Anti lgbtq bills 2023
Anti-LGBTQIA+ bills are at register highs in the US amid an upcoming election. Here's why
For those in the LGBTQIA+ community, Identity festival month is a chance to be out, noisy and proud.
But in the United States, there's been an uneasy quiet hanging over this June.
Big brands who once didn't ponder twice about cashing in on the pink dollar have scaled back support.
The American offshoot of Aim reduced the number of its stores carrying Pride-themed products this year after getting backlash in 2023.
Nike, who became the subject of boycott calls last year over its marketing partnership with a gender nonconforming influencer, has also pulled back after offering Lgbtq+ fest collections since 1999.
The silence too has been felt in other ways.
A Maryland council chose not to fly a pride flag outside its city office for the first hour in five years, with its mayor citing "neutrality".
And for many queer Americans, the month of celebration and commemoration has instead been left overshadowed by a record number of legislative attacks.
Record rise in anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says it's currently monitoring 523 anti-LGBTQIA+ bi
STATE LEGISLATORS PROPOSE 300 ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS AS GLAAD RELEASES UPDATED REPORTER GUIDE, RESOURCES
Anti-LGBTQ bills advance in Tennessee, Texas, Arizona, other states as total number of proposed bills across the country reaches record-high level by February
(New York, NY — February 9, 2023) — Today GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, released an updated media reference guide for reporters covering LGBTQ state legislation as lawmakers consider approximately 300 anti-LGBTQ bills at the declare level. The instruction can be start at /state-legislation.
“Legislators acquire already introduced 300 anti-LGBTQ bills as of this month — nearly the entirety of bills introduced during the whole 2022 legislative session,” said Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD. “Regardless of whether these bills advance or not, they will contain a detrimental consequence particularly on LGBTQ youth who are watching and feeling unwelcome and unsafe in the places they call place. As our community’s dignity and security are under ambush, we need every lawmaker and voter to speak up in support of L
Adopted by the 223rd WMA Council Session, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2023
Revised and adoptedby the 74thWMA General Assembly, Kigali, Rwanda, October 2023
Revised as Council Resolution by the 226th WMA Council Session, Seoul, Korea, April 2024 and
adopted by the 75th WMA General Assembly, Helsinki, Finland, October 2024
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The WMA is gravely concerned about the “Anti-Homosexuality law” that was passed in the Ugandan parliament on Protest 21, 2023, and signed into law by Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in May 2023. The WMA originally condemned the bill in a press release issued on March 24, 2023.
While the Uganda Constitutional Court did strike down sections of the law that restricted healthcare access for LGBT people, criminalised renting premises to LGBT people, and an obligation to announce alleged acts of homosexuality, on April 3, 2024, the court upheld the abusive and radical provisions of the Anti-Homosexuality Execute, including sections which criminalise certain consensual same-sex acts and makes them punishable by death or being imprisonment. A provision on the “promotion” of homosexuality is also of morbid concern, exposing anyone
Record number of anti-LGBTQ legislation filed in 2023
This year, state legislators introduced and passed a record-breaking number of legislative efforts targeting LGBTQ healthcare, access to public accommodations, inclusion in education, and more in the U.S.
The American Civil Liberties Union said it recorded at least 508 bills impacting the collective in 2023, adding 84 of these bills were passed into law.
The climb in legislation coincided with an increase in threats of violence against the LGBTQ community, with federal security agencies sounding the alarm. However, activists utter that despite the record-breaking wave of anti-LGBTQ bills, other lawmakers have stepped up to combat such efforts.
"We've also witnessed unreal moments of strength in states and communities across the country who hold made sure this political assault does not leave unnoticed or is made any easier for politicians opposed to our very existence," said Gillian Branstetter, Communications Strategist at the ACLU, in a utterance to ABC News.
The huge majority of legislation passed across the country has impacted gender-affirming care for minors, blocking trans youth from accessing tr
Right Wing Labs – How Articulate Legislatures Are Driving Anti-LGBTQ+ Attacks at Federal Level
by Brandon Wolf •
Introduction
With Florida State Sen. Randy Fine’s recent (closer than expected) election to Congress, we can hope for him to receive his ugly anti-LGBTQ+ animus from Tallahassee to Washington, D.C. But the pipeline of hate from state legislatures to Congress has gone on far longer than Florida’s latest special election.What can look like disparate attacks in express legislatures targeting the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ+ people are actually all part of one national strategy to employ states as beta testing grounds for the right wing’s anti-freedom agenda–with the ultimate goal of enacting these policies at a federal level. Project 2025 may be new to Washington, but it seems awfully familiar to people in states like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and others.
Over the last several years, express legislatures have lurched from bans on sports participation for transgender youth to restrictions on bathroom access and health care to censorship of LGBTQ+ content and people from classrooms to a recent surge in resolutions demanding that the Supreme Court overturn its Obergefell r