Up to 2,000 anti-LGBT protters broke up a Gay Pri ftival the Geian pal Tbilisi on Saturday, scufflg wh police and stroyg props cludg rabow flags and plards, though there were no reports of juri.
Contents:
- ANTI-GAY SUPPORTERS RALLY FOR ROY MOORE, WORRYG LGBTQ MUNY
- 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
- HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977
- WHAT WAS BEHD GEIA’S ANTI-GAY RALLY?
- ETHPIAN ERNMENT NCELS ANTI-GAY RALLY
- TED CZ AND THE ANTI-GAY PASTOR
- FLORIDA SCHOOL VTIGATG AFTER STUNTS YELL ANTI-GAY SLURS, STOMP ON PRI FLAG
ANTI-GAY SUPPORTERS RALLY FOR ROY MOORE, WORRYG LGBTQ MUNY
* anti gay rally *
REUTERS/Irakli Genidze TPX IMAGES OF THE DAYJuly 8 (Rters) - Up to 2, 000 anti-LGBT protters broke up a Gay Pri ftival the Geian pal Tbilisi on Saturday, scufflg wh police and stroyg props cludg rabow flags and plards, though there were no reports of juri. Geia has passed laws agast discrimatn and hate crim, but LGBT+ rights groups say there is a lack of aquate protectn by law enforcement officials and homophobia remas wispread the socially nservative South Cs years ago, several journalists were beaten durg attacks on LGBT+ activists Tbilisi.
Activists who long cried gay rights, often assailg them as a threat to nservative fay valu and procreatn, said they’ve found new alli, particularly their efforts to lim medil re and athletic opportuni for transgenr youth.
18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
Moore's hardle stance on gay rights — and those of his fierct relig supporters — are troublg for the LGBTQ muny Alabama and beyond. * anti gay rally *
In the 1970s, Christian sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant lnched the “Save Our Children” mpaign to fight back agast a lol Da County, Florida, ordance that banned discrimatn based on sexual orientatn hog and employment.
HISTORY OF THE ANTI-GAY MOVEMENT SCE 1977
The ‘parental rights’ movement is leadg to a growg sense of dread for gay and transgenr children while providg fuel to the right. * anti gay rally *
Ken Harrison, the chairman of the Promise Keepers, appeared on former Tmp ai Steve Bannon’s podst, and said anti-LGBTQ remarks that the gatherg is necsary bee of “how quickly we went om homosexual marriage to, now, men puttg on drs and beg lled women.
WHAT WAS BEHD GEIA’S ANTI-GAY RALLY?
A small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement * anti gay rally *
Democratic policians across California nmned a volatile anti-gay prott outsi a suburban Los Angel school board meetg on Tuday, as the school board heard public ment on whether to officially signate June as LGBTQ+ Pri month.
ETHPIAN ERNMENT NCELS ANTI-GAY RALLY
Gay rights—an issue, until now, seen as margal by most Geians—has bee a proxy for a larger nflict. * anti gay rally *
The cy uncil Huntgton Beach had prevly voted not to display the Pri flag on cy the state’s Inland Empire regn, a school board Temecula rejected a history curriculum bee of s mentn of the murred civil rights activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California history, who was posthumoly award the printial medal of eedom.
TED CZ AND THE ANTI-GAY PASTOR
Homosexualy 'not a ser crime' says ernment official, untry where gay sex punishable by 15 years prison * anti gay rally *
”Lol news acunts and footage of the volatile anti-gay protters Glendale and North Hollywood showed some protters g rhetoric now mon far-right protts across the Uned Stat, suggtg that LGBTQ+ people are pedophil or predators, and argug that any mentn of the existence of gay people or gay fai is appropriate for young children. Many wore intil T-shirts readg “Leave our kids alone, ” and some voked Christian fah as the reason for their opposn to Pri events are faiar l of attack that have often been mobilised by anti-gay activists the past, cludg by Ana Bryant her “Save our Children” mpaign the 1970s, which also foced on “parents’ rights” as a way to ph back agast advanc civil rights for gay as equaly for LGBTQ+ people has bee creasgly popular and accepted the US, wh 71% of rponnts a recent Gallup poll exprsg support for same-sex marriage, many Amerins scribed the renewed attacks as ighteng and disturbg. Trans people have been sgled out as the foc of much of the legislatn, and ntue to be the target of many particularly vilent polil attacks, but, as Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, which regulat what tors are allowed to discs public school classrooms, any mentn of genr inty or homosexualy is now g unr attack.
FLORIDA SCHOOL VTIGATG AFTER STUNTS YELL ANTI-GAY SLURS, STOMP ON PRI FLAG
Government spokman Mos Kunkuyu told protters the admistratn would take to acunt the ncerns raised by relig monstratns cid wh a nstutnal urt se brought by Jan Willem Akstar, a Dutch NGO worker, and Jana Gonani, a lol transgenr pair is seekg to have bans on same-sex marriage and gay-sex overturned, argug they vlate the right to privacy and digny, among sex is a crimal offence punishable by up to 14 years jail the and Gonani have separately faced charg unr the lonial-era legislatn outlawg was sentenced to eight years jail 2021. Their s were joed before the nstutnal urt, which will beg heargs next 's jtice mistry issued a moratorium on arrts and prosecutns for nsensual homosexual acts 2012, but the orr was spend by the High Court 2016 pendg a judicial review.
And an anti-Moore rally at a Birmgham church on Saturday drew more than 100 people, some of whom rried signs cryg his opposn to gay a Senate mpaign sudnly hyper foced on Moore's relatnships wh teenage girls s ago, Moore's hardle stance on gay rights and other LGBTQ issu has bee ltle more than an afterthought for many voters as Electn Day first ught the attentn of many the LGBTQ muny after scribg homosexual nduct as "an herent evil agast which children mt be protected" a 2002 child ctody se volvg a lbian mother. "Ined, other LGBTQ activists suggted this week that open acceptance of Moore's anti-gay rhetoric harkens to a dark and vlent time Alabama 's Democratic challenger, Doug Jon, is known bt, perhaps, for prosecutg the men who bombed Birmgham's 16th Street Baptist Church — a prosecutn that me nearly 40 years after the 1963 crime that killed four black girls.