NEW REPORT: Anti-LGBTQ+ Groomg Narrative Surged More Than 400% on Social Media Followg Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ Law, As Social Platforms Enabled Extremist Policians and their Alli to Peddle Inflamatory, Discrimatory Rhetoric - Human Rights Campaign

Contents:

• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
• RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW
• US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
• (WE ARE) #GAYPROPAGANDA
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL
• NEW REPORT: ANTI-LGBTQ+ GROOMG NARRATIVE SURGED MORE THAN 400% ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY OR TRANS’ LAW, AS SOCIAL PLATFORMS ENABLED EXTREMIST POLICIANS AND THEIR ALLI TO PEDDLE INFLAMATORY, DISCRIMATORY RHETORIC
• “WE’RE TIRED OF GAY PROPAGANDA”
• RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

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‘Oh no I got my parents to The Crowd Room and I’ve jt learned that one of my theori is rrect and we will ed be seeg Tom Holland a gay sex scene. Last Febary, Maxen nnected wh lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay 2021, as he navigated a path forward. The proposals prohib sharg posive and even ntral rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, and publicly displayg non-heterosexual orientatns, wh hefty f for nonpliance.

The origal “gay propaganda” ban, troduced 2013, purported to protect children om “propaganda, ” broadly fed to mean any posive or ntral pictn or discsn of non-heterosexual relatns.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY

The draft legislatn classifi displays of non-heterosexual relatns or orientatn as “rmatn harmful to children’s health and velopment” and provis that webs and other onle sourc hostg rmatn about lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people n be blocked. “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways, ” said Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. The 2013 “gay propaganda, ” law has been extensively ed by the ernment to stifle pro-LGBT events and to shutdown anizatns and onle media.

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The new law was ed the "gay propaganda" bill, and sadly, turned to a realy on June 30, 2013. In the followg days a hallway nversatn wh a -worker of me, Joe Babarsky, led to a plan to change the nversatn surroundg Rsia's "gay propaganda" law. People were outraged and horrified that there are untri the world where homosexualy is not only taboo but a crime, sometim punishable by ath.

RSIA: EXPAND 'GAY PROPAGANDA' BAN PROGRS TOWARD LAW

We uldn't believe the number of people who were unaware of the unravelg suatn Rsia, and we felt that mastream media weren't dog enough to highlight homophobic legislatn throughout the globe, om Uganda and Yemen. (We Are) #GayPropaganda exists to unify our voic support of LGBT muni around the world who are facg gradatn and vlence. We enurage people who believe that love is love -- no matter whom you love-- to e the hashtag #GayPropaganda on the words they wre, the photos they post, and the vios they share across social platforms.

So while separate yet siar movements and anizatns exist around addrsg Rsia's anti-LGBT opprsn and more broadly the ongog battle on equaly for all, (We Are) #GayPropaganda looks to further amplify the efforts by extendg their reach and impact, by llectg them unr one roof.

US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT

Our prence and the e of #GayPropaganda seeks to reclaim this term by unifyg the nversatns orr to provi tn, support, and empowerment to LGBT people and their alli wh an unshakeable belief the power of muny. Today, (We Are) #GayPropaganda is exced to release our first of three media piec an effort to humanize and more clearly illtrate the latg vlence agast LGBT people Rsia. In the short term, (We Are) #GayPropaganda looks to provi the ternatnal muny wh the tools and language need to make their opposn to Rsia's anti-LGBT opprsn heard durg the 2014 Wter Olympics.

To bee a part of (We Are) #GayPropaganda, vis on Facebook, Instagram, Twter, Tumblr, and YouTube.

#GayPropaganda Team: Christopher Oroza, DirectorAndrew Hatlg, Director/CematographerAndrew Penzer, CematographerAya Tanimura, Director/WrerKathryn Berk, Producer/WrerClay Pt, ProducerTrenton Waterson, ProducerJoe Salado, ProducerEric Norsoph, ProducerJoe Babarsky, Social StrategistKev Dolan, Social StrategistRelatedqueer voicGay Rightslgbt rightsssia gay propagandaRsia Gay Rights. Police the Rsian cy of Kazan Wednday arrted a publicly out gay uple, Haoyang Xu and Gela Gogishvili, for their alleged breach of the untry’s “gay propaganda” law. The two men are particularly active on social media, where they amassed a large followg by chroniclg their experienc Rsia as a gay, non-Slavic uple.

