Human Rights Watch: Anti-gay laws promote vlence, discrimatn St. Vcent

Contents:

• FACT CHECK: DID GRDR THREATEN TO EXPOSE GAY REPUBLINS WHO USE APP?
• TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI
• FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC
• HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT
• “WE FAILED”: GAY REPUBLINS WHO FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE TEXAS GOP SEE LTLE PROGRS
• ADAPTED OM SECRET CITY: THE HIDN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON BY JAM KIRCHICK. PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY. COPYRIGHT © 2022 BY JAM KIRCHICK. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.
• DONALD TMP’S TOP “LGBT” SUPPORTERS ARE LARGELY GAY WHE MEN
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

FACT CHECK: DID GRDR THREATEN TO EXPOSE GAY REPUBLINS WHO USE APP?

Fally, many of the LGB Republins that FiveThirtyEight talked to said that they felt personally weled as gay or lbian Republin circl, while they often felt ostracized as Republins LGBTQ circl. Recently, the Walt Disney World Rort Florida announced plans to host what billed the "largt LGBTQ nference the world" after the pany cricized DeSantis' Parental Rights Edutn legislatn, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics.

Wh greater attentn foced toward Florida's gay rights rerd, one claim on Twter that picked up attentn recently suggted datg app Grdr uld take steps to expose Republin polician ers should they ntue to support anti-LGBTQ legislatn.

TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI

A social media post has claimed that gay datg app Grdr would reveal any Republin legislators that ed s software if Florida ntued to endorse "homophobic" and "transphobic" legislatn. The ClaimA tweet by er @dutchsprim, posted on March 23, 2023, and viewed more than 500, 000 tim, clud a screenshot of another tweet claimg gay datg app Grdr would reveal any "Republin" that "secretly" their app if Florida ntu to pass "homophobic and transphobic laws.

"The screenshot read: "BREAKING: The gay datg app Grdr says if Florida don't stop passg homophobic and transphobic laws, they'll reveal every Republin legislator and party official who secretly the app. "User @dutchsprim add: "Do ?"The FactsFlorida's "Don't Say Gay" bill led to a wave of other Republin-led stat nsirg siar legislatn, which prevents topics cludg sexual orientatn and genr inty om beg tght to the state's youngt law brought signifint backlash om LGBTQ advot, who argue is tend to silence the muny. "LGBTQ and civil rights groups have praised plans by Walt Disney World Rort to host "the largt LGBTQ+ nference the world", as proposals emerged to extend Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill to all ag the Florida schoolg system.

FORMER REPUBLIN NGRSMAN SAYS HE’S GAY, REGRETS ANTI-GAY STANC

The Texas Republin Party unveiled s official posn on LGBTQ issu over the weekend, fg homosexualy as an "abnormal liftyle choice" and also opposg "all efforts to validate transgenr inty.

"Thoands of Republin activists met at the party’s biennial nventn Hoton on Saturday to agree to the party's platform on a range of issu, cludg the rejectn of the 2020 electn rults and a ll to repeal of the 1965 Votg Right Act, which was enacted to prevent discrimatn agast Black a sectn tled "Homosexualy and genr issu, " the party suggted that LGBTQ people should not be legally protected om discrimatn and that beg gay or trans is a choice. "We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of orig, and we oppose any crimal or civil penalti agast those who oppose homosexualy out of fah, nvictn, or belief tradnal valu.

"The Texas Republin Party blocked the Log Cab Republins, a longstandg group of gay nservativ — which also supports many of the party’s anti-LGBTQ polici — om havg a booth at Saturday's nventn. "The party's new official stance on sexual orientatn and genr inty also cis wh a recent natnwi surge charged rhetoric om media punds and policians about LGBTQ recent months, nservative lawmakers, televisn punds and other public figur have acced opponents of a newly enacted Florida tn legislatn — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — of tryg to “groom” or “doctrate” children. There is more energy the GOP for help for gay and transgenr issu than a lot of issu Bin r about, ” said Tyler Deaton, a Republin nsultant and senr adviser to the Amerin Uny Fund, which works to advance LGBTQ rights.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: ANTI-GAY LAWS PROMOTE VLENCE, DISCRIMATN ST. VCENT

Bh’s 2004 printial n, apologized for the anti-same-sex marriage rhetoric of that mpaign and for his role fightg marriage equaly, while announcg that he was gay. Hedge fund billnaire and Republin donor Pl Sger quietly donated to pro-gay rights and formed the Amerin Uny PAC and Amerin Uny Fund, which fights for LGBTQ and relig eedom.

