A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?
Contents:
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
In another blow to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Hungary, on July 13, the Hungarian ernment proposed a bill that exclus transgenr women om a women-only pensn scheme. The bill is expected to go to parliament September. * lgbt bill of rights *
Passg the Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu bill would further rce eedoms a untry where gay sex is already punishable wh up to three years jail, crics and activists Odoi, an amic rearcher, filed a lawsu on July 7 challengg the bill's nstutnaly, sayg would impact donor aid and other forms of fancial support. Ghana's Supreme Court on Wednday led her arguments were not sufficiently nvcg to grant an lg cleared the way for the bill, one of the harsht towards the LGBTQ muny Ai, to go through a fal stage of parliamentary approval before beg signed to May, Uganda's Print Yoweri Meveni signed one of the world's tought anti-LGBTQ laws, which spelled out the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy"'s bill, backed by relig and tradnal lears, clus jail sentenc of up to 10 years for advotg for LGBTQ rights. In another blow to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights Hungary, on July 13, the Hungarian ernment proposed a bill that exclus transgenr women om a women-only pensn scheme.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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The puty Fisz factn lear publicly cricized the judge while pro-ernment media regurgated trans- and homophobic msagg. Instead of discrimatg and fuelg tolerance, parliament should redouble efforts to protect the basic human rights of everyone Hungary, cludg people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr. The most famo is Florida’s HB 1557/SB 1834, llectively known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
” Consirg the ongog natnwi nservative mpaign agast nocuo books like Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir, Genr Queer, ’s safe to say that this bill would effectively ban any discsn of LGBTQ+ sexualy public “parental rights” bills, such as South Carola’s H455, would also force schools to velop procr to rm parents about school clubs, which likely targets LGBTQ+ clubs such as Gay Straight Allianc. ” Arizona’s is a ltle ls explicly homophobic/transphobic, only specifyg that would ban “sexually explic material, ” but is more broad-rangg, applyg not jt to public school librari but public schools as a ’s also worth notg that the proposed bills go hand hand wh the nservative effort to ban “cril race theory” om classrooms; Freedom for All Amerins is trackg those bills right alongsi the anti-trans tn least 20 stat have troduced such bills th far 2022. ” That be emently clear upon lookg at the text of a bill like Iowa’s HF 170, filed last month, which expands the fn of “scerely held relig beliefs and moral nvictns” to clu opposn to gay marriage, that “male” and “female” refer to “distct and immutable blogil sex, ” and that “unborn children'' should have rights.