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• TENNSEE LITENANT ERNOR, 79, MENTS ON YOUNG GAY MAN'S RACY INSTAGRAM PHOTOS
• TENNSEE'S LITENANT GOVERNOR IS "PSG" SOCIAL MEDIA USE AFTER SCTY OVER HIS COMMENTS ON A YOUNG GAY MAN'S RACY INSTAGRAM PHOTOS
• TENN.'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BACK AND IT COULD OUT STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS
• HERE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED AGAST AMERI’S FIRST GAY CABET SECRETARY
• TENNSEE 'TURN AWAY THE GAYS' BILL FEELS HEAT OM MEMPHIS CHEF
• STACEY CAMPFIELD, TENNSEE SENATOR BEHD 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL, CONFIRMS HE WAS ASKED TO LEAVE RTRANT

TENNSEE LITENANT ERNOR, 79, MENTS ON YOUNG GAY MAN'S RACY INSTAGRAM PHOTOS

Kim Jackson (D), who is openly lbian, was elected to reprent the heavily Democratic District 41 the Geia state Senate, makg her the first openly gay senator the state. The litenant ernor of Tennsee, which recently passed multiple bills that target LGBTQ people and culture, has been equently mentg om his verified Instagram acunt on shirtls photos of a young gay man. McNally add that he has iends and a fay member who are gay and tri to be supportive of many people, the Lookout far this year, Tennsee lawmakers have troduced 26 bills targetg LGBTQ people, acrdg to the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, which is trackg them.

The bills have also gaed promence and polil tractn as nservative activist groups and media figur have reloted to the state recent years, keepg gay and trans rights as a top prry for lawmakers.

)After the Obergefell lg nullified Tennsee’s same-sex marriage ban, Republin legislators sought new ways to lim gay passed bills the followg year allowg mental health profsnals, cludg school and substance abe unselors, to turn down LGBTQ clients if nflicts wh their “scerely held prcipl” or “relig beliefs” — even s where people are at risk of harmg themselv or others. ’”In the next six years, 10 other laws were enacted that affect gay and transgenr rights. Those clu the state’s bathroom bill and a law that allows child placement agenci, which ntract wh the state, to refe assistg wh adoptn or foster re placement wh LGBTQ parents and GOP lawmakers natnwi have begun sponsorg hundreds of new measur recent years to rce protectns for transgenr or gay youth or to lim discsns of LGBTQ topics public schools, that trend accelerated 27 bills targetg LGBTQ rights troduced this year Tennsee clu the drag bill, which bans “adult baret performanc” public or ont of children and blocks the shows om wh 1, 000 feet of public parks, schools and plac of worship.

TENNSEE'S LITENANT GOVERNOR IS "PSG" SOCIAL MEDIA USE AFTER SCTY OVER HIS COMMENTS ON A YOUNG GAY MAN'S RACY INSTAGRAM PHOTOS

Lawmakers this year also passed a law prohibg people unr 18 om receivg any genr transng medil treatments, which is set to go to effect on July new boom bills targetg gay rights has been driven part by nservative media outlets and far-right podsters who have kept prsure on legislators to prrize the Walsh, a nservative pund wh 1.

The Fay Actn Council of Tennsee, a nservative advocy anizatn led by former state senator David Fowler, helped wre at least two of the bills targetg gay rights that have bee law Tennsee sce 2015, acrdg to lawmakers, advot and Fowler’s blog posts. After the bill passed, Fowler wrote a blog post that the law was need bee judg are phg a “gay agenda” their 2021, Fowler lobbied and told media he provid “legal wordsmhg” for a law banng transgenr stunt-athlet om playg on sports teams that don’t align wh their sex assigned at birth.

TENN.'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BACK AND IT COULD OUT STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS

Tennsee's litenant ernor is takg a break om social media after weeks of scty over his ments on a young gay man's racy Instagram a statement shared wh BuzzFeed News, Lt.

McNally's statement about his social media e asserted that he was not agast gay people. "I am 79 years old, and was raised a time when homosexualy was eply shameful.

"But I now have iends and even a relative who is gay. "Beg nservative and anti-gay "are not synonymo, " McNally add, though he also said he tried to "unrstand this muny better, and at the same time not promise tryg to protect children and my own valu. Like a homophobic phoenix, the "Don't Say Gay" bill has risen om the ash to "protect the youth of Tennsee" -- and clus a provisn requirg teachers out gay stunts to their parents.

HERE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED AGAST AMERI’S FIRST GAY CABET SECRETARY

Tennsee state senator Stacey Campfield has retroduced his famo legislatn that would prohib schools om discsg homosexualy sex tn class until after the eighth gra (even though schools Tennsee do not teach sex ed before the eighth gra) dyg the Hoe two years ago, the bill, now lled the Classroom Protectn Act, is back wh addns such as "certa subjects are particularly sensive and are, therefore, bt explaed and discsed wh the home, " and "at gra levels pre-K through eight (pre-K-8), any such classroom stctn, urse materials or other rmatnal rourc that are nsistent wh natural human reproductn shall be classified as appropriate for the tend stunt dience and, therefore, shall be prohibed. " That will likely bar any teacher om even suggtg homosexualy bill also now stat that when a stunt approach a teacher or unselor and nfis them that they may be gay, is the teacher or unselor's rponsibily to tell the stunt's parents.

TENNSEE 'TURN AWAY THE GAYS' BILL FEELS HEAT OM MEMPHIS CHEF

”Shevr Jon (D) – State Senator for Florida’s 35th District: Shevr Jon has bee the first openly gay state senator elected Florida. ”Rchie Torr (D) – New York’s 15th Congrsnal District: Rchie Torr is the first openly gay Black man Congrs and is also the first LGBTQ Ao-Lato ngrsman. ”Mondaire Jon (D) – New York’s 17th Congrsnal District: Mondaire Jon is the first Black openly gay reprentative US Congrs, alongsi Rchie Torr.

Jon addrsed the homophobia he had faced as a ndidate and stated that his life story ma him ph through even though his mpaign was on the edge of breakg. ” In addn, he stated, “there’s never been an openly gay Black member of Congrs the 244-year history of the Uned Stat, and was only the past few years that I began to thk that was possible. While out Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg was nfirmed by a bipartisan vote of 86-13, who voted agast the nfirmatn of the first gay Cabet Secretary?

STACEY CAMPFIELD, TENNSEE SENATOR BEHD 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL, CONFIRMS HE WAS ASKED TO LEAVE RTRANT

Reports of vlence and timidatn agast LGBTQ+ people have been makg news across the untry – wh whe natnalists targetg a Pri event Idaho and Proud Boys crashg Drag Queen story hours at lol librari to shout homophobic and transphobic slurs.

The Human Rights Campaign is Ameri’s largt civil rights anizatn workg to achieve equaly for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. Brian Kelsey, after the polician proposed a so-lled "Turn Away the Gays" 17, 2014— -- A Tennsee senator is unr fire om a celebry chef and other members of his district, after sponsorg a bill that would allow bs owners to refe service to gays.

It is monly beg referred to as the "Turn Away the Gays" bill.