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Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• GAY RIGHTS
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• NEW YORK CY LNCH AD MPAIGN NOUNCG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW
• DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
• RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS’ 2024 MPAIGN NTU TO IMPLO & THE LATT BLUNRS PROVE
• PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• NFL GO TO NEW EXTREME, LNCH 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' CAMPAIGN
• GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME
• I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY AD
• STREET ARTIST TROLLS RON DESANTIS WH GUERRILLA 'SAY GAY' CAMPAIGN IN ORLANDO
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• MIKE GAY
• THE NFL IS FAKG AS IF R, AGA – THIS TIME ’S ABOUT GAY PEOPLE
• HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN REJECTS DISNEY DONATN ‘UNTIL MEANGFUL ACTN IS TAKEN’ ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.

In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). The HRC buildg Washgton, DC is an important symbol for all who vis the natn's pal — a nstant remr to both fair-md alli and anti-LGBTQ+ advot that HRC will not stop until lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer pl people who e different language to scribe inty Amerins are ensured equaly.

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.

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.

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

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. 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.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

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. 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.

NEW YORK CY LNCH AD MPAIGN NOUNCG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW

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. 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. 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.

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 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. “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.

DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM

DeSantis, an terview Wednday on the podst of nservative mentator Tomi Lahren, did not addrs accatns that the vio was homophobic but said the tent was “intifyg Donald Tmp as really beg a pneer jectg genr iology to the mastream where he was havg men pete agast women his bety pageants. It touched off days of negative verage which the mpaign was roundly nmned for promotg a msage that even fellow Republins saw as antigay, and has e to be seen as a misfire a mpaign stgglg to fd s Today PolicsA digt of the top polil stori om the Globe, sent to your box the episo also showed how, as DeSantis tri to ga momentum a crowd field, his mpaign is attemptg to beat Tmp onle, hopg to out-provoke a master provotr and w over the rners of the Inter where right-wg nservativ tra cendiary mem — and ’s a strategy that has drawn praise om some Republin strategists.

Democrats have long sought to igne their own msag the Bin mpaign has been quick to embrace the “Dark Brandon” meme, which the print is picted as a kd of superhero, sometim wh lasers for analysts warn that Republins’ efforts to make heavy e of onle spac where antimocratic or antigay msag flourish uld turn their rhetoric to a race to the bottom.

Tmp has signaled a willgns to publicly align himself wh some gay men and women, he selected a eply nservative nng mate Vice Print Mike Pence, and, as print, has systematilly dismantled protectns implemented by Print Barack Obama, pecially for transgenr over two months before Electn Day, Mr. People has ually been nnectn wh celebry or support they have given Tmp allowed gay members to his Florida club Mar-a-Lago as long as they uld pay the exorbant membership fee; he broadst donatns to groups like the Gay Men’s Health Crisis when the AIDS epimic beme a celebry e; and he publicly embraced the civil unn between the sger Elton John, someone whose mic and fame Mr.

RON “DON’T SAY GAY” DESANTIS’ 2024 MPAIGN NTU TO IMPLO & THE LATT BLUNRS PROVE

Stonewall's LegacyThough the Stonewall uprisg didn’t start the gay rights movement, was a galvanizg force for LGBT polil activism, leadg to numero gay rights anizatns, cludg the Gay Liberatn Front, Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD (formerly Gay and Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn), and PFLAG (formerly Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) the one-year anniversary of the rts on June 28, 1970, thoands of people marched the streets of Manhattan om the Stonewall Inn to Central Park what was then lled “Christopher Street Liberatn Day, ” Ameri’s first gay pri para. ”In 2016, then-Print Barack Obama signated the se of the rts—Stonewall Inn, Christopher Park, and the surroundg streets and siwalks—a natnal monument regnn of the area’s ntributn to gay Gallery The Stonewall Inn is a bar loted New York Cy’s Greenwich Village that served as a haven the 1960s for the cy’s gay, lbian and transgenr muny. HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS SPEAK OUT FOR LGBT EQUALITYArchbishop Dmond Tutu says he "won't worship a homophobic god, " UN Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay says "everyone is born ee and equal… no exceptns, no one left behd, " and Jtice Edw Cameron says "the biggt fo of gay and lbian, bisexual, transgenred and tersex equaly have been visibily and silence.

PEACHY KEENAN: EVERYONE IS GAY, N YOU BLAME THEM?

