October is LGBTQ+ History Month, but Every Day is Dick Day for Fox News's 'The Five' Host Jesse Watters

For insane insight on the mindset of Fox News personalities, watch "The Five" sometime – an hour of Biden-bashing, right-wing paranoia against the Left, "sky is falling" commentary, and the periodic homophobic outburst. Greg Gutfeld may lead the pack with his bullying ways and transphobic rants; but not far behind is Jesse Watters, the show's resident aging frat boy, whose smug assessments on cultural issues brought this latest gem aired this week.

With October upon us, Watters chose to spend airtime discussing LGBTQ+ History Month, but not to embrace it. Rather to claim that the LGBTQ+ community has an unfair advantage because queer people have two months of celebration.

Watters solution to this gross inequality is "to demand that there should only be one month assigned to each 'group,'" reports Meaww.com.

Whether or not Watters bothered to research LGBTQ+ History Month he would have learned it is not something new. This year marks its 29th year.

"The event was the brainchild of Rodney Wilson, a high school teacher and the founder of the first chapter of GLSEN – the LGBTQ organization dedicated to students and educators – outside of the group's home state of Massachusetts," reported LGBTQ Nation in 2018. "In the early 1990s, Wilson was teaching history and government at Mehlville High School in suburban St. Louis. It was while teaching at Mehlville, while lecturing on the Holocaust that Wilson came out to his students, explaining that had he been in Germany during World War II, he would likely have been imprisoned and killed under the Third Reich."

The event began humbly with Wilson as the founder on the first coordinating committee at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He chose October because the 11th was already designated National Coming Out Day. Another reason the month was chosen was to commemorate the National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, the first of its kind, held on the 14th of October, 1979.

But for Watters, the duality of two months (June and October) celebrating the queer community is one too many. He also accused someone with a multiple identity as having an advantage.

"If you think about it people are taking advantage because if you're a black lesbian, you get four months," Watters said. "You have Black History in February; you have women's month in May, probably, and in June you have Gay and then you have Gay History in September. That is a third of the year to celebrate yourself. Too Much. Too much celebration."

For the record, Meaww notes "Watters here seems to wrongly note that Women's Month is in May while it is actually in March." He also mis-identified the month of the celebration he was ranting against, which is October, not September.

And his solution? To marginalize the queer community by proposing how the months should ideally be assigned to communities.

"They have to have one month per group, that's it," he suggested.

He continued by suggesting that this is part of slippery slope. "And, I predict, they will have a gay month coming up. Either a trans month, probably a holiday where you get a day off. Remember you have Juneteenth. You are going to get a federal holiday where we don't have to come to work. Well...some of us won't have to come to work."

Harvey Milk's birthday a Federal Holiday? We can only wish.

The event that prompted Watters remark was a social media post that featured the interior secretary from the Biden Administration, Deb Halaand. She came together with climate activist drag queen Pattie Gonia to share a video discussing the importance of the LGBT History Month.

"The drag queen ranger Pattie Gonia?" said Watters mocking the activist who is dressed as a ranger in the clip. "Teaming up with Deb. They are doing this to celebrate Gay History Month (sic). We just had Gay Pride Month in June. Now, they have their own history month. They have two months."

He also chose the moment to cite his own heritage to justify his outrage. No, not the 99% of being a cis, privileged white man, but his Black heritage (!) "Now if I were a Black American, which I am technically. I am 1% Sub-Saharan African. I'd be pissed because Black Americans only have one month." Who knew? Watters does and has dropped this bit of information on the show previously.

His faux outrage over Pata Gonia and LGBT History Month came as lesbian icon and tennis star Martina Navratilova slammed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's interview with drag queen for LGBT History Month that took place at the Stonewall Memorial in NYC.

She called the video "a joke" and a "pathetic parody of women," Meaww reported earlier in the week.

"The tennis legend, who has long been considered an advocate of gay and lesbian rights, reacted vehemently to the LGBT History Month video shared by the Interior Secretary's official social media account."

Queer journalist Michael Musto called Navratilova on her comment, writing: "Butch lesbians always faced the same derision. "Not really a woman." We should all embrace each other. And this is a drag queen, not a trans person. They're certainly not trying to pass for female!"

To which Navratilova responded: "And how exactly are we supposed to know the difference? And please do not compare males to butch females. Thank you."

But Musto got the last word: "You can do 2 seconds of research, look at their profile or ask them. I figured it out from seeing him, then double checked it. He's openly male! And I'm talking about how OTHERS compare butch females to males and that's why you should be more sensitive. And yes, I will compare..."

Fact check: "Pattie Gonia, born Wyn Wiley, is a self-described "environmentalist, drag queen and professional homosexual," who promotes environmental activism through their creative films and theatrical productions," reported Meaww. "Wiley describes himself as a gay man. His "Gonia" persona however uses she/they pronouns while in drag. Out of drag, Wiley uses he/they pronouns."

If there's a takeaway from all of this posturing, it is not expect Watters or Navratilova to be a judge on "RuPaul's Drag Race" any time soon.