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Contents:
- 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
- THE GAY REPUBLIN ACTIVISTS ARE MAKG INROADS WH TMP'S TEAM
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * conservatives lgbt *
The law imposed strict crimal penalti for same-sex relatns — cludg executn for “serial offenrs” who m “aggravated homosexualy. 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. 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.
'IT'S A VERY LONELY WORLD': FOR LGBT NSERVATIV, ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN PROMPTS TRATN, DOUBTS
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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.
THE GAY REPUBLIN ACTIVISTS ARE MAKG INROADS WH TMP'S TEAM
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * conservatives lgbt *
“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. Around the same time, some on the right even flirted wh tryg to build a kd of pro-gay nservatism ak to certa European far-right movements. The New York Tim’s Maggie Haberman clared that “ is his views on gay rights and gay people that most distguish Mr.
The language of relig eedom has been muted, and pro-gay nservatism feels like (at bt) a distant dream. In 2022, the journal Public Opn Quarterly published an analysis by five scholars examg data on trans people and trans issu the same way that Baldassarri and Park studied gay issu. That said, the public is still more divid on trans issu than on gay and lbian on.
Today, the right has gone on offense agast not only trans inty but LGBTQ cln more broadly, as seen polici like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law or attacks on Kohl’s for sellg a onie wh a Pri flag on . “Pri was never such a ntroversial thg when was gay men and lbians, ” the proment right-wg mentator Erick Erickson tweeted. Erickson’s argument ignor both the right’s history of anti-Pri agprop and the thor’s own long rerd of homophobia.