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

Contents:

• SEX EDUTN SCHOOLS SHOULD INCLU A GAY AGENDA, REPORT CLAIMS
• CRICS SLAM 'GAY AGENDA' PUBLIC SCHOOLS
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

SEX EDUTN SCHOOLS SHOULD INCLU A GAY AGENDA, REPORT CLAIMS

Old fears about gay people are beg bed wh newer ncerns—and newly veloped polil tools. This is jt htg you the face, ” said Chris Sanrs, the executive director of the Tennsee Equaly Project, a gay-rights group, potg to a bill that statethat would prohib materials that “promote, normalize, support, or addrs” LGBTQ issu. Those that did, though, varly say they’re troducg them to guard parents’ rights or prevent doctratn by teachers, though they were often unclear about what specific impact they expect the laws to John Kavanagh, Arizona, was one of the few lawmakers who agreed to speak on the rerd about the bill he sponsored, which would require parents to give approval for their children to jo gay-straight allianc at schools or other such clubs.

“Some of this is polil grandstandg and vote-panrg, but there’s also an thentic anxiety around parents and nonparents alike that Ameri’s children are beg Pied-Pipered by the vague and distant threats, they’re vadg the muny through the schools, ” said Adam Laats, a profsor of tn and history at the State Universy of New York, ia that gay teachers are recg stunts who need to be protected is a particularly vic theme that rells the latter half of the 20th century, Laats said, which at that time rulted thefirg of sr of teachers—a procs ually spearhead by state lawmakers, but was also supported by teachers’ unns, ci, and others. Supreme Court le that employe nnot be fired for beg gay.

“And I thk there is a very strong iologil current that really do believe the heart and soul of Ameri is at stake and beg threatened by trans people, by gays and lbians, by undocumented people, that is lookg to stutnalize the versn of Ameri they want to see. What mak the surge of legislative tert particularly plited is that stat have historilly not provid much guidance on how their schools should addrs LGBTQ the 1980s and 1990s, durg the height of the HIV epimic, a number of stat passed laws proscribg mentn of homosexualy; many, but not all, have sce been rolled back. Natnal pollg shows most Amerins are fortable wh gay and lbian teachers and about six 10 say they are fortable wh an elementary level transgenr teacher, acrdg to an analysis by the Survey Center on Amerin Life, a project of the Amerin Enterprise Instute, a thk tank.

CRICS SLAM 'GAY AGENDA' PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Supreme Court’s 2015 lg tablishg the right of gay people to marry, said Murib.

" It stat that "the teachg of history the Uned Stat shall clu a study of the rol and ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people the history of this untry. Dpe this new wave of efforts to tegrate LGBT ntent to the classroom, six stat – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carola and Texas – still have laws prohibg the "promotn of homosexualy. " The laws, also known as "no pro homo" laws, prohib schools om teachg lbian, gay or bisexual people or topics a posive light health or sexual tn class.

Alabama law, for example, stat that when discsg sexual health tn, "class mt emphasize, a factual manner and om a health perspective, that homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual nduct is a crimal offense unr the laws of the state. ” He also shared that, as an out gay man, “My sexual inty was always a part of my work bee I believe makg nnectns wh kids. In the 2015 GLSEN (formerly Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network) Natnal School Climate Survey, LGB stunts reported higher levels of verbal, physil and sexual vlence and bullyg than did their heterosexual unterparts.

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

1 percent of LGB stunts heard the word “gay” ed a rogatory manner, 85.