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Contents:

• US SUPREME COURT WEIGHS CLASH BETWEEN EE SPEECH AND GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?
• GAY RIGHTS SPEECHPHIL SNIRON LGBT RIGHTS 1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGAY RIGHTS SPEECH LYRICSSEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY9. COUNCIL BILL 2012-226AUGT 13, 2012[REV. DR. PHIL SNIR]GOOD EVENG, MY NAME IS THE REV. DR. PHIL SNIR. I WAS BORN AND RAISED SPRGFIELD, MISSOURI AND I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENG SUPPORT OF THIS ORDANCE. I WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR CY; ANY ACCURATE READG OF THE BIBLE SHOULD MAKE CLEAR THAT GAY RIGHTS GO AGAST THE PLA TTH OF THE WORD OF GOD, AS ONE PREACHER WARNS MAN, AND OVERSTEPPG THE BOUNDARY L GOD HAS DRAWN BY MAKG SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LBIANS HAS TAKEN ANOTHER STEP THE DIRECTN OF VG THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD UPON OUR LAND. THIS STEP OF GAY RIGHTS IS BUT ANOTHER STEPPG STONE TOWARD THE IMMORALY AND LAWLSNS THAT WOULD BE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE LAST DAYS.THIS ORDANCE REPRENTS A NIAL OF ALL THAT WE BELIEVE AND NO ONE SHOULD FORCE ON . IT’S NOT THAT WE DON’T RE ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS, BUT ’S OUR RIGHTS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY. AND UN-CHRISTIAN VIEWS WILL BE FORCED ON AND OUR CHILDREN FOR WE WILL BE FORCED TO GO AGAST OUR PERSONAL MORALS.OUTSI ERNMENT AGENTS ARE ENAVORG TO DISTURB GOD’S TABLISHED ORR THAT IS NOT LE WH THE BIBLE. DO NOT LET PEOPLE LEAD YOU ASTRAY.WHEN YOU N TO NFLICT WH GOD’S TABLISHED ORR YOU HAVE TROUBLE. YOU DO NOT PRODUCE HARMONY. YOU PRODUCE STCTN AND TROUBLE AND OUR CY IS THE GREATT DANGER THAN HAS EVER BEEN S HISTORY.THE REASON IS THAT WE’VE GOTTEN AWAY OM THE BIBLE OF OUR FOREFATHERS. YOU SEE THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN – I’M SORRY – HOLD ON!THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN IS CLEARLY TABLISHED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTUR BOTH BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.(ONE MUTE.)I’M SORRY, I’VE BROUGHT THE WRONG NOT WH ME THIS EVENG. I’VE BORROWED MY ARGUMENT OM THE WRONG CENTURY. IT TURNS OUT WHAT I HAVE BEEN READG TO YOU THIS WHOLE TIME IS DIRECT QUOT OM WHE PREACHERS OM THE 1950′S AND THE 1960′S, ALL SUPPORT OF RACIAL SEGREGATN.ALL I HAVE DONE IS SIMPLY TAKE OUT THE PHRASE "RACIAL SEGREGATN" AND SUBSTUTED WH THE PHRASE "GAY RIGHTS." I GUS THE ARGUMENTS I’VE BEEN HEARG AROUND SPRGFIELD LATELY SOUND SO SIAR TO THE THAT I GOT THEM NFED. I HOPE YOU WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. I HOPE YOU WILL STAND ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. THANK YOU.(ARE THERE ANY QUTNS?)THANK YOU.EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌LGBT RIGHTS (2013)LGBT RIGHTS1. THE HOPE SPEECHBRIEF OF AMICI CURAE CHRIS KLUWE AND BRENDON AYANBAJO SUPPORT OF RPONNTSDEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA)ROLUTN FOR MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN 2013BRIEF FOR THE UNED STAT AS AMIC CURIAE SUPPORTG RPONNTSPROPOSN 8 (CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE PROTECTN ACT)LAWRENCE V. TEXAS (DISSENT)OPEN LETTER TO EMMETT C. BURNS, JR.MARRIAGE EQUALY/COMG OUT SPEECHHRC AMERINS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALYGAY RIGHTS SPEECHCREDSTAGSNON-MICNEWS EXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
• A NEW CLASH BETWEEN FAH AND GAY RIGHTS ARRIV AT A CHANGED SUPREME COURT
• HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

US SUPREME COURT WEIGHS CLASH BETWEEN EE SPEECH AND GAY RIGHTS

ImageLorie Smh said her Christian fah requir her to turn away ctomers seekg servic to celebrate same-sex Woolf for The New York TimThe Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to sign weddg webs for same-sex upl spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people. ’”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative cisn also appeared to suggt that the rights of L. The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn.

