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According to the Human Rights Campaign, last year saw a record 26 anti-LGBTQ bills signed into law across 10 states. This year, there are at least 320 anti-LGBTQ bills pending in state legislatures. More than half of them specifically target trans youth.
https://www.eagletribune.com/region/two-thirds-of-us-adults-would-be-ok-if-their-child-came-out-as-lesbian/article_3e36b62e-16e6-5bba-8f0a-922990670d0e.html
CurtEastPoint
(18,644 posts)Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)since the early days of the HIV crisis. BIG difference, now they do it to children.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)targeted during WW2?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims
[The vast majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jews, Sinti-Roma peoples, and Slavs but victims also encompassed people identified as social outsiders in the Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals, and political enemies.]
Today's Fascist behavior is more of the same. Fascists aren't concerned with any Human Rights except their own and their 'privilege' to destroy the rest of us. If LGBTQ groups,
POC, Democrats and anybody who is anti-fa band together we can take the Fascists
down. United we stand and divided we fall.
sop
(10,177 posts)Freedom), a Christian Right litigation nonprofit that pursues an anti-LGBT agenda.
https://www.prwatch.org/news/2019/05/13470/alec-teams-anti-lgbt-alliance-defending-freedom-promote-so-called-campus-free
"ADF, designated as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is also an 'ALEC Private Sector Member'...The Human Rights Council calls ADF an 'enthusiastic leader in defending the unconscionable right to discriminate against LGBT people' and 'a world-wide exporter of their own brand of hate'...With a budget of over $50 million, ADF is the largest legal advocacy group in the U.S. fighting to protect the right to discriminate against LGBT people. ADF has argued many cases in front of the Supreme Court seeking to legalize discrimination..."