply

Boaz is such a stupid pile of s*^%.

Trump is everything he claimed to hate but he's still b*^%#ing about trans people.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-23 01:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This idiocy is dreamt up by truly perverted and clueless self-righteous aasholes looking for a reason to hate.

And was posted here by one of them ICEholes.

Because he thought he had a "gotcha."

Instead he just proved that once again what a total ICEhole he is.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-23 01:47 PM | Reply

Boaz voted for a pedophile.

He doesn't care about raping children.

He just hates the LGBTQ+ community.

Hate is the galvanizing force holding MAGA together.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-23 02:04 PM | Reply

Duh?

That's been clear since 2016, or before.

#24 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-08-23 02:08 PM | Reply

Yeah, why do you support a pedo, boaz?

I remember when you used to claim to be against that ...

#25 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-23 07:54 PM | Reply

More fascistic fan fiction from comrade Boazo.

#26 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-08-23 09:23 PM | Reply

It's this crazy lib that is framing the bill to be against drag shows.

I don't see it having anything to do with drag queens.

It is addressing what has been a concern of mine since the beginning.

Male junk in women's bathrooms that gets accidently seen by children in restrooms since "tuckers" have to untuck it to urinate.

If any minor sees it, however accidentally, this bill makes it indecent exposure.

Fine with me.

The only solution I think solves all problems associated with the whole trangender drama is penis/no penis.

If you have one, stay out of certain facilities designated cisgender only.

Simple.

#27 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-24 09:45 AM | Reply

Peeing is indecent exposure? Holy shit.

What about showering with other males?

In Boy Scouts in Florida we'd all shower together - including the counselors. We're talking 11-20 years olds, from what I remember. Then again, we all showered together after PE every year from 7th to 12th grade.

You mean it's indecent exposure because the drag queen is in costume? Is it because it ruins the magic and the kids might ask "why does that woman using the men's room have a penis?, daddy?"

What if they use a stall?

Still against it?

I'm just trying to figure out where this is coming from. An actual concern for kids, or you r own self-loathing and hatred for that aspect of gay culture?

#28 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 11:13 AM | Reply

Yav,

"An actual concern for kids"

Yes.

#29 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-24 12:20 PM | Reply

It's just a shame what you DR liberals will support, to include child pornography, as this post proves.

You scum are unbelievable.

Image of child on stripper pole at pride event draws criticism

So then don't let your child go to the Pride Parade.

The fact you think it's ok for a child to be at a "Pride Parade" is the problem. It shouldnt even be a thought, but not to pedophile liberals/democrats.

#30 | Posted by boaz at 2025-08-24 12:20 PM | Reply

DUMBASS MAGATS BURN IN HELL

#31 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-24 12:21 PM | Reply

"I don't see it having anything to do with drag queens."

When the DA does, your view is worthless.

#32 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-08-24 12:28 PM | Reply

#30 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Speaking of pedophiles - and a tip of the old chapeau your way for bringing it up - how long do you think TRUMP'S EPSTEIN COVERUP will hold? I mean, seriously, are you MAGAts really that gullible?*

*(Its a rhetorical question)

#33 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-08-24 12:29 PM | Reply

Boaz,

Some people have been wallowing in filth so many years they've lost all sense of modesty and standards of decency.

#34 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-24 12:37 PM | Reply

"An actual concern for kids"

Yes.

Liar.

#35 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 01:17 PM | Reply

Some people have been wallowing in filth so many years they've lost all sense of modesty and standards of decency.
#34 | Posted by BillJohnson

People like that, they'd lie their way into a government job they're not qualified to do, just to benefit themselves.

#36 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-24 01:22 PM | Reply

The fact you think it's ok for a child to be at a "Pride Parade" is the problem. It shouldnt even be a thought, but not to pedophile liberals/democrats.
#30 | Posted by boaz

A Pride Parade is a civil rights parade you racist numbskull.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-24 01:22 PM | Reply

If it were up to you, Boaz and BillJohnson, Pride Parades would be banned and gays would be thrown out of the military and thrown into rape re-education camps.

You're a fascist at heart, you always have been, you always will be.

#38 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-24 01:24 PM | Reply

Halloween Gay Parades are the best! When I lived in Dallas, the route would be packed with people, families, children - all watching the spectacle! Terrific costumes, imagination, and creativity!

#39 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 01:29 PM | Reply

Yav,

Gay pride parades in the 70s didn't have today's flamboyance. I was there.

Sure, there were a few drag queens and guys in leather flashing their hip pocket handkerchief, but overall people were fairly modest. Society was just beginning to see gays openly out so you didn't get too crazy.

Most men just looked like men.

That's why I don't get the drag queen fixation now.

Funny thing is most gay men I've known actually prefer men who look like real men.

#40 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-24 03:58 PM | Reply

Yav,

If you understood the straight world better you'd get it.

1. Most straight married men would be upset if their wife accidentally got a peek of another man's stuff.
2. Most fathers would be furious if their daughter saw some guy hanging out.
3. For the most part young women don't want to see it accidentally in their safe space either.

There simply is no justification for accidentally seeing male parts in a restroom or anyplace where women get undressed.

Since it is impossible to quarantee this won't happen, the only sane policy is zero tolerance.

Penis/No Penis.

Keep out if you have one.

#41 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-24 04:17 PM | Reply

Trump Raped Children.

You don't actually care.

What you do care about is your hate.

#42 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-24 04:41 PM | Reply

If you understood the straight world better you'd get it.
#41 | POSTED BY BULLJOHNSON

Has pretending to be straight helped you figure it out?

Trump Raped 13 year old girls.

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-24 04:43 PM | Reply

Some people have been wallowing in filth so many years they've lost all sense of modesty and standards of decency.
#34 | POSTED BY BULLJOHNSON

Perfect description of the MAGA party.

#44 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-24 04:44 PM | Reply

POSTED BY BOAZ

You voted for Trump the pedophile, rapist, criminal.

No one gives a shht about your fake morality.

Fkkk you.

#45 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-24 04:47 PM | Reply

Bill Johnson, you sure have to make a hell of a lot of assumptions to try and feel good about yourself, don't you?

Drag queens don't use women's restrooms. You seem to be confused about Drag Queens and Trans folks.

I understand the straight community just fine, you presumptive moralizing self-righteous prick. Do you think I live in a gay ghetto? Jeezus. Try making an actual argument or countering my actual points, Mkay?

You don't even exhibit continuity in your own arguments.

#46 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 06:57 PM | Reply

BJ lies to himself, why should he treat you any better?

#47 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-24 07:02 PM | Reply

@#34 ... they've lost all sense of modesty and standards of decency. ...

Please describe the sense of modesty and standards of decency that you appear to want to make all others follow.

Please be specific.

thx.


#48 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 07:28 PM | Reply

Yav,

Didn't I say I dont see this bill having anything to do with drag queens?

It was this kooky Congresswoman who is making it about drag queens.

What are you going on about drag queens.

Yet another strawman.

#49 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-24 08:45 PM | Reply

#48 - LOL!

Good luck. Do you think they realize they've replaced common decency with hate filled self-righteousness?

#50 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 08:49 PM | Reply

As was said early on - "Indecent exposure to minors is already a crime."
The only reason Boaz posted this was because drag queens were mentioned.
It's all unnecessary fear porn to rile up people like you and Boaz.

"...is about protecting children, making sure that any sex crime against a child is punished" - unless it's done by Trump, one of Trump's "friends," or any MAGA loyalist, or any J6 insurrectionist. They get special treatment, pardoned - or moved to Club Fed at the worse.

My, my, my. What shallow little hypocrites y'all are.

All the while fascism's root go deeper and deeper.

#51 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 08:58 PM | Reply

Yav,

I'm in different situation than most people.

I am able to closely empathize with what it feels like to be gay and straight.

Emotionally I'm wired to feel both gay emotional needs and straight emotional needs.

It actually was a devastating dilemma until my mid 40s when I finally figured out why I chose this life.

It was amazingly simple and not about religion.

#52 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-24 09:02 PM | Reply

Yav,

So I guessed you're gay correctly?

I actually didn't know but just seemed like you were.

"Not that there's anything wrong with it".

#53 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-24 09:05 PM | Reply

Why is being bisexual so devastating for you?

That's the only part that's interesting about your situation.

But you never really talk about what the problem is.

#54 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-24 09:08 PM | Reply

1. Most straight married men would be upset if their wife accidentally got a peek of another man's stuff.

Those men are crybabies.

2. Most fathers would be furious if their daughter saw some guy hanging out.

Women see this kind of thing all the time. Women get dick pics in their social media on a constant widespread basis. You're so clueless you don't know that.

3. For the most part young women don't want to see it accidentally in their safe space either.

That's a reasonable concern. But you're equating a man who is pretending to be a woman so he can to show his genitals women with an actual transgender woman who is trying to use the bathroom.

#55 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-24 09:16 PM | Reply

Rather than deal with the TRUTH that you support a PREDATOR and a CHILD RAPIST, and his actions freeing other CHILD MOLESTERS you decided to guess I might be gay? Who cares about me?

Unlike you I want the vicitims of Epstein/Trump to get some measure of justice - to be validated, not to be further victimized. Can you imagine how they feel watching this bullshit being done by Colorado Republicans? Can you? All while President Pedo does all he can to silence them.

Tell me again how this is all from "An actual concern for kids"

#56 | Posted by YAV at 2025-08-24 09:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#48 ... Please describe the sense of modesty and standards of decency that you appear to want to make all others follow.

Please be specific.

thx. ...

I do note that in the replies posted after I posted that comment, the comment seems to have been largely ignored.

Why?

#57 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 09:57 PM | Reply

#@54 ... Why is being bisexual so devastating for you? ...

A good question.

#58 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 10:00 PM | Reply

@#52 ... 'm in different situation than most people.

I am able to closely empathize with what it feels like to be gay and straight. ...

Based upon the prior comments you have posted, I have doubts.

But, please continue ...

#59 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 10:02 PM | Reply

@#56

Bingo!

#60 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 10:03 PM | Reply

Procol Harum - Pilgrims Progress (1969)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
I sat me down to write a simple story
Which maybe in the end became a song
In trying to find the words which might begin it
I found these were the thoughts I brought along

[Verse 2]
At first I took my weight to be an anchor
And gathered up my fears to guide me round
But then I clearly saw my own delusion
And found my struggles further bogged me down
...


#61 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 10:06 PM | Reply

Lamp,

"Please describe the sense of modesty and standards of decency that you appear to want to make all others follow."

I'm not ignoring you.

Just don't feel like writing more.

Stuff I need to work on around the house.

#62 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-08-25 06:57 AM | Reply

"Please describe the sense of modesty and standards of decency that you appear to want to make all others follow."

He wants to criminalize gay sex.

#63 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 08:33 AM | Reply

"Socially conservative Muslims have criticized what they see as growing LGBTQ+ "indoctrination" in schools and society more broadly."

See Also: BillJohnson.

#64 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 08:36 AM | Reply

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