LGBT Rights California, Uned Stat: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
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CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
California legislators, all Democrats, are proud of their succs but say unrsr the hard work that remas their own state and elsewhere, such as handlg the fallout om measur such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, which bans some lsons on sexual orientatn and genr inty, or laws other stat limg transgenr stunts’ participatn sports or blockg genr-affirmg medil re for tone was further shroud by the Saturday night shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado, which killed five people and wound many others. Jared Polis, who jt won a send term, was the first openly gay man elected as a state’s ernor when he won 2018. Meanwhile, the Legislature has not yet reached pary genr or race and ethnicy, acrdg to statistics om the California State Hampshire and Vermont have each had more LGBTQ legislators, acrdg to the stute, but their legislatur are bigger than California’s and so have not reached the 10% 2022 electns are a landspe of firsts for LGBTQ people, cludg Corey Jackson, the California Legislature’s first gay Black man, who noted that Ain Amerins — particularly Black trans people — are pecially margalized.
“It’s hard to feel optimistic as a young queer person wh everythg that’s gog on, ” Perri the newly elected LGBTQ officials are overwhelmgly Democrats, at least one gay Republin — Gee Santos, a supporter of former Print Donald Tmp — won a U. Hoe seat New York by featg another gay man, a crease LGBTQ lawmakers ntrasts wh efforts some stat led by members of Santos’ party to lim the fluence, visibily and rights of LGBTQ Tennsee, lears of the state’s Republin legislative supermajory said the first bill of the 2023 ssn will seek to ban genr-affirmg re for mors. The bill propos the programs target populatns wh the hight need, cludg Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Intersex (LGBTQQI) youths.