(WE ARE) #GAYPROPAGANDA

-fund Rad Free Europe/Rad Liberty, they immediately experienced harassment after they began uploadg vios documentg their experienc as a gay uple Rsia.

The threats me to un on Wednday, when the uple was arrted the Rsian cy of “gay propaganda” law, first troduced 2013, mak a crimal act Rsia to publicly release material pictg same-sex relatnships. On Monday, Rsian Print Vladimir Put signed to effect the “gay propaganda” bill, which Rsian lawmakers unanimoly approved November. It also prohibs Rsians om promotg or “praisg” homosexual relatnships or publicly suggtg that they are “normal.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT RSIA’S SO-CALLED ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ BILL

The new “gay propaganda” bill expands on existg legislatn that was adopted by the Kreml 2013 to promote “tradnal” fay valu Rsia.

The 2013 law prohibed pictns of homosexualy, same-sex unns, and “non-tradnal sexual relatns” to be shown to mors. ” Some lawmakers have also shown support for an pennt bill that would make any so-lled “gay propaganda” a crimal offense, acrdg to the Associated Prs. Petersburg and Mosw have been marked by state vlence and arrts, while an crease the number of attacks on LGBTQ people throughout Rsia—both by dividuals and by anized homophobic groups—creased after the 2013 law, acrdg to a 2014 report published by Human Rights Watch.

NEW REPORT: ANTI-LGBTQ+ GROOMG NARRATIVE SURGED MORE THAN 400% ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWG FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY OR TRANS’ LAW, AS SOCIAL PLATFORMS ENABLED EXTREMIST POLICIANS AND THEIR ALLI TO PEDDLE INFLAMATORY, DISCRIMATORY RHETORIC

Read More: Rsia’s Anti-Gay Laws: How a Dutch Activist Got Cght the Crosshairs How are human rights advot rpondg to this law? In 2017, the European Court of Human Rights led that Rsia’s “gay propaganda law” was discrimatory, promoted homophobia, and vlated the European Conventn on Human Rights and that “served no legimate public tert. ” The urt rejected suggtns that public bate on LGBTQ issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual or that threatened public morals.

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“WE’RE TIRED OF GAY PROPAGANDA”

WASHINGTON — In the wake of the passage of Florida’s discrimatory “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” bill, extremist policians and their alli engeered an unprecented and dangero anti-LGBTQ+ misrmatn mpaign that saw discrimatory and flamatory “groomg” ntent surge by over 400% across social media platforms, acrdg to a new report released today by the Human Rights Campaign and the Center for Counterg Digal Hate. The report — Digal Hate: Social Media’s Role Amplifyg Dangero Li About LGBTQ+ People — reveals that the average number of tweets per day g slurs such as “groomer” and “pedophile” relatn to LGBTQ+ people surged by 406% the month after the Florida bill was passed, rultg a sharp spike onle homophobia and transphobia that social media platforms not only failed to crack down on, but also profed om.

➤ Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘groomg’ rhetoric on social media platforms drastilly creased followg the passage of Florida’s Don't Say Gay or Trans law. Rearchers ed the social analytics tool BrandWatch to llect a sample of 989, 547 tweets posted between January 1 and July 27 that mentn the LGBTQ+ muny alongsi slurs such as “groomer”, “predator” and “pedophile” the month followg the passage of the ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ law, the volume of ‘groomg’ related ntent creased by 406%.

32 of the 59 ads, receivg 2 ln imprsns, foc ‘groomg’ accatns on Disney after the pany me out opposn of the ‘Don’t Say Gay or Trans’ of Augt 1, Meta ntued to n ‘groomg’ ads spe statg on July 20 that baselsly llg LGBTQ people or the muny “groomers” is vered by s hate speech polici.

RSIAN LAWMAKERS PROPOSE EXTENDG ‘GAY PROPAGANDA’ LAW TO ALL ADULTS

Reports of vlence and timidatn agast LGBTQ+ people have been makg news across the untry: Whe natnalists targeted a Pri event Idaho; Proud Boys crashed Drag Queen story hour at a lol library CA to shout homophobic and transphobic Health Out: More than 60 percent of LGBTQ+ youth said their mental health has terrated as a rult of recent efforts to rtrict accs to thgs like genr-affirmg re for transgenr youth. The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. However, as we n see om the mentary (over 500) left by ordary Amerins unr the article, Mutko: Anti-gay law won't ge on Olympics (Yahoo!