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Contents:

• BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS
• THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020
• GAY RIGHTS THE US, STATE BY STATE
• WHAT'S THE BT STATE FOR GAY RIGHTS?

BT AND WORST STAT FOR LGBTQ FOLKS? DIVI WORSENS AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY,' REPORT SAYS

''Florida, Montana among worst for LGBTQ muny The x ranked stat acrdg to five areas: work environment, legal protectns, youth and fay support, health accs and safety, and polil and relig at the top tend to get more clive over the past year, while their lower-ranked peers beme ls tolerant or didn't move om where they were 'T SAY GAY LAWS SPARK FEAR:If they 'say gay, ' will my child be safe? Meanwhile, Florida – which has enacted what opponents ll a "Don't Say Gay'' bill that would rtrict discsn of LGBTQ people the classroom – dropped 3.

Laws that explicly mentn sexual orientatn primarily target, whether for protectn or harm, lbian, gay, and bisexual people. Send, on Tuday the Florida Senate passed a ntroversial bill, lled "Don't Say Gay" by opponents, that bans tors younger gras om talkg about sexual orientatn and genr inty the Florida and Texas makg headl for the laws, the qutn aris: Which stat have gone the oppose directn and enshred protectns for young people of different sexual orientatns or genr inti?

In 1992, Colorado got labeled "The Hate State" when voters passed an amendment, later stck down as unnstutnal, that forba ci om passg anti-discrimatn laws protectg gay people.

THE 10 GAYEST STAT IN AMERI FOR 2020

Now, the state has a gay ernor (Democrat Jared Polis) and an LGBTQ uc the state legislature, which has passed a number of pro-LGBTQ bills recent years. Usually the laws are related to what n be discsed sex tn class; for example, Oklahoma law requir that class on AIDS preventn teach stunts to avoid “homosexual activy.

"Across the Uned Stat, Amerins have creasgly embraced equal treatment and accs for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) Amerins over the last . Wyomg is the state where Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt, was beaten and left to die the town of Laramie 1998, an cint that shocked the natn. There have been other cints agast gay people recent years, and a gay man who was bullied mted suici 2016.

Also, about 22, 000 people me out support of Universy of Wyomg diver Stia Mull, an openly gay athlete, who received All-Amerin regnn.

GAY RIGHTS THE US, STATE BY STATE

Other Montana ci nsired iendly to gay people are Bozeman and the state pal of people still face challeng such as laws that lim them om adoptg children. Fargo was the first cy the High Plas state to pass anti-discrimatn legislatn that shield gay people, and also holds the distctn of hostg the longt-nng Pri ftival the state.

Kentucky is also one of many stat to pass the State Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act, which allows bs owners to opt out of providg service to same-sex upl on relig cy of Morehead ma headl 2015 when cy clerk Kim Davis refed to issue marriage licens for gay upl, floutg the Supreme Court lg that legalized same-sex marriage. The state passed The Kentucky Relig Freedom Act 2013 that some gay groups feared would nullify ordanc enacted to protect their civi liberti.

Sgatuck and Douglas, two small beach towns, are popular statns for gay and lbian travelers, and equently ld as some of the most gay-iendly small towns the untry.

WHAT'S THE BT STATE FOR GAY RIGHTS?

3% – 9th lowt (total LGBTQ people: 137, 000)• CenterLk pri centers: 3 per 100, 000 LGBTQ people – 12th hight (total: 4)South Carola elected s first openly gay state lawmaker 2017 – an attorney om Greenville and a Republin, but his electn has not triggered, as some might have hoped for, a wave of bills protectg LGBTQ people om discrimatn. As of the begng of this year, the bill was still unr Carola has laws allowg discrimatn adoptn and foster placement, anti-sodomy laws, l that crimalize HIV and AIDS, and the State Relig Freedom Rtoratn Act, which allows bs to opt out servg gay ctomers on relig grounds.