At least 843 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people currently serve elected offic across the U.S., acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute.
Contents:
- 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
- GAY THE AMERIS
- SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS
- JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
- GAY RIGHTS
17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
In Polics, The Advote prents the latt news about the polil world. From Supreme Court lgs to state and feral laws, The Advote reports on how polics shap the day-to-day reali faced by members of the gay muny. Read about LGBT lears like Barney Frank and Tammy Baldw and their work to advance the of the LGBT rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world. Fd out about legislatn related to same-sex marriage, adoptn, and other issu gay polics that will impact the liv of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins. * gay polotics *
Most are Democrats, and anti-Tmp fervor spurred many to Kirkpatrick for The New York TimThe number of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr elected officials has ntued to surge, growg by about 17 percent the last year to nearly 1, 000 natnwi — more than double the number jt four years ago, acrdg to a new annual ranks now clu two ernors, two Uned Stat senators, ne members of Congrs, 189 state legislators and 56 mayors, acrdg to the report om the L. The Victory Fund’s mpaign, “We Belong Together, ” is rollg out this week wh a two-pronged strategy: get allied anizatns to lobby mapmakers to keep gay areas tact, a procs that has already begun some stat, and start assemblg data showg exactly where LGBTQ muni are loted to speed the procs along.
GAY THE AMERIS
The LGBTQ Victory Fund is urgg polil map-drawers to create districts that help large gay populatns ga reprentatn. * gay polotics *
To fill the gaps, the Victory Fund has been urgg groups to adopt a piecemeal approach, bg the lotn of gay bs, donor and membership rolls of allied polil anizatns, populatn rerds and even trackg the number and lotn of hate crim.
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SECRET CY: BEHD THE UNTOLD GAY HISTORY OF DC POLICS
If you know who NeNe Leaks is, but not Nancy Pelosi, then this is the podst for you! Jo Bravo stars, Julie Goldman (the gay) and Brandy Howard (the dumb) as they talk about the what's happeng the world, like they are talkg about realy tv. The podst wh lots of feelgs, lots of facts… * gay polotics *
He would go on to be an outspoken Hoe member supportg same-sex marriage and other gay rights long before public opn swung a directn helpful to LGBT Social Conservative to Out, Poz ActivistRepublin Congrsman Jon Hson started his reer as a young pol reprentg a socially nservative area of Mississippi.
JAGUARS ASSISTANT KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE NFL ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
Kev Maxen, Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach, is the first male ach a major U.S. men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay polotics *
The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
Behd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G.O.P. senators that embracg was a polil wner. * gay polotics *
And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party.
But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD).
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
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In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important.
It is often assumed that this is bee of the persistence of the culture of machismo, but another factor acuntg for tolerance for the right of gay people is the overall low level of tn Lat Ameri and the Caribbean pared to North Ameri. About 45 percent of Brazilians display high levels of tolerance, while Costa Ri, Mexi, Colombia, Chile, Niragua, and Venezuela, those who exprs tolerance towards homosexuals reprent between 30 and 40 percent of the populatn.
GAY RIGHTS
This is what we fd most untri nsired here: pennt of their levels of wealth, genr, age, relig preferenc, and place of rince, people wh higher levels of tn are more likely to regnize and accept the polil rights of a mory such as homosexuals.
The magnu of the differenc suggts that is safe to nclu that, Lat Ameri, non-Catholic Christians are ls tolerant of the polil rights of gays than are other relig groups irrpective of their level of tn, sex, iology, area of rince, and even natnaly.