Human Rights Campaign issues first ever national state of emergency for LGBTQ people
“I’m not going to sugarcoat this,” Kelly Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign, wrote in her preface to a new report the group released this week. “For the first time in HRC’s nearly half-century history, we’re declaring a national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people in the United States.”
The nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization is sounding the alarm over what it says are more than 525 anti-LGBTQ bills filed at the state level across the country, more than 200 specifically targeting transgender people.
“As of press time, more than 70 of those have become law,” Richardson wrote. “These laws are fueled by an anti-LGBTQ+ Republican establishment — and coordinated, well-funded extremist groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom, Heritage Foundation and the Family Policy Alliance — insistent on trying to control our families and lives.”
The declaration and report come during an LGBTQ Pride Month that has already seen anti-LGBTQ violence and intimidation along with backlash and terrorist threats against multi-national companies and national retailers who have shown public support for the LGBTQ community.
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