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Contents:
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAYG ‘GAY RIGHTS!’ ONLE
- ’S ALL FUN AND GAY TILL SOMEONE LOSES THEIR RIGHTS
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- GAY PEOPLE PLAY, YOU TAKE OR YOU LEAVE THGS THAT THEY SAY, JT DON'T MAKE RIGHTIF I'M TELLG YOU THE TTH RIGHT NOW, DO YOU BELIEVE GAY PEOPLE PLAY THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
- GAY RIGHTS
- IT'S ALL FUN AND GAY UNTIL... SHIRTS
A BRIEF HISTORY OF SAYG ‘GAY RIGHTS!’ ONLE
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * it's all fun and gay till someone loses their rights *
Last night, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz said, “Gay rights!
’S ALL FUN AND GAY TILL SOMEONE LOSES THEIR RIGHTS
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That’s where an enterprisg fan asked the pair to say “gay rights.
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AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
The civil rights that dividuals and married upl have that those the homosexual muny don't have. The clu the legalizatn of gay marriage, the same rights to said act that heterosexuals receive, (such as tax exemptns and benefs) and the right to be public whout beg owned upon. Although homosexuals have been fightg for the rights sce the late 1800s, the issue never received nearly as much publicy until around the 2004 electn when Congrs gave the stat the right to choose their view on this issue. Democrats and liberals feel that the dividuals serve the same rights that all of have bee we are all human, the Constutn says "All men are created equal," and that we practilly did the same thg wh the Civil Rights Movement the 1950s and 60s. Republins, nservativ, and many Christian groups feel that homosexuals should not be given the same rights for var reasons cludg their own thoughts that homosexualy is a disease or mental illns, that has no social benef, (i.e. impossible to bear children) and that the Bible don't allow (see Levic 18:22). There have been many arguments about the issu which have also brought to qutn where to draw the le between the Seperatn of Church and State." name="Dcriptn" property="og:scriptn * it's all fun and gay till someone loses their rights *
Which is brgs to now, when on the red rpet of the BAFTAs, two of the stars of The Favoure said “Gay rights! “Gay rights! A Brief History of Sayg ‘Gay Rights!
The other is their stance on gay rights.
GAY PEOPLE PLAY, YOU TAKE OR YOU LEAVE THGS THAT THEY SAY, JT DON'T MAKE RIGHTIF I'M TELLG YOU THE TTH RIGHT NOW, DO YOU BELIEVE GAY PEOPLE PLAY THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
* it's all fun and gay till someone loses their rights *
The fight for rights is not only a fight for “gay people. ” If we really want to make a difference we have to stand together: straight, gay, black, whe. In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opn piece tled “The stggle for gay rights is over”.
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.
GAY RIGHTS
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. 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.
IT'S ALL FUN AND GAY UNTIL... SHIRTS
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. ”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe. “I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay.