Happy Thursday,

👏🏼 California U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia didn't hold back on social media after far-right Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stormed out of a congressional hearing after Garcia called her out for supporting insurrectionists. He called the conspiracy-loving, anti-LGBTQ+ lawmaker "insane."

🔥 A Missouri GOP candidate took a flamethrower and burned some LGBTQ-themed books. Literally. A video of her setting the books ablaze went viral. In the clip, the candidate calls the texts "grooming books." “Encouraging violence and spreading disgusting rhetoric are two very real ways that endanger innocent people and children,” GLAAD's president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis told The Advocate. 📚

🌈 The largest survey of trans people shows that gender-affirming care helps transgender people. It's like maybe we should have been listening to trans people all along instead of lawyers from far-right groups...Nearly all of those who were undergoing hormone treatment or had received at least one form of gender-affirming surgery said this health care had improved their lives. Can someone tell the lawmakers trying to restrict it? Can we send them the initial report? Can we? Please.

In other news:

• Watch Alexandra Billings in a new film about a teen discovering drag and himself.
• Libs of TikTok is freaking out after an NBC News investigation found multiple bomb threats against facilities were reported after Libs of TikTok had posted about them.
• Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty, kind of spoke about the revelations she's had threesomes with women and her husband. She's been a prominent ally of anti-LGBTQ+ Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
• We're remembering the work and legacy of Cecilia Gentili, who died at the age of 52.

Alex Cooper