Contents:
- HOW REPUBLIN DEMAGOGUERY BROUGHT US THE ANTI-GAY TCK FULL OF NAZIS
- ANTIFA COMG TO COR D’ALENE FOR JUNE 11 LGBT EVENT CDA PARK TO “PROTECT GAY & TRANS PEOPLE”
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
HOW REPUBLIN DEMAGOGUERY BROUGHT US THE ANTI-GAY TCK FULL OF NAZIS
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ANTIFA COMG TO COR D’ALENE FOR JUNE 11 LGBT EVENT CDA PARK TO “PROTECT GAY & TRANS PEOPLE”
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GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
In terviews wh NPR, several evoked the June 2016 shootg at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando where 49 people were killed. Dan Patrick said he would prrize a Texas versn of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a Florida law that lims classroom discsns about LGBTQ+ people. The same day, alleged members of the far-right Proud Boys crashed a children's drag queen storytellg event and shouted homophobic and transphobic slurs, what Alameda, Calif., sheriffs are now vtigatg as a possible hate crime.
"Groups like Patrt Front and the Proud Boys have relied on misogyny and homophobia as a re of their brands, " said Dev Burghart, print of the Instute for Rearch and Edutn on Human Rights.