It Pays to Be Gay: The 330th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

On this, our 330th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss pride and fascism. In California, companies get preferential consideration for utilities contracts if they can demonstrate that they belong to June’s most popular “oppressed” class—LGBTQ. Proof will be required, however. Evidence can take the form of “attempted parenting” with a same-sex partner, a therapist’s letter confirming transgender status, or a TikTok account, among other things. Meanwhile among the GenZ’s, 31% of young women identify as LGBTQ—and mostly it’s B. Young women claiming they’re bisexual is yet another social contagion—it’s safer than cutting or taking cross-sex hormones, and it puts you in good standing to get money from the state of California! Then: what is fascism? Umberto Eco proposed 14 features found in fascism; we review.

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Mentioned in this episode:

Rufo and Hufford in City Journal: https://www.city-journal.org/article/california-gay-business-contracts-utilities

LGBTQ Status Qualifiers for Business Owners: https://nglcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/LGBTQ-Status-Qualifiers-for-Business-Owners-1.pdf

Randal Olson on genZ’s embrace of LGBTQ: https://www.randalolson.com/2026/06/09/lgbtq-identification-by-generation

Umberto Eco on ur-fascism: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism

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