#michael Holbrook

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Ryan Adamczeski at The Advocate:

An Ohio judge has upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, as well as its ban on trans girls and women in women's sports. Two families of young trans people filed a lawsuit against the state's law in March after Ohio lawmakers passed the legislation in January by overriding Gov. Mike DeWine’s veto. The families argued that the law violates the Ohio Constitution because it deals with more than one subject — sports and health care — which goes against the single-subject rule. While the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas temporarily ruled in favor of the families in April, Franklin County Judge Michael J. Holbrook overturned its decision Tuesday, allowing the state's law to go into effect. Patients under 18 can no longer receive gender-affirming care, save for an exception allowing those already on the treatment to continue.

Holbrook wrote in his ruling that those “dissatisfied with the General Assembly’s determinations" must settle their grievances "through their vote as opposed to the judicial system.” “This is a devastating result for our clients and families like theirs across the state of Ohio," Harper Seldin, senior staff attorney at American Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement. "HB 68’s ban on medical treatments for gender dysphoria remains medically baseless and genuinely dangerous to the current and future well-being of transgender youth in the state. We are particularly appalled the court claims the ‘regulation of transgender individuals’ is a legitimate subject for the legislature under the state constitution."

In Moe v. Yost, Judge Michael Holbrook laws Ohio’s gender-affirming care ban for trans minors and trans women in women’s sports ban combo law (HB68) to take effect.

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LGBTQ Nation: Ohio judge upholds state ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors

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Wanted to do a piece related to Mika’s music for a while :) he’s definitely one of my all time favorite artists 

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This lives rent free in my head

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if anyone else cared

[clowninacollar]

Hello fellow Mika fans on tumblr, I know theres only a small handful of you that are still somewhat active here these days but like

let's hang out

[justasmallbloginabigklainefandom]

Well I'm literally in the train from the MIKA concert in Amsterdam and apparently this was the second leg of the show, so there is a new set list and here it is:

Bougez (English version that apparently exists)

Origin of Love

Talk About You

Big Girl You Are Beautiful

... a song I didn't know, which surprised me

Relax, Take It Easy

Yo-Yo

Good Guys

Elle Me Dit

Lollipop

Popular Song

Billy Brown

Grace Kelly

Rain

Happy Ending

Love Today

In Any Other World

We Are Golden

[everysongineverykey]

sometimes i'm fine and then i remember the lyrics to mika's good guys and i think about how the queer icons i look up to today had their own queer role models in the past that they were inspired by and found hope in just as i find hope in them and how queer people have been finding solace in community for centuries and "if we are all in the gutter, it doesn't change who we are, cause some of us in the gutter are looking up at the stars" directly referencing oscar wilde's "we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars" quote from a hundred years ago. and i am no longer fine

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Broke: danse macabre

Woke: apocalypse calypso

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when MIKA said:

"I was born in that summer when the sun didn't shine

I was given the name that doesn't feel like it's mine

Lived my life as the good boy I was told I should be

Prayed every night to a religion that was chosen for me."

that was for transsexuals.

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Origin of Love / Que ta tête flourisse tojours

[invinciblemjgirl]

MIKA - Apocalypse Calypso (Official Music Video)

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Watching Mika concerts on YouTube and watching Mika sensually writhe around on stage bathed in red light while crooning something to the crowd in French is a vibe, a moment, art in motion.

A living Icon, Legend in the making.

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List of full Mika concerts (professionally filmed) I found:

Parc de Princes 2008

Showcase Seoul 2015

With interview: https://youtu.be/fmSskDO0dYs

Bejing 2015

Samsung Showcase 2015

Palladium 2016

Sinfonia Pop 2016

Bercy 2019

And: https://youtu.be/l_q93M8ffuA

(Pride Concert 2020)

L'Opera Royal de Versailles 2021

Philharmonie de Paris 2021

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I love mika’s songs so much, they are the reason I’m still alive

[everysongineverykey]

WHY does blue have the second least listens on my name is michael holbrook. you people are telling me you heard “all this to say, that it’s okay, no matter what life throws at you, i will always love the blue in you” and “blue like the ocean’s water, but you’re blue when it falls as rain” and “why are humans cruel to you, you faithful friend, you truthful blue” and “red like the flame that burns in you, but the hottest part of it is blue” and “blue is a feminine color, blue is deep and bold, blue is like no other, as sacred as it’s old” and DIDN’T have to lie down and let the soft earth consume you as gentle tears rolled down your face for hours and months and years????? fucking outrageous. anyway everyone listen to blue by mika if you haven’t yet. i love music