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Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels Make LGBTQ History at MSNBC

MSNBC has announced that joining Jacqueline Alemany are Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels , who will co-anchor the network’s newly expanded weekend program, The Weekend, making Capehart and Daniels the first out Black gay men to co-host a cable news program.

Launching in late April, The Weekend will air live from Washington, D.C. from 7 to 10 a.m. ET on Saturdays and Sundays, with Capehart and Daniels bringing their sharp political insights and deep experience covering Washington to the show’s proven panel format.

Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize winner and GLAAD Media Award honoree, has long been a leading voice at MSNBC, bringing audiences thoughtful analysis and historic interviews, including with President Barack Obama.

Beyond television, Capehart serves as Associate Editor at The Washington Postand contributes to PBS’s NewsHour. His forthcoming memoir, Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Black Man’s Search for Home, will be published later this year. Capehart lives in Washington, D.C. with his husband.

Daniels, who is the newly-minted MSNBC Senior Washington Correspondent, has quickly become a go-to political analyst and one of the most trusted reporters covering the White House.

Since joining MSNBC in 2021, Daniels has become a regular political analyst, guest host, and trusted voice on the biggest stories out of Washington. He was also recently elected President of the White House Correspondents Association, making history in that role as well.

Prior to joining MSNBC, Daniels served as Chief Playbook Correspondent and White House Correspondent at POLITICO. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his husband.

Together, Capehart and Daniels are making cable news history.

And for LGBTQ people—especially Black LGBTQ viewers—this is more than a milestone. It’s a reminder of what’s possible when newsrooms reflect the communities they serve.

GLAAD celebrates this historic moment and congratulates Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels for breaking barriers, telling our stories, and showing the world what leadership in journalism can look like.

In a statement, GLAAD’s Darian Aaron said: “In a time when critical information reported through the cultural lens of Black journalists is consistently absent in newsrooms across the country and high-profile anchor positions on cable news, the addition of Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels, two out Black journalists as co-anchors of MSNBC’s “The Weekend” is progress worth celebrating and an example for all organizations, media or otherwise. Black and queer people are in all occupations and all areas of the country.”

“Capehart and Daniels will make history, but they will also bear the responsibility of speaking truth to power in the face of a hostile administration, ensuring more voices are brought to the table and must open doors to more journalists from all backgrounds who are as talented but lack access to the same opportunities. The world and our community will be watching,” Aaron added.

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Texas is keeping a list of trans people & no one will say why

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In August, Texas banned drivers in the state from changing the gender markerson their driver’s licenses to match their gender identities. New reporting reveals that employees at the Department of Public Safety (DPS) continue to document every change request by trans drivers for collection in a state database.

At least 42 such attempts — including instances where people asked for guidance about state policies during calls, in-person appointments, and by email — have been reported in the last five months, according to documents shared with The Texas Newsroom.  

DPS staff scanned and saved trans drivers’ information, the records show, and sent the data to a designated internal email account.

Officials at DPS and the Texas Attorney General’s office refused to say why the state is gathering the information, with whom it is sharing it, and whether the data collection is ongoing.

The documents also shed light on how those requests are handled. Some employees allowed the drivers to change the name listed on their licenses, but rejected their requests to update their gender. Others declined both requests.

Some new residents presented out-of-state or federal documents that matched their gender identity but were still denied a matching Texas license or ID.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has called court orders directing Texas officials at DPS and other agencies to change gender markers “illegal.”

Screenshots of DPS’ trans data collection email address circulated online soon after the state banned gender marker changes, and the account was overwhelmed with spam from people protesting it.

Out of 700 pages of emails reviewed in September, only one was about an actual request to change a gender marker. Another 80 came from pranksters and critics.

Someone signed up the email address for newsletters from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and a bargain hunter website called Krazy Coupon Lady. The address also received emails from QueerMeNow, an explicit gay adult entertainment blog, and Lovehoney, a British company that sells adult toys and lingerie, KERA News reported.

One email read, “oh no someone is spamming your gestapo list wow,” while others called the policy “evil,” “weird,” and fascistic. Some accused DPS employees of acting like a “good little Nαzi” and “a disgrace in the eyes of God.”

The new internal agency documents reveal employees continued to collect data and forward it internally for collection after the spamming uprise.

Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton reiterated that it’s unlawful for trans Texans to change the gender listed on their state IDs, and added that any documents that have been altered are required to be changed back. There is no law prescribing the latter.

Earlier this year, a bill was introduced in the Texas Legislature to imprison anyone whose gender on state documents does not match the one assigned to them at birth.

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Human Rights and Sexuality Education Protects Schools

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A legal change could help make schools safer for children in 2025. In December, the National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (CNMP) issued a groundbreaking recommendation that highlights the fundamental role of human rights education and comprehensive sexuality education in promoting safer schools in Brazil.

In it, the CNMP, the national body that oversees the country’s prosecutors in Brazil, offers detailed guidelines for tackling school violence and emphasizes the importance of combating structural racism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination. Crucially, it also defends teachers’ freedom to educate students about these topics.

The recommendation comes at a crucial moment, as human rights and sexuality education have faced continuous attacks for over a decade in Brazil. Lawmakers, officials, and anti-rights groups have weaponized education for political gain, claiming that discussions of racism, gender, sexuality, diversity, and other important topics constitute “indoctrination” or “gender ideology.”

The fallacious discourse of so-called “gender ideology” emerged in the 1990s, created by ultraconservative Catholic movements to attack advances for the rights of women and LGBT people at UN. In recent years, the far-right has adopted this language to promote moral panic and discredit public policies to tackle inequality.

The CNMP’s recommendation also comes in the context of a wider crisis of school violence in Brazil. In 2023, a series of brutal killings in schools led the government to characterize the phenomenon as an “epidemic” and to adopt measures to tackle it. Experts have highlighted that, in addition to factors such as harmful online content and isolation during the pandemic, harassment of teachers and attacks on inclusive education exacerbate the problem.

Suppressing discussions on human rights and sexuality undermines efforts to create an anti-discriminatory culture that can overcome violent practices and promote mutual understanding in schools and beyond.

The recommendation is not binding but offers normative guidance on how prosecutors should act when faced with attacks on human rights and sexuality education by urging them to develop rules, processes, and structures to support teachers and students. The recommendation can also help weaken efforts by some prosecutors who may act against this protected educational material for ideological reasons.

In a 2022 report, Human Rights Watch analyzed more than 200 bills and laws passed at the federal, state, and municipal levels that aim to ban discussions on gender and sexuality in schools, based on research conducted by Fernanda Moura and Renata Aquino. Teachers we interviewed have faced harassment from elected officials and community members, as well as lawsuits for addressing these topics, with some summoned to provide statements to police or other authorities.

For years, Brazilian education experts and advocacy groups, such as the Coalition against Ultraconservatism in Education, Educational Action, and Teachers Against School Without Party have also been warning about these heinous attacks.

In 2018 and 2022, 80 education and human rights organizations in Brazil published and updated a manual to protect teachers in response to attempts to ban discussions in schools about gender, race, sexuality, and critical perspectives on Brazilian history and inequality, as well as in response to the increase in the harassment, threats, censorship, and harassment via the courts, of education professionals.

Despite these challenges, progress has been made, much of it due to the actions of organized sectors of civil society. In 2020 and 2024, the Federal Supreme Court ruled that laws aimed at banning or silencing human rights and sexuality education were unconstitutional, ordering the Brazilian state to promote these topics as a way of combating the sexual abuse of children and adolescents and violence against girls, women and LGBT people.

In October 2023, the Chamber of Deputies held the first public hearing on harassment against teachers for topics covered in the classroom. In 2023, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Rights supported the launch of the National Observatory on Violence against Educators to study the harassment and censorship of teachers.

In response to the wave of school violence, the government also announced a series of measures to support schools, including the provision of additional funding for security training, infrastructure and equipment. The government also created a Technical Working Group to Combat Bullying, Prejudice and Discrimination in Education. The group aims to give effect to a Supreme Court decision that ordered the creation of policies to prevent and combat discrimination based on gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation in schools.

The new CNMP recommendation is another step in the right direction and responds to the desire expressed by the Brazilian population in the Education, Values ​​and Rights survey (2022): 73% of people said they were in favor of sexual education in schools and more than 90% understand that it is essential to prevent sexual abuse of children and adolescents.

