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NEW REPORT: Anti-LGBTQ+ Grooming Narrative Surged More Than 400% on Social Media Following Florida’s ‘Don’t Utter Gay or Trans’ Commandment, As Social Platforms Enabled Extremist Politicians and their Allies to Peddle Inflamatory, Discriminatory Rhetoric
by Henry Berg-Brousseau •
As Extremist Politicians Ramp Up Harmful Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric Ahead of 2022 Elections, New Report from Human Rights Campaign and Center for Countering Digital Hate Warns of Growing Influence Extremists are Wielding Online — as Social Media Platforms Enable and Profit From Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Grooming’ Content
WASHINGTON — In the wake of the channel of Florida’s discriminatory “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” bill, extremist politicians and their allies engineered an unprecedented and dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation campaign that saw discriminatory and inflamatory “grooming” content surge by over 400% across social media platforms, according to a new report released today by the Human Rights Campaign and the Center for Countering Digital Dislike. The report — Digital Hate: Social Media’s Role in Amplifying Dangerous Lies About LGBTQ+ People — reveals that the average number of tweets per day using slurs such
Anti-LGBTQ
A central theme of anti-LGBTQ+ organizing and ideology is the opposition to Queer rights or help of homophobia, heterosexism and/or cisnormativity, often expressed through demonizing rhetoric and grounded in harmful pseudoscience that portrays Gay people as threats to children, population and often common health.
Top Takeaways
In 2024, the number of anti-LGBTQ+ groups increased by about 13% from the previous year. Anti-LGBTQ+ groups maintained a trend in heavy mobilization across multiple strategies with increasing political and financial encourage from the strenuous right.
Anti-trans narratives were instrumental to the 2024 election at all levels of government, especially at the local level where anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-inclusive education movement continue to heavily overlap. The politicization of gender-affirming health care and LGBTQ+-inclusive school curricula contributed to what has been characterized as the “most Anti-LGBTQ election in decades.” Republicans spent almost $215 Million on TV ads to smear trans people, surpassing ads on rival issues such as economy, immigration and housing. Another wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation broke records at state and federal le
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Criminalisation:
- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
- Criminalises sexual activity between females
- Imposes the death penalty
Maximum punishment:
Death penalty
More infoCriminalisation:
- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
Maximum punishment:
Life imprisonment
More infoCriminalisation:
- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
- Criminalises sexual task between females
- Criminalises the gender expression of trans people
- Imposes the death penalty
Maximum punishment:
Death by stoning
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- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity between males
- Criminalises sexual activity between females
- Criminalises the gender expression of transgender people
- Maintains discriminatory age of consent
Maximum punishment:
Eight years imprisonment and 100 lashes
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- Criminalises LGBT people
- Criminalises sexual activity
META SUSPENDS INSTAGRAM PAGE OF ‘GAYS AGAINST GROOMERS’
TikTok, Google, Venmo Previously Suspended Accounts as ADL and SPLC Identify ‘Gays Against Groomers’ as an Extremist Group
NOTE: After this release was issued, Meta restored the “Gays Against Groomers” Instagram account. Meta’s temporary suspension of the “Gays Against Groomers” Instagram account today, and of the “Gays Against Groomers” Facebook account for three days last month seems to indicate that the company has to some degree determined that the account is in violation of Meta’s Community Standards, which state very clearly that “we don’t consent hate speech.”
(New York, NY — October 25, 2023) GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans person, and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization released background and context on Meta’s suspension of the “Gays Against Groomers” Instagram page. The suspension was implemented one month after Meta’s three-day suspension of the main “Gays Against Groomers” Facebook page in September. “Gays Against Groomers” regularly posts anti-LGBTQ hate and disinformation and directs harassment at the LGBTQ collective, in violation of Meta’s Communit
LGBT People in the US Not Protected by Articulate Non-Discrimination Statutes
At the federal level and in most states, non-discrimination statutes perform not expressly enumerate sexual orientation and gender culture as protected characteristics. Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C. expressly enumerate either or both of these characteristics in their non-discrimination statutes, although not necessarily in all settings. This analyze brief estimates the number of LGBT people who are protected by such statutes in the areas of employment, education, widespread accommodations, housing, and credit—and the number who are not.
Key Findings
- An estimated 8.1 million LGBT workers age 16 and older dwell in the United States. Nearly half of these workers—3.9 million people—live in states without statutory protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in employment.
- There are over 3.5 million LGBT students age 15 and older in