A spate of GOP bills targetg the teachg of sexual orientatn and genr inty issu has been acpanied by harsh anti-gay rhetoric by some Republins.
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- 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. 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. 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.
'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. * conservatives lgbt *
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.
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 *
“15 years ago, the average Amerin might associate gay pri events wh a para the Village, not their employer, their church, and the State Department flyg the rabow flag.
At the March Conservative Polil Actn Conference (CPAC) DC, arguably the leadg nservative movement event of the year, proment anti-gay mentator Michael Knowl proclaimed that “transgenrism mt be eradited” — to staed applse. Hillsborough High School stunts prott a Republin-backed bill dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" that would prohib classroom discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty, a measure Democrats nounced as beg anti-LGBTQ, Tampa, Fla., March 3, 2022. "At least 19 Republins voted agast the Wisns, a bill to ban transgenr children om receivg genr-affirmg re has been left untouched by the Republin-ntrolled state Spencer Cox speaks durg an terview Salt Lake Cy, Utah, March 4, Bowmer/APStill, many Republin-led efforts across the untry ntue to target LGBTQ many -- cludg the so-lled "Don’t Say Gay" bill agast LGBTQ ntent schools popularized this year Florida and quickly replited by other stat -- have been quickly backed by Republin-led state legislatur.