State and municipal legislatures should repeal or reject any laws or bills that aim to ban education on human rights and sexuality. In addition, education departments should offer robust support to education professionals, ensuring that they feel confident and protected when teaching this essential content. Only in this way will Brazil be able to effectively combat the structural causes that fuel school violence and create an environment where students and educators can develop a critical and creative education, free from prejudice, discrimination and violence.

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Kentucky Republicans Overturn Ex-Gay Torture Ban

The Associated Press reports:

Kentucky’s Republican lawmakers have passed a measure to protect conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ youths as part of a bill that also would outlaw the use of Medicaid funds to pay for gender-affirming health care for transgender Kentucky residents. Conversion therapy is the scientifically discredited practice of using therapy to “convert” LGBTQ+ people to heterosexuality or traditional gender expectations.

GOP lawmakers voted to remove restrictions that Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear placed on the practice last year. He banned spending tax dollars to pay for the practice on minors, saying his executive order was needed to protect children. Its lead sponsor, GOP Rep. David Hale, has said families should have access to the mental health care of their choice, and said his bill would protect mental health care professionals, institutions and ordained ministries from discrimination.

Read the full article. The bill passed in both chambers with veto-proof majorities.

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ICE uses 227-year old law to ‘disappear’ LGBTQ+ asylum-seeker because of his tattoos

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An LGBTQ+ asylum-seeker has reportedly been deported from the US because of his tattoos.

Lindsay Toczylowski, the founder and president of Immigrant Defenders Law Centre (ImmDef), claimed that one of her clients, a Venezuelan tattoo artist, had been deported to El Salvador because of misconceptions regarding their body art, reports The Pride LA.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials reportedly used the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, a measure instigated to deport people threatening the country’s safety. It was last invoked to intern people of Japanese descent during World War II.

Immigration officers reportedly said the tattoos were related to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal organisation. Toczylowski says they were mistaken.

“Our client’s tattoos are not gang-related,” she said. “They are benign and reflect his work in the arts. ICE submitted photos of his tattoos as ‘evidence,’ despite there being no other proof of any criminal affiliation.”

The client reportedly fled Venezuela last year to escape persecution and made it to the US “seeking protection,” but was held in ICE prisons for months before being deported.

Toczylowski was “horrified” by the development, and worried about what “might happen to him now”.

ImmDef grew concerned after ICE did not bring the man to a court hearing. The government lawyer had no idea why he wasn’t there, it is claimed.

After contacting the Texas facility where her client had been held, Toczylowski was told that he was “no longer there” and had “disappeared from [the] online detainee locator”.

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What is the Alien Enemies Act? 

The act grants the president full authority to detain or remove individuals from the U.S. based solely on their nationality or suspected ties to enemy organisations. The law does not require concrete evidence before deportation, raising concerns among legal experts and human rights organisations.

The Trump administration was ordered to stop using the 227-year-old law when district judge James Boasberg issued an emergency order.

Trump has claimed that Tren de Aragua was “perpetrating, attempting and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.”

However, the judge ruled that the law did not offer a good basis for deportations, saying the terms “invasion” and “predatory incursion” relate to “hostile acts perpetrated by enemy nations”.

The matter is set to reach the Supreme Court, according to the BBC.

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Lesotho LGBTQ+ organization says it has not received $8 million from US as claimed by Trump

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A Lesotho LGBTQ+ rights organisation says that it did not receive eight million dollars in funding from the US, despite Donald Trump’s recent claim. 

During his presidential address to Congress on Tuesday (4 March) Trump made a claim about Lesotho’s main LGBTQ+ rights organisation, the People’s Matrix. 

“Eight million dollars to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho”, he said of the organisation, adding that “nobody has ever heard” of the country in Southern Africa. 

‘We do not have such moneys’ 

In response, People’s Matrix spokesperson Tampose Mothopeng alleged that Trump’s claim was baseless. They told AFP: “We are literally not receiving grants from the US. 

“We have no idea of the allocation of eight million dollars. We do not know who received or is going to receive that money.

“We do not have such moneys or a contract that would even reach a quarter of half of that money.” 

