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• HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• GAY THORARIANISM
• THE GENR BELIEF SYSTEM, AUTHORARIANISM, SOCIAL DOMANCE ORIENTATN, AND HETEROSEXUALS' ATTUS TOWARD LBIANS AND GAY MEN
• REPORTSRIGHT-WG THORARIANISM PREDICTS PREJUDICE AGAST “HOMOSEXUALS” BUT NOT “GAY MEN AND LBIANS”
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• THE NEW YORK TIM ADDS A ‘KR,’ ‘GENTLER’ ANTI-GAY AUTHORARIAN CHRISTIAN TO S ROSTER
• MOBILIZG GAY SGAPORE: RIGHTS AND RISTANCE AN AUTHORARIAN STATE
• THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

HOW HATRED OF GAY PEOPLE BEME A KEY PLANK HUNGARY’S THORARIAN TURN

An article the Hungarian Conservative, a magaze supportive of the Orbán regime, ni that Friends specifilly would be blocked by the new l — but touts the bill’s efforts to “protect children’s natural and healthy sexual velopment” om the allegedly nefar fluence of gay propaganda.

AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?

Comg off Hungary’s poor handlg of Covid-19 and a sndal surroundg a leadg Fisz figure’s vis to a gay sex party, a play to rev up Fisz’s socially nservative base by prentg them wh yet another enemy to hate is unsurprisg. A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill.

Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”. The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program.

“I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay. “I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn. Wh lleagu, he helped anize his school's gay-straight alliance, which thriv to this day, and worked wh the Massachetts Department of Edutn to help other schools to do the shar his home wh his partner of eleven years, and his two ts, aged eleven and four.

GAY THORARIANISM

Hungarian Prime Mister Viktor Orbán scribed his untry’s anti-LGBTQ law as an effort to prevent gay people om preyg on children; Phaw scribed Florida’s law as an “anti-groomg bill” on Twter, addg that “if you’re agast the Anti-Groomg Bill, you are probably a groomer” — meang a person preparg children to bee targets of sexual abe, a slur targetg LGBTQ people and their supporters that’s beg creasgly mon on the right. I wanted to wre a story that sh a light on an overlooked part of the AIDS epimic, those gay men who returned to the fai and muni that had rejected them, and on an tersectn we don’t see enough lerature: the queer and the ral. Like many queer kids, I learned about the world, and about myself, through books, gleang unspoken possibili about sexualy, genr, and masculy, om characters like tomboy Sut and her “cur” iend Dill to the homoerotic greasers The Outsirs.

Grimsley wr about the realy of homophobia and vlence, but also about the bety and tenrns and hols of a place, of young love: “They step to rt a ltle way si the fort unr a gkgo tree, s goln leav showerg round them as they get their breath. This lh, poetic, genero, philosophil novel, told om multiple characters’ pots of view, both gay and straight, exam the love and flaws and fivens of fay—whether blogil or chosen: “fay has no fixed boundari but is eternally changg, a river whose banks are formed by all those to whom she choos to bd herself wh the joys and burns of love. This but novel spans the ral landspe of the Pacific Northwt, the gged mountas of Idaho, and small-town Texas, followg a woman who p her abive hband wh her dghter, and her gay eighteen-year-old son who fds love wh the foreman on a nstctn crew.

IntroductnA recent poll nducted by CBS News and the New York Tim found that whereas 70% of Amerin rponnts approved of “gay men and lbians” servg the ary, only 59% approved of “homosexuals” servg the ary (Hetchkopf, 2010).

THE GENR BELIEF SYSTEM, AUTHORARIANISM, SOCIAL DOMANCE ORIENTATN, AND HETEROSEXUALS' ATTUS TOWARD LBIANS AND GAY MEN

Connell (1992) not that classic work on the soclogy of viance, “homosexuals” are equently ced as a viant group along wh alholics and the mentally ill, but she do not make such a claim about “gay men and lbians. ” She also argu that g “homosexuals” as a noun rc sexual orientatn toThe role of right-wg thorarianismThe effects of social tegory labels on anti-gay attus may not be equally strong for all dividuals, pecially light of the growg unacceptabily of prejudice agast sexual mori (Crandall, Eshleman, & O'Brien, 2002).

Ined, RWA predicts prejudiceOverview of rearchTwo studi tted whether RWA predicts prejudice agast “homosexuals” but not “gay men and lbians, ” and whether perceived symbolic threat to heterosexuals' valu (Study 1) and perceived discretens of “homosexuals” as a social tegory (Study 2) mediate this effect. Participants were randomly assigned to generate words and ncepts associated wh the cultural stereotype of eher “homosexuals” (n = 36) or “gay men and lbians” (n = 34) judg, bld to ndn and hypothis, rated the extent to which participants' rpons suggted the group was stereotyped as: (1)ParticipantsSixty-three dividuals (23 men, 40 women; Mage = 33.

Acrdgly, prev lerature has shown the threats to mediate the relatns of RWA and SDO wh prejudice towards people wh disabili, ternatnal stunts, people labelled as “homosexuals, ” and Mlims (Btillos & Silván-ferrero, 2013; Charl-Tosat & Crowson, 2010; Rs, 2013; Uenal, 2016).

REPORTSRIGHT-WG THORARIANISM PREDICTS PREJUDICE AGAST “HOMOSEXUALS” BUT NOT “GAY MEN AND LBIANS”

Wele to The Signorile Report, where you’ll read hard-htg polil mentary and exposés, hear tertg nversatns, jo great discsns and get lots of other top, clockwise: Aaron Schock, József Szájer, Roy Cohn, Richard GrenellThis week József Szájer, a founr of the far right-wg Fisz party Hungary, which is led by anti-LGBTQ thorarian Prime Mister Viktor Orban, was disvered fleeg a 20-man gay sex party Bssels.