Kavangh and Amy Coney Barrett, shifted the urt to the urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual owners of bs challengg those laws have argued that the ernment should not force them to choose between the requirements of their fahs and their livelihoods.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

A baker refed to make a weddg ke for their receptn on relig Cote for The New York TimHad there been an actual gay person who was refed a weddg-related service at the center of 303 Creative L. Irish-Amerin Gay, Lbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc., a se om 1995 which the urt sid wh the anizers of a veterans para that blocked a group of gay, lbian and bisexual people om marchg the event. Jtice Sotomayor seemed pecially ncerned about the way the urt’s opn would send a disapprovg msage to the public about people who are gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr, or who were same-sex relatnships.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

Addnally, several stat terpret existg laws agast sex discrimatn to apply to bias relatg to sexual orientatn and genr inty, even though they do not have laws explicly forbiddg such stat that do not offer protectns to gay and transgenr people on those grounds, municipal laws ver many Human Rights Campaign, an L. McCoy for The New York TimThe urt’s cisn favor of a Colorado web signer, Lorie Smh, had an unual feature: It was based on njecture and Smh, who objects to providg weddg-related servic for same-sex marriag, never turned down a gay uple. ETFriday’s lg was another reassurg cisn for relig celebratory moment outsi the Supreme Court on Friday, after the urt livered the latt a strg of judgments favor of relig Zuhaib/Associated PrsConservativ who have moral and theologil objectns to gay marriage saw the Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday as reassurance that they would be able to assert their beliefs a public square that they see as creasgly hostile to a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the jtic agreed wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

”Acrdg to pollg om 2021 by the Public Relign Rearch Instute, majori of most major relig groups — cludg Catholics, Jews and Mlims — oppose allowg small-bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian people on relig grounds. Several siar s have centered on nservative Christian small bs owners who object to workg on gay weddgs specifilly, cludg a baker Colorado, two vatn signers Arizona and a Kentucky-based a news nference shortly after the lg was issued, Krist Waggoner, general unsel for Alliance Defendg Freedom, which reprented Ms. ” She said her nsiratn acceptg work as a webse signer was the “msage” of the se, not the inty of the Smh’s portfol clus webs for church, real tate pani and polil many nservative Christians hailed the cisn on Friday, drew cricism om some progrsive Christians and terfah groups, cludg those that serve gay people of fah.

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

McCoy for The New York TimGay and transgenr rights anizatns on Friday nmned the Supreme Court lg backg a Colorado webse signer’s bid to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag, llg the cisn a dangero backslidg on L.

HARVEY MILK’S GAY FREEDOM DAY SPEECH: ANNOTATED

ETHere’s how urt battl over servg same-sex upl have played out the Cote for The New York TimIn the latt se volvg same-sex marriage rights, relig eedom and discrimatn, the Supreme Court on Friday led favor of a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right not to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that bans discrimatn agast gay ’s a brief look at some of the most proment s before Friday’s:A Colorado baker ws urtIn June 2018, the Supreme Court led favor of a Colorado baker who refed to bake a weddg ke for a gay uple.

Kennedy wrote that the missn’s members had acted wh “clear and impermissible hostily” to people wh scerely held relig Bra, a kemaker prevailsBra’s Supreme Court led favor of a bakery October 2018 that had refed to make a ke bearg the slogan “Support Gay Marriage, ” sayg the refal was not discrimatory. The urt’s cisn mak easier for bs Bra to cle ctomer requts that are at odds wh their dispute began 2014, when Gareth Lee, a gay rights activist Northern Ireland, sought to buy a ke for a party om Ashers Bakg Company Belfast that showed two “Same Street” characters, Bert and Ernie; a logo for his group, QueerSpace; and the slogan supportg gay marriage. A florist Washgton State says her rights were vlatedIn 2013, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of a flower shop the small cy of Richland, southeastern Washgton, refed to create floral arrangements for a gay uple’s two grooms, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, had prevly bought flowers at her store, Arlene’s Flowers.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

”Invatn signers sue the cy of PhoenixThe Arizona Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments January after two Christian vatn signers said they would refe to create weddg vatns for same-sex upl if Da and Breanna Koski, evangelil Christians and the owners of Bsh & Nib Stud, sued the cy of Phoenix 2016, sayg they feared legal retributn if they did not fulfill requts om gay or lbian upl. Colorado Civil Rights Cote for The New York TimThe Supreme Court’s cisn on Friday favor of a Colorado web signer has echo of a 2018 se about a baker who had turned away a gay uple seekg a weddg that cisn, Masterpiece Cakhop v. Kennedy, who wrote the majory opn the 7-to-2 cisn 2018, seemed unable to choose between two of his re mments: He was the thor of every major Supreme Court cisn protectg gay rights unr the Constutn and also the urt’s most arnt fenr of ee speech.

