Tensns are risg after Jamai refed to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.
Contents:
- THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
- ‘GIRLS GAYS THEYS’ SHIRTS AREN’T OBSCENE: DON’T LET NSERVATIV REWRE HISTORY
- BEATG THE GAY ALLEGATNS
THE U.S. & JAMAI ARE FIGHTG OVER GAY RIGHTS
* fighting the gay allegations *
Rumors are swirlg that tensns between Jamai and the Uned Stat are risg after the former refed to grant accredatn to the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat – whose inty has not been ma public – sce same-sex marriage is not legal the Caribbean natn. Equalx reports that addn to same-sex marriage beg illegal, homosexualy among men remas outlawed Jamai and n be punished wh up to seven years prison.
Homosexualy among women is not explicly illegal, but sodomy between any two humans is punishable wh up to 10 years prison. They characterized the products Target offered, cludg T-shirts that said “Girls Gays Theys” and merchandise pictg a person drsed drag, as potentially vlatg state obsceny laws. If Playboy and Twter porn (generally) are not obscene, then neher are T-shirts prted wh the word “gay” or showg a person wearg clothg that do not nform to genr norms.
Practilly, many children are beg raised by LGBTQ parents and many themselv are gay, lbian, trans and non-bary. Elenis, which nsired whether a webse veloper uld be required to offer her publicly available weddg sign servic to gay upl is part of this trend. ” The so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” laws may be nsted, for example, to prohib a female teacher om tellg her stunts she is married to a woman.
‘GIRLS GAYS THEYS’ SHIRTS AREN’T OBSCENE: DON’T LET NSERVATIV REWRE HISTORY
It’s temptg to thk that obsceny uld never be terpreted to clu a T-shirt that says “Girls Gays Theys. We n never fet that wasn’t that long ago that gay relatnships were crimalized. Is Dwight Howard gay?
Howard faced a lawsu om a gay man named Mas Elijie back 2019. However, the one-time NBA champ nied the allegatns and claimed that he's not gay, an appearance on Fair Game wh Kriste Leahy on FS1.
"I'm not gay, " Howard said. Accg LGBTQ people of "groomg" or "recg" children to bee gay or transgenr is an age-old trope that feeds off fear. "This is a classic trope of humanizatn and fear that has been ed agast gay people after after ....
BEATG THE GAY ALLEGATNS
Thk about the lumny agast gay people throughout most of our lifetim: that gay people somehow are moltg kids, or after kids, or predatory.
" That ia propelled anti-gay activist and sger Ana Bryant's Save Our Children mpaign the 1970s. And led to a 1978 California ballot measure to ban gays and lbians om workg public schools, an iative spearhead by state Sen. John Briggs, who promised, "We are gog to rtore moraly to the classroom and remove openly and blatant homosexuals om fluencg and teachg our young.
But the homophobic attacks ntued, fuelg a moral panic. Proposn 6, lled the Briggs Iniative, sought to ban gays and lbians om workg California public schools. "If somebody tried to mpaign today on endg gay marriage, they would get so ltle tractn outsi the most ge elements, and yet, even five years ago, that wasn't an extreme posn....