As reported by the Daily Mail, the US government’s foreign assistance websiteindicated that around $120 million had been spent on “health and population” programmes in the country last year, including $43.5 million to tackle HIV/AIDS. The site does not list any financial support for LGBTQ+ rights in Lesotho.

Lesotho’s Foreign Affairs Minister Lejone Mpotjoane also weighed in on the president’s comments, saying it was “shocking” to hear the president “refer to another sovereign state in that manner.”

“To my surprise, ‘the country that nobody has heard of’ is the country where the U.S. has a permanent mission,” Mpotjoane told AFP. “Lesotho is a member of the UN and of a number of other international bodies. And the U.S. has an embassy here and [there are] a number of U.S. organizations we’ve accommodated here in Maseru.”

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Trump’s Lesotho claim follows White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt falsely stating that international development agency USAID had spent $47,000 funding a trans opera in Colombia, stoking further outrage.

USAID has been under heavy attack since Trump’s inauguration. In February, Trump attacked the aid agency’s leadership saying they were a “bunch of radical lunatics.” Elon Musk also took to X to describe the agency as “evil” and a “viper’s nest of radical-left Marxists who hate America.”

Musk also tweeted a baseless claim that USAID “funded bioweapon research, including COVID-19, that killed millions of people.”

During his two hour Congress address on Tuesday, Trump also stood by a series of anti-trans executive orders, ranted about “transgender mice,” and faced a protest staged by Democrats, who waved “Musk Steals” and “Save Medicaid” signs as he spoke before walking out mid-speech in a bid to protest his actions.

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City Council declares Boston a ‘sanctuary city’ for transgender community

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City Council members voted 12-1 Wednesday to make Boston a sanctuary cityfor members of the transgender community.

Councilor-at-Large Julia Mejia and District 9 Councilor Liz Breadon called on Boston to adopt the measure supporting transgender people, pointing to what they see as harmful rhetoric coming from President Donald Trump and the White House.

“Boston is not going to back down,” Mejia said Wednesday. “We’re seeing attacks on our trans loved ones, and here on the local level, a lot of folks are feeling helpless.”

Breadon, the first openly gay woman elected to the council, said the country faces “unprecedented times” when “many of our neighbors are feeling unsafe and insecure for various reasons.”

“This resolution addresses a particular concern that we need to elevate and raise up,” she said at Wednesday’s council meeting. “During the election and since, there’s been an incredible escalation in anti-trans rhetoric and violence that has caused incredible stress and anxiety to our LGBTQI+ community, and especially to our trans brothers and sisters.”

The resolution says, in part, that Boston has “a specific commitment to protecting transgender and gender-diverse individuals. Taxpayer-funded agencies shall not comply with federal efforts to strip resources that safeguard their rights. Boston will not cooperate with federal or state policies that harm transgender and gender-diverse people and remains committed to ensuring their access to healthcare, housing, education, and employment without fear or discrimination.”

Mejia and Breadon acknowledged that the resolution is symbolic and nonbinding, but Mejia said it is a critical first step and an “opportunity to set the groundwork for the legislation.”

Councilor Ed Flynn was the only member to vote against the measure.

“I would like to learn more about what this resolution does,” Flynn said, according to the Boston Herald. “I don’t want to be disrespectful to anybody, but it’s just something I would like to have before I vote.”

Sam Whiting of the Massachusetts Family Institute, a group that describes itself as recognizing “the male and female sexes as a real and enduring part of a person’s created nature, not an imaginary social construct,” pushed back against the councilors’ framing of the Trump administration’s actions regarding transgender people.

“We think it misrepresents the executive orders, and we do support these orders and the efforts to protect children from the harms of gender ideology,” Whiting told NBC Boston.

Boston’s declaration that it’s a “sanctuary city for transgender persons” and other members of the LGBTQ community follows similar actions in the Massachusetts cities of Worcester and Cambridge.

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Man planning to testify in favor of anti-trans bill ends up apologizing to trans people instead

An older Wisconsin man apologized to the transgender community during a hearing on a proposed anti-trans bill in his state’s legislature. 

The man, identified as Larry Jones of Milwaukee by the Wisconsin Examiner, said he originally came to the hearing to voice his support for state Assembly Bill 104, which seeks to ban all forms of gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 and threatens to revoke the medical licenses of any doctors who provide it. But after hearing directly from trans people, Jones changed his mind. 

