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‘A REAL TWIST’: GOP NGRSMAN WH ANTI-LGBTQ PAST TRI TO W OVER GAY PALM SPRGS VOTERS

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”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. 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.