Folks, allies, I need you to listen and pay close attention. We're at a point in time that people are getting hurt, attacked, and killed for identifying, supporting, educating about, and being LGBTQ+. This same thing happened at the beginning of the 2nd world war. We can't let this keep happening, or we will be facing another tragedy, this time organized by Christian Nationalists.
#LGBTQ #Pride
History ref: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/
Todays news: https://apnews.com/article/glendale-school-district-pride-month-protests-fighting-adcb1e4f9051256a4f35fb3174137229 /nosanitizer
This isn't just one instance either.
Mapping of increased hate and violence against the LGBTQ+ has been done and kept up to date, as we have organizations already calling out the harmful acts and legislative moves in the US. Keep in mind, we are perhaps 7.1% of the US population here.
https://www.aclu.org/legislative-attacks-on-lgbtq-rights
https://acleddata.com/2022/11/23/update-fact-sheet-anti-lgbt-mobilization-in-the-united-states/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/threats-lgbtqia-community-intensifying-department-homeland-security/story?id=99338137
https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx /nosanitizer
The biggest issue in this is that we have people in power, people WITH power, that have been feeding and stoking the fires of this type of behavior for how many years now? 20, 30+ years? It has to stop, it has to be put out, but how do we go about doing this? We as a nation and as a society SHOULD be fighting back, but how do we, when we get silenced by all in power?
By knowledge. Education, and acceptance. #LGBTQ
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-fuels-violence/
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/anti-lgbtq /nosanitizer
In WW2 there were Nazi's here in the US, advocating and supporting the movement overseas and trying to dismantle the war efforts in the US. People with power, with money, that poured funding into slowing the war machine, and pulling the US out of the war against Nazi Germany. This is not widely taught in the US education systems, but it should be. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-nazism-and-madison-square-garden #LGBTQ /nosanitizer
@PaganMother Have you listened to Ultra?