20-Pl Years Of Anti-Gay Hate From The NRA | Media Matters for Ameri

Contents:

• FROM GUNS TO GAY MARRIAGE, HOW DID RIGHTS TAKE OVER POLICS?
• 20-PL YEARS OF ANTI-GAY HATE FROM THE NRA
• GAYS AGAST GUNS: N THE LGBTQ MUNY CURB THE POWER OF THE GUN LOBBY?
• ‘GAY NRA’ SE SURGE IN MEMBERSHIP. REPORT: HERE’S WHY.
• OKLAHOMA’S ERNOR ANGERS THE NRA AND GAY RIGHTS GROUPS — ON THE SAME DAY
• GAY NRA: ‘GAYS WH GUNS’ ARM THEMSELV RERD NUMBERS
• WE TEACH QUEERS TO SHOOT': GROUP DUBBED THE 'GAY NRA' GROWG POPULARY
• OPN I WISH THE GAY MUNY WERE MORE ACCEPTG OF GUN SUPPORTERS. I SHOULD KNOW.
• THE GROUP THAT WANTS TO ARM GAY AMERI
• GAY 4 THE NRA CLIP

FROM GUNS TO GAY MARRIAGE, HOW DID RIGHTS TAKE OVER POLICS?

P., said 1993, when she addrsed a landmark rally for gay rights. The remarks were wily terpreted as a msage to his lleagu, who were growg more receptive to the ia that gay people had a nstutnal right to marry their partners.

While the NRA is ostensibly an anizatn foced on gun rights, members of s learship have attacked LGBT people for years, cludg blamg a mass shootg on gay marriage, llg societal acceptance of transgenr people “perverted, ” claimg gay people “created” the HIV/AIDS epimic, and labelg gay people “spible, ” “perverts, ” and “generat. The NRA Has Attacked Gay People For Des. NRA Board Member Blamed Isla Vista, CA, Mass Shootg On Gay Marriage.

20-PL YEARS OF ANTI-GAY HATE FROM THE NRA

After a gunman motivated by his hatred of women went on a shootg and stabbg spree Isla Vista, CA, 2014, Ken Blackwell, NRA board member and senr fellow at anti-gay hate group Fay Rearch Council, blamed the shootg on “the attack on … natural marriage”:. Blackwell Compared Gay Marriage To Inct.

Legalizg gay marriage, Blackwell pared same-sex marriage to ct and also bizarrely suggted that transgenr and bisexual people would e same-sex marriage laws to mand participatn polygamo marriag:. That means Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenred. Blackwell Claimed That Gay People “Created” HIV/AIDS Epimic.

Durg the discsn over whether the ary’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy should be repealed, Blackwell wrote his lumn, “Already, this alternate liftyle has created what the gay groups themselv refer to as a Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

GAYS AGAST GUNS: N THE LGBTQ MUNY CURB THE POWER OF THE GUN LOBBY?

NRA Board Member Ted Nugent Mockgly Suggted The NBA Should “Host A Homosexual Night” Where “Homosexuals Could Come Down On The Court, Hold Hands And Prance Around The Court To Mic By The Village People. ” NRA board member Ted Nugent slammed the NBA’s cisn to fe then NBA star Kobe Bryant for g an anti-gay slur, plag a 2011 Washgton Tim lumn, “Bryant mted this egreg verbal foul bee he ed a word meang to homosexuals, the most protected class of people Ameri”:. Bryant mted this egreg verbal foul bee he ed a word meang to homosexuals, the most protected class of people Ameri.

Gay rights groups appld the cisn of the NBA, which mt make all the homosexual basketball fans feel peachy and special. Bryant's $100, 000 to buy urtsi seats for gay basketball fans. Show some gay pri, NBA.

‘GAY NRA’ SE SURGE IN MEMBERSHIP. REPORT: HERE’S WHY.

Those among who work tirelsly to shut down (and shout down, if the need aris) speech they disagree wh mt also be absolutely gay wh pri and satisfactn over this fe. If the NBA had any te gay nvictns, the NBA should host a Homosexual Night. Durg halftime, the homosexuals uld e down on the urt, hold hands and prance around the urt to mic by the Village People.

The NBA uld then give each homosexual a pk basketball as a symbol of solidary.

