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

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• AFTER ROE, REPUBLINS SHARPEN ATTACKS ON GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

AFTER ROE, REPUBLINS SHARPEN ATTACKS ON GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS

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The projects were elimated as part of a Republin en bloc amendment that advanced a range of Republin cultural prri, cludg a provisn that would ban flyg gay pri flags over ernment buildgs. Mark Pon said the mtee’s move to strip the earmarks was “bigoted” and scribed his own experience gettg attacked leavg a gay bar that left him unnsc. “It’s clearly, and directly a bigoted cisn, bee the Republin Party don’t like gay people, ” she said.

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

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