The NAACP shall enurage the promotn of diversy and sensivy trags to all NAACP trags and programs to enurage the cln of members of the Lbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transng, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny as active Civil Rights activists and fighters wh the NAACP.
Contents:
- LGBTQ PANEL AT NAACP NVENTN TAK AIM AT ANTI-GAY CRIM, HOMOPHOBIA
- RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
LGBTQ PANEL AT NAACP NVENTN TAK AIM AT ANTI-GAY CRIM, HOMOPHOBIA
WHEREAS, the missn of the Natnal Associatn for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to secure the polil, tnal, social, and enomic equaly of rights orr to elimate race-based discrimatn and ensure the health and well-beg of all persons; andWHEREAS, the visn of the Natnal Associatn for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society which all dividuals have equal rights whout discrimatn based on race; andWHEREAS, 2012, the NAACP voted favor of supportg marriage equaly; andWHEREAS, on July 26, 2017, the NAACP held an LGBTQ workshop as part of s 108th Annual Conventn on Baltimore, MD; andWHEREAS, on Augt 25, 2017, Print Derrick Johnson stated, "We pledge today to stand wh our transgenr brothers and sisters as we ntue to fight any efforts to dify discrimatn to law, " andWHEREAS, the Lbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transng, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny is sensive nature; andWHEREAS, the NAACP should be sensive and clive of members of the LGBTQ+ muny through NAACP trags and programs, cludg but not limed to, Natnal Conventn, CRATI and the NEXTGEN Trag Programs. THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the NAACP shall enurage the promotn of diversy and sensivy trags to all NAACP trags and programs to enurage the cln of members of the Lbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transng, and Queer (LGBTQ+) muny as active Civil Rights activists and fighters wh the NAACP. "Recent actns unr the fluence of Republin legislators have fostered an atmosphere of fear and timidatn, marked by a blatant, relentls and systemic attack on mocracy and civil rights, " the Louisiana NAACP said a letter makg a formal requt to issue the the legislatn noted: Senate Bill 159 to allow 17-year-olds to be held and tried as adults for certa vlent crim; Senate Bill 23 makg the secretary of state the only official who n terme lotns of alternative early votg s; Hoe Bill 648 that bans genr-affirmg healthre for mors; and Hoe Bill 466, referred to by opponents as "Don't Say Gay, " that rtricts the discsn of genr and sexualy public school classrooms.
RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
Angelo, the former print of gay nservative group Log Cab Republins, implied the NAACP was not behd the bill.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
Ron DeSantis speaks at the Herage Foundatn 50th Anniversary Celebratn learship summ, April 21, 2023, Oxon Hill, Brandon/AP, FILEThe NAACP's travel advisory follows siar on issued by the League of Uned Lat Amerin Cizens, a Lato civil rights group, and Equaly Florida, a gay rights advocy group. And LGBTQ characters beg featured more TV shows and movi, seems like gay rights has signifintly improved sce the famo Stonewall Inn police raid New York Cy 50 years ago. One of the ma topics of the panel was vlent crim targeted toward the black LGBTQ muny, such as the se volvg two Detro men who police say shot and killed a gay man last month.