18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• 'I FELT LIKE CRYG': ANTI-GAY MENCEMENT SPEECH AT OH HIGH SCHOOL SPARKS OUTRAGE
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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'I FELT LIKE CRYG': ANTI-GAY MENCEMENT SPEECH AT OH HIGH SCHOOL SPARKS OUTRAGE

In 1958, the US Supreme Court issued s first lg volvg the rights of what would later be known as the LGBTQ+ US postmaster general had seized pi of One Magaze, one of the natn’s first gay publitns, claimg was “obscene, lewd, lasciv, and filthy” simply for discsg homosexualy. Elenis, the urt’s nservative majory held that a graphic signer uld cle to build webs for same-sex weddgs vlatn of Colorado’s antidiscrimatn majory claimed that s cisn didn’t target gay people bee the webse signer would make weddg webs for gay people—jt not for same-sex weddgs. Takg a page om the anti-gay playbook, 2006, a group of Amerin law schools argued that bee the ary discrimated agast gay people at the time—a policy end by Print Barack Obama— would vlate the schools’ ee speech rights to let the ary rec on mp.

” In other words, unr the urt’s reasong, an anti-gay signer n refe to “create and dissemate” pro-gay speech, but a pro-gay law school n’t refe to do the same for anti-gay isn’t the first time that the urt has applied a double standard for speech favors. The vio opens wh a clip of then-ndidate Tmp pledgg to "do everythg my power to protect our LGBTQ cizens" a speech at the 2016 Republin Natnal Conventn, jt weeks after a gunman killed 49 people at a gay club Orlando.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

DeSantis — who said while mpaigng for ernor 2018 that "gettg to bathroom wars, I don't thk that's a good e of our time" — has taken a more hardle stance recent years, signg a slew of bills that roll back protectns for gay and transgenr dividuals. "To wrap up "Pri Month, " let's hear om the polician who did more than any other Republin to celebrate …" the tweet clips garnered swift cricism om Republins, cludg Log Cab Republins — an anizatn reprentg LGBTQ+ nservativ that have shown support for Tmp — llg "divisive" and "homophobic. She poted out, for example, that DeSantis' new expansn of his "Don't Say Gay" bill — which lims nversatns about LGBTQ+ people classrooms — was signed on the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia.

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The liberal jtic viewed as somethg else entirely — a dispute that threatened societal protectns for gay rights and rolled back some recent an impassned dissent, Jtice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the oute signaled a return to a time when people of lor and other mory groups faced open discrimatn.