A place for news and opns on the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer/qutng muni.
Contents:
- A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
- OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
- ‘THE GAY VIS’: MONKEYPOX AND THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF LGBTQ+ STIGMATIZATN
A GAY GIRL’S GUI TO THE 2023 WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
A rerd number of out LGBTQ players make this year’s tournament a feast for gay fans. * gay and vox *
“We have been able to see that they tend to implement a seri of reactnary polici that brg about more sexism, more homophobia, more racism our untry, as well as a very dangero nontatn Spanish society, ” said Gutiérrez.
It will be a glor month to be a gay fan.
OUT GAY PRO WRTLER AC MACK LEAV THE RG AS AN SPIRATN
* gay and vox *
Last time at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, the Netherlands lay claim to the honor of beg the team wh the most out LGBTQ players, but this year Atralia boasts 10 out players and overtak them for the tle of Gayt Team 2k23. Ireland’s historic entry to the tournament marks another triumph for out midfielr Sead Farrelly, whose natnal team but and 2023 return to the NWSL e more than six years after retirg om soccer the wake of systemic homophobic and sexual abe wh the league, which the Athletic first reported on 2021.
‘THE GAY VIS’: MONKEYPOX AND THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF LGBTQ+ STIGMATIZATN
Attacks by the far-right Vox party on lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) rights are ttg years of polil nsens on the issue Spa, which 2005 beme only the third untry the world to allow same-sex marriage. * gay and vox *
The law imposed strict crimal penalti for same-sex relatns — cludg executn for “serial offenrs” who m “aggravated homosexualy.
When liberals won the culture war over gay rights. Nowhere was this trend clearer than on gay rights, where the thors found “by far the most pronounced opn change we observe the data. “In only two s, more than a third of the populatn has changed s posn on gay rights: the approval of gays’ right to adopt children rose by 48.
“Gay marriage support grew om 12. Notably, the Republin shift on gay rights took off durg arguably the most tense recent perd of partisan nflict on the issue: the stggle over same-sex marriage the Gee W. As the overall cultural environment beme more liberal thanks to s of LGBTQ activism, gays and lbians around the untry felt more fortable g out of the closet.
The amg of monkeypox as only beg a disease that gay and bisexual men n ntract and transm puts the entire populatn at risk. * gay and vox *
The rult is that more Republins had personal ntact wh gay people, which turn ma them more sympathetic to LGBTQ equaly.
“At least recent years, both Republins and Democrats have siar probabili of knowg someone their close social circl who is gay or lbian, ” they wre. Around the same time, some on the right even flirted wh tryg to build a kd of pro-gay nservatism ak to certa European far-right movements. The New York Tim’s Maggie Haberman clared that “ is his views on gay rights and gay people that most distguish Mr.
The language of relig eedom has been muted, and pro-gay nservatism feels like (at bt) a distant dream. In 2022, the journal Public Opn Quarterly published an analysis by five scholars examg data on trans people and trans issu the same way that Baldassarri and Park studied gay issu. That said, the public is still more divid on trans issu than on gay and lbian on.
Is Vax gay ‘The Legend of Vox Macha’? Vax’ildan has a flirty exchange Season 2 wh Shn Gilmore, so is he gay ‘Cril Role’? * gay and vox *
Today, the right has gone on offense agast not only trans inty but LGBTQ cln more broadly, as seen polici like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law or attacks on Kohl’s for sellg a onie wh a Pri flag on .
“Pri was never such a ntroversial thg when was gay men and lbians, ” the proment right-wg mentator Erick Erickson tweeted. Erickson’s argument ignor both the right’s history of anti-Pri agprop and the thor’s own long rerd of homophobia. “15 years ago, the average Amerin might associate gay pri events wh a para the Village, not their employer, their church, and the State Department flyg the rabow flag.