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• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE
• UNED WAY: DENOUNCE THE BOY SUT'S POLICY BANNG GAY YOUTH AND PARENTSUNED WAY: DENOUNCE THE BOY SUT'S POLICY BANNG GAY YOUTH AND PARENTS
• GAY RIGHTS

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

June is Pri Month, and you n be proud that your Uned Way funds a program that ordat the accsg of medil and behavral servic by lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and qutng dividuals Broward County. Apparently, the Uned Way has nclud that while is unacceptable for the muny fund to be ed to fund racist groups, is acceptable and sirable to give the money to an anizatn that is bigoted towards gays and lbians. Jo the hundreds of dividuals, ci, schools, church, synagogu, parent-teacher anizatns, unns, and Uned Way agenci natnwi who will no longer turn their backs on the harmful impact that the Boy Suts’ homophobic polici have on our children and our muny.

But are you sure that your hard earned paycheck will be gog to pani and anizatns that support the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) Amerins?

HIDN BRA: AMERI'S CHANGG ATTUS TOWARD GAY PEOPLE

In the 2019 Amerin Valu Atlas, 5% of Amerins intify as LGBT, cludg 2% who intify as gay or lbian, 3% who intify as bisexual, and ls than 1% who intify as transgenr. In 2019, a majory (56%) of Amerins said they oppose allowg a small bs owner their state to refe products or servic to gay or lbian people if providg them would vlate their relig beliefs, cludg 25% who strongly oppose this policy.

Shifts among subgroups om 2016 to 2019 appear most promently among groups that have been most opposed to allowg religly based service refals of gay and lbian people. About four ten (39%) Republins oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs, pared to a majory (55%) who support such a policy. Black Amerins (63%) are likelit to oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs, followed by Hispanic (58%), Asian Amerin and Pacific Islanr (58%), multiracial (56%), and whe (54%) Amerins.

Ls than half of other nonwhe Prottants (45%), whe evangelil Prottants (44%), Mormons (43%), and Jehovah’s Wns (42%) oppose allowg small bs owners to refe to serve gay and lbian ctomers if dog so vlat their relig beliefs.

UNED WAY: DENOUNCE THE BOY SUT'S POLICY BANNG GAY YOUTH AND PARENTSUNED WAY: DENOUNCE THE BOY SUT'S POLICY BANNG GAY YOUTH AND PARENTS

A slim majory of liberal Republins (51%), and a pluraly of morate (48%) Republins, oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs. Among both Republins and pennts, opposn to allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs cl as age creas.

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Across party l, women are more likely than men to oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs. Nonwhe Republins and pennts are more likely than their whe -partisans to oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people bee of their relig beliefs.

Whe Democrats wh a llege gree are more likely than those whout a four-year gree to oppose religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people (78% vs.

Six ten (60%) whe women oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people based on their relig beliefs, pared to ls than half (48%) of whe men. Majori of Amerins all four major regns of the untry oppose religly based refals to serve gay and lbian people, but there are some most variatns tensy. At least six ten rints of Hawaii (64%), Connecticut (63%), Mae (63%), Oregon (62%), New Hampshire (61%), New York (61%), California (60%), and Massachetts (60%) oppose allowg small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian ctomers.

Notably, relig affiliatn serv as the largt pennt predictor of strongly opposg a policy that allows small bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people bee of their relig beliefs. 8 tim more likely than those who do not intify as LGBT to strongly oppose allowg bs owners to refe service to gay and lbian people bee of their relig beliefs.

Majori of nearly every major Amerin mographic group have nsistently favored or strongly favored nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people sce 2015. Nearly seven ten (69%) whe Amerins wh a llege gree favor allowg gay and lbian upl to marry legally, pared to 58% of whe Amerins whout a llege gree.

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.

The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child. ”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise. 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.