Conservativ are lnchg a broad attack on gay rights and gay culture.
Contents:
- THE G.O.P. TRI TO BUILD A GAY GHETTO
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- WHY ARE CONSERVATIV SO FREAKED OUT BY GAYS?
- WHY DO REPUBLINS HATE GAY PEOPLE
THE G.O.P. TRI TO BUILD A GAY GHETTO
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Notably, the Republin shift on gay rights took off durg arguably the most tense recent perd of partisan nflict on the issue: the stggle over same-sex marriage the Gee W.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga? * do conservatives hate gays *
As the overall cultural environment beme more liberal thanks to s of LGBTQ activism, gays and lbians around the untry felt more fortable g out of the closet.
WHY ARE CONSERVATIV SO FREAKED OUT BY GAYS?
In 2022, the journal Public Opn Quarterly published an analysis by five scholars examg data on trans people and trans issu the same way that Baldassarri and Park studied gay issu. Today, the right has gone on offense agast not only trans inty but LGBTQ cln more broadly, as seen polici like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law or attacks on Kohl’s for sellg a onie wh a Pri flag on .
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At the March Conservative Polil Actn Conference (CPAC) DC, arguably the leadg nservative movement event of the year, proment anti-gay mentator Michael Knowl proclaimed that “transgenrism mt be eradited” — to staed applse.
WHY DO REPUBLINS HATE GAY PEOPLE
Brtay Newman for The New York TimThis past weekend, the Republin Party Texas voted on an outrageo platform that not only ni the rults of the 2020 printial electn, but also rejects gay marriage and seeks to “protect” mors until they turn 17 agast “predatory sexual behavrs, ” such as drag queens readg stori aloud to queens are predators, trans women are a threat and gay marriage is a vlatn of the “natural orr”: This is all part of the wing and re-energized attack by Republins on L.