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, ” he wrote, “all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market. After the 2020 electn, Colorado bee a center of electn nspiraci, a e embraced by some of s state is “a nice enpsulatn on what lims have been placed on the Christian right and what power and fluence they n still yield, ” William Schultz, a historian at the Universy of Chigo Divy School who is workg on a book about Christian culture Colorado Sprgs, said last 1992, voters the state passed what was nsired at the time to be an unual ballot iative prohibg Colorado om regnizg gay, lbian and bisexual people as a protected class.

GAY RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Another poll by Pew found that almost half of whe evangelils born after 1964 favored same-sex marriage 2017, pared to about a quarter of olr whe fah groups that have tradnally opposed gay rights now support some acmodatns for same-sex marriage. PetersCoverg the media's tersectn wh polics, culture and lawThree years ago, Jtice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote today's opn favor of the webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, was the thor of a very different opn om the urt, lg that a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgenr employe om workplace discrimatn.

Emphasizg her view that prohibg bs om discrimatg agast gay people is a regulatn of nduct, not speech, she wr: “The majory’s repeated votn of this Orwellian thought policg is revealg of jt how much misunrstands this se. The New Republic published an article reportg that the Colorado webse signer who oppos same-sex marriage, and whose challenge to Colorado’s antidiscrimatn law took this se to the Supreme Court, may not have received an actual requt om a gay uple to create a weddg 30, 2023, 10:17 a.

ETHere’s what to know about the ee speech a 6-to-3 vote, spl along iologil l, the Supreme Court sid on Friday wh a web signer Colorado who said she had a First Amendment right to refe to provi servic for same-sex marriag spe a state law that forbids discrimatn agast gay people.

AMERI’S MOST IMPORTANT GAY-RIGHTS SPEECH?

”The se, though amed as a clash between ee speech and gay rights, was the latt a seri of cisns favor of relig people and groups, notably nservative Christians, who celebrated the lg on Friday as a victory for relig dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor lled the lg “profoundly wrong, ” argug that the Colorado anti-discrimatn law “targets nduct, not speech, for regulatn, and the act of discrimatn has never nstuted protected exprsn unr the First Amendment.

At the same time, the lg limed the abily of the ernments to enforce anti-discrimatn urts have generally sid wh gay and lbian upl who were refed service by bakeri, florists and others, lg that potential ctomers are entled to equal treatment, at least parts of the untry wh laws forbiddg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn. It also clus the rights to form social and polil anizatns, to socialize bars and rtrants, to march or prott peacefully, to produce art wh gay them and to speak out publicly about LGBT issu. This means protectg stunts om vlence, guaranteeg their right to anize events and clubs like other stunts, and makg sure that gay teachers who might serve as healthy role mols are not themselv victimized by discrimatn.

The ACLU has fought harassment of stunts California, Nevada, Oh and Washgton, fend gay teachers California, Idaho and Utah, and advoted for gay stunt groups Alabama, Indiana, Mnota, Utah and Wisns.