OKLAHOMA’S ERNOR ANGERS THE NRA AND GAY RIGHTS GROUPS — ON THE SAME DAY

Homosexuals are a protected class Ameri. Bryant was a travty, jt wa until you see what homosexuals the ary do when they claim they have been mistreated bee of their sexual orientatn. Former NRA Board Member Praised Dictator Robert Mugabe For Callg Gay People “Perverts Who Do Not Derve Civil Rights.

” Jeff Cooper, a longtime board member whom the NRA honored by namg a shootg range after him when he died 2004, praised Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe his often-homophobic “Jeff Cooper’s Commentari” newsletter:. He officially refers to homosexuals as “perverts who do not serve civil rights. Let the gays be - gay - the Uned Stat and Europe, but they shall be sad people here.

NRA Board Member, Iran-Contra Figure, And Fox News Contributor Oliver North Mocked Gay People Durg A GOP Fundraiser. Don Young On Gay Artist’s Work: “Butt Fuckg...

GAY NRA: ‘GAYS WH GUNS’ ARM THEMSELV RERD NUMBERS

” Durg a speech before high school stunts, NRA board member Don Young slammed the art of gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe:. He apparently was referrg to the Ccnati exhib 1990 of homoerotic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. NRA Board Member Dcribed Gay People As “Degenerat.

WE TEACH QUEERS TO SHOOT': GROUP DUBBED THE 'GAY NRA' GROWG POPULARY

”Sheehan is part of a growg movement among gay people across Ameri vowg to take on the gun ath epimic, followg succsful mpaigns for marriage equaly and the repeal of the ernment’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, which prevented gay soldiers om servg their untry Agast Guns (Gag) is a llective, based New York Cy, that clus several veterans of Act Up, the activist group that forced Print Reagan to rpond to the Aids epimic. ‘It vastated me’: Patty Sheehan wh clergyman Kelv Cobaris (centre) and a lol gay rights mpaigner after the Pulse shootg.

OPN I WISH THE GAY MUNY WERE MORE ACCEPTG OF GUN SUPPORTERS. I SHOULD KNOW.

And now wh Orlando, h me as a gay man, ” he said. He helped by handg out clean needl to dg addicts the then no-go Lower East wh a msage: John Grwiler, one of the founrs of Gays Agast Guns. Drsed whe T-shirts cropped to display as much gym-honed bicep as possible and spray pated wh the “Gays Agast Guns” slogan, the protters held plards statg: “Gun$ sell.

”Rock and a hard place: Gays Agast Guns stage a prott at the Manhattan offic of BlackRock, massive vtors gun pani.

The most recent Gag meetg lasted eight hours as members bated whether or not Gag should bee Gat – Gays Agast Tmp. While Gag is visceral and direct, Ldsay’s Pri Fund to End Gun Vlence is takg a nsired and targeted lobbyg approach to help gay people and their alli “elect ndidat who will act on sensible gun policy reforms while champng LGBTQ safety and equaly”. “I was shocked to my stomach when I saw on the news, ” Ldsay said om Dupont Circle, DC’s historilly gay but now yuppified neighbourhood.

THE GROUP THAT WANTS TO ARM GAY AMERI

Today he is leadg a mpaign on one of the most ntent issu Ameri, as a gay man wh hundreds of LGBTQ supporters. “Why do I thk gays n change this? “The gay muny, and s alli, are an credible force.

“This is a new fight for the gay muny, addg our credible strength and polil experience to the existg mpaigns, and that will make a difference. ”Ldsay is uniquely placed to take on this fight as a gay man workg polics who has fired ary asslt rifl siar to those ed by the Pulse killer.

”Barbara Poma – the owner of Pulse, who created the club as “a place welg anyone and everyone” memory of her gay brother John who died of Aids-related plitns 1991 – rri, and her hband and son own, several firearms.

GAY 4 THE NRA CLIP

Loch claimed that gun ownership “is an obv f for the LGBT muny” and owng a gun is about “refg to be a victim, whether you’re part of the gay muny, or an ethnic mory, or whether you’re a sgle woman”:. LOESCH: That’s really what this is all about -- refg to be a victim, whether you’re part of the gay muny, or an ethnic mory, or whether you’re a sgle woman.