LGBTQ teens speak out agast Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill and a Texas orr aimed at blockg genr-affirmg re for transgenr kids.
Contents:
- TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI
- TEXAS GOP ADOPTS ANTI-LGBTQ PLATFORM, REFERS TO BEG GAY AS ‘ABNORMAL’
- MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
- ‘DON’T SAY GAY’: ANTI-EQUALY LEGISLATN SPREADG STATE BY STATE THE US
- CRICS OF TEXAS’ PH FOR A “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL SAY ACKNOWLEDGG LGBTQ PEOPLE ISN’T THE SAME AS TEACHG KIDS ABOUT SEX
- TEXAS LT. GOV. DAN PATRICK WANTS TO PASS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW LONE STAR STATE
- TRANS, GAY TEENS ON HOW ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW AND TEXAS ORR HARM LGBTQ KIDS
TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI
The Legislature banned puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans kids, rtricted the llege sports teams trans athlet n jo and expand the fn of sexual nduct to clu some drag shows. But a “Don’t Say Gay” provisn for schools missed key adl. * texas gay law *
They were among several bills the Legislature nsired that would brg major chang to the liv of gay and transgenr Texans. But the lower chamber didn’t brg the amend legislatn up for nsiratn, killg the Senate’s third attempt at phg what crics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” provisn.
Crics say the provisns about LGBTQ lsons — patterned on ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law om Florida — nta vague language that uld stifle even rmal discsn about LGBTQ people, such as teachers discsg their same-sex spo.
TEXAS GOP ADOPTS ANTI-LGBTQ PLATFORM, REFERS TO BEG GAY AS ‘ABNORMAL’
Malaysia's ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry's anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance. Communitns and Digal Mister Fahmi Fadzil slammed Matty Healy's nduct late Friday at the start of the Good Vib Ftival as “very .” After meetg the ftival anizers Saturday, Fahmi said the ftival, which was schled to go on this weekend, will be nceled. * texas gay law *
The Republin Party of Texas, which oppos any efforts to validate transgenr inti and claims that homosexualy is “an abnormal liftyle choice, ” also nsirs banng the “teachg, exposure, and/or discsn of sexual matters (mechanics, feelgs, orientatn, or ‘genr inty’ issu)” to be a legislative prry. One bill signalg a shift opn toward the LGBTQ muny was Hoe Bill 2055, which would have repealed the state law crimalizg gay sex. Venton Jon, a Dallas Democrat who is the first Black, gay and openly HIV-posive lawmaker to serve at the Capol.
The Texas Republin Party unveiled s official posn on LGBTQ issu over the weekend, fg homosexualy as an "abnormal liftyle choice" and also opposg "all efforts to validate transgenr inty.
MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
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"Thoands of Republin activists met at the party’s biennial nventn Hoton on Saturday to agree to the party's platform on a range of issu, cludg the rejectn of the 2020 electn rults and a ll to repeal of the 1965 Votg Right Act, which was enacted to prevent discrimatn agast Black a sectn tled "Homosexualy and genr issu, " the party suggted that LGBTQ people should not be legally protected om discrimatn and that beg gay or trans is a choice.
"Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice, " the 40-page rolutn reads. "We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of orig, and we oppose any crimal or civil penalti agast those who oppose homosexualy out of fah, nvictn, or belief tradnal valu. "The Texas Republin Party blocked the Log Cab Republins, a longstandg group of gay nservativ — which also supports many of the party’s anti-LGBTQ polici — om havg a booth at Saturday's nventn.
"The party's new official stance on sexual orientatn and genr inty also cis wh a recent natnwi surge charged rhetoric om media punds and policians about LGBTQ recent months, nservative lawmakers, televisn punds and other public figur have acced opponents of a newly enacted Florida tn legislatn — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — of tryg to “groom” or “doctrate” children. The word “groomg” has long been associated wh mischaracterizg LGBTQ people, particularly gay men and transgenr women, as child sex abers.
‘DON’T SAY GAY’: ANTI-EQUALY LEGISLATN SPREADG STATE BY STATE THE US
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The Texas Republin party adopted a new platform on Saturday that refers to homosexualy as “abnormal” and “oppos all efforts to validate transgenr inty. The Texas GOP party adopted the 40-page platform at s biennial nventn Hoton after passg the party’s new guidg prcipl, which clus a sectn tled “Homosexualy and Genr Issu.
CRICS OF TEXAS’ PH FOR A “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL SAY ACKNOWLEDGG LGBTQ PEOPLE ISN’T THE SAME AS TEACHG KIDS ABOUT SEX
The sectn clus a formal posn clarg the state’s GOP party is agast givg a special legal stat to gay men or women and that they support people who oppose homosexualy based on fah, relign or a belief “tradnal valu.
“Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice, ” the platform document reads. “We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of orig.
The sectn also oppos the e of public funds for homosexualy, transgenr or diversy and equy cln centers as well as for genr-affirmg re — while supportg ntroversial unselg methods tend to “nvert” members of the LGBTQ muny.
TEXAS LT. GOV. DAN PATRICK WANTS TO PASS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW LONE STAR STATE
Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's ernment Saturday cut short a mic ftival after the lead sger of Brish band The 1975 slammed the untry's anti-gay laws and kissed a male bandmate durg their performance.
”Healey ed profany his speech cricizg the ernment's stance agast homosexualy, before kissg bass player Ross MacDonald.
TRANS, GAY TEENS ON HOW ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW AND TEXAS ORR HARM LGBTQ KIDS
Homosexualy is a crime the untry that is punishable by up to 20 years prison and agency charge of approvg performanc by foreign artists said was disappoted wh the band's nduct, llg “an sult and disrpectg the laws of the untry. ” It said the group will be blacklisted om performg wasn't the first time that Healy ed the stage to fend lbian and gay rights. In 2019, he kissed a male fan durg a ncert the Uned Arab Emirat, which also outlaws homosexual acts, acrdg to media reports.
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