The tech giant is lobbyg, filg urt briefs and recg alli om other big pani to oppose bills targetg gay and transgenr people stat like Iowa, Texas and Florida.
Contents:
- EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
- WHAT THE GAY LOBBY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
- THE LGBT LOBBY: NOT THE SAME THG AS PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY
- THE LGBT LOBBY – NOT THE SAME THG AS PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY
EX-GAYS SCEND UPON D.C. TO LOBBY AGAST LGBTQ RIGHTS
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The pany, whose CEO, Tim Cook, is the natn’s most visible gay executive, has ployed s lobbyists to oppose legislatn that lims protectns for trans and gay people or their fai Iowa, Florida, Texas and at least six other stat. The pro-LGBTQ group Equaly Florida said an email that s staff hadn’t noticed any of Apple’s lobbyg agast the new state law that rtricts teachers om talkg about genr and sexualy the classroom, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. Supporters of the new law say would ensure that the state’s youngt stunts learn about sexual orientatn and genr inty om their parents and not at school, but opponents say will create a hostile environment for gay and transgenr children or children om LGBTQ fai.
WHAT THE GAY LOBBY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Members of CHANGED and Church Uned who formerly intified as gay or transgenr are lobbyg agast the Equaly Act and a nversn therapy ban. * lgbt lobby *
“The efficy of makg big public statements is lower than ed to be, ” said Jsi Shortall, managg director of the gay rights bs group Texas Compet. Not long ago, the gay rights movement was a small group of people stgglg to follow their disposns wh a larger heterosexual culture.
Gays and lbians were unrdogs, vastly outnumbered and loosely anized, sometim subject to discrimatn and abe.
THE LGBT LOBBY: NOT THE SAME THG AS PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY
LGBTQ Lobbyg the Uned Stat argu that the issu and tactics prrized by the mastream gay lobbyg muny fail to serve LGBTQ terts a * lgbt lobby *
Jon, heir to the fortune, is gay. In 2000 he created the Arc Foundatn, a nonprof servg the LGBT muny, bee of his own experience g out as homosexual. Pat Stryker, another sister to Jon, has worked closely wh gay male Tim Gill.
THE LGBT LOBBY – NOT THE SAME THG AS PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY
A gay men’s choir put out a vio sayg that they were ‘g for your children’ and a school district began teachg sexually explic material to third grars. By phg this, LGBT groups are riskg a very ugly backlash. * lgbt lobby *
Prevly, Coman served as program director of the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Human Rights Commissn. A group of people om across the untry who formerly intified as gay and transgenr have scend upon Washgton this week to share their stori and lobby agast two proposed LGBTQ-rights group is ma up of 15 members of Church Uned and Changed, two California-based anizatns that seek to provi muny for, and protect the rights of, “formers” — dividuals who formerly intified as lbian, gay, bisexual or bills the group is lobbyg agast are H. ”Jim Domen, founr of Church Uned, intifi as formerly gay.
This, he said, is evinced by the fact that gays have achieved clout and succs as scientists, thors and Thoron, an LGBTQ rearcher at Human Rights Watch, lled the assertn of the “formers” unfound and said the bills they’re lobbyg agast are “long overdue.
Faced wh the ttimoni of thoands of people who have ma the journey out of homosexualy, the powerful LGBT lobby is now tryg to monize and outlaw unselg that facilat such change—as well as unselg that helps children stgglg wh genr inty. But while the gay lobby has managed to pick off several stat that might be nsired “low-hangg u” – maly Wt Coast and northeastern stat – the vast majory of the targeted stat (25) have rejected this top LGBT prry. A ago, personal vio ttimonials of people "g out" as gay explod on YouTube.