“WE FAILED”: GAY REPUBLINS WHO FOUGHT FOR ACCEPTANCE TEXAS GOP SEE LTLE PROGRS

A smopolan md bs person, Tmp did not prrize LGBTQ issu durg his mpaign and, fact, ma overt appeals to gay voters, though not by pledgg support for laws to protect them. “For the first time we got to walk to the race wh a ndidate we didn’t have to apologize for or expla away his reluctance to embrace the gay muny. Probably Reagan was the last ndidate where we were like ‘this ndidate has gay iends, ’” said Charl Moran, spokperson for Log Cab Republins, a LGBTQ GOP group.

“Donald Tmp’s embrace of people who are LGBT tly did help make OK to be an out, gay Republin, ” said former Whe Hoe puty prs secretary Judd Deere. “As print, he hired and promoted LGBT Amerins to the hight levels of ernment, cludg posns at the Whe Hoe, of which I was honored to be one of those people, Cabet agenci, cludg the first openly gay Cabet member, and ambassadorships. In the postgs on Instagram and a web page, the 38-year-old also scrib his anguish at beg rejected by members of his eply relig fay, cludg his mother, after they learned last year he was gay.

ADAPTED OM SECRET CITY: THE HIDN HISTORY OF GAY WASHGTON BY JAM KIRCHICK. PUBLISHED BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY. COPYRIGHT © 2022 BY JAM KIRCHICK. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.

“I n live openly now as a gay man bee of the extraordary brave people who had the urage to fight for our rights when I did not, ” he starts the postgs on both Instagram and the web page wh the words: “I am gay. ”He said he still receiv ocsnal emails om fay members “tryg to sell me on nversn therapy, ” the wily bunked notn that someone who is gay n, wh therapy, bee heterosexual.

He said the fact he is gay wouldn’t be a revelatn for many who know him, addg that g out publicly as gay is “jt one of those thgs my life need of explic affirmatn … to fally validate who I am as a person. The claim: Grdr will reveal inti of Republin lawmakers if Florida keeps passg homophobic lawsA March 23 Instagram post (direct lk, archive lk) claims the gay datg app Grdr is threateng Republin lawmakers Florida.

"BREAKING: The gay datg app Grdr says if Florida don’t stop passg homophobic and transphobic laws, they’ll reveal every Republin legislator and party official who secretly the app, " reads the Instagram post garnered more than 2, 000 lik a day, while the origal tweet garnered more than 200, 000 lik a day.

DONALD TMP’S TOP “LGBT” SUPPORTERS ARE LARGELY GAY WHE MEN

Homosexualy ntu to be crimalized the former Brish lony after many hundreds of years, leavg LGBTQ dividuals wh ltle if any legal protectns while vlent crim were beg mted wh impuny, the report said. Standg crimal s on the island put nsensual gay sex the same tegory as crim like rape, ct, and sexual asslt, although there have been no recent nvictns unr the law.

Many of the terviewe said job hirgs and firgs were beg largely termed by sexual orientatn, while other gay people lucky to have jobs faced sexual harassment the workplace. "The crimalizatn of gay sex giv tac state sanctn to the discrimatn and vlence that LGBT people experience their daily liv and pels many to look abroad to live eely and fulfill their dreams, " said Cristian González Cabrera, gay rights rearcher at Human Rights Watch.

Six other Wtern natns -- cludg Domi, Grenada, Guyana, Jamai, and Sat Lucia -- ntue to crimalize gay sex, wh penalti as weighty as a prison for "gross cency wh another person of the same sex. In June 1998, a group of gay and lbian nservativ, phg for greater reprentatn at the Texas Republin Party nventn Fort Worth, found themselv a ighteng clash wh members of their own party. In 1990, the GOP party platform lled homosexualy “blogilly and morally unsound” and pared same-sex relatnships to “necrophilia, pedophilia, btialy, or ct.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Gay Republins were hard to e by back then — many had bee disillned wh the Republin Party due part to Print Ronald Reagan’s handlg of the HIV/AIDS panmic the 1980s.

The Galvton County GOP lled for all HIV patients to be quaranted, a cisn Log Cab members said was tend to target gay people, who were disproportnately affected by the vis. In 2016, removed s explic endorsement of “reparative therapy, ” a bunked and harmful treatment that claims to turn gay people straight, but still ma a pot of cg s availabily "for self-motivated youth and adults.

" The state party also retaed the official posn that said “homosexualy is a chosen behavr that is ntrary to the fundamental unchangg tths that has been ordaed by God the Bible. As the platform mtee was wrappg up s work, Matt Patrick, the mtee’s chairman, proposed an amendment to add the language that “homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice.