What's the so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' bill that uld impact the whole untry : NPR

Contents:

• ‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’
• WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
• ON THE MOSW METRO AND BEG GAY

‘I AM GAY – BUT I WASN’T BORN THIS WAY’

It’s Time to Drop the ‘LGBT’ From ‘LGBTQ’The se for a new term that scrib all sexual moriKatie MartFrank Kameny, the last century’s greatt gay-rights activist, filed the first-ever Supreme Court petn challengg discrimatn agast homosexuals. By 2007, when gay-rights advot cid to make their support for a feral antidiscrimatn bill ndnal on the cln of protectns for transgenr people, was clear that the gay-and-lbian and trans movements had bee polilly joed at the hip; cludg the T ma unniable sense. In Kameny’s 1961 Supreme Court petn (challengg the feral ernment’s ban on the employment of homosexuals), he built his argument on the Declaratn of Inpennce’s promise that the pursu of happs is an unalienable right.

Every time lbian and/or gay and/or bisexual and/or transgenr and/or QIAA+ activists mand the recatn of a strg of ials, they implicly tell a story about seekg equaly and betterment for groups, not for dividuals, and not for that other set of ials, short, if there ever was a time when sexual mori were served by remdg the world of their factnalism, that time is past.

WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY

The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey. Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. The study is a follow-up to a 2013 report that found many of the same patterns as seen today, although there has been an crease acceptance of homosexualy across many of the untri surveyed both years.

However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn. This staggerg 56-pot difference exceeds the next largt difference Japan by 20 pots, where 92% and 56% of those ag 18 to 29 and 50 and olr, rpectively, say homosexualy should be accepted by society.

TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021

In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference). In Spa, people wh a favorable opn of the Vox party, which recently has begun to oppose some gay rights, are much ls likely to say that homosexualy is acceptable than those who do not support the party.

And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party. But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important.

Though the opns of religly unaffiliated people n vary wily, virtually every untry surveyed wh a sufficient number of unaffiliated rponnts, “non” are more acceptg of homosexualy than the affiliated. Due to their greater privilege and relative rourc, whe, cisgenr gay men are logilly the most vol and visible advot of our muny acrdg to Dan Reed, a half-Black, half-Indian, queer urban planner and eelance wrer Montgomery County, Maryland.

ON THE MOSW METRO AND BEG GAY

Why our muny’s margalizatn leads to be disproportnately engaged on urban issu mak perfect sense to Spks: “If you see your experience of the world that your block or cy is not signed to be welg to you whether you are Black, disabled, or gay, that triggers a sire to make change.

You so obvly nnot be gay, was her implitn, bee this is good was 2006, a full five years before Lady Gaga would set the Born This Way argument atop s unassailable cultural perch, but even then the popular unrstandg of orientatn was that was somethg you were born wh, somethg you uldn’t change. But what feels most accurate to say is that I’m gay – but I wasn’t born this people may fd their sir changg directn - and n't jt be explaed as experimentatn (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)In 1977, jt over 10% of Amerins thought gayns was somethg you were born wh, acrdg to Gallup. Throughout the same perd, the number of Amerins who believe homosexualy is “due to someone’s upbrgg/environment” fell om jt unr 60% to ias reached cril mass pop culture, first wh Lady Gaga’s 2011 Born This Way and one year later wh Macklemore’s Same Love, the chos of which has a gay person sgg “I n’t change even if I tried, even if I wanted to.

” Around the same time, the Human Rights Campaign clared unequivolly that “Beg gay is not a choice, ” and to claim that is “giv unwarranted crence to roundly disproven practic such as nversn or reparative therapy. ”People who challenge the Born This Way narrative are often st as homophobic, and their thkg is nsired backwardAs Jane Ward not Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, what’s tertg about many of the claims is how transparent their speakers are wh their polil motivatns. ”Gay rights do not have to hge on a geic explanatn for sexualy (Cred: Ignac Lehmann)For Aravosis, and many gay activists like him, the public will only accept and affirm gay people if they thk they were born gay.