Who are the most anti-gay US policians? The list is a long one, cludg policians om both parti (though a majory are Republin). The ...
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- AFTER ROE, REPUBLINS SHARPEN ATTACKS ON GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS
- THE MOST ANTI-GAY US POLICIANS
- OPENLY GAY GOP NDIDAT STAND UP
- REPUBLIN CANDIDAT ON GAY RIGHTS: WHERE CA, BACHMANN AND OTHER GOP PRINTIAL HOPEFULS STAND ON LGBT ISSU (PHOTOS)
- TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
AFTER ROE, REPUBLINS SHARPEN ATTACKS ON GAY AND TRANSGENR RIGHTS
Michigan’s Republin ndidat for ernor were asked if was also time to roll back nstutnal protectns for gay rights. None of the five ndidat me to the fense of same-sex marriage. * republican candidates gay rights *
Nikki Haley’s 2024 printial bid has seen her misgenr trans fluencer Dylan Mulvaney and claim Ron DeSantis’ ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law “don’t go far enough”. She nounced DeSantis’ ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law – which rtrictns LGBTQ+ discsns schools – for “not gog far enough” and misgenred social media fluencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Durg his time the Republin Party, Stt supported the US ary’s reviled ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy, opposed same-sex marriage and told Newsweek that he nsirs homosexualy to be morally wrong. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez was ially a proponent of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, but he said expandg the anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn was “excsive”.
THE MOST ANTI-GAY US POLICIANS
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Suarez told NBC News he ially supported DeSantis’ ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, but he said expandg the anti-LGBTQ+ legislatn to all gras was “excsive”. But the realm of LGBTQ+ rights, the movement recently appeared to be on the back foot, wh ngrsnal Republins 2022 helpg to pass a law that protected same-sex marriage natnwi, buildg on the supreme urt’s tablishment of the right rponse, groups opposed to rights for the gay, lbian and transgenr muni have orchtrated a well-fund backlash to the expansn of rights – one that is beg fostered by extremists, has seen the erosn of gay rights many stat across the US and clus a growg threat of vlence. All told, more anti-gay bills have been troduced stateho 2023 than the past five years, acrdg to HRC.
The issue’s approval now stands at 64%, pared wh 71% last year, wh only 41% of Republins approvg – a cle of 15 percentage pots om last past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnLast week, rights groups Glaad and the Anti-Defamatn League found that at least 356 cinc of hate directed at LGBTQ+ Amerins occurred between June 2022 and the past April, cludg a mass shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs that left five people the Fah & Freedom Coaln’s nference, speaker after speaker ma clear their rolve to ntue the mpaign agast trans Amerins. For s, the William Way LGBT Communy Center has sat at the heart of Philalphia’s gayborhood, offerg art shows, unselg servic, vacce clics and a slew of other health and hog assistance to rints as the center’s agg headquarters started to show s wear, s lears turned to Washgton for some help.
OPENLY GAY GOP NDIDAT STAND UP
8 ln feral aid for renovatns — until Hoe Republins mounted an extraordary blocka this week, nyg a requt to fund the anizatn and other lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr-foced groups two last year’s electns, Republin lawmakers creasgly have seized on the power of the feral purse, uplg their csa for stery wh a fierce ph to advance a nservative social agenda. In state legislatur across the untry, party lawmakers recently have moved to adopt a rerd number of rtrictns that lim gay and transgenr rights, while the GOP’s printial ndidat have attacked transgenr athlet and rebed schools that teach about genr inty. LGBTQ+ issu are shapg the printial race, as some ndidat have repeatedly sought to emphasize their ristance to transgenr athlet petg women’s sports, stunts learng about sexual orientatn and genr inty schools, and drag tactics are part of a broar upheaval which GOP-led state legislatur have moved to pass a rerd surge of rtrictns on gay and transgenr rights and stor such as Target and Walmart have faced cricism om some on the right over their attacks also ci wh signs of a shift public opn, wh opposn to LGBTQ+ rights risg aga, pecially among Republins, pollg shows.
” And the Log Cab Republins late Friday cricized a jt-released DeSantis mpaign vio attackg his rival Donald Tmp’s past exprsns of support for LBGTQ+ people, argug DeSantis had “ventured to homophobic terrory. Acceptance of transgenr Amerins is lower than of people who are gay, lbian or bisexual, but for all, there’s a wi gap between Republins, pennts and Democrats, public pollg shows.
” DeSantis also fend the state law he signed that has led to the ncellatn of some Pri Month ftivi Florida ernor kicked off his printial mpaign last month om an Iowa church lled Eterny where the pastor, who spoke at the event, preach that homosexualy is a s and has been a vol cric of Pri. Last June, the Texas GOP amend s platform to ll homosexualy “an abnormal liftyle choice” and oppose all legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people. There are gay nservativ out there.
REPUBLIN CANDIDAT ON GAY RIGHTS: WHERE CA, BACHMANN AND OTHER GOP PRINTIAL HOPEFULS STAND ON LGBT ISSU (PHOTOS)
Liberal stat began difyg same-sex marriage to law, and more gay and lbian upl gaed accs to the stutn. The followg year, Oh Senator Rob Portman beme the first stg GOP Senator to announced support for same-sex marriage legalizatn, sharg that his son was gay.
“They’ll say somethg like, ‘I personally don’t support gay marriage, but ’s settled law, so we’re not gog to addrs that.
TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT
Moran says he rpond that he needs to go to gay and lbian voters the fall and tell them that the Republin Party has their back, and if the GOP vote unt for this bill is low, mak that msagg substantially more difficult. Pence has a long history of anti-LGBTQ activism, gog back to 1992 when he said that beg gay is “learned behavr” and his 2000 Hoe mpaign where he advoted feral funds for nversn therapy to fight HIV; ntug to his time the Hoe, when he opposed LGBTQ equaly every chance he got; and most notably, as ernor of Indiana, his mismanagement that led to the state’s worst HIV outbreak history. Jon Hoadley (D), who seeks to be the first gay member of Congrs om Michigan.
A Republin PAC supportg Upton has ran ads llg Hoadley “creepy” and falsely claimg he is a meth addict and a “pedo sex poet, ” what has bee nsired one of the most homophobic electoral rac years. “If a man were to follow someone to a rtroom… they’re there bee they want to m a crime agast a woman, ” Maltakis told Gay Cy News at the time, cg the law as “a loophole… to m a type of sex crime.