Tmp Pri: Gay Republins on why they're backg the print

Contents:

• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
• HOW IMPORTANT IS THE GAY AND LBIAN VOTE FOR THE UPG ELECTN?
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• WATCH: HOMOPHOBIC RSIAN AD SAYS NOT VOTG IS LIKE BEG GAY
• GAY RIGHTS
• TMP APPLDS POLL SHOWG 45 PERCENT SUPPORT AMONG GAY MEN
• PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
• PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN
• IMPROPER VOTG DISVERED AT METHODIST VOTE ON GAY CLERGY
• BETTY GAY

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

”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. SummaryPolls suggt right-wg parti will w Spa electnConservativ may form aln wh far-rightLGBTQ+ activists fear a roll back of their rightsMADRID, July 17 (Thomson Rters Foundatn) - The rights of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people have taken centre stage ahead of Spa's July 23 natnal electn. GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, is releasg the fdgs of the first of an ongog seri of polls to gge and track motivatn, enthiasm, and issu ahead of the 2022 midterm electns takg place November.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

Nearly 180 bills have been proposed 2022, most (97) targetg transgenr people and youth, wh a new foc on anti-LGBTQ school policy bills (69) that ban classroom nversatn and books about LGBTQ people unr the guise of “parents’ rights, ” like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. This has largely been driven by creas LGBTQ+ intifitn among younger generatns, who are g out and openly intifyg as LGBTQ+ at younger ag than ever before, as well as intifyg wh more expansive sexual and genr inti than the “typil” lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr.

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

Nearly 160 bills have been proposed 2022, most (91) targetg transgenr people and youth, and there’s been a surge of anti-LGBTQ school policy bills (60) banng classroom nversatn and books about LGBTQ people unr the guise of “parents’ rights, ” like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE GAY AND LBIAN VOTE FOR THE UPG ELECTN?

” Two-thirds of LGBTQ voters say the rults of the 2020 printial electn have them feelg optimistic about the future; though 77% exprs ncern that the new Supreme Court will overturn marriage equalyIssu Impactg the LGBTQ Vote: COVID-19 rponse, healthre, racial jtice, followed by LGBTQ equalyCOVID-19 Rponse is the Number One Issue for LGBTQ Voters: 36% Face Mental Health Issu after COVID-19New York, NY – GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, released the fdgs of s 2020 Post-electn Poll of LGBTQ registered voters, cludg a phenomenal turnout of the LGBTQ vote, a surge of first-time LGBTQ voters, an overwhelmg vote for Print-elect Bin, wh vot motivated by three top issu urgently mandg a more robt rponse om our natn’s lears: COVID-19, healthre and racial jtice. Supreme Court support of anti-gay 's male ers may not reflect the larger LGBTQ muny which largely vot Democrat, and LGBTQ voters may have soured on Tmp havg seen his admistratn's handlg of queer pollg also suggts that most LGBTQ voters will oppose Tmp. But a Morng Consult poll om June found 19 percent of LGBTQ voters backed Tmp, while GLAAD's State of LGBTQ Voters report September reported jt 17 percent of LGBTQ registered voters were supportg the 's poll rults were siar to ex poll fdgs om 2016, which found that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr voters backed Hillary Clton over Tmp by 74 percent to 14 percent.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

"Others have rporated their support for Team Tmp to their fluencer brands, like lbian YouTuber Arielle Srcella, gay polil mentator Dave Rub and bi glam rocker Ricky Rebel, who appeared at the Grammys red leather chaps wh the words "IMPEACH THIS" wrten across his backsi. He has published seven books cludg Ele-Led Mobilizatn and Gay Rights: Dispellg the Myth of Mass Opn Backlash (Universy of Michigan Prs 2021) and has published over 40 articl and chapters journals such as the Amerin Journal of Polil Science, Law & Society Review, Polil Rearch Quarterly, Jtice Systems Journal, Internatnal Polil Science Review, Juditure, Journal of Human Rights, Electn Law Journal, Studi Law, Polics & Society, Human Rights Review, and Journal of Internatnal Relatns & Development, and New Polil Science among other and eded volum wh Cambridge Universy Prs, Oxford Universy Prs, Columbia Universy Prs, and Universy of Pennsylvania Prs, among others.

The Obama mpaign seems to thk so: there’s an “Obama Pri” webse voted to the LGBT muny; first lady Michelle Obama recently held a nference ll wh gay activists enuragg them to hold “Pri” hoe parti; the mpaign has a staff dited to gettg out the LGBT vote; and the mpaign is raisg funds om this muny. Sherrill said the gay vote ma the marg of victory North Carola that year and said uld aga this November: “This is a group of reliable voters who turn out to vote more than most people do, who appear to be registered to vote more than most people are and who are one of the handful of most Democratic groups the electorate. Thanks to new marketg technologi, Egan said both parti, Republin and Democratic, are more often targetg segments of the populatn wh tailored mpaign msag: “Republins do that wh evangelil Christians, and Democrats do that wh gay voters and other nstuent groups.

WATCH: HOMOPHOBIC RSIAN AD SAYS NOT VOTG IS LIKE BEG GAY

Gary Gat, a profsor at the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law — which foc on sexual orientatn and genr inty law and public policy — said that polis may have cid that gay issu have bee signifint enough for the general populatn that polil mpaigns feel they are worth fightg for. That said, the vast majory of viss rema trouble-ee, even for visors who equent the cy’s ls-than-secret gay bar and club bt hotels MoswThe historic exterr of the Hotel Metropol, facg the ternatnally-celebrated Bolshoi Theatre and close to many of the other ma thgs to do Mosw, is nothg pared to s sumptuo terrs.

