California voters will be asked to affirm gay marriage rights on the 2024 ballot followg Prop. 8 ncerns about the state nstutn.
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- CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
CALIFORNIA VOTERS WILL BE ASKED TO REAFFIRM GAY MARRIAGE PROTECTNS ON 2024 BALLOT
Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr (LGBT) Cc Learship Fund. California legislators, all Democrats, are proud of their succs but say unrsr the hard work that remas their own state and elsewhere, such as handlg the fallout om measur such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which bans some lsons on sexual orientatn and genr inty, or laws other stat limg transgenr stunts’ participatn sports or blockg genr-affirmg medil re for tone was further shroud by the Saturday night shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado, which killed five people and wound many others. Jared Polis, who jt won a send term, was the first openly gay man elected as a state’s ernor when he won 2018.
Meanwhile, the Legislature has not yet reached pary genr or race and ethnicy, acrdg to statistics om the California State Hampshire and Vermont have each had more LGBTQ legislators, acrdg to the stute, but their legislatur are bigger than California’s and so have not reached the 10% 2022 electns are a landspe of firsts for LGBTQ people, cludg Corey Jackson, the California Legislature’s first gay Black man, who noted that Ain Amerins — particularly Black trans people — are pecially margalized. “It’s hard to feel optimistic as a young queer person wh everythg that’s gog on, ” Perri the newly elected LGBTQ officials are overwhelmgly Democrats, at least one gay Republin — Gee Santos, a supporter of former Print Donald Tmp — won a U. Hoe seat New York by featg another gay man, a crease LGBTQ lawmakers ntrasts wh efforts some stat led by members of Santos’ party to lim the fluence, visibily and rights of LGBTQ Tennsee, lears of the state’s Republin legislative supermajory said the first bill of the 2023 ssn will seek to ban genr-affirmg re for mors.
California legislators, all Democrats, are proud of their succs but say unrsr the hard work that remas their own state and elsewhere, such as handlg the fallout om measur such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which bans some lsons on sexual orientatn and genr inty, or laws other stat limg transgenr stunts’ participatn sports or blockg genr-affirmg medil re for tone was further shroud by the Saturday night shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado, which killed five people and wound many others.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Meanwhile, the Legislature has not yet reached pary genr or race and ethnicy, acrdg to statistics om the California State Hampshire and Vermont have each had more LGBTQ legislators, acrdg to the stute, but their legislatur are bigger than California’s and so have not reached the 10% 2022 electns are a landspe of firsts for LGBTQ people, cludg Corey Jackson, the California Legislature’s first gay Black man, who noted that Ain Amerins — particularly Black trans people — are pecially margalized.
“It’s hard to feel optimistic as a young queer person wh everythg that’s gog on, ” Perri the newly elected LGBTQ officials are overwhelmgly Democrats, at least one gay Republin — Gee Santos, a supporter of former Print Donald Tmp — won a U. Hoe seat New York by featg another gay man, a crease LGBTQ lawmakers ntrasts wh efforts some stat led by members of Santos’ party to lim the fluence, visibily and rights of LGBTQ Tennsee, lears of the state’s Republin legislative supermajory said the first bill of the 2023 ssn will seek to ban genr-affirmg re for mors. Californians will vote on a proposal to amend the state Constutn on the 2024 ballot to reaffirm gay marriage rights — a ut move that amid natnal anxiety after recent lgs by the nservative-leang U.
Although there is no current threat to the legaly of gay marriage, and Print Bin signed a bill safeguardg last year, the Democratic-domant state Legislature is seekg to remove language om California’s Constutn that still f marriage as between a man and outdated state fn has been emed unenforceable and unnstutnal thanks to feral law, but LGBTQ advocy groups are askg voters to repeal and amend the California Constutn to stead explicly state that marriage is “a fundamental right. Gav Newsom was out of state, Senate lear Toni Atks (D-San Diego) signed bills to law on his behalf as the first out gay actg ernor. Followg his eight years of elected service the California legislature, he ma history 2018 as the first out gay person to ever be elected to statewi office California history.