"To wrap up "Pri Month, " let's hear om the polician who did more than any other Republin to celebrate …" the tweet clips garnered swift cricism om Republins, cludg Log Cab Republins — an anizatn reprentg LGBTQ+ nservativ that have shown support for Tmp — llg "divisive" and "homophobic. Like nerds who grow up to nont their bulli, Suba executiv me to realize that the people opposg the acknowledgment of gays and lbians were not as imposg as they of the reasons that, the days, the rmaker’s role cultivatg s lbian-iendly image is ls well known is that so many straight people were bld to the subtext of the s first Suba ads, Mulryan/Nash hired women to portray lbian upl.

While Volkswagen played y about whether an ad perceived as gay-iendly really portrayed a gay uple, Suba sponsored events like gay-pri paras, partnered wh the Rabow Card, a cred rd that stead of sh back offered donatns to gay and lbian , and hired Marta Navratilova, a former tennis pro and a lbian, to appear Suba ads.

A number of amics cricized rporate Ameri’s embrace of the LGBTQ muny: While pani wanted the profs that me om marketg a gay sense of style, they foced on upper-class and whe gay inti—rarely gay people of lor or those unable to afford medil treatment for HIV/ acrdg to Derrian, that perspective unrtimat the telligence of LGBTQ nsumers.

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

“The rabow belongs to God, ” she such rhetoric appeals to the party’s nservative base, risks alienatg the more morate and swg voters who generally ci the out of general vio, origally posted by the pro-DeSantis “@ProudElephantUS” acunt, was shared hours after the Supreme Court’s nservative majory led that a Christian graphic artist who wants to sign weddg webs n refe to work wh same-sex cisn marked a major feat for gay rights, wh one of the urt’s liberal jtic wrg a dissent that the cisn’s effect would be to “mark gays and lbians for send-class stat. "Conservativ unrstand that we need to protect our kids, prerve women's sports, safeguard women's spac and strengthen parental rights, but Ron DeSantis' extreme rhetoric go has jt ventured to homophobic terrory, " the Log Cab Republins wrote, addg that the Florida ernor has failed to differentiate between "monsense gays and the radil Left gays. "Newsweek reached out to the DeSantis mpaign via s prs ntact form and Log Cab Republins via email for DeSantis, Tmp Stand on LGBTQ+ IssuDeSantis, whose embrace of right-wg social propelled him to the natnal spotlight, has signed to law legislatn aimed at rtrictg some LGBTQ+ rights Florida sce beg elected signed the famo "Don't Say Gay" law that was expand May to lim discsns of LGBTQ+ inti public school classrooms through 8th gra.

” It’s a slammg sp on DeSantis’ homophobic “Don’t Say Gay” law banng classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr Mattie’s most proment artwork featur Disney characters Mnie Moe and Daphne Duck, a rponse to DeSantis' cricism of the entertament Mattie“My return to Orlando is eply personal, ” Mattie told HuffPost. “The enthiastic rponse om volunteers was overwhelmg, signalg that this movement held signifince beyond jt a simple sticker mpaign, ” she Mattie's ma msage is “Say Gay, " a slammg sp on the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” MattieOne flyer featur a QR enuragg people to “get tted for beg gay.

”Corie Mattie's artwork went viral durg the ronavis panmic for s upliftg MattieMattie’s most proment artwork featured Disney characters Mnie Moe and Daphne Duck enjoyg an timate, of urse, found self DeSantis’ firg le after cricized his “Don’t Say Gay” Mattie, below center, wh queer-owned and -allied bs people who have assisted her the Mattie“I jt really hope to enurage people to pture and share imag of the mpaign on social media as a way to amplify our muni voice, ” Mattie said. DeMar has modified that dictum slightly the past, sayg that homosexuals wouldn’t all be executed unr a “renstcted” ernment, but that he did believe that the ocsnal executn of “sodom” would serve society well bee “the law that requir the ath penalty for homosexual acts effectively driv the perversn of homosexualy unrground, back to the closet. It has lled the ia of allowg gays to serve openly the ary “evil”; opposed hate crim legislatn (which many relig-right groups falsely assert would make easy to send pastors to prison for nmng homosexualy); and raged agast a judge’s overturng of California’s Proposn 8, which had validated same-sex marriag.

