Calendargate

The Calendargate controversy among American conservatives developed in December 2023 after the release of a 2024 calendar featuring photographs of female conservative activists and commentators, several of whom wore revealing clothing. Debates online among conservatives, including some of the women who had posed for the calendar, continued on social media websites into 2024.^[1]

Social conservatives, evangelicals, and postliberals criticized it for its display of public sexuality. More libertarians and barstool conservatives sided in favor of the calendar against the criticism, describing it as overly puritanical and censorious. Observers from that side of the political spectrum cited the controversy as reflecting continued tension between the two factions that had united to support former president Donald Trump in his re-election bid.^{[citation needed]}