A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?
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AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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Yet another issue for many is some GOP lawmakers’ embrace of anti-gay curriculum laws. Ron DeSantis, a Republin, approved what LGBTQ rights advot have dubbed the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which will ban certa stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty the classroom when go to effect July. The cisn was a huge step forward for gay and transgenr Amerins, and the w was all the more notable bee Jtice Neil Gorsuch, a nservative and a textualist, livered the majory’s opn.
WASHINGTON — Transgenr Amerins uld face a historic year of legislatn that will further ero their rights as advot brace for roughly 280 proposals stateho across the untry aimed at some of the most vulnerable members of the LGBTQ+ 's acrdg to a prehensive study released Thursday by the Human Rights Campaign, one of the untry's largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer civil rights groups, which looked at dozens of proposals phed by lawmakers last s State Equaly Inx srerd, the group says state legislatur last year sought more measur than ever before that specifilly targeted the transgenr muny across a range of 2020 saw 79 different anti-trans measur alg wh tn to athletics and healthre to bathroom accs, 2021 that unt nearly doubled wh 147 proposals aimed at transgenr activists are already trackg roughly 280 bills that have been filed ahead of or durg 2022 legislative ssns, wh South Dakota beg the first state to pass an anti-transgenr bill this year puttg lims on transgenr women and girls om petg school sports.
In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opn piece tled “The stggle for gay rights is over”. The mise of the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act 2013 was followed by the end of the feral ban on marriage equaly 2015.
GAY RIGHTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * lgbtq rights movement 2022 *
Wispread acceptance of same-sex marriage rights, gay people servg the ary and the need for protectns for LGBTQ+ people followed.
Here are some notable events the history of the Amerin gay rights movement. * lgbtq rights movement 2022 *
As recently as 2020, the urt, then wh two Tmp appote, led that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay, lbian and transgenr workers. In 1985, 89% of parents said they would be sad if they disvered their child was gay or a lbian. 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.
Supporters of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill gather outsi Walt Disney World this month. The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. ”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise.
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”.