NFL GO TO NEW EXTREME, LNCH 'FOOTBALL IS GAY' CAMPAIGN

Although is somewhat benign by parison, the CADC has an advisory board that clus some of the untry’s most hard-le anti-gay activists: Lou Sheldon, head of the Tradnal Valu Coaln (see below); Donald Wildmon, the founr of the Amerin Fay Associatn (above); and O’Neal Dozier, a pastor who wrote his 2008 book that “[h]omosexualy not only spreads disease and ntraliz God’s mand, ” but also “stroys fai. ” Last year, CWA acced the Gay, Lbian, and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullyg schools, of g that missn as a ver to promote homosexualy schools, addg that “teachg stunts om a young age that the homosexual liftyle is perfectly natural … will [e them to] velop to adults who are sensized to the harmful, immoral realy of sexual viance. Both Dailey and Sprigg have phed false accatns lkg gay men to pedophilia: Sprigg has wrten that most men who engage same-sex child moltatn “intify themselv as homosexual or bisexual, ” and Dailey and Sprigg voted an entire chapter of their 2004 book Gettg It Straight to siar material.

GAY MEN UNR THE NAZI REGIME

In a 1999 publitn (Homosexual Behavr and Pedophilia) that has sce disappeared om s webse, the FRC claimed that “one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of nsent laws and to eventually regnize pedophil as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual orr, ” acrdg to unrefuted rearch by AMERICAblog. 30, 2010, bate on MSNBC’s “Hardball wh Chris Matthews” between Perks and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mark Potok, Perks fend FRC’s associatn of gay men wh pedophilia, sayg: “If you look at the Amerin College of Pediatricians, they say the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a danger to children. In 1985, the Amerin Soclogil Associatn adopted a rolutn sayg Cameron “has nsistently misterpreted and misreprented soclogil rearch on sexualy” and “repeatedly mpaigned for the abrogatn of the civil rights of lbians and gay men”; the followg year, the same group formally nmned Cameron for that misreprentatn of rearch.

” Wh regard to LGBT teen suicis, TVC, unr the headle “Homosexual Urban Legends, ” claims that “[t]he ld, hard fact is that teens who are stgglg wh homosexual feelgs are more likely to be sexually molted by a homosexual school unselor or teacher than to m suici over their feelgs of spair. The TVC also mak assertns on s webse about disproportnate homosexual pedophilia and attacks the ia that people are born gay and the claim that gays want the right to marry for the same reasons that heterosexuals do — the TVC suggts the real purpose of marriage equaly is to stroy the ncept of marriage and ultimately replace altogether wh group sex and polygamy. Some taboos will still apply; among them, no ontal programmg will clu seri like “The Big Gay Sketch Show, ” “Queer as Folk” and “The L Word”; mic vios; edy shows wh Mar Cantone and Joan Rivers; theatril movi like “Fightg Tommy Riley”; and short programs will also be on a Web se and on mobile phon as well as on TV.

”Some ads wh gay or lbian them draw plats om nsumers who prefer tradnal approach to peddlg stance, posters London rryg the headle “South Carola is so gay, ” meant to attract visors om Europe, were recently whdrawn by the state’s partment of parks, recreatn and tourism, and the employee who approved them rigned. “The Human Rights Campaign will not accept this money om Disney until we see them build on their public mment and work wh LGBTQ+ advot to ensure that dangero proposals, like Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ bill, don’t bee dangero laws, ” Joni Madison, terim print of the HRC, said a statement on Wednday eveng. CEO Bob Chapek said Wednday that The Walt Disney Company is pledgg $5 ln to the Human Rights Campaign and other anizatns protectg LGBTQ rights followg backlash to the pany’s ial quiet rponse to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, as well as a report that Disney has given money to all of the bill’s sponsors.

I WAS TEAM DESANTIS BEFORE HIS DISGTG ANTI-GAY AD

DeSantis mted to me that he wanted to make sure that this law uld not be weaponized any way by dividuals the state or groups the state to unduly harm or target gay, lbian, nonbary or transgenr kids and fai, ” Chapek said, when asked by a shareholr durg the Q&A what he expects to e up the meetg wh DeSantis.

STREET ARTIST TROLLS RON DESANTIS WH GUERRILLA 'SAY GAY' CAMPAIGN IN ORLANDO

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

MIKE GAY

THE NFL IS FAKG AS IF R, AGA – THIS TIME ’S ABOUT GAY PEOPLE

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