After years of progrs on gay rights, how did the US bee so anti-LGBTQ+? | US news | The Guardian

Contents:

• HOW CONGRS ACHIEVED A HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH ON GAY MARRIAGE
• HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• US HOE OF REPRENTATIV PASS BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS
• FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS

HOW CONGRS ACHIEVED A HISTORIC BREAKTHROUGH ON GAY MARRIAGE

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Barney Frank, an openly gay Democrat who has long fought for marriage equaly, was prent for the Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majory Lear Chuck Schumer, Rep. Hoeholds wh same-sex Supreme Court had jt overturned s own lgs on abortn rights, and nservative Jtice Clarence Thomas openly med his ncurrg opn whether the urt's landmark 2015 cisn on gay marriage -- which he said was based on "legal fictn" -- should be next. Tammy Baldw, the first openly gay senator and a longtime LGBTQ rights the Hoe ph through a party-le gay rights bill to send a polil msage ahead of the midterm electns?

"This is the first signifint promise between gay rights groups and relig liberty groups, " said Layck, a profsor of nstutnal law at the Universy of Virgia. Baldw and Sema along wh three Republins: San Colls of Mae, who was known to cross party l; Rob Portman of Oh, who a ago changed his md on same-sex marriage after learng his son was gay; and Thom Tillis of North Carola, who had backed this year's bipartisan package on gun safety. Mike Lee of Utah and Jam Lankford of Oklahoma, who ntend would set a natnal policy on gay marriage that uniquely expos church and anizatns to after the Church of J Christ and several relig liberty scholars publicly signed on, the dozen Senate Republins joed support and guaranteed s the end, both LGBTQ rights groups and relig eedom advot claimed victory -- an achievement Sema noted at a news nference celebratg the bill's passage the Senate.

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

They were among several bills the Legislature nsired that would brg major chang to the liv of gay and transgenr Texans. But the lower chamber didn’t brg the amend legislatn up for nsiratn, killg the Senate’s third attempt at phg what crics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” provisn. Crics say the provisns about LGBTQ lsons — patterned on ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law om Florida — nta vague language that uld stifle even rmal discsn about LGBTQ people, such as teachers discsg their same-sex spo.

The Republin Party of Texas, which oppos any efforts to validate transgenr inti and claims that homosexualy is “an abnormal liftyle choice, ” also nsirs banng the “teachg, exposure, and/or discsn of sexual matters (mechanics, feelgs, orientatn, or ‘genr inty’ issu)” to be a legislative prry. One bill signalg a shift opn toward the LGBTQ muny was Hoe Bill 2055, which would have repealed the state law crimalizg gay sex.

Venton Jon, a Dallas Democrat who is the first Black, gay and openly HIV-posive lawmaker to serve at the Capol. It was the send time the Democratic-led Hoe had passed the measure, known as the Equaly Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add explic bans on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people both public and private spac.

FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS

People n be discrimated agast bee of who they are, or who they love, ” said Reprentative David Cicille, an openly gay Democrat om Rho Island and the lead sponsor.

Several Republins assailed the Equaly Act as dangero, leadg one top Democrat, Reprentative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to acce them of believg that gay and transgenr people “are morally ferr, and that firg should be permted. Maloney, the openly gay chairman of Hoe Democrats’ mpaign arm.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

”In a landmark cisn June, the Supreme Court led that the 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn, and that the language of the law, which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex, also appli to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. Chamber of Gay Stolberg ntributed reportg.

“This legislatn is the latt a strg of asslts on the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, this time unr the bric of state-ced transphobia. “First Rsia tried to erase lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inti om public view, and now they are targetg transgenr people themselv, ” Reid said. “Rsia should reverse s outrageo policy and ensure rights to inty, fay life, and medil re for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people – startg wh reversg the anti-trans law.

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

VioThe Rpect for Marriage Act, which passed Congrs wh bipartisan support, mandat feral regnn for same-sex and terracial Contreras for The New York TimWASHINGTON — Print Bin signed the Rpect for Marriage Act to law on Tuday, mandatg feral regnn for same-sex marriag and ppg his own personal evolutn toward embracg gay rights over the urse of a four- polil an elaborate signg ceremony on the South Lawn, plete wh mil performanc om Cyndi Lper and Sam Smh, Mr.

US HOE OF REPRENTATIV PASS BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS

Bin, who voted for the Defense of Marriage Act as a senator 1996 and wavered on lettg gay men and lbians serve the ary, the signg ceremony was an ditn of how much the print has changed when to champng L. His views on issu like abortn, gay marriage and sentencg reform — which once put him on the more nservative si of his party’s iologil spectm — now more firmly match posns that have galvanized Democrats and even many Republins over the past several years.

His policy choic the Senate reflected those tim, often sidg wh those who proposed rtrictns, or lims, on gay men and lbians. He supported a measure that rtricted how homosexualy was tght schools, one of many feats for the equaly his 2008 vice-printial bate wh Sarah Pal, Mr. “I do rpect and appreciate that he is someone that n adm that his views were outdated the past and that he has evolved on the subject and is now an outspoken champn and advote, ” said Kelley Robson, the print of Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights anizatn Washgton.

Bin’s tenncy to adapt to societal and polil change as well as gay marriage. ”But is also a mark of ongog fear that newfound gay rights may be agile.

FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS

As a ndidate for the princy 2020, he was an arnt supporter of gay rights and same-sex marriage. Some gay rights lears have hailed him as the most pro-equaly print vice print, Mr. “I have suggted to others that not only would I like to see Roe, Casey, and Griswold on ntraceptn dified but I’ve also ma clear my support for, for gay marriage years ago, ” she said.

The Florida Senate passed the ntroversial so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Tuday, sendg the Republin-backed legislatn banng LGBTQ stctn primary schools to Gov. The proposed law, often referred to by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, bans public school districts om teachg about sexual orientatn or genr inty krgarten through the third gra, or “ a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts”—language that crics say uld extend the ban to higher gra levels.