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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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The projects were elimated as part of a Republin en bloc amendment that advanced a range of Republin cultural prri, cludg a provisn that would ban flyg gay pri flags over ernment buildgs. Mark Pon said the mtee’s move to strip the earmarks was “bigoted” and scribed his own experience gettg attacked leavg a gay bar that left him unnsc. “It’s clearly, and directly a bigoted cisn, bee the Republin Party don’t like gay people, ” she said.
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
In their qut to bee the party of “parental rights,” Republins Florida and other stat are attemptg to muzzle discsn of gay and civil rights school. * gay bill in congress *
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.
FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
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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.
WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
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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. 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.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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.
US HOE OF REPRENTATIV PASS BILL TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS
”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.
FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS
“First Rsia tried to erase lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr inti om public view, and now they are targetg transgenr people themselv, ” Reid said.