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- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Stt Wiener, a gay man and outspoken advote for LGBTQ+ rights, was the target of a ath threat Tuday, one of many he says he's received sce takg office 2017, and he's blamg on homophobic threat me Tuday morng to a newspaper, The San Francis Standard. Marjorie Taylor Greene and MAGA activist Charlie Kirk recently tweeted homophobic li about me, falsely accg me of supportg pedophil and child 'mutilatn.
'"The extreme homophobic and transphobic rhetoric that has lated on social media and right-wg media outlets has real world impacts. "Also September, Wiener was subjected to ath threats as well as homophobic and anti-Semic slurs over legislatn he troduced to reform the California sex offenr law to treat gay and straight sex equally. 1% of Californians are LGBT, acrdg to the US legislators, all Democrats, say that spe the ws, much work remas California and the US, cludg the fallout om measur such as Florida’s “don’t say gay” law and laws blockg genr-affirmg medil re for youths and limg transgenr stunts’ participatn news me as the US mourns a shootg at a gay nightclub Colorado that left five people ad.
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CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Photograph: Ben Hovland/APThe 2022 midterms brought a number of firsts for LGBTQ+ people, cludg the electn of Corey Jackson, the California legislature’s first gay Black man, who noted that Ain Amerins, particularly Black trans people, are pecially margalized.
The newly elected LGBTQ+ officials are overwhelmgly Democrats, but New York, the Republin Gee Santos, a gay man and supporter of Donald Tmp, won a US Hoe seat, featg the Democrat Robert Zimmerman, who is gay. I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011. She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs.
Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District. Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U. A gay California state senator is beg subjected to homophobic and anti-Semic slurs and even ath threats over his bill to reform the state's sex offenr law to treat gay and straight sex equally.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
As Vice Chair, I will ntue to look for areas where we n work together to protect gay and trans youth and ensure they have support so they don’t feel isolated. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.