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A gay pri and an Amerin flag hang om a shoulr bag durg a monstratn outsi of the Phillip Burton Feral Buildg 2011 San Francis, Cal. Photo by Jt Sullivan/ Getty Imag. "This didn't happen Nashville." That's what I told our meraman last month when he filmed the gay pri flag-raisg ceremony at San Francis Cy Hall. We were producg a PBS NewsHour segment on the polil reactn to Print Obama's cisn

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VOTG IS GAY!

GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, is releasg the fdgs of the first of an ongog seri of polls to gge and track motivatn, enthiasm, and issu ahead of the 2022 midterm electns takg place November. The poll measur how motivated LGBTQ likely voters are * voting is gay *

GLAAD, the world’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocy anizatn, is releasg the fdgs of the first of an ongog seri of polls to gge and track motivatn, enthiasm, and issu ahead of the 2022 midterm electns takg place November. Nearly 180 bills have been proposed 2022, most (97) targetg transgenr people and youth, wh a new foc on anti-LGBTQ school policy bills (69) that ban classroom nversatn and books about LGBTQ people unr the guise of “parents’ rights, ” like Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. A gay pri and an Amerin flag hang om a shoulr bag durg a monstratn outsi of the Phillip Burton Feral Buildg 2011 San Francis, Cal.

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE GAY AND LBIAN VOTE FOR THE UPG ELECTN?

* voting is gay *

That’s what I told our meraman last month when he filmed the gay pri flag-raisg ceremony at San Francis Cy Hall. But gay polil activism was rarely the news there, and I n’t image any mayor any Tennsee cy raisg a Pri flag over town hall; Nashville, spe s progrsivism, is still the Bible Belt (the ma gay strip Nashville is on Church Street). But every June here, the mayor and most other lol polil heavyweights attend the annual Alice Pri Breakfast, helpg raise money for one of the cy’s two major LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr) Democratic polil clubs.

VOTG IS GAY

But is the gay polil scene San Francis still an exceptn, and will the gay vote Ameri really matter the printial electn? The Obama mpaign seems to thk so: there’s an “Obama Pri” webse voted to the LGBT muny; first lady Michelle Obama recently held a nference ll wh gay activists enuragg them to hold “Pri” hoe parti; the mpaign has a staff dited to gettg out the LGBT vote; and the mpaign is raisg funds om this muny.

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