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

Contents:

• FIXED-WG ARE GAY
• FIXED-WG ARE GAYAIRTIME LYRICS
• BOEG B-29 ENOLA GAY V1
• FIXED-WG ARE GAY
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• FIXED WG ARE GAY LYRICS & CHORDS BY AIRTIME

FIXED-WG ARE GAY

The B-29 "Enola Gay" was a B-29US Air Force bomber specially equipped to be able to rry the atomic bomb "Lile Boy" which was dropped over Hiroshima on Augt 6, 1945. 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.

FIXED-WG ARE GAYAIRTIME LYRICS

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.

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”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. “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.

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The way that many gay men talk about bodi and beti may have ripened their mds for right-wg thkg.

Supporters hold up a gay pri flag for Republin printial ndidate Donald Tmp on October 18, 2016 (Gee Frey/Getty Imag). While pictns of gay life films and TV seri typilly portray LGBT+ people as polilly-active progrsiv, there is a growg swath of LGBT+ nservativ real-life, some of whom hold far right iologi — a juxtaposn that often shocks those enunterg for the first time.

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

That might seem particularly peculiar given that many of the ias currently beg poed by the far-right promote racial hierarchi, transphobia, and even anti-gay sentiments. This recent report highlights a signifint divi that has existed and persists wh the LGBT+ muny — whether we have moved beyond the shared experience of margalizatn that gave rise to the movement, or if we have entered to a "post-gay" era. However, gay men have played a pivotal role promotg some of the most discsed topics nservative polics — cludg an ia known as "the great replacement" theory.

It may shock rears to learn that a gay French sociale and artist named Rend Cam ed the "Great Replacement" theory, an ia which has been promoted far right circl. Cam has been photographed proudly marchg alongsi Neo-Nazis, makg him an even more bizarre figure than openly gay nservative provotr Milo Yiannopoulos.

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Among those promotg the ias are Jordan Peterson; gay polil mentator Dave Rub, who if has not directly promoted Great Replacement theory has promoted transphobic and anti-lbian rhetoric; venture palist Peter Thiel; and Sam Harris — all "members" of the Intellectual Dark Web. Some of the tras had already been cultivated by specific subsets of the gay muny long before Milo Yiannopoulos, Dave Rub, or Great Replacement theory were wily known. This is more than jt njecture and a body of empiril rearch explor the threads of discrimatn wh LGBT+ spac based on genr, race, age, and abily which alce and form hierarchi of bety wh gay culture.

Most gay men e to realize early on that, wh gay culture, there is premium placed on beg whe, young, physilly f, and attractive by Wtern European cultural standards. My own work has sought to look at this, and also ask why some gay men choose to date only those at the top of this hierarchy.