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Contents:

• THE GAY RIGHT: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNRSTANDG RIGHT WG LGBT ORGANIZATNS
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• FOR GAY RIGHT-WGERS, LIFE IS DOUBLY DIFFICULT
• GAY RIGHT-WG TROLL CLAIMS GENR-AFFIRMG CARE IS LIKE NAZI EXPERIMENTS
• WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GAY RIGHT-WGERS NOW?
• THE PHILOSOPHIL FASCISTS OF THE GAY ALT-RIGHT
• GAY RIGHT-WGER BIZARRELY RANTS THAT QUEER PEOPLE ARE G RONAVIS TO ‘FUEL FAKE VICTIMHOOD’

THE GAY RIGHT: A FRAMEWORK FOR UNRSTANDG RIGHT WG LGBT ORGANIZATNS

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

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.

FOR GAY RIGHT-WGERS, LIFE IS DOUBLY DIFFICULT

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. “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.

GAY RIGHT-WG TROLL CLAIMS GENR-AFFIRMG CARE IS LIKE NAZI EXPERIMENTS

“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.

Pneerg Pri: Unsung Israeli LGBT Hero Gay Pri Para Draws 100, 000 The IsRabow Trail: The LGBT Scene On the send floor of this proment Tel Aviv landmark, several dozen activists gathered this week to share stori of their stggl and fd solace the pany of others like themselv who belong to this rare speci: LGBT activists right-wg polil parti, both om Israel and Europe. ” Earng himself a round of applse, Akunis told the group he would fight tooth and nail to pass to law a new bill allowg same-sex civil unns South Ain-born Evan Cohen, who ns Likud Pri (known Hebrew as “Ga’ava Balikud”), a group of gay activists wh the lg aln party, was nothg short of an historic event.

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY GAY RIGHT-WGERS NOW?

Bis participatg Pri Week events Tel Aviv and holdg their own ltle nventn, they toured Jesalem on Wednday, where they held meetgs the Knset wh proment Likud parliamentarians, cludg MK Tzahi Hanegbi and Culture and Sports Mister Limor all belong to a work of right-wg gay activists formed about a year ago, at the iative of Cohen and several of his German unterparts. \u201cOn OAN, "Gays Agast Groomers" founr Jaimee Michell says that bt-practice genr-affirmg healthre supported by experts "would put [Nazi doctor Josef Mengele] to shame"\n\nMengele was known as the "angel of ath" at Achwz.

"And I thk that a lot of people are startg to look unfavorable unfavorably on , jt regular gay people the muny, you know, that are jt gay and live our liv normally and want to be left alone and leave everyone else alone.

And we always like to joke - me and others that are, you know, right-wg gays - sayg, like, we've e out twice now and actually g out as nservative is much harr than g out as gay now. It's almost like lookg down upon if you don't e out as gay now, like, oh, you're jt straight, " she year, Gays Agast Groomers and right-wg acunts like Libs of TikTok lnched a mpaign to oppose transng of trans mors.

THE PHILOSOPHIL FASCISTS OF THE GAY ALT-RIGHT

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I would wager that twenty years ago, guys like them probably would not be “out” I thk there is a specific type of attentn-addicted edgelord that has bee attracted to the low/no-barrier to an dience platform that beg gay and a “stickg to the libs” ter nservative giv them. Have some patience, fd your fuckg humany, have some tst that your gay brothers and sisters of whatever variety won't ever fet you as long as you are willg to show some support for the rt of .

GAY RIGHT-WGER BIZARRELY RANTS THAT QUEER PEOPLE ARE G RONAVIS TO ‘FUEL FAKE VICTIMHOOD’

Like you said, OP, there have always been nservative gays, but they're startg to be have the optn to be out, sce havg a token gay ally n be beneficial for some Anonymoreply 30June 14, 2021 7:41 PM.

I'm a gay man whose whens is relative and whose never been fond of the GOP, however the rise of the stutnal left has sred me away om the prospect of one party le. There's room for gay Nazis, black Nazis, hispanic Nazis, women Nazis, new age anti-vax Nazis, and on and 't some annoyance wh what AOC said or some trans thg or other culture war bullsh small potato vs. On a separate note om my reply at r44, I'd argue that the rise of right wg gays is a reflectn of both the lack of stggle for a place society, upled wh narcissism reflected by social media.

There go Boris @ R21 aga, attemptg to equate Fake News and his racist, homophobic, rptg agenda full of smetic proposals and sellg the ernment to Rsian mobsters as “jt a disagreement.