A slew of bills are rollg back recently won eedoms for gay people. Is Ameri ready to fight for LGBTQ+ rights all over aga?
Contents:
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL
- US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
* anti gay riots *
Democratic policians across California nmned a volatile anti-gay prott outsi a suburban Los Angel school board meetg on Tuday, as the school board heard public ment on whether to officially signate June as LGBTQ+ Pri month.
ANTI-GAY PROTTS HELD AGAST BOTSWANA LGBTQ BILL
The cy uncil Huntgton Beach had prevly voted not to display the Pri flag on cy the state’s Inland Empire regn, a school board Temecula rejected a history curriculum bee of s mentn of the murred civil rights activist Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official California history, who was posthumoly award the printial medal of eedom.
”Lol news acunts and footage of the volatile anti-gay protters Glendale and North Hollywood showed some protters g rhetoric now mon far-right protts across the Uned Stat, suggtg that LGBTQ+ people are pedophil or predators, and argug that any mentn of the existence of gay people or gay fai is appropriate for young children. Many wore intil T-shirts readg “Leave our kids alone, ” and some voked Christian fah as the reason for their opposn to Pri events are faiar l of attack that have often been mobilised by anti-gay activists the past, cludg by Ana Bryant her “Save our Children” mpaign the 1970s, which also foced on “parents’ rights” as a way to ph back agast advanc civil rights for gay as equaly for LGBTQ+ people has bee creasgly popular and accepted the US, wh 71% of rponnts a recent Gallup poll exprsg support for same-sex marriage, many Amerins scribed the renewed attacks as ighteng and disturbg.
Trans people have been sgled out as the foc of much of the legislatn, and ntue to be the target of many particularly vilent polil attacks, but, as Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, which regulat what tors are allowed to discs public school classrooms, any mentn of genr inty or homosexualy is now g unr attack. Hospals that provi genr-affirmg re have received ath threats after beg targeted by social media fluencers like Chaya Raichik, the former real tate agent who ns the "Libs of TikTok" acunt on Twter, and featured prime-time diatrib by Fox News's Tucker soft targets for the hard right have clud gay pri paras. Over the summer, 31 members of the neo-Nazi Patrt Front were arrted Idaho after a ncerned cizen reported seeg them loadg up a U-Hl wh what looked to be a "ltle army" of men rt the end of November, far-right activists took part at least 55 public actns targetg members of the LGBT+ muny — up om 16 the year before, an crease of some 340% — wh a rrpondg rise vlent attacks on people perceived to be gay or transgenr, acrdg to a report released this week by the Armed Conflict Lotn & Event Data Project, or whe natnalism is still the most mon feature of far-right protts and ia activy, acrdg to the group, which began monorg the Amerin far-right 2020 after years of reportg on polil vlence abroad.
US WHE SUPREMACISTS FOUND GUILTY OF GAY PRI RT PLOT
Of the roughly 750 far-right events that have taken place this year — on track to exceed the 780 held 2021 — some 21% have been explicly racist nature, a fdg that after the FBI issued a report warng that whe supremacists ntue to "pose the primary threat" of domtic terrorism, acunt for more than half of all polilly motivated killgs over the last racism remas the primary driver of the far right, anti-LGBTQ actns have "fueled the largt crease far-right prott activy, " the report stat, wh the rise such activy "strongly" rrelatg wh a rise vlent attacks, of which there have been no fewer than 20, cludg the murr last month of five people at a gay nightclub Colorado Sprgs.
The church, acrdg to s webse, believ “homosexualy is a s and an abomatn which God punish wh the ath penalty. Among those exampl are a parison of same-sex marriage to a marriage between “a man and his horse”; llg the “It Gets Better” project, an iative signed to help LGBTQ young people pe wh bullyg and margalizatn, “disgtg” and a “ncerted effort” to rec kids to the gay “liftyle”; and claimg that the “blood” of “young Mar” would be on the hands of lawmakers who voted to repeal the ary’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” Fay Rearch Council did not rpond to a requt for ment.
Another “anti-LGBTQ hate group” named the report is the Alliance Defendg Freedom, a nservative Christian legal group wh attorneys across the untry and a long track rerd of ligatg agast LGBTQ a lawsu that ma natnal headl last year, ADF reprented Jack Phillips, a Christian baker who refed to make a ke for a gay weddg, a narrow victory at the Supreme Court. ”Wtboro Baptist Church, known for s public protts that nsistently feature signs wh homophobic msag like “God Hat Fags, ” also appears on the SPLC’s list.