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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.

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

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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.

“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.

” 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.

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

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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.

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

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

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. As much as gay Republins like Gee Santos and Milo Yiannapoulos want to ny , hatg gays is part of the MAGA package, the seethg rentment that the still-domant group of Amerins have for everyone and everythg that has eaten away at their hegemony, om the phrase “Happy Holidays” to Spanish-language tax forms, abortn pills to no-flt divorce (y, they’re g for that too), rabow shirts at Target to the Black Ltle Mermaid.

If anythg, the relative peace we enjoyed over the last several years was due to – I hate to adm this – Donald Tmp, who dulged his alli’ homophobia but is clearly not a homophobe himself. But there are enough Amerins — based on recent pollg data, around 30 to 40 ln Amerins – who regularly list same-sex marriage and the acceptance of gay people (let alone trans people) as the signs that Ameri is head for moral llapse. The Supreme Court, for example, now has a majory of members who have said that same-sex marriage should be eher overturned or severely limed — two have said that not all marriag are created equal, and that gay on n be a kd of send-class marriage whout the rights that straight on posss.

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