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

Contents:

• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• FOX NEWS HOSTS CONFED ABOUT WHETHER TO CALL GAY MAN MR. OR MS.
• WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE RIGHT-WG AND GAY ISRAEL
• SOME GAY PEOPLE ARE RIGHT-WG. GET OVER !

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

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. 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.

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 Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia.

FOX NEWS HOSTS CONFED ABOUT WHETHER TO CALL GAY MAN MR. OR MS.

”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.

”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe. “I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay. “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.

Earlier this week the New Yorker reported that, durg a Whe Hoe discsn on gay rights, Donald Tmp glibly said that Mike Pence, who has been acced of supportg nversn therapy for LGBT people, “wants to hang them all”. After some bad prs, Tmp nied ever sayg spects, of urse, that not only did Tmp say , but that he himself would happily pri over televised hanggs of gay people if he thought would get him good ratgs.

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE RIGHT-WG AND GAY ISRAEL

One also spects that, even as the first episo of The Hangg Apprentice went live on air, you’d still fd some gay nservativ eager to expla that Tmp is good for the LGBT muny, you see, do have a fanbase among the LGBT muny. While only 14% of gay Amerins voted for him (’s hard to get data on trans voters), he’s galvanised very vol support among an fluential group of gay, whe, and fancially well-off Febary, for example, Chadwick Moore, a 33-year-old gay journalist who ntroversially profiled the eply od Milo Yiannopoulos Out magaze, “me out” as sympathetic to Tmp a New York Post piece.

Moore is jt one example of a wir trend of gay people, embolned by the lik of self-scribed “dangero faggot” Yiannopoulos, to publicly and vociferoly air their prejudic or pledge their allegiance to the racist, sexist and creasgly homophobic Tmp admistratn.

SOME GAY PEOPLE ARE RIGHT-WG. GET OVER !

” Angelo also stat that “over the urse of 2016 and 2017 there has been a noticeable swell grassroots support for LCR, a spike membership, and a spike social media followers” all gay nservativ are g out, should be said. Gay journalist Mchell Sunrland was recently fired om his role as a senr wrer at Broadly, Vice’s femism vertil, after BuzzFeed revealed he’d been suggtg misogynistic story ias to Brebart. It’s OK to hate Mlims bee Mlims hate gay people, we’re told by whe people who also hate gay people – jt not as much as they hate parti have also realized that strategilly danglg a few gay people acts as a sort of fundamentalist Febreze that dilut the stench of their hatred.

The AfD is -led by Alice Weil, who is gay and a civil partnership wh a woman who is reportedly of Sri Lankan, extremist polici or not, how on Earth uld the AfD be neo-Nazis if they’ve got a gay woman wh an ethnilly impure wife charge?