Gay Pri Month fuels a rporate backlash that hurts gay rights

Contents:

• BUDAPT PRI MARCH IS A PROTT AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS, SAY ANISERS
• PROTTERS MARCH BROOKLYN AFTER TWO MEN ATTACKED ALLEGED ANTI-GAY ASSLT
• INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

BUDAPT PRI MARCH IS A PROTT AGAST ANTI-GAY LAWS, SAY ANISERS

Saturday’s Pri march Budapt will be “a celebratn, but also a prott”, anisers have said, as Hungary’s LGBT muny prepar to rally fiance of an latg anti-gay mpaign by the untry’s ernment.

PROTTERS MARCH BROOKLYN AFTER TWO MEN ATTACKED ALLEGED ANTI-GAY ASSLT

”Last tumn, when a far-right MP publicly shredd a book of morn fairytal that vered LGBT them, and Orbán’s bet chief lled the book “homosexual propaganda” that should be banned, Sipos brought the book to class for her pupils to the law was passed, however, a number of parents have retrospectively plaed about the “appropriate ntent” her lsons, puttg her at potential risk of losg her job even though, for now, she retas the support of the school’s headteacher. Then I started to read books wh gay characters and I felt like I uld see myself there fally, ” he me out to his fay and iends three years ago, after watchg imag of Budapt Pri on televisn and feelg empowered, but Saturday will be the first time he will attend the march said the current climate Hungary ma him want to leave as soon as possible to study abroad, however. However, she said the new legislatn, along wh a ban last year on legally changg genr and the feelg that homophob are now more empowered, were all bg to make LGBT people wonr if they have a future the untry.

INSI THE FIRST PRI PARA—A R PROTT FOR GAY LIBERATN

”As the number of anti-LGBTQ bills hs rerd highs, rearch shows that so, too, has support for LGBTQ rights and polici prohibg discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people.

Baptist misters Idaho and Texas have gone viral recent weeks for llg on the ernment to execute gay people. Experts who follow the natnal nversatn over LGBTQ rights say the growg acceptance of gay and lbian people has forced opponents to target a new mory group — the transgenr muny. “Even before the Supreme Court led 2015 that gay and lbian upl had the right to marry, those on the losg si of those s accepted their feat, and redirected much of the astcture veloped over two s to fight same-sex unns towards issu related to genr inty.

“As recently as 2004, the Republin Party was g gay marriage as a wedge issue, ” said Melissa Michelson, a polil scientist at Menlo College and the thor of several books about the LGBTQ muny and public opn. “They n’t do that anymore bee people generally support gay marriage.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

Many of the threads nnectg fear of and vlence agast transgenr people rehash mon slurs once ed agast gays and lbians. At an event at the Whe Hoe last month markg Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, Print Bin ced both the progrs ma recent years and the ongog vlence. Last year was overwhelmgly terrible, and this year is even For example, Pizer is trackg a whole wave of pyt bills like the on signed Florida and Alabama that opponents ll don't say gay.

Then me the trans sports bans and trans medil re Well, when to the so-lled don't say gay bills - the on that al wh classroom stctn - they've been amed by supporters, like, around parental rights.

It's really homophobic and dangero language, and harkens back to a theme om the '70s, when the anti-gay-rights activist, the sger Ana Bryant, lnched a mpaign that she lled Save Our Children.