Rep. Ken Calvert, who has opposed gay rights and once attacked an opponent for beg gay, is facg a challenge om a gay Democrat a newly petive district.
Contents:
- ‘A REAL TWIST’: GOP NGRSMAN WH ANTI-LGBTQ PAST TRI TO W OVER GAY PALM SPRGS VOTERS
- GAY RIGHTS
- MASSACHETTS LGBT LEAR PRS SECRETARY OF STATE BILL GALV ON 'MIXED' GAY RIGHTS VOTG RERD
‘A REAL TWIST’: GOP NGRSMAN WH ANTI-LGBTQ PAST TRI TO W OVER GAY PALM SPRGS VOTERS
* gay rights voting record *
The Human Rights Campaign, along wh tens of thoands of advot, works around the clock to lobby members of Congrs on cril legislatn that would greatly affect the liv of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Amerins.
”As the number of anti-LGBTQ bills hs rerd highs, rearch shows that so, too, has support for LGBTQ rights and polici prohibg discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. Bin, 77, grew up an era when homosexualy, the word routely ed at the time, was often viewed as a s and even a n slip to dated generalizatns about gay and lbian life, as he did an terview wh Anrson Cooper at an L. Talkg about what San Francis was like “15, 20 years ago, ” he said that the cy, wh s large muny of gay men and lbians, was “all about, well, you know, gay bathho, ” addg, “It’s all about round-the-clock sex.
“There’s no polil barometer that would have told him to get ahead of the Whe Hoe on this, ” said Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is gay and ran agast Mr. Bin, then a Delaware senator, lent his name to legislatn that me to be known as one of the biggt legislative setbacks for the gay rights movement s history. His mg about gay men and lbians as secury risks 1973, and his support for a measure rtrictg how homosexualy was prented to schoolchildren, reflects the kd of attus that gay and lbian activists had to battle durg the early s of the movement.
GAY RIGHTS
Tmp’s admistratn, by ntrast, urged the Supreme Court, unsuccsfully, not to extend the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s protectns agast workplace discrimatn to gay and transgenr people.
Bin’s own history on gay rights — along wh llg Mike Pence, the nservative vice print, a “cent guy” — ma him vulnerable to cricism om the left as he sought the Democratic printial nomatn. “As queer people, we abhor the way that Bin, his eagerns to reach across the aisle, wds up beg an apologist for homophob like Mike Pence, ” Cynthia Nixon, the actrs and activist who challenged Andrew M.
MASSACHETTS LGBT LEAR PRS SECRETARY OF STATE BILL GALV ON 'MIXED' GAY RIGHTS VOTG RERD
“I st a vote agast the so-lled Defense of Marriage Act, which was a homophobic act brought by the right wg, ” Mr. ”From the first weeks after the rts at the Stonewall Inn and the start of the morn-day gay rights movement, L.
Bin’s standg among gay and lbian activists was his appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Prs” as vice print 2012 when, rponse to a qutn, he said he supported same-sex marriage.