Gay Pri Month fuels a rporate backlash that hurts gay rights

Contents:

• LARRY ELR: WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH, IT’S TIME FOR ‘LET’S TAKE EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’
• DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM
• ANTI-GAY MONSTRATNS SPIKED PRI MONTH, REPORT SAYS
• IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
• ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

LARRY ELR: WE JT HAD GAY PRI MONTH, IT’S TIME FOR ‘LET’S TAKE EASY ON THE WHE MAN MONTH’

Inially, rporatns were terted targetg gay and lbian nsumers, as they were thought of then, through thgs like booths at Pri events, maybe havg a float or somethg like that, and then thkg that they uld kd of fly unr the radar and not get any kd of right-wg backlash dog that. So I thk even though we're seeg some part of the untry gay and lbian excln aga, you know, plac like Florida and Texas and Tennsee, the most ntted area right now is around transgenr What do you say to those people who look at Pri mpaigns by rporatns and thgs of that nature and look at as rabow washg?

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He repeatedly said, “Informatn is power, ” and found the Cril Path Project, an HIV/AIDS rource anizatn that provid rmatn and a 24-hour hotle for the Philalphia gay muny. Johnson, one of the most proment figur the Stonewall uprisg of 1969, was an Amerin gay liberatn activist who scribed herself as a gay person, a transvte, and a drag queen and ed she/her pronouns. Johnson was also an outspoken advote for gay rights and for the rights of psychiatric patients like herself.

DESANTIS MPAIGN TOUTS HIS 'DRANIAN' LGBTQ RERD VS. TMP; GAY NSERVATIV NOUNCE HIM

Among the ristance work STAR did was to ll for an end to non-nsensual psychiatric rceratns of gay, lbian and trans people. Johnson also lled for an end to nversn therapy and other forced therapi ed to “cure” lbian, gay and trans people of their sexual and genr inti. Wh his mother, Jeanne Manford, he -found PFLAG (Parents, Fai and Friends of Lbians and Gays) 1973.

PFLAG is the first and largt anizatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) people, their parents and fai, and alli. In 1972, after Morty was beaten and attacked durg a prott, Jeanne Manford wrote a letter to the New York Post which she said, “I am the mother of a homosexual son.

ANTI-GAY MONSTRATNS SPIKED PRI MONTH, REPORT SAYS

” Soon after, she began givg terviews wh Morty and marched wh him the Gay Pri Para. Kenny Fri is a longtime gay and disabily rights activist, world-renowned poet and memoirist, who was born wh shortened and twisted legs.

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IN A FIRST FOR THE NFL, JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY

CNN anchor Anrson Cooper broke ground broadstg as an out gay man. As a af gay man, Nyle DiMar ma history 2015 when he won “Ameri’s Next Top Mol. Disabled gay actor Ryan O’Connell stars the Netflix seri “Special, ” about a gay man wh cerebral palsy.

" (Those remarks were ma soon after the mass shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Florida, where 49 people were killed by a gunman. "As the world go mad, Florida reprents a refuge of sany and a cal of normalcy, " he said earlier this new DeSantis vio quickly drew bipartisan cricism om the LGBTQ Tmp adviser and ambassador Richard Grenell, who is gay, wrote on Twter that the vio was "unniably homophobic. ""Conservativ unrstand that we need to protect our kids, prerve women's sports, safeguard women's spac and strengthen parental rights, but Ron DeSantis' extreme rhetoric go has jt ventured to homophobic terrory, " the group wrote on Twter.

H., June 27, Reynolds/APTransportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat who is also gay, was asked on CNN to rpond to the vio.

‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS

"A spokperson for DeSantis' mpaign, Christa Phaw, rpond to Grennell's cricism on Twter, wrg on Friday: "Opposg the feral regnn of 'Pri Month' isn't 'homophobic. The le bans the distributn of ntent which “promot or portrays a divergence om self-inty rrpondg to sex at birth, sex change or homosexualy” to a day before Budapt Pri, another cha, Líra, was fed 12, 000, 000 Forts (€32, 000) for displayg the award-wng young adult book, Heartstopper, at the children’s sectn whout a plastic ver. The Armed Conflict Lotn and Event Data Project prevly reported a more than 300% crease anti-LGBTQ+ actns by far-right extremists 2022, pared to 2021, which said “strongly” rrelat wh acts of vlence agast people who are perceived as gay or transgenr.

He won two awards and received a nomatn for his reportg on the lol LGBTQ muny, cludg a two-part vtigatn that exposed anti-gay bullyg of lol high school stunts and the school districts' failure to implement state mandated protectns for LGBTQ stunts. Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen hop to spire others by publicly g out as gay. Katie Sowers was the first female NFL ach to e out as gay.

Poilievre tells T to 'butt out' of New Bnswick's policy on LGBTQ stuntsPoilievre wish Canadians a happy Pri month — but won't say if he'll attend an eventThe "straight pri" movement has emerged recent years as a backlash agast growg social acceptance of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and other sexually diverse Pri paras are held around the world throughout the summer months.