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A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?

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THE G.O.P. TRI TO BUILD A GAY GHETTO

Hatg gays is part of the MAGA package, the seethg rentment that they have for everyone and everythg that has eaten away at their hegemony. * republicans hate gays *

Others are followg Florida’s lead – which passed a bill crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” – and are eyeg rtrictns on teachg LGBTQ topics schools. “I feel like the whole gay marriage bate was a sham, ” Terry Schillg, print of the right-wg Amerin Prcipl Project, said an terview wh CNN.

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

Conservativ are lnchg a broad attack on gay rights and gay culture. * republicans hate gays *

“When we were batg gay marriage as a untry, the opponents of gay marriage were sentially sayg this is gog to lead to the sexualizatn of children.

TMP PRI: GAY REPUBLINS ON WHY THEY'RE BACKG THE PRINT

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” Siarly, Florida is facg a lawsu over s law – lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by crics – that rtricts stctn related to certa LGBTQ topics. Hardg noted that he is a lennial who grew up wh gay iends and attend llege Miami, addg, “It’s not like I’m this narrow-md right-wger. Activists who long cried gay rights, often assailg them as a threat to nservative fay valu and procreatn, said they’ve found new alli, particularly their efforts to lim medil re and athletic opportuni for transgenr youth.

In the 1970s, Christian sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant lnched the “Save Our Children” mpaign to fight back agast a lol Da County, Florida, ordance that banned discrimatn based on sexual orientatn hog and employment. Gay Republins like Gee Santos want to ny , but hatg gays is part of the MAGA package, the seethg rentment that they have for everyone and everythg that has eaten away at their hegemony. This is an important shift — or rather, an important revelatn of what Amerin homophobia has always been: An extrible part of right-wg, ultra-patrtic natnalism, bound up wh racism, sexism, and hatred of immigrants.

The people attackg gays right now aren’t relig fundamentalists as much as they are natnalists, “patrts, ” and extremists — proponents of what some have lled “Whe Christian Natnalism.

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