And jt as quickly as the news was announced homophobic nservativ went to Superman is not Clark Kent but his son, Jonathan Kent, whose mother is Lois Lane, not Louis Lane, for those keepg New York Tim reports Jonathan “will soon beg a romantic relatnship wh a male iend, DC Comics announced Monday. T’Challa Stan (@KhameekJ03) October 11, 2021Here’s Louis Lane — pated mask (@SarahHall1975) October 11, 2021Everyone’s dunkg on the “Louis” thg but I am losg at a stg state senator dog a “gay lisp” joke 2021 ?Dan Crentials? (@CharlemagnumPI) October 11, 2021Louis Lane, an alternate universe versn of Lois Lane that’s a French Kg spooky kev ??? (@anticleforkev) October 11, 2021Can we say how perfect to the pot this tweet is by her mistakenly spellg as “Louis Lane”? — Kurkthulu: Inter Trash Magician (@Kurkthulu) October 11, 2021Holy sh, a gay lisp jokeThis is like fdg an ancient stone tool, I’m way more imprsed at the datedbs of than I am offend by crass iron skillet (@SouthrnGothHick) October 11, 2021Damn, this is really bigoted.

Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

GAY RIGHTS

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.

Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.

TMP APPLDS POLL SHOWG 45 PERCENT SUPPORT AMONG GAY MEN

They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn. 1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.

Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.

In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL

But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt  Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.

PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI LEARS SAY THOSE WHO INTIFY AS GAY ARE NOT QUALIFIED FOR ORDATN

In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U. Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth.

“In effect, the only thg tly measured by Hor’s rults are the opns of those Hor ers who chose to take the survey, not the broar Hor er base, not gay Amerin men, and most fely not the broar Amerin LGBTQ muny, ” the pany’s webse stated followg media verage of the poll. They were lobbied by their lleagu, by proment gay donors and operativ their party, and by relig groups who secured stronger relig liberty Jiang/The New York TimSenator Roy Blunt of MissouriOne of only two Republins learship to vote for the bill, Mr.

IMPROPER VOTG DISVERED AT METHODIST VOTE ON GAY CLERGY

The Victory Fund’s mpaign, “We Belong Together, ” is rollg out this week wh a two-pronged strategy: get allied anizatns to lobby mapmakers to keep gay areas tact, a procs that has already begun some stat, and start assemblg data showg exactly where LGBTQ muni are loted to speed the procs along. “Log Cab Republins thanks the forward-thkg members for votg to settle this issue once and for all and move the Republin Party le not jt wh the vast majory of the untry, but wh the majory of s own voters, ” the nservative gay advocy group said a statement Tuday.

BETTY GAY

11, 2022WASHINGTON — When the Senate passed landmark legislatn last month to mandate feral regnn for same-sex marriag, the vote was ld as a rare moment of bipartisanship at a time of ep polil polarizatn the the narrow aln of 12 Republins that joed every Democrat support of the measure — which cleared Congrs on Thursday wh fal passage the Hoe, sendg to Print Bin — did not sprg up spontaneoly a groundswell of cross-party the scen, a group of fluential Republin donors and operativ, cludg some of the party’s most proment gay lears wh long experience proddg their party to embrace L.

Senators that backg would give them a polil quiet work helps expla how a bill to ensure regnn of same-sex marriag across the untry went om beg the subject of an electn-season polil manver that few expected to be enacted to an iative embraced by a cisive majory of senators, and an unexpected victory for the gay rights movement that will be one of the fal acts of the Democratic-ntrolled Congrs. Mehlman, who has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly polici, also leaned on a work of Republins that he enlisted 2019 to urge the Supreme Court to clare that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicly prohibs discrimatn agast gay men, lbians and transgenr people the workplace. RELATED: How Tmp's 100-Day Plan Could Impact LGBTQ RightsWhile ’s clear that the majory of the LGBTQ muny leans liberal—and remas fearful that the Tmp-Pence admistratn will stigate creased discrimatn and a step backward for equaly—gay Tmp voters don’t appear to share the ncerns of the larger muny.

'Ferally Protected' StatWhile Tmp’s 100-day plan did not specifilly refer to any LGBTQ-oriented polici, his gay and lbian supporters exprsed hop that his admistratn would add sexual orientatn and genr inty to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 orr to ensure LGBTQ Amerins are protected om discrimatn. Those who profs an inty (such as, but not limed to, ‘gay Christian, ’ ‘same sex attracted Christian, ’ ‘homosexual Christian, ’ or like terms) that unrm or ntradicts their inty as new creatns Christ, eher by nyg the sfulns of fallen sir (such as, but not limed to, same sex attractn), or by nyg the realy and hope of progrsive sanctifitn, or by failg to pursue Spir-empowered victory over their sful temptatns, clatns, and actns are not qualified for ordaed office. Provis a thorough analysis of the most proment mory votg blocks the Uned Stat an accsible, easy-to-unrstand format Us the most current scholarship available to provi a rource for stunts, journalists, and scholars to exame electn trends Offers the rear a wealth of background and historil rmatn Inclus a prehensive biblgraphy for addnal readg Delv to topics that will impact future electnsThe Lavenr Vote by Mark HertzogISBN: 0814773214Publitn Date: 2012-01-01Trac the fluenc of lbian, gay and bisexual voters Amerin electns In the half century sce the Stonewall rts New York Cy's Greenwich Village lnched the natnal gay-rights movement earnt, LGB voters have steadily expand their polil fluence.