“This is fundamentally an anti-trans movement that has come to target other parts of the LGBTQ coalition,” said Sasha Issenberg, author of “The Engagement,” a book detailing the history of the fight for same-sex marriage rights. Acknowledgement of the community has also broadened. The vast majority of MLB teams now offer specific Pride celebrations at home games.Įxperts who follow the national conversation over LGBTQ rights say the growing acceptance of gay and lesbian people has forced opponents to target a new minority group - the transgender community. Just over a decade ago, fewer than half of Americans favored same-sex marriage today, 70 percent do. The vitriol and bloodshed come after a decade of stunning advancements for LGBTQ rights, as more Americans accept and embrace marriage equality and as more states adopt anti-discrimination legislation.
Those arrests came hours before a group of Proud Boys, the far-right militia, disrupted a children’s book reading in San Lorenzo, Calif., given by a local drag queen who is also a social worker.īaptist ministers in Idaho and Texas have gone viral in recent weeks for calling on the government to execute gay people.Īnd three people were assaulted as they left a Pride event in Salt Lake City last week, while flags celebrating Pride were vandalized along a major arterial in Boise
