A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?
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AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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. * anti lgbt protest *
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.
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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. ”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. Stedfast Baptist Church, which was forced to leave two lotns Tarrant County last year and recently bought a buildg Cedar Hill, was the subject of protts church was found Fort Worth 2014 and is led by pastor Jonathan Shelley, who advoted for “pal punishment” for gay people at an Arlgton Cy Council meetg last year and, a sermon, doubted that the Nazis killed six ln Jews.
In June 2022, pastor Dillon Aw said “Every sgle homosexual our untry should be... ”Edward Sebta, who wr a newsletter lled Dallas Gay Liberatn and has tracked the movements of Stedfast Baptist Church, said he hop protts agast the church will ntue at s new lotn. It sets a level for the rt of the muny, straight and gay, [of] what’s acceptable.