After years of progrs on gay rights, how did the US bee so anti-LGBTQ+? | US news | The Guardian

Contents:

• FEARLS, ANK AND FUNNY GAY PROTT SIGNS SPIRG ALL TO KEEP THE FIGHT GOG
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• BIG PICTURE: 'GOD HAT SIGNS' - GAY RIGHTS PROTTERS' PLARDS
• FROM ROE TO GAY RIGHTS: A LOOK AT PROTT SIGNS AMERI

FEARLS, ANK AND FUNNY GAY PROTT SIGNS SPIRG ALL TO KEEP THE FIGHT GOG

Queer people are obssed wh this ‘gay agenda’ prott sign. A queer person holdg a prott sign about the “gay agenda”. The sign, held by an unintified man, shows a timetable for “the gay agenda”, and largely nsists of beg gay, beg “super gay”, eatg bnch and havg tas.

“He fot hella gay, ” one Redd er quipped, while another wrote: “WE HAVE BEEN EXPOSED!!! We have no time to lose, the homophob are planng an attack as we speak! The sign reads: “Even if beg gay was a choice, so what?

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

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BIG PICTURE: 'GOD HAT SIGNS' - GAY RIGHTS PROTTERS' PLARDS

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FROM ROE TO GAY RIGHTS: A LOOK AT PROTT SIGNS AMERI

In 2019, the Atlantic ran an opn piece tled “The stggle for gay rights is over”.

The mise of the homophobic Defense of Marriage Act 2013 was followed by the end of the feral ban on marriage equaly 2015. Wispread acceptance of same-sex marriage rights, gay people servg the ary and the need for protectns for LGBTQ+ people followed. As recently as 2020, the urt, then wh two Tmp appote, led that the 1964 Civil Rights Act protected gay, lbian and transgenr workers.

In 1985, 89% of parents said they would be sad if they disvered their child was gay or a lbian. A rash of laws ncerng the teachg of human sexualy school curricula, banng trans stunt athlet and strippg parents of the right to help their genr-variant children obta appropriate re have popped up numero red stat this same-sex marriage is now part of the fabric of Ameri, nservativ have chosen to explo Amerins’ unfaiary wh trans people and piggyback on parental anger over the perceived overreach of Covid-era school closur, nflatg wh an sid sense of “wokens”, the hop of fdg an electorally viable sluiceway for anti-LGBTQ+ most famo of the anti-LGBTQ+ laws is the piece of Florida legislatn banng stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty schools between krgarten and third gra, the so-lled “don’t say gay” law. Supporters of Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill gather outsi Walt Disney World this month.