GAY RIGHTS SPEECHPHIL SNIRON LGBT RIGHTS 1 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTORGAY RIGHTS SPEECH LYRICSSEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY9. COUNCIL BILL 2012-226AUGT 13, 2012[REV. DR. PHIL SNIR]GOOD EVENG, MY NAME IS THE REV. DR. PHIL SNIR. I WAS BORN AND RAISED SPRGFIELD, MISSOURI AND I STAND BEFORE YOU THIS EVENG SUPPORT OF THIS ORDANCE. I WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR CY; ANY ACCURATE READG OF THE BIBLE SHOULD MAKE CLEAR THAT GAY RIGHTS GO AGAST THE PLA TTH OF THE WORD OF GOD, AS ONE PREACHER WARNS MAN, AND OVERSTEPPG THE BOUNDARY L GOD HAS DRAWN BY MAKG SPECIAL RIGHTS FOR GAYS AND LBIANS HAS TAKEN ANOTHER STEP THE DIRECTN OF VG THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD UPON OUR LAND. THIS STEP OF GAY RIGHTS IS BUT ANOTHER STEPPG STONE TOWARD THE IMMORALY AND LAWLSNS THAT WOULD BE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE LAST DAYS.THIS ORDANCE REPRENTS A NIAL OF ALL THAT WE BELIEVE AND NO ONE SHOULD FORCE ON . IT’S NOT THAT WE DON’T RE ABOUT HOMOSEXUALS, BUT ’S OUR RIGHTS WILL BE TAKEN AWAY. AND UN-CHRISTIAN VIEWS WILL BE FORCED ON AND OUR CHILDREN FOR WE WILL BE FORCED TO GO AGAST OUR PERSONAL MORALS.OUTSI ERNMENT AGENTS ARE ENAVORG TO DISTURB GOD’S TABLISHED ORR THAT IS NOT LE WH THE BIBLE. DO NOT LET PEOPLE LEAD YOU ASTRAY.WHEN YOU N TO NFLICT WH GOD’S TABLISHED ORR YOU HAVE TROUBLE. YOU DO NOT PRODUCE HARMONY. YOU PRODUCE STCTN AND TROUBLE AND OUR CY IS THE GREATT DANGER THAN HAS EVER BEEN S HISTORY.THE REASON IS THAT WE’VE GOTTEN AWAY OM THE BIBLE OF OUR FOREFATHERS. YOU SEE THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN – I’M SORRY – HOLD ON!THE RIGHT OF SEGREGATN IS CLEARLY TABLISHED BY THE HOLY SCRIPTUR BOTH BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.(ONE MUTE.)I’M SORRY, I’VE BROUGHT THE WRONG NOT WH ME THIS EVENG. I’VE BORROWED MY ARGUMENT OM THE WRONG CENTURY. IT TURNS OUT WHAT I HAVE BEEN READG TO YOU THIS WHOLE TIME IS DIRECT QUOT OM WHE PREACHERS OM THE 1950′S AND THE 1960′S, ALL SUPPORT OF RACIAL SEGREGATN.ALL I HAVE DONE IS SIMPLY TAKE OUT THE PHRASE "RACIAL SEGREGATN" AND SUBSTUTED WH THE PHRASE "GAY RIGHTS." I GUS THE ARGUMENTS I’VE BEEN HEARG AROUND SPRGFIELD LATELY SOUND SO SIAR TO THE THAT I GOT THEM NFED. I HOPE YOU WILL NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE. I HOPE YOU WILL STAND ON THE RIGHT SI OF HISTORY. THANK YOU.(ARE THERE ANY QUTNS?)THANK YOU.EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTHAVE THE SI SOP ON THIS SONG?SIGN UP AND DROP SOME KNOWLEDGESTART THE SONG BASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌LGBT RIGHTS (2013)LGBT RIGHTS1. THE HOPE SPEECHBRIEF OF AMICI CURAE CHRIS KLUWE AND BRENDON AYANBAJO SUPPORT OF RPONNTSDEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA)ROLUTN FOR MARRIAGE AND CHILDREN 2013BRIEF FOR THE UNED STAT AS AMIC CURIAE SUPPORTG RPONNTSPROPOSN 8 (CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE PROTECTN ACT)LAWRENCE V. TEXAS (DISSENT)OPEN LETTER TO EMMETT C. BURNS, JR.MARRIAGE EQUALY/COMG OUT SPEECHHRC AMERINS FOR MARRIAGE EQUALYGAY RIGHTS SPEECHCREDSTAGSNON-MICNEWS EXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

As a remr of what is supposed to be the sence of child-welfare policy, the ACLU’s Lbian and Gay Rights Project 1998 published a report entled In the Child’s Bt Intert: Defendg Fair and Sensible Adoptn Polici. Y, twelve stat (California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachetts, Mnota, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Jersey, Rho Island, Vermont and Wisns), the District of Columbia, many municipali, and hundreds of bs and universi have enacted laws that protect gay, lbian and bisexual people om employment discrimatn. Sce they n not marry, the partners of lbians and gay men are not next of k tim of crisis; they are not nsulted on ccial medil cisns; they are not given leave to re for each other; they are not each other’s legal heirs, if, like most Amerins, they do not have wills.

A NEW CLASH BETWEEN FAH AND GAY RIGHTS ARRIV AT A CHANGED SUPREME COURT

A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law. The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child.

He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.

Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program.

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe. “I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay.

“I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn. The two most visible figur behd the legislative manvers were John Briggs, a state Senator California, who sought to remove openly lbian and gay teachers wh Proposn 6 (the phrase “public homosexual” repeats throughout the proposn); and Ana Bryant, whose “Save Our Children” anizatn succsfully helped overturn equal rights ordanc Miami, Florida; Eugene, Oregon; Wicha, Kansas; and St.

And fally, I want to tell the John Briggs and the Ana Bryants that they talk about the myths of gays, but today I’m talkg about the facts of heterosexual vlence and what the hell are you gog to do about that? If you do not speak out, if you rema silence, if you do not lift up your voice agast Briggs, then I ll upon lbians and gay men om all over the natn, your natn, to gather Washgton one year om now on that natnal day of eedom, the fourth of July…the fourth of July, 1979…to gather Washgton on that very same spot where over a ago Dr.