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Contents:

• I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• FIGHT CLUB IS GAY?
• INTRODUCG THE MOST OUTRAGEOLY GAY FIGHT VIO OF ALL TIME
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• GAY FIGHT
• GAY MARRIAGE
• 20 ROLUTNS FOR FIGHTG THE GAY AGENDA

I'M A GAY ARMY OFFICER—QUEER TROOPS MT FIGHT BACK

But as a gay man, I have been fightg my whole life to enjoy the very privileg I am entled to as both a beholr and protector of them.

I was one of few soldiers who joed the service before graduatg high school, but the admistratn at the time, which I believe was homophobic, chose to act as if I never existed bee of my queer hate that I experienced growg up on Long Island was my first enunter wh how others would treat me as a queer soldier. The projects were elimated as part of a Republin en bloc amendment that advanced a range of Republin cultural prri, cludg a provisn that would ban flyg gay pri flags over ernment buildgs. Mark Pon said the mtee’s move to strip the earmarks was “bigoted” and scribed his own experience gettg attacked leavg a gay bar that left him unnsc.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON'T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER'S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

“It’s clearly, and directly a bigoted cisn, bee the Republin Party don’t like gay people, ” she said. Democratic policians across California nmned a volatile anti-gay prott outsi a suburban Los Angel school board meetg on Tuday, as the school board heard public ment on whether to officially signate June as LGBTQ+ Pri month. The cy uncil Huntgton Beach had prevly voted not to display the Pri flag on cy the state’s Inland Empire regn, a school board Temecula rejected a history curriculum bee of s mentn of the murred civil rights activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California history, who was posthumoly award the printial medal of eedom.

”Lol news acunts and footage of the volatile anti-gay protters Glendale and North Hollywood showed some protters g rhetoric now mon far-right protts across the Uned Stat, suggtg that LGBTQ+ people are pedophil or predators, and argug that any mentn of the existence of gay people or gay fai is appropriate for young children. Many wore intil T-shirts readg “Leave our kids alone, ” and some voked Christian fah as the reason for their opposn to Pri events are faiar l of attack that have often been mobilised by anti-gay activists the past, cludg by Ana Bryant her “Save our Children” mpaign the 1970s, which also foced on “parents’ rights” as a way to ph back agast advanc civil rights for gay as equaly for LGBTQ+ people has bee creasgly popular and accepted the US, wh 71% of rponnts a recent Gallup poll exprsg support for same-sex marriage, many Amerins scribed the renewed attacks as ighteng and disturbg.

Trans people have been sgled out as the foc of much of the legislatn, and ntue to be the target of many particularly vilent polil attacks, but, as Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, which regulat what tors are allowed to discs public school classrooms, any mentn of genr inty or homosexualy is now g unr attack. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn's 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

FIGHT CLUB IS GAY?

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic.

To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

Fight club is very homoerotic, and I don't unrstand how people still have a hard time acceptg or at least acknowledgg this. For the purpos of this post, I'm kd of gog to be gog through the movie a First-Time-Viewg lens, and potg out the scen that seem gay whout the power of hdsight. *Somethg about the narrator sayg "We should do this aga sometime, " after their first time fightg pecially feeds to the gay sex allegory.

INTRODUCG THE MOST OUTRAGEOLY GAY FIGHT VIO OF ALL TIME

I feel the need to reerate, bee this subredd don't have a great history of beg very lerate, this is an amalgamatn of my opns om my first-time watchg this movie, and also my sire to see more gay characters movi.

Fight club, even wh 's plot twist, still across as pretty gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Latvia swore the first openly gay print of a Baltic natn Rkēvičs, who sce 2011 was the untry’s foreign mister, was elected by Parliament May after Print Egils Levs did not seek re-electn.

”Rkēvičs “proudly” announced he is gay on Twter November 2014, though the untry, a former Soviet republic, is not pecially LGBTQ-clive. ” He said he knew there would be “mega hysteria, ” but he end wh the hashtag “#Proudtobegay. She is thought to be the first openly gay prime mister the was an active unnist her nearly 10 years workg as a flight attendant, acrdg to the Council of Women World Lears, a work of female heads of state.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

After the accatn, he said, he was chased down the street by reporters, one of whom yelled, “Yet they say you’re a homosexual!

”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.

“To be natnally blamed, to be nsired as not normal, to be nsired as a danger for young people — ’s not realizg that beg gay is not a choice, ” Bettel said, acrdg to Rters.

GAY FIGHT

“Hopefully this will blow over three or four days, and then I won’t be known as the gay mister, ” she told The Associated Prs at the Varadkar Prime Mister of Ireland (2017-20, 2022-prent)Irish Prime Mister Leo Varadkar Bssels on June 30.

Ludovic Mar / AFP - Getty Imag fileVaradkar beme Ireland’s first openly gay Taoiseach, or prime mister, 2017 and served until 2020. That’s what two gay parents, Robbie Pierce and Neal Broverman, experienced this week when a man acsted them and their two small children on an Amtrak tra om Los Angel to San Francis.

The man screamed at them for simply beg a fay, g anti-LGBTQ language and homophobic trop that date back s. Take the three people who were attacked as they were leavg a drag show Old Town Pasana, or the gay club Brooklyn that was set on fire, or the aths of two Black, transgenr women Chigo, at least one of which was led a murr (the other is still unr vtigatn).

GAY MARRIAGE

Pierce, who shared his experience on Twter, wrote that while his fay had enuntered homophobia before, characterizatns like “pedophil” and “rapists” were new. Ron DeSantis, who signed the “Don’t Say Gay” law that bans any mentn of sexual orientatn or genr inty om krgarten to third gra.

And now DeSantis has gone after Disney World’s stat as an “pennt special district, ” after the pany’s CEO said he’d support the repeal of the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. Comedian Dave Chappelle's latt special clus a claratn of transphobia, a boast about beatg up a butch lbian, and an allegatn that rapper DaBaby's homophobia sparked more outrage than the killgs of Black Amerins -- and an assertn that Chappelle's through wh jok about LGBTQ+ the Netflix special The Closer, which dropped Tuday, Chappelle fends J.

20 ROLUTNS FOR FIGHTG THE GAY AGENDA

" In addn, he says he nearly got to a physil fight wh a whe gay man who nonted him a discsg DaBaby, who disparaged gay people and those livg wh HIV remarks at a ncert this summer, Chappelle says the rapper "punched the LGBTQ muny right the AIDS, " then says more people know of that cint than a fight DaBaby was volved at a Walmart 2018, where one person was killed.

"Chappelle "ignor the fact that there are plenty of nonwhe gay people who face opprsn for both their sexual orientatn and their race, " NPR's Eric Deggans wr. "And, of urse, opposg the public statements of homophobia isn't jt about makg gay people feel better; 's about keepg the anger and prejudice behd those words om beg wily acceptable or turng to actn.