The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people n live openly whout discrimatn and enjoy equal rights, personal tonomy, and eedom of exprsn and associatn.
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AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence. The ACLU Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Project seeks to create a jt society for all LGBTQ people regardls of race or e.
But for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) people worldwi, beg open and out means alg wh discrimatn, harassment, or worse. Still have laws that effectively crimalize homosexualy.
A new law means gay people face the ath penalty, or 20 years prison for standg up for LGBTQ+ rights. If you don’t have gay, lbian or transgenred workers or acquatanc, read up about them or speak wh iends or fay members who know more than you do. If you’re an employer, you n announce that neher homophobia nor sexual harassment of any kd will be tolerated your work environment.
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * support lgbt rights *
Speak out if a worker offensive verbal ments, tells a disparagg joke about an LGBTQ person or shows homophobia about another employee your workplace. And stop supportg on that feed to homophobic agendas. If you want to be an LGBTQIA+ ally and you notice that a pany or bs is makg homophobic ments or donatg to anti-gay anizatns, you have the choice to stop supportg that bs.
"Alli should stay rmed on the issu that are attackg our muny and stand wh , " says Joseph Oddo, board print of the Gay & Lbian Communy Center of Southern Nevada. In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opn piece tled “The stggle for gay rights is over”.
LGBTQIA: Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng, tersex and asexual or allied. Dpe the legalizatn of same-sex marriage and the roads ma LGBTQIA advancement the past several s, members of this populatn are still victims of vlent crime at an alarmg rate each year, acrdg the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). The anizatn * support lgbt rights *
The mise of the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act 2013 was followed by the end of the feral ban on marriage equaly 2015. Wispread acceptance of same-sex marriage rights, gay people servg the ary and the need for protectns for LGBTQ+ people followed.
As recently as 2020, the urt, then wh two Tmp appote, led that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay, lbian and transgenr workers. In 1985, 89% of parents said they would be sad if they disvered their child was gay or a lbian.
A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law.
So your child jt me out as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. What n you do to help your LGBTQ+ child? * support lgbt rights *
Supporters of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill gather outsi Walt Disney World this month.
The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. ”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.
Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program.