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Contents:

• HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
• HOE PASS GAY BILL OF SPECIAL RIGHTS TO ADVANCE HORRIFIC ABE OF RELIG LIBERTY
• HOW SPECIAL ARE “GAY RIGHTS”?
• AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
• GAY RIGHTS
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE
• THE GAY BILL OF SPECIAL RIGHTS IS ON THE VERGE OF PASSG

HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN

It was the send time the Democratic-led Hoe had passed the measure, known as the Equaly Act, which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add explic bans on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people both public and private spac.

HOE PASS GAY BILL OF SPECIAL RIGHTS TO ADVANCE HORRIFIC ABE OF RELIG LIBERTY

Several Republins assailed the Equaly Act as dangero, leadg one top Democrat, Reprentative Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, to acce them of believg that gay and transgenr people “are morally ferr, and that firg should be permted. ”In a landmark cisn June, the Supreme Court led that the 1964 civil rights law protects gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn, and that the language of the law, which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex, also appli to discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. ”Lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people often enunter prejudice hog, cred, jury service and public spac, as only 22 stat and the District of Columbia prohib discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr legislatur regularly advance laws that lim lol LGBTQ+ protectns.

”On his first day office, Bin signed an executive orr directg feral agenci to implement the Supreme Court’s Bostock lg and to enforce any regulatns banng sex discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty, as last October, Bin told Philalphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal that passg the Equaly Act would ensure “no future print n ever aga roll back civil rights and protectns for LGBTQ+ dividuals. Every one of the dozen or so leadg homophile groups is actively volved layg down a thick screen of ceptive and distractg language, thereby hopg to divert attentn away om what they are actually tryg to acplish. For example, s “Media Reference Gui, ” the Gay and Lbian Alliance agast Defamatn (GLAAD) scrib the term “special rights” as a “rhetoril ventn of anti-gay extremists seekg to create a climate of fear by portrayg the pursu of civil rights for LGBT people as sister, ” and specifi the followg:.

HOW SPECIAL ARE “GAY RIGHTS”?

” Anti-gay extremists equently characterize civil rights and equal protectn of the law for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Amerins as “special rights” an attempt to energize opposn to anti-discrimatn and equal opportuny laws. Homosexuals evably trot out a long and imprsive list of jtifitns as to why “straight pri” paras should be banned, mostly based on a long history of ually fabrited victimizatn, but their ratnalizatns are irrelevant. This has already occurred Canada, where the Canadian Rad, Televisn and Telemunitns Commissn (CRTTC) has forbidn licensed statns to broadst any programs portrayg homosexuals or homosexualy a negative light for any reason whatsoever.

The rult of this mpaign of timidatn is that televisn shows and movi variably portray all homosexuals as people of the hight possible moral liber, and any flts that they do posss are enarg, humoro and nsequential. For example, the Canadian homosexual group EGALE (Equaly for Gays and Lbians Everywhere) has e-mailed threateng not to pro-fay webs and has openly discsed the tactic of filg an avalanche of harassment lawsus agast them. …” Hours later, Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lbian, Transgenr and Supporters Alliance nmned her statement, llg “heteronormative, ” and mand that future speakers be allowed to speak of man-woman fai only if they also approved of homosexual “marriage.

Homosexual activist groups have mand that those who oppose gay “marriage” be forbidn to n for public office, be banned om workg for ernment any pacy, be barred om attendg law school or om practicg law, and be fired om their jobs whout reurse. Meanwhile, to our north, fluential Canadian homophile groups have mand that anyone who believ that marriage should be a unn between one man and one woman mt be forbidn om attendg law school or om practicg law. Partly due to this murr, the homophile group SMUG (Sexual Mori Uganda), assisted by the Amerin group Center for Constutnal Rights (CCR), filed a lawsu agast Pastor Lively Feral urt, accg him of “crim agast humany, ” as well as nspiracy and “vlatg the laws of natns.

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

It do not occur to the homophil that they are also forcg a relig viewpot on the rt of ― the Unarian view that homosexualy is harmls and acceptable, and that homosexual “marriage” mt be legalized worldwi. In Europe and Canada, a number of pastors who have read what the homosexuals em “anti-gay” passag the Bible have been fed and imprisoned, and there are ser homophile attempts to have the Bible clared “hate lerature. ”27 To get around the problem of Scripture vers such as Romans 1, the homosexuals have even published their own versn of the Bible lled the “Queen Jam Versn” (QJV), which is sanized of all passag that might be terpreted as beg cril of homosexualy.

A [naturally] anonymo homosexual an open sexual relatnship wh his male “partner” brought a Human Rights Tribunal plat agast the Anglin Bishop of Auckland, New Zealand, Reverend Ross Bay, for not allowg him to bee a prit. Homosexuals have mocked and ridiculed the Catholic fah for s, often parodyg s most cherished beliefs, such as the Holy Mass, through blasphemo plays and “street theater” (see the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” if you have a st iron stomach, at and). ” While homophil mand the right to relentlsly and thlsly stereotype anyone who oppos any element of their agenda for any reason whatsoever as “homophob, ” “haters” and “bigots, ” they claim that anyone who dar stereotype gays any manner mt be charged wh a felony hate crime.

[6] Homosexuals and their sympathizers also nmn all other “straight pri” events, cludg “heterosexual awarens month, ” and attempt to prevent dividuals (pecially stunts) om exprsg any opposn to the gay rights agenda, cludg punishg high schoolers who wear “straight pri” T-shirts (see the Wikipedia entry on “Straight Pri” for many exampl). Diversy and tolerance are human rights; (2) To speak out for all gay, bi-sexual, genrls and transgenr people who are not reprented by any character Avatar; (3) To te people about Evolutn and humany’s transn to transgenrism.

GAY RIGHTS

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. 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. 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.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

”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.

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

“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. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.

Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.

THE GAY BILL OF SPECIAL RIGHTS IS ON THE VERGE OF PASSG

That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn. " This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad.

1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials. Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR) 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri.