Groups opposed to gay rights rake lns as stat bate anti-LGBTQ bills

Contents:

• TARGET LNCH GAY PRI LE DPE BOYTT
• GAYS AGAST GROOMERS SAYS TARGET IS GROOMG CHILDREN WH PRI CLOTHG
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• 10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED
• TARGET STOR NEGOTIATE WH GAY-LBIAN GROUP OVER POLIL SPENDG

TARGET LNCH GAY PRI LE DPE BOYTT

"It's a very dangero precent to set, that if people jt get riled up enough about the products that you're sellg, you n pletely distance yourself om the LGBT muny, when and if 's nvenient, " said Carnell, a transgenr gay man who lnched his brand Abprallen 2017. Target's doublg down on s vol support of the homosexual and transgenr agenda the face of vastatg bs loss stands stark ntrast to the verse urse of events of pro-marriage Chick-fil-A, which, as Church Milant has recently reported, has only seen growth spe of attempted boytts by gay activists. Although Target was actg to protect employe, some rporate marketg experts say the pany’s rponse uld emboln gay and transgenr rights opponents to target other brands.

The multiln-dollar war cht has bolstered a movement that jt a few years ago appeared to be losg ground Ameri’s slong culture war around lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer rights. “Many of those, while not specifilly tied to a church, are rooted the nservative Christian, biblil sense of human sexualy, ” said Stt McCoy, the terim puty legal director for LGBTQ rights and special ligatn for the SPLC and the SPLC Actn Fund, the group’s polil actn simply holdg a relig belief that views homosexualy or transgenr inty as sful do not tomatilly land a church or an anizatn on the SPLC’s list of hate groups.

'The hard re of the anti-gay movement' When the SPLC began trackg anti-LGBTQ hate the early 2010s, the anizatn noted that “a small terie of groups now prise the hard re of the anti-gay movement. C., that, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexual nduct is harmful to the persons who engage ” and “is also harmful to society at large” — jumped om over $12 ln to more than $23 ln.

GAYS AGAST GROOMERS SAYS TARGET IS GROOMG CHILDREN WH PRI CLOTHG

“The groups that are opposed to LGBTQ equaly did their msage ttg and found that attackg gay people is no longer the broadly popular culture war totem that they ed the ’90s, ” Gberg said. “I was like ‘oh target pri isn’t that bad this year’ and then I saw this lol, ” someone tweeted about a shirt the llectn that purports homophobia and transphobia “n be cured wh tn.

“It’s fally that time of the year when the target pri llectn mak me (a gay person) slightly homophobic, ” someone said above a llage of shirts they seemed to be mockg. — haley (@hairpntrigger) May 1, 2023“Babe wake up Target Pri Merch jt dropped, ” someone tweeted while sharg their hl, which clud both the “better out than ” shirt and one that says “not a phase” wh the phas of the wake up Target Pri Merch jt dropped (this is my hl, rporatns profg off pri month is obvi kd of sketch but the are fun)(special shout out to the gay in shrek gassy quote tshirt) — Tyle Christensen (@tylerrlchris) May 8, 2023Queer artists, trans solidaryEven as social media ers dragged some of the signs as “silly” or “crge, ” many also praised the retailer for hirg queer artists to subm signs and associatg s rporate name wh signs that support transgenr people.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

Ever sce born-aga sger and orange juice pchwoman Ana Bryant helped kick off the ntemporary anti-gay movement some 40 years ago, hard-le elements of the relig right have been searchg for ways to monize gay people — or, at a mimum, to fd arguments that will prevent their normalizatn society. For the former Florida bety queen and her Save Our Children group, was the alleged plans of gay men and lbians to "rec" schools that provid the fodr for their csa.

But addn to hawkg that myth, the legns of anti-gay activists who followed have add a panoply of others, rangg om the extremely doubtful claim that sexual orientatn is a choice, to unalloyed li like the claims that gay men molt children far more than heterosexuals or that hate crime laws will lead to the legalizatn of btialy and necrophilia. The fairy tal are important to the anti-gay right bee they form the basis of s claim that homosexualy is a social evil that mt be supprsed — an opn rejected by virtually all relevant medil and scientific thori.

Depictg gay men as a threat to children may be the sgle most potent weapon for stokg public fears about homosexualy — and for wng electns and referenda, as Ana Bryant found out durg her succsful 1977 mpaign to overturn a Da County, Fla., ordance barrg discrimatn agast gay people. Dpe havg been bunked repeatedly and very publicly, Cameron's work is still wily relied upon by anti-gay anizatns, although many no longer quote him by name. Others have ced a group lled the Amerin College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) to claim, as Tony Perks of the Fay Rearch Council did November 2010, that "the rearch is overwhelmg that homosexualy pos a [moltatn] danger to children.

10 ANTI-GAY MYTHS DEBUNKED

Gregory Herek, a profsor at the Universy of California, Davis, who is one of the natn's leadg rearchers on prejudice agast sexual mori, reviewed a seri of studi and found no evince that gay men molt children at higher rat than heterosexual men.

TARGET STOR NEGOTIATE WH GAY-LBIAN GROUP OVER POLIL SPENDG

The fixated child molter — the stereotypil pedophile — nnot be nsired homosexual or heterosexual bee "he often fds adults of eher sex repulsive" and often molts children of both sex. Most child molters, therefore, are not gay people lgerg outsi schools wag to snatch children om the playground, as much relig-right rhetoric suggts. In spe of all this, the anti-LGBT right ntu to peddle this harmful and basels myth, which is probably the leadg famatory charge leveled agast gay people.