Groups opposed to gay rights rake lns as stat bate anti-LGBTQ bills

Contents:

• THE GAY TERRORIST WHO MIGHT HAVE STOPPED 9/11
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

THE GAY TERRORIST WHO MIGHT HAVE STOPPED 9/11

Further wt, a crew of Proud Boys terpted a drag queen event California, timidatg parents and children and screamg transphobic and homophobic sults.

It was a ncentratn of anti-LGBTQ+ hate Ameri that me as a shock to some – but not to the advot and groups who have been warng of an alarmg rise anti-trans and gay speech over the past year, pecially om the far ’s an crease, they warn, that has been spurred by Republin policians and rightwg media, who have phed anti-LGBTQ+ talkg pots and legislatn that has seen the rights and safety of an already margalized group threatened. Photograph: Georji Brown/APIn March DeSantis, nsired a ontnner for the Republin party’s printial nomatn 2024, signed a ntroversial “don’t say gay” bill that prevents teachers om discsg sexual orientatn or genr inty public schools.

“The right has manufactured a narrative that gay and trans people are ‘groomg’ children, fueled large part by Libs of TikTok and magnified by Fox News, ” Media Matters for Ameri, a media watchdog, reported Carlson, Fox News’ most-watched host, has said discsn of genr inty schools was tantamount to “groomg seven-year-olds”.

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

” Ingraham asked April, as she discsed Democratic opposn to DeSantis’s “Don’t say gay” suatn has echo of vlence prompted by the QAnon nspiracy theory, which stat that a bal of Democrats and celebri n a child sex rg. ”At the natnal level, LGBTQ+ rights uld be unr threat om the expected reversal of Roe v Wa, the supreme urt cisn that legalized abortn, given the right to same-sex marriage relied on a siar legal basis to that se, and om a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ state bills – more than 320 of which have been troduced so far this year, acrdg to the Human Rights spe the noise generated by the right wg, polls suggt they are at odds wh the general March, a survey by the Public Relign Rearch Instute found that 76% of Amerins – cludg 62% of Republins – favor laws that would protect lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins om discrimatn jobs, hog and public Wednday Joe Bin appeared to regnize this, cg “hateful attacks” as he signed an executive orr aimed at curbg discrimatn agast transgenr youth and dryg up feral fundg for the discreded practice of “nversn therapy” orr falls short, however, of the Equaly Act, which would place a feral ban on discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr inty public spac and feral programs. The group's public executns of gay men are part of a liberate moral policg mpaign, one aimed at showg supporters and enemi alike that means to enforce s narrow, atavistic view of Islamic law wherever n.

The tragic events at the Pulse nightclub Orlando shed light on a lser-known facet of the Islamic State (IS): the group's vilently hostile views toward homosexualy, particular s targetg of gay men. Yet IS has published a vast rp of jtifitns for killg homosexuals, and has publicly targeted numero allegedly gay men Iraq and Syria the past year-and-a-half alone. To be sure, gay men were beg targeted by the Iraqi and Syrian regim prr to the announcement of the so-lled IS "Caliphate, " and the regn's legal and relig climate is often hospable to that muny.

Moreover, other jihadi groups have executed homosexuals, cludg the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and s branch Jabhat al-Nra and al-Qaeda the Arabian Pensula (AQAP). Conmnatn of homosexualy is ubiquo IS propaganda, where is most often characterized as "the actns of the people of Lot" -- referrg to vers the Quran and saygs attributed to the Prophet Muhammad (hadh) that nmn the ancient figure Lot and his people for acts of sodomy. Yet the group differs signifint ways om how Islamic law tradnally views homosexual acts.