Oslo shootg near gay bar vtigated as terrorism, as Pri para is nceled | CNN

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In the San Francis Bay Area, a group of men displayg Proud Boy lors stormed a Drag Queen Story Hour at the San Lorenzo Library shoutg homophobic and transphobic threats after anti-LGBTQ LibsofTikTok swl Chaya Raichik posted rmatn about the event onle. Overseas, two people were killed and 21 jured when a shooter opened fire at the London Pub gay bar Oslo. The 42-year-old spect, Zaniar Matapour, has been an active member an Islamic extremist work wh ti to Arfan Bhatti, a Norwegian Islamic radil wh strong anti-gay views.

Lrdale, a Florida man wearg a “Let’s Go Brandon” T-shirt was arrted after brandishg a load gun outsi a popular gay bar. From Florida’s so-lled “don’t say gay” bill and Alabama’s ban on genr-affirmg healthre, a total of 28 stat have troduced more than 300 anti-LGBTQ+ measur that seek to turn back the clock on our hard-earned eedoms and lim our abily to live almost feels like the past 60 years of activism, heroism and radil tn by queer folks have been undone. And Reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene recently tweeted that she will be “troducg a bill to make illegal for children to be exposed to Drag Queen performanc” misguid efforts to monize LGBTQ+ folks reek of s-old homophobia and transphobia that have placed a mented time warp and tapulted back to an era before Stonewall and before the advancement of the morn queer liberatn, even though buyg a rabow clutch om Coach might provi some momentary athetic pleasure, the way forward the midst of such rampant and vic attacks on queer and trans liv is through llective anizg, not llectg Pri merch.

Organisers have ncelled a Pri march Geia after far-right monstrators stormed LGBTQ activists’ headquarters and attacked journalists vlence that the untry’s prime mister appeared to blame on the event and photographs showed anti-gay protters slg a three-storey buildg to break to the headquarters of the Tbilisi Pri march the Geian pal, while elsewhere men wh long beards prits’ clothg punched and kicked journalists, wh as many as 20 journalist said he was beaten wh a stick while others reported havg their meras and other equipment jured journalist speaks to the media si an ambulance Tbilisi. ”This is not the first time that vlence has broken out over a pri march Tbilisi, a cy wh a vibrant LGBTQ muny that has also seen homophobic vlence led by ultra-nservative policians and Orthodox church 2013, prits led a mob chantg “no to gays” durg an attack on a pri para Tbilisi that left s anisers hidg. “Pri is always ntroversial, ” said s director Grgi Tabagari then, notg that the ernment had not been effective batg homophobia.

OSLO SHOOTG NEAR GAY BAR VTIGATED AS TERRORISM, AS PRI PARA IS NCELED

(Istanbul) – Turkish police attacked and arrted hundreds of people at the Istanbul Pri March on June 26, 2022, a sweepg display of vlence and discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, Human Rights Watch said today.

The same day, Fahrett Altun, Print Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s munitns director, ma an anti-LGBT speech, sayg that “Fai and children [are] targeted through … tolerance for homosexualy propaganda” and llg homosexualy “ugls.

Rearch shows that many ntent moratn programs block words like “lbian, ” “gay, ” or “sapphic.

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