“I was invited here to give my support for [the bill]. I have very little knowledge of gay people and things like that. So, when I came here, my eyes were opened,” he said during his testimony.

A video of the apology, shared by the ACLU of Wisconsin, explains that Larry waited for over six hours in an overflow room to testify in favor of the bill. While talking to others during the wait, he realized how much he didn’t know.

“I was one of the critics that sat on the side and made the decision there was only two genders,” he said. “So I got an education that was unbelievable, and I don’t know just exactly how to say this, but my perspective for people have changed… I’d like to apologize for being here, and I learned a very lot about this group of people.”

“He could’ve just left,” one person commented on TikTok. “But he still chose to speak and publicly admit he had been ignorant on something and had since changed his mind. What a great man. The world needs more Larrys.”

“This made me cry,” said another. “He showed up. He listened. He learned. He changed his perspective. And then he spoke publicly . That is truly remarkable in this climate. Bravo Larry! I’d love to buy you a beer.”

A third simple wrote: “Hope. There is hope. There is hope.”

Despite Larry’s change of heart, as well as the fact that a reported 79 people appeared to speak against the bill compared to only 18 who spoke in favor (including the bill’s authors), the GOP chose to advance the legislation in a 10-5 vote along party lines. Regardless of what happens next, the bill is unlikely to become law because Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) has vowed to veto anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. 

But State Rep. Lisa Subeck (D) told the Wisconsin Examiner she still believes the emotional hearing was indicative of progress. 

State Rep. Adam Neylon (R) stated during the hearing that his support for the bill is not “judgment on trans people” but rather his desire for a “conservative approach to medical care that may be irreversible.”

“If you’re accusing us of wanting to be conservative when it comes to the medical care of minors, then that is true…,” Neylon said. “That doesn’t mean we want them [deceased], right? That doesn’t mean we don’t recognize their right to exist.”

The bill, he added, “might not be hitting directly where it should and it might come across political, and I understand the pain and I wanted to stay [at the hearing] to make sure that people had an opportunity to share their things… I would be angry if I was young too, but it’s not coming from a place of saying, like trying to other them or saying, like, you don’t belong in our society.”

Subeck said the comments from lawmakers during the hearing “was a little bit closer to the conversations that we often have when we are sitting one-on-one, talking to each other.” 

“In private, legislators have a lot of conversations that don’t reflect the votes that are taken on the floor,” Subeck said. “It makes me a little bit hopeful, because while my Republican colleagues continue down the path of voting their party line — even when they have said they have things to learn and it gives them pause — the fact that they were willing to even sit in that room, in sort of a public sphere, and have a conversation means that there is room for change.”

Not everyone was as open as Neylon, though. Committee Chair state Rep. Clint Moses (R) angered Democrats and trans advocates for allowing most of those in favor of the bill to speak first, rather than alternating between viewpoints, as is typical. 

“We sit here for all this time, all these people, you’re allowing the anti-trans voices to go first. It feels like the world is stacked against us and we’re getting tired of it,” testified Cory Neeley. “My voice is cracking because I’m literally fuming at the fact that I’ve sat here all day long listening to people call me a groomer. People calling me a person who doesn’t care about their children… I’m a good parent.”

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Landmark Ruling on Trans Rights in Poland

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In a significant step toward affirming the rights of transgender people in Poland, the country’s Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling that eliminates the requirement for trans people to involve their parents in gender recognition proceedings.

Until now, transgender individuals – whether child or adult – seeking to change their gender marker on official documents were required to sue their parents. This was due to a convoluted legal claim that there needs to be two opposing parties in any civil action, which seeking to change a gender marker is classified as. This added unnecessary distress and legal complexities, including for trans people whose parents have died.

The ruling, welcomed by Polish civil society organizations including Campaign against Homophobiaand Trans-Fuzja Foundation, underscores the need for Poland to streamline gender recognition procedures, aligning them more closely with international human rights standards. Indeed, uncertainties remain, including whether married transgender people must divorce in order to obtain legal gender recognition, since Polish law, despite human rights obligations otherwise, does not recognize same-sex marriages.

This ruling comes at a time when trans rights in Poland remain a contentious issue. Far-right rhetoricdenigrates gender identity recognition and broader lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Poland, rejecting international and European standards, as well as evolving medical consensus. The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has long advocated for simplified gender recognition procedures, warning that onerous barriers can “harm physical and mental health.”

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Poland is a party, guarantees the rights to privacy and to equal recognition before the law, which incorporate the right to legal gender recognition, free from harmful or disproportionate obstacles.

The European Court of Human Rights, has in multiple judgements stated that states have “a positive obligation to provide quick, transparent and accessible procedures” for changing registered sex markers and failure to do so violates the right to private life. The European Union’s LGBTIQ Equality Strategy (2020-2025) similarly promotes “accessible legal gender recognition based on self-determination and without age restriction.”

While Poland’s progress is commendable, the battle for trans rights is far from over. Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who promisedduring his campaign to introduce a simplified gender recognition process, now has an opportunity to follow through in consultation with Polish trans people. His government should act swiftly to introduce legislation upholding trans people’s full right to self-identification, free from onerous requirements.

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Gay bar defends decision to eject Trump supporters despite their cries of “discrimination”

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On Friday night, a gay bar in Indianapolis was the scene of a heated exchange between Donald Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats and bar staff who say they abused them.

The bar staff threw them out.

“A group of individuals visited Chatterbox and intentionally misgendered and harassed a Chatterbox employee, resulting in them being asked to leave by our staff,” bar management posted to Instagram over the weekend. “They then continued verbally assaulting patrons and staff, threatened our establishment, and returned to record a video which has now been posted on multiple social media platforms.”

The video was recorded and posted to Facebook by Indianapolis resident Elise Hensley, who told News 8 that she’d visited the popular jazz bar several times, but this time, she and her friends wore MAGA hats.

In Hensley’s telling, “We went up to the bar and before we could even get a word out or order a drink, he just looked at me and said, ‘No,’” Hensley said. “I said, ‘Excuse me?’ He said, ‘Absolutely not.’ He said, ‘Your hat. You need to leave right now.’”

After getting ejected, Hensley returned, phone in hand, to confront the bar’s employees.

“I have a question,” Hensley told a bartender in the video. 

“No, no, we’re not answering questions,” they responded. “Get out of the bar.”

“Why?”

“Because you’re a Trump supporter.”

“I know, but don’t you guys want our money?”

“No. Actually, we don’t. Get out of my bar right now.”

A patron interjected: “You’re not welcome!”

“I’m not f**king around,” the bartender continued. “Get out of my bar.”

“Are you serious?” asked Hensley.

“I’m dead serious. Out.”

“Because I’m wearing a Trump hat.”

“Yes.”

“That’s wild.”

“I don’t care. Get out,” the bartender demanded again.

“We can call the police or you can just leave,” a colleague added.

“You know this is discrimination, right?” said Hensley.

Laughter erupted.

“Boo hoo! Boo-f**king-hoo” the bartender exclaimed. “Get out of my bar.”

A patron still laughing at Hensley’s claim added, “That’s funny.”

Hensley’s post earned tens of thousands of likes and was shared across right-wing media, including by Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith (R).

Beckwith, a pastor and self-described Christian nationalist, has said public school students in Indiana are taught “gay” and “oral sex” and are “indoctrinated with Marxist ideology.”

Bar management was unrepentant about throwing the MAGA fans out.

“The Chatterbox is home to a diverse group of staff and patrons,” their post read. “We do not tolerate dehumanizing or disrespectful language or symbolism in our establishment. We have a right by law to refuse service to anyone who disrupts our business. We look forward to continue being a home for people who love music and appreciate our community.”

“I wore that hat because I do love our President of the United States,” Hensley said Sunday, oblivious — intentionally or not — to Trump’s views about the people she was confronting.

“He is our president. I do appreciate that and I don’t think I find anything wrong with me wanting to wear a Trump hat because he is our president.”

Hensley also attempted to defend herself by saying one of her friends with her at the bar that night was Black: “They probably have every right to kick me out,” she told News 8. “If you don’t want me at your bar, that is what it is. But also, the man that was with me was an African American male. He was wearing a Trump hat.”

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