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:
- 'IT'S A VERY LONELY WORLD': FOR LGBT NSERVATIV, ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN PROMPTS TRATN, DOUBTS
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
'IT'S A VERY LONELY WORLD': FOR LGBT NSERVATIV, ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN PROMPTS TRATN, DOUBTS
Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * conservative lgbt *
The law imposed strict crimal penalti for same-sex relatns — cludg executn for “serial offenrs” who m “aggravated homosexualy. When liberals won the culture war over gay rights. Nowhere was this trend clearer than on gay rights, where the thors found “by far the most pronounced opn change we observe the data.
“In only two s, more than a third of the populatn has changed s posn on gay rights: the approval of gays’ right to adopt children rose by 48. “Gay marriage support grew om 12. Notably, the Republin shift on gay rights took off durg arguably the most tense recent perd of partisan nflict on the issue: the stggle over same-sex marriage the Gee W.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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As the overall cultural environment beme more liberal thanks to s of LGBTQ activism, gays and lbians around the untry felt more fortable g out of the closet. The rult is that more Republins had personal ntact wh gay people, which turn ma them more sympathetic to LGBTQ equaly.
“At least recent years, both Republins and Democrats have siar probabili of knowg someone their close social circl who is gay or lbian, ” they wre.