Wisns middle school featur 'This Book is Gay' library, stirrg onle outrage | WLUK

Contents:

• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• GAY RAGE
• "OUTRAGE" DOCUMENTARY: ACTIVISTS OUTG GAY CONSERVATIV
• SECRET LIV THE AGE OF GAY RIGHTS

TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON

Angered by police entrapment operatns after the murr of a gay actor a wt London park, LGBT activists set up the prott group OutRage!

DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE

Des after s lnch, however, s leadg figur are tryg to tablish whether they were targeted by unrver police who they believe filtrated and unrmed the btal kickg to ath of Michael Boothe outsi public toilets Elthorne Park, Hanwell, on the night of 30 April 1990 sparked fury among LGBT rights rented the rourc police dited to anti-gay operatns and raids on public toilets long after homosexualy had been formally crimalised. Photograph: Sean Smh/The GuardianA public meetg followed two weeks later at which a statement of aims featured the right to sexual eedom, an end to discrimatn and preventg vlent attacks on the gay and lbian muny.

It also nmned homophobia which had bee more prevalent followg the 1980s Aids epimic and the Conservativ’ sectn 28 legislatn that banned promotn of June that year, OutRage! Held s first rally outsi Hy Park public toilets, prott agast Metropolan police entrapment operatns targetg gay men.

Activists – bearg posters clarg “Carey backs gay marriage ban” - takg over the pulp Canterbury Cathedral on Easter Sunday 1998 durg a sermon by Gee Carey, the then archbishop. Bee his regime punished anyone mtg homosexual acts wh 10 years prison. Homophobic sexual offence laws were repealed.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

A 2007 report labelled the police stutnally homophobic. ”Dpe the signifint advancement LGBT rights sce 1990, quts still to be heard to the victims of the serial killer Stephen Port, who dgged and murred four young gay men Barkg, east London, are expected to show that police unrstandg of the gay muny may still be ’s victims were all dgged, raped and their bodi dumped.

GAY RAGE

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978. ” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.

” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy. A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head. " Aw read several passag om the Bible and nmned homosexualy as a s.

"OUTRAGE" DOCUMENTARY: ACTIVISTS OUTG GAY CONSERVATIV

At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil. ""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said.

Aw told the room that he thks the "solutn for the homosexual 2022" is the ath penalty.

Every sgle homosexual our untry should be charged wh a crime. The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial. "Enuragg the executn of gay persons is not protected speech.

SECRET LIV THE AGE OF GAY RIGHTS

The church's ma pastor, Jonathan Shelley, fend Aw sayg a lengthy statement that Ameri has weakened "punishments for homosexualy. Democratic policians across California nmned a volatile anti-gay prott outsi a suburban Los Angel school board meetg on Tuday, as the school board heard public ment on whether to officially signate June as LGBTQ+ Pri month. The cy uncil Huntgton Beach had prevly voted not to display the Pri flag on cy the state’s Inland Empire regn, a school board Temecula rejected a history curriculum bee of s mentn of the murred civil rights activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California history, who was posthumoly award the printial medal of eedom.

”Lol news acunts and footage of the volatile anti-gay protters Glendale and North Hollywood showed some protters g rhetoric now mon far-right protts across the Uned Stat, suggtg that LGBTQ+ people are pedophil or predators, and argug that any mentn of the existence of gay people or gay fai is appropriate for young children. Many wore intil T-shirts readg “Leave our kids alone, ” and some voked Christian fah as the reason for their opposn to Pri events are faiar l of attack that have often been mobilised by anti-gay activists the past, cludg by Ana Bryant her “Save our Children” mpaign the 1970s, which also foced on “parents’ rights” as a way to ph back agast advanc civil rights for gay as equaly for LGBTQ+ people has bee creasgly popular and accepted the US, wh 71% of rponnts a recent Gallup poll exprsg support for same-sex marriage, many Amerins scribed the renewed attacks as ighteng and disturbg.

Trans people have been sgled out as the foc of much of the legislatn, and ntue to be the target of many particularly vilent polil attacks, but, as Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, which regulat what tors are allowed to discs public school classrooms, any mentn of genr inty or homosexualy is now g unr attack. Accg LGBTQ people of "groomg" or "recg" children to bee gay or transgenr is an age-old trope that feeds off fear.