PA News Roundup
Plus a nationwide action alert
Happy Bastille Day, Dear Readers! Let us sex realists storm the prison of gender ideology and start our own revolution back to sanity.
Source: Andrew Doyle’s Substack.
Pennsylvania News
Both HB 1286 and SB 45 have passed the General Assembly and await Governor Shapiro’s signature or veto.
PennLive published an op-ed opposing SB 1090. This bill passed the full Senate on March 7, 2026, and is currently in the House Communications and Technology Committee.
Penn Capital-Star published an op-ed supporting both HB 2474 and SB 1050. HB 2472 passed the full House on May 6, 2026, and is currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee. SB 1050 passed the full Senate on November 19, 2025, and is currently in the House Judiciary Committee.
According to The Shapiro Standard June 2026 e-newsletter:
Drew Popish, the Governor's Northeast Regional Director, served as Grand Marshall for the 2026 NEPA PrideFest parade in Downtown Wilkes-Barre. Drew was joined by Chairman Jimmy Sabatino and Vice-Chair Brittany Stephenson of the Luzerne County Council. The annual event brings together over a thousand attendees to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, promote inclusion, and recognize the region's commitment to diversity and equality.
PA’s Advisory Commission on LGBTQ Affairs suggests:
Also consider taking the 2026 Franklin & Marshall College Global Barometers LGBTQI+ Perception Index (GBPI). It is now live until September 15th, 2026. The GBPI is completely anonymous and confidential, only takes 2-5 minutes to complete, and is focused on the lived human rights experiences of LGBTQI+ people.
LGB Readers can take the survey and tell Franklin & Marshall College how TQ+++ erases us and that we want a divorce.
The Pittsburgh Equality Center has stocked a few free libraries in in three SW PA counties. Click on the links for photos. Called Little Queer Libraries,
Inspired by those colorful outdoor boxes that invite you to take books or small objects for free, the Pittsburgh Equality Center has launched a network of Little Queer Libraries in time for Pride Month.
“I saw all these little free libraries out there in people’s lawns and throughout neighborhoods, and I thought, well, we could put LGBTQ+ literature in those,” said Ray Sidney-Smith, president and board chair of the Pittsburgh Equality Center.
In keeping with the nonprofit’s mission to advocate and support the LGBTQ+ community, it is supplying a selection of adult, young adult and children’s literature in accessible sites around the region. Borrowers can take the books and then return them when they’re done.
“At a time when diverse stories face increasing censorship nationwide, the Little Queer Libraries program serves as a beacon of justice, equality, diversity and inclusion,” the announcement said.
Five more Little Queer Libraries will be placed at other locations during the summer, the center said. An updated map can be found online.
Speaking of libraries, Monroeville Public Library was ‘directed’ to take down Pride Month display in children’s section. Click the link for a photo.
On June 19, Councilman Bill Krut reposted a photo from the Monroeville Library Children’s Room Facebook page of the “Love Is Love” special section curated for Pride Month. It included books like “I Am Perfectly Designed” by Karamo Brown, “The GayBCs” by M.L. Webb and “Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle” by Nina LeCour.
Krut captioned the repost: “Should these books be available at the Monroeville Library? I think not. I don’t care what adults do. This is child, sexual grooming.”
Kelly Meredith, president of the library board, said, at that point, members of the community began taking action.
“Particularly offensive was the implication that our library staff is, in any way, grooming children,” Meredith said. “We had a library board meeting on June 22, where about 50 or 60 people in support of the special section showed up, with 17 people speaking in support.”
This removal is troubling for a few reasons. First is, of course, freedom of speech in a public library. Second is the Monroeville Library’s independence from the Monroeville local government. Third, the Library is partially funded with taxpayer money. Fourth, some of the display’s protestors and supporters are missing the point. The library can have alphabet-soup titles available for patrons; the issue is whether these titles should be in the children’s section. Fifth, the “Love is Love” removal may have violated PA’s Sunshine Act since there was no public input on the removal. Two city councillors asked the city manager to order the display’s removal.
On July 7, 2026, the Monroeville City Council held a public meeting to discuss the display’s removal. Click on the link for photos.
Monroeville Council chambers were packed with locals waiting to speak, and the crowd grew so large before the 7 p.m. start to the municipality’s regular Citizen Night that dozens of people were forced to wait outside. Even inside, an overflowing lobby craned to hear the proceedings from video monitors, and demonstrators with the Pittsburgh Overpass Project held large banners and Pride flags along the curb of Monroeville Boulevard.
A majority of speakers voiced support for the library’s right to put up its Love Is Love display. That included several members of the library board of directors, who presented council with a unanimous letter defending the library’s independence and status as an institution serving all local citizens. The letter also pushed back on Monroeville Ward 4 councilor Bill Krut’s mid-June assertion on Facebook that the Pride display amounted to “child sexual grooming.”
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“The Monroeville Public Library serves the entire community,” the letter read in part, noting that all library staff and volunteers must receive state-level background checks to work with children. “Public libraries have a responsibility to ensure that all members of the community can find materials that reflect their lives, interests, and experiences.”
As ordered, the “Love is Love” display was replaced with an “America at 250” display. The removal has not been resolved at this writing.
National Action Alert!
Kara Dansky asks us to Tell the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation that a woman is an adult human female.
The Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation, a nonpartisan 501(c)3 nonprofit, “was charged by Congress in Public Law 116-217 and Public Law 118-226 to design and build a monument on the National Mall to honor the suffragists who fought for women’s right to vote, catalyzed a movement for change, and transformed American democracy.”
It is asking for submissions, which I think is just terrific. Here is your chance to tell the foundation that we need a monument on the National Mall proclaiming that a woman is an adult human female. They absolutely will not do this, but this is still a great opportunity to make your voice heard.
It’s amazing that the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation doesn’t know what a woman is. How did our country’s Founders manage to deny us the vote if they didn’t know what a woman is? Explain that.
Read the rest of Dansky’s article for more information and submission guidelines for your sex-realist message.