Anti gay discussion

Overview

Around the world, people are under attack for who they are.

Living as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, non-binary or intersex (LGBTI) person can be life-threatening in a number of countries across the globe. For those who do not live with a daily immediate risk to their life, discrimination on the basis of one’s sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression and sex characteristics, can have a devastating effect on physical, mental and emotional well-being for those forced to endure it.

Discrimination and violence against LGBTI people can arrive in many forms, from name-calling, bullying, harassment, and gender-based violence, to existence denied a job or appropriate healthcare. Protests to uphold the rights of LGBTI people also tackle suppression across the globe. 

The range of unequal treatment faced is extensive and damaging and could be based on:

• your sexual orientation (who you’re attracted to)
• gender identity (how you self-identify, irrespective of the sex assigned at birth)
• gender expression (how you express your gender, for example through your clothing, hair or mannerisms),
• sex characteristics (for example, your genitals, chromosomes, reproductive
  

  Between the beginning of this year and the beginning of this month, 117 lesbian, gay, pansexual and transgender (LGBT) people were murdered in Brazil based on their sexual orientation, according to the Gay Community of Bahia (GGB). The group will be at the all-day events of the International Morning Against Homophobia (IDAHO), May 17.

  Genilson Coutinho, an LGBT activist and honorary member of the GGB, said the issue will be discussed at several locations in Salvador, including support centers, to raise awareness of anti-LGBT violence and press for legislative measures and common policies on local, state, and federal levels. He pointed out one LGBT person is murdered every 25 hours in Brazil.

  This year, the international time will focus on a new campaign to raise knowledge of the double exclusion of LGBT people who contain any disabilities or special needs, who are exposed to discrimination on two levels.

  According to Genilson Coutinho, there are several factors behind the growing aggression against LGBT people, chief among them impunity.

  “There are no laws in Brazil to make homophobia a crime and open people's eyes to it as something unacceptable. Impunity empowers daily hostility. Criminal

  Groups opposed to same-sex attracted rights rake in millions as states debate anti-LGBTQ bills

  In today’s heightened customs war, the coffers of the anti-gay movement are overflowing. According to publicly available annual returns, 11 nonprofit groups identified as anti-LGBTQ hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center took in over$110 million in contributions during the financial year ending in 2020.

  The dollar amount represents a recent high-water mark for the organizations, whose get of donations, grants and other noncash contributions has increased steadily since 2016, when the identical 11 groups reported more than $87 million in such contributions. 

  In just four years, their total revenue swelled by over 25 percent, with some indication that the positive trend continued into 2021. The multimillion-dollar war chest has bolstered a movement that just a few years ago appeared to be losing ground in America’s decadeslong tradition war around female homosexual, gay, bisexual, gender nonconforming and queer rights. Far from retreating, the groups possess won significant battles at all levels of American government and society — from local college boards to the federal courts.

  The Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPL

  Anti-Gay Curriculum Laws

  Abstract

  Since the Supreme Court’s invalidation of anti-gay marriage laws, scholars and advocates have begun discussing what issues the LGBT movement should prioritize next. This article joins that dialogue by developing the framework for a national campaign to invalidate anti-gay curriculum laws—statutes that prohibit or restrict the discussion of homosexuality in universal schools. These laws are artifacts of a bygone era in which official discrimination against LGBT people was both lawful and rampant. But they are far more prevalent than others have recognized. In the existing literature, scholars and advocates have referred to these provisions as “no promo homo” laws and claimed that they exist in only a handful of states. Based on a comprehensive survey of federal and articulate law, this article shows that anti-gay provisions endure in the curriculum laws of twenty states, and in several provisions of one federal law that governs the distribution of $75 million in annual funding for abstinence teaching programs. In light of the Supreme Court’s orders in four landmark same-sex attracted rights cases, these laws plainly violate the Constitution’s equal protection guar
  

  Section 28: What was it and how did it affect LGBT+ people?

  The statute existed from 1988 - 2003 and affected LGBT+ people. Here's what you need to know about it

  *Warning: This article contains a reference to a homophobic slur that you may find offensive*

  Craig was bullied a lot in secondary school because he was gay. "There was only one member of staff who ever spoke to me about it, my drama teacher," he says. "And I wasn't aware at the day that she could possess gotten into trouble just for doing that."

  Craig, who grew up near Aberdeen, is one of the many LGBT+ people who came of age during the era of Section 28, external, a regulation passed in 1988 by a Conservative government that stopped councils and schools "promoting the teaching of the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship."

  You may have heard the term Section 28 this week when it was discussed on RuPaul's Drag Race UK.

  "School was hard," contestant Divina De Campo explained, before breaking into tears in yesterday's episode of the existence show. "I got a lot of flak from pretty much everybody in the school. Growing up for everybo