” It don’t matter that, at the time, he didn’t thk that was necsary or that, later, he wasn’t so keen on the ernment’s succsful removal of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people om anti-discrimatn laws: He went along wh all the end, and even stayed silent as the ernment this year end legal regnn of the existence of transgenr people. From Jim Kolbe of Arizona and Ed Shrock of Virgia, to Mark Foley of Florida and Aaron Schock of Illois, we’ve seen a slew of Republin members of Congrs votg agast LGBTQ rights — and supportg anti-gay Republin prints — only to be revealed as gay or bisexual hypocr votg agast their own kd for personal ga. I’d argue the suatn is actually worse wh people like Grenell than wh closeted ais bee by beg out they help create an illn of gay acceptance, givg the thorarian ver even as he tak rights om LGBTQ people to plate enemi of equaly.

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Relig nservativ, to whom Tmp bows, have learned to accept allowg an openly gay person the admistratn to put on an appearance of tolerance (pecially as long as the person is down wh the rt of the far-right agenda). Grenell also took money om now ceased polil nsultant Arthur Fkelste — who himself was gay and closeted for many years as he got paid to help elect those whose negligence and hate lerally helped cimate gay men the early part of the AIDS epimic, om former Print Ronald Reagan to vicly anti-gay Senator Jse Helms of North Carola. But when asked about by journalist Ken Auletta, he gave a tellg answer that explas a lot about the motivatns of the kd of gay men who are drawn to thorarians: Anybody who knows me, or knows anythg about me, or who knows the way my md works, would have an awfully hard time rencilg that wh any kd of homosexualy.

Whether closeted or not, they’re out to prove to themselv and the world that they’re not like the rt of those homosexuals — or any of those other people they look down you for readg, and please check out my recent news about The Signorile Report if you didn’t see the post. As the Epispal Church has bee more clive of members of the LGBTQ muny over the urse of the twenty-first century, ordag queer clergy and even electg gay bishops, some Amerin parish have broken away, puttg themselv unr openly homophobic Anglin bishops.

THE NEW YORK TIM ADDS A ‘KR,’ ‘GENTLER’ ANTI-GAY AUTHORARIAN CHRISTIAN TO S ROSTER

For example, Pastor Thabi Anyabwile, a member of the Pelin Project’s advisory uncil, is the source of some of the most vilently homophobic rhetoric to appear on The Gospel Coaln’s webse, falsely scribg all homosexualy as “sexual promiscuy of an abomable sort, ” llg for Christians who oppose same-sex marriage to play up “the yuck factor” their arguments, and nyg that same-sex love is really love.

MOBILIZG GAY SGAPORE: RIGHTS AND RISTANCE AN AUTHORARIAN STATE

Chua tells this important story g -pth terviews wh gay activists, observatns of the movement's activi-cludg "Pk Dot" events, where thoands of Sgaporeans gather annual celebratns of gay pri-movement documents, ernment statements, and media reports. Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir It’s one thg to be a pneer the lol polil landspe, but Jóhanna took urage and gay pri to the next level by openly admtg to her sexual orientatn 2009, whilst nng for the post of Prime Mister Iceland. Barney FrankColorado CongrsmanCongrsDavid CicilleFamo people that are gayFamo people that are homosexualFamo policians that are gayFamo policians that are homosexualFearls Campaignfirst gay person to be elected the Hoe of Reprentativgenr equalyhomosexualyHomosexualy policsInfluential people that are gayJared PolisJóhanna SigurðardóttirLGBT munyMayor of ProvinceNew York CongrsmanPeople that are openly gayPolicians that are openly gaypolicsPopular people that are open about beg gayPopular people that are open about their homosexualyPrime MisterRandy FlorkeSean Patrick MaloneyTammy Baldwthe most famo gay policiansU.

The available studi on social homophobia show that the general populatn Cha, pecially among male and olr dividuals, have relatively low acceptance toward sexual mory groups (Beijg LGBT Center, 2014; Liang & Kang, 2012). Given that ternalized homophobia appears to be the most salient and robt predictor of psychologil distrs and well-beg (Cao et al., 2017; Luhtanen, 2002), is sential to vtigate the variabl that uld amplify or migate the impact of social homophobia on ternalized homophobia.

G., prejudiced events) pennt of one’s sexual inty, and proximal personal procs, which refer to subjective experienc nnected wh one’s sexual inty, such as the expectatn of rejectn, ncealment of sexual inty, and ternalized homophobia (Meyer, 2003).

THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

This mol further propos that a distal strsor may be transformed to a proximal personal procs through gnive appraisal, as evinced by the posive associatn often found between perceived public stigma and ternalized homophobia (Liu et al., 2011; Puckett et al., 2017).

Prev studi dited that most Che LGBs choose not to e out even though they clearly intify wh their sexual inty, so that they are ls likely to nont wh anti-gay prejudice and discrimatn (Li & Zheng, 2013; Wang, 2011).

(2011) reported that perceived public stigma is posively related to ternalized homophobia among a sample of Che gay men, but the sample that study was rtricted to gay men Shenzhen Cy and may not be reprentative of lbian and bisexual persons Cha. To fill the rearch gap, the prent study tends to rec a natnal sample to tt whether perceived public stigma would be posively associated wh ternalized homophobia among Che addn to examg the relatn between public stigma and ternalized homophobia, rearchers found that relign is an important predictor of ternalized homophobia.