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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WHY DO STRAIGHTS HATE GAYS?
An 72-year-old gay activist isn't hopeful about the future. * why do people hate gay people *
In the Uned Stat, public support of the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) muny has creased recent years. The chang are associated wh creased visibily of openly gay characters on televisn, the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and the Supreme Court cisn that legalized same-sex marriage. For every highly publicized act of vlence toward sexual mori, such as the recent mass shootg at a gay nightclub Orlando, there are many more physil and verbal asslts, attempted asslts, acts of property damage or timidatns which are never reported to thori, let alone publicized by the media.
Rercg the roots of antigay bias. For example, relig views that homosexual behavr is immoral support heteronormative norms, which ultimately stigmatize sexual mori. This legislatn, which fed marriage as a unn between one man and one woman, nied homosexuals the rights held by heterosexuals.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
Aligng their own self-ncept wh society’s negative regard for homosexualy rults myriad negative health out.
Conversely, rearchers theorize that pro-gay attus rce heterosexism that exists wh the same stutns. Many people believe that antigay vlence is ed by prejudice. But when we back up and thk about this aggrsn wh the amework of sexual stigma, we n see that the of antigay vlence n eper and are more plex than a simple “prejudice” explanatn.