Two Years After ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal, Threats of Gay “Chaos” Still Unfound - Human Rights Campaign

Contents:

• TWO YEARS AFTER ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’ REPEAL, THREATS OF GAY “CHAOS” STILL UNFOUND
• LET THE GAY CHAOS OF THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE CONSUME YOUR LIFE (OR, AT LEAST, YOUR LONG WEEKEND)
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW TOOK EFFECT. CHAOS ENSUED
• GAYCHAOS STORI

TWO YEARS AFTER ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’ REPEAL, THREATS OF GAY “CHAOS” STILL UNFOUND

WASHINGTON – Tomorrow marks the send anniversary of the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), a law that prohibed qualified gay and lbian Amerins om servg openly the armed forc. Yet supporters of the discrimatory policy alleged that allowg openly-gay and lbian Amerins to serve would e great triment to the Armed Forc, and endanger the liv of service members.

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LET THE GAY CHAOS OF THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE CONSUME YOUR LIFE (OR, AT LEAST, YOUR LONG WEEKEND)

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FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW TOOK EFFECT. CHAOS ENSUED

This is the same GOP-ntrolled body that watched Indiana take on the ch last year followg the passage of s anti-LGBT iative and yet still moved forward wh enactg a package of antigay "relig refal" laws that allow publicly fund adoptn agenci to ny adoptns to same-sex parents.

GAYCHAOS STORI

Ined, we lost 30-some antigay marriage measur before we celebrated roundg victori on four marriage-related measur 2012. If we lost Michigan 2016 and me back to w 2019, that would still be faster than wag for lobbyg efforts to take hold the Great Lak verg the movement for the last and chroniclg s advanc my book Don't Tell Me to Wa: How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed Ameri and Transformed Obama's Princy, I have e to believe that the ph-pull between our tablishment groups and grassroots efforts is not only a necsary tensn but the ial for advancg our stggle for equaly.

The advisory lists many of the velopments that have ma Florida ls safe beyond the var anti-LGBTQ+ laws that have been enacted, such as laws rtrictg abortn rights and reproductive tn, and the elimatn of Ain-Amerin studi, as well as an crease of homophobic and racial harassment and vlence. In orr to get hard data on how DeSantis’ culture war is impactg LGBTQ+ fai Florida, rearchers at UCLA’s Whe Instute nducted a survey to measure the rponse of LGBTQ+ fai to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

The report was released last January, and don’t reflect rponse to the latt round of anti-LGBTQ+ laws to e out of Tallahassee — cludg expandg the “Don’t Say Gay” bill to ver all school gras K-12. Acrdg to the survey, “9 out of 10 (88%) LGBTQ parents are very or somewhat ncerned about the impact that HB 1557 [the “Don’t Say Gay” bill] will have on them and their children, wh one four reportg they have experienced anti-LGBTQ+ harassment sce the law was passed and one five reportg beg ls out their muni sce the law was passed.