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

Contents:

• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• AMERINS’ SHIFTG ATTU ON GAY RIGHTS
• ARTICL ON GAY RIGHTS
• GAY RIGHTS
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

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

The ReportThe Unlikely Threat to LGBTQ+ RightsAdvot worry that bat hijacked by the extrem of both parti over trans youth and athlet are beg ed for a broar asslt on settled law protectg gay, lbian and bisexual MilliganJuly 14, 2023The LattHow to Fd an LGBTQ-Friendly CollegeLGBTQ+ stunts should check to see if a school has out faculty and clive hog and bathrooms. 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.

AMERINS’ SHIFTG ATTU ON GAY RIGHTS

The ernor and his supporters have labeled as a “groomer” anyone who believ children n learn LGBTQ+ people exist, argug that simply by talkg about gay relatnships to a child, you are sexualizg that child.

”To be gay, their view, is to be herently sexualized, a threat to nocence a way that straight Amerins are vehemence has ught even veteran LGBTQ+ advot by surprise. He was followed by Arizona’s ernor, Doug Ducey, who, after barrg mors om genr-affirmatn treatment, wouldn’t even state for the rerd that trans people were Florida lawmaker Michele Rayner-Goolsby, left, hugs her wife, Bian Goolsby, durg a march at cy hall St Petersburg agast the ‘don’t say gay’ bill. Photograph: Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Wire/Rex/ShutterstockPolicians are supported the media by mentators like Tucker Carlson, who claimed “no one had heard of this trans thg four years ago”, or Charlie Kirk, channelg 1980s fears sayg “gays want to rpt your children” rejuvenated, the right wg is poised to make transphobia and homophobia rnerston of the midterms and 2024 electns, wh promis to liver “don’t say gay” legislatn stat cludg Michigan and New Perks, the print of the Fay Rearch Council, a nservative lobbyg group, veighed agast the ernors of Indiana and Utah for vetog legislatn banng trans women om participatg sports, llg the bills “timely, mastream protectns”.

The Republin US reprentative Marjorie Taylor Greene vowed to troduce a feral “don’t say gay” bill if Republins w the Hoe this November, only to one-up herself days later by tweetg that for people to be pro-trans is to be pro-pedophilia. ”The bs-iendly wg of the GOP that would quietly team up wh Democrats to scuttle rabidly homophobic bills is now outnumbered, and legislators a dozen or more stat that lean even farther to the right than DeSantis are takg, the Natnal Center for Lbian Rights legal director, believ Florida is the tt se for a renewed ph for an aggrsive, Christian-natnalist program. ”The “don’t say gay” bill, Mter not, is very siar to what’s been passed Rsia, tetherg Amerin nservativ to their thorarian unterparts who have succsfully rolled back mocratic norms across eastern Europe.

ARTICL ON GAY RIGHTS

“I’ve seen this movie before over the last 30 years: The right wg cid to target the LGBTQ muny, whether ’s around marriage or adoptn or trans kids playg sports or bathrooms, ” says the California state senator Stt Wiener, who is gay. “I thought was really important to ph back on the policy level, and to send a clear signal that California and other stat really re about the kids, ” he believ that “don’t say gay” is “patently unnstutnal” but also ntends that relyg on the judicial system to protect human rights may no longer be a sound optn. LattSearchSearchFlorida Schools Try to Adapt to New Rul on Genr, Bathrooms and PronounsAs schools start, ’s been more paperwork, a cullg of readg lists, as well as new regulatns about Dana GoldsteAmos Bartscher, Who Documented a Sexual Unrground, Di at 86He took timate photographic portras of htlers, prostut and drag queens on Baltimore’s streets and gay Richard SandomirTwist Dancer’s Killg as Key Detail About Spect Is CorrectedWhen O’Shae Sibley was killed, ial reports said that his attacker was Mlim, and officials feared that relatns between gay people and Mlims New York uld be Hubie Meko and Wley ParnellMorn LoveTy Love Stori: ‘Take a Bath Wh Me’Morn Love miature, featurg rear-submted stori of no more than 100 PolgreenWhy Is Everyone Sudnly Listeng to a Staple of My Angsty Adolcence?

Jane Coaston terviews Jennifer Williams about what’s happeng to the Jane CoastonMourners Pay Tribute to O’Shae Sibley at the Scene of His Murr“Vogueg is not a crime, ” an activist said, before the crowd danced through the cy streets honor of the sla Alex VadulTimVioTeen Charged Wh Murr As Hate Crime Brooklyn Dancer’s KillgA group of men yelled homophobic slurs and anti-Black statements at O’Shae Sibley, a gay Black man who was dancg at a gas statn, before a 17-year-old fatally stabbed The Associated PrsTeenager Is Charged Killg of Dancer at Brooklyn Gas StatnHe fac a charge of send-gree murr, which has been charged as a hate crime, the fatal stabbg of O’Shae Sibley, a gay man, last Hubie MekoAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn her wordsIn 1977, 13 percent of Amerins believed that a person was born lbian or gay.

GAY RIGHTS

In fact, 1977, Amerins were spl on whether lbian and gay sex should be legal at all: 43 percent believed should be, 43 percent believed should not and the remag 14 percent had no opn. )More recently, though, gay and transgenr rights have faced challeng — cludg recent cisns by the Tmp admistratn to dismantle Obama-era protectns for transgenr people, among other rollbacks. But progrs, particularly for lbian and gay people, ntu to be seen public opn.

______13 percentThat’s the percentage of Amerins who believed that a person was born gay 1977.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

______14 percentThat’s the percentage of Amerins who believed that gay people should be allowed to adopt a child 1977. In 2019, more than five tim as many Amerins believe that, wh 75 percent of the untry supportg gay adoptn rights. ______56 percentThat’s the percentage of Amerins who believed that lbian and gay people should have equal employment opportuni 1977 — though that number varied pendg on the profsn.

Acrdg to Gallup, most Amerins back then said that gay people should be hired as salpeople, and jt over half said that they should be allowed the armed forc. Ls than 50 percent said they should be hired as doctors or clergy, and jt over a quarter said they should be hired as elementary school, nearly all Amerins, 93 percent, believe lbian and gay people should have equal accs to jobs — wh 91 percent sayg they should be hired as doctors and 81 percent sayg they should be hired as elementary school teachers.

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