Project 2025 is Coming for Your Porn… And You… Bigly
You can smell it in the air—the wretched stench of a steaming pile of rotting trash, and it’s called Project 2025. A 920-page dystopian nightmare disguised as a policy proposal, it was written by an amalgamation of ultra-conservative groups who would rather see LGBTQ+ people disappear into the shadows than breathe the same air as them. It’s a bloated document full of policies targeting everything from hard-earned rights to healthcare, access to steamy content, and anything they can consider “pornography” in between.
What Exactly Is Project 2025?
Project 2025 was created by throwing a little jamboree with dozens of conservative and religious-right organizations and spinning their ideas into a web of bitter nonsense under the direction of the Heritage Foundation. You can find most of the co-signers on The Southern Poverty Law Center’s top fan-favorite LGBTQ+ hate groups list. You know, the same folks who have opposed LGBTQ+ rights for years? Yes, those cunts.
The intentionally ambiguous document is their blueprint for what they want the first 180 days of a second Trump administration—or whoever they can get into a position of lawmaking power—to look like. Their endgame? Rolling back the rights and freedoms that have been fought for over the past few decades. We're talking about the potential for banning what they consider pornography entirely and scrubbing federal laws of any mention of sexual orientation or gender identity.
What Do They Consider Pornography?
Glad you asked, because this is the major kicker. Remember how hard they came for drag queens? Calling them “child predators” and “groomers”? They’re playing even harder this go-round. Pornography, in their esteemed view, is YOU. Project 2025 redefines “pornography” as anything related to sexuality and gender that they deem harmful to children. Read that again because it is very important. By their definition, pornography can, and if you follow the thread, will include pretty much any and all LGBTQ+ content since it isn’t representative of what they call “traditional family values.” Anyone caught owning or sharing this so-called "porn" could end up behind bars. Again, this is all in their own words.
Yes—sharing LGBTQ+ content could become a crime. They’re not just talking about banning what we usually consider adult content, like videos or pics of sex acts between consenting adults, which they are seeking to 100% limit access to if not outright ban (and that’s bad enough). No, they mean anything from children’s library books featuring two dads instead of a mom and dad, fine art hung in federally funded museums depicting two women kissing, references in history texts to poetry about boys falling in love with other boys, educational materials about gender identity, gay marriage, etc. If you think they’ll be content with just halting access to sites like Just for Fans, Grindr, and Pornhub, you’re giving them far too much credit. Their list of what they want to disappear will almost certainly include anything and everything LGBTQ+ related.
What Would Be the Penalty in This New Hellscape?
Oh, they’re very much not fucking around about the penalties. They want, again, in their exact words, to throw everyone involved in what they will call “porn” —from creators to teachers to doctors to librarians to internet service providers—into prison and register them as sex offenders. Another good time to read that sentence again.
They want to take us all back to a time when not just adult content, but anything even remotely queer, was labeled “obscene.” And they aren’t hiding this deep in the recesses of the document either. The first mentions are on page 5. Yes, page FIVE. If this becomes law, don’t think for a second it won’t have real consequences. You’ve already seen what happened after the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Here are a few sections of text from Project 2025’s plan for criminalizing pornography:
“Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and the sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.” (Mandate for Leadership 2025, Page 5)
“All digital content providers will be required to implement stringent controls to ensure content deemed obscene is inaccessible to minors, protecting their moral development.” (Mandate for Leadership 2025, Page 509)
“Obscene content, which undermines traditional family values, will be subject to strict scrutiny and regulation under new federal guidelines.” (Mandate for Leadership 2025, Page 510)
“Where warranted and proper under federal law, initiate legal action against local officials—including District Attorneys—who deny American citizens the ‘equal protection of the laws’ by refusing to prosecute criminal offenses in their jurisdictions. This holds true particularly for jurisdictions that refuse to enforce the law against criminals based on the Left’s favored defining characteristics of the would-be offender (race, so-called gender identity, sexual orientation, etc.) or other political considerations (e.g., immigration status).” (Mandate for Leadership 2025, Page 533)
“But We Have Legal Protections, Right?”
Sure you do, but under Project 2025, you probably won’t. This isn’t just about criminalizing content—it’s about erasing rights too. They also seek to overturn the legal protections that keep LGBTQ+ people safe from discrimination in housing, employment, and healthcare. Check out glaad.org and their Project 2025 Exposed section for more in-depth information on this.
Censor. Censor. Censor. Erase. Erase. Erase.
Think we’re being overdramatic? Go back to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and look at how fast and far states ran with that ball immediately after the ruling. It’s not a stretch to see where these policies could land huge parts of the United States—or, worse, all of the US, if this goes national, which is clearly the endgame (see text from page 533 above). They think of Roe as the opening act. They’re gunning for the rights to sexual privacy and bodily autonomy that underpin everything from abortion access to the right to exist as queer people in the world.
The plan can truly be thought of as pretty much an all-encompassing “Don’t Say Gay” policy that would scrub the internet and libraries of, again, not just adult content, but any LGBTQ+ content. Literally, it could potentially become a world where we can’t search for “drag brunch,” “LGBTQ+ friendly churches near me,” or “transgender care.” Access to your favorite adult streaming sites? Gone. Being able to log into your
favorite hookup apps? Gone. This blog and all its content? Gone. The photos of models in their Andrew Christian jocks? Gone. Your favorite bodice-ripper romance novel? Gone. The words you’re reading right now? Gone. The children’s book with two dads, the fine art of girls kissing, the poem about falling in love? Gone. Gone. Gone. The models, the actors, the artists, the authors, and the librarians who helped you check out the book? All in jail.
What You Can Do?
FUCKING VOTE. Because trust me, the people who are frothing to see all 920 pages come to fruition always do. This is no time to sit on the sidelines. Your voice matters, and it’s time to use it and give Project 2025 goals a deep reality check. Get your community talking about why the whole “labeling LGBTQ+ people as child predators” ideal is not only ludicrous but wildly outdated. Blast it on your social media accounts, tell it to your friends and frenemies alike, drop it into some DMs, shout it in the freaking town square, but do not be silent on this. You and your words are mighty and desperately necessary.
We Are the Power
Let’s be clear: The people behind Project 2025 aren’t just trying to censor porn— they’re trying to redefine it to control education, healthcare, bodies, minds, and futures. We cannot let this happen. The LGBTQ+ community and its allies are a force. Hate has been squared off against time and time again, and the rainbow family has come out stronger and more solidified each time. These rights have been fought too hard for to let them be ripped away.
Project 2025 might want to rewrite the story of our lives, but, baby, no one said we couldn’t grab that pen right out of their hands with our votes and continue to write a story of love, acceptance, and living truth!
More Resources:
Go to vote.org to make sure you are registered and ready to vote.
Want to take action? Check out reputable volunteer sites like ProtectTheVote.net, Indivisible.org, and MoveOn.org for loads of opportunities to get involved.
Read Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” courtesy of The Free Speech Coalition.
For further depth and explanation on Project 2025, go to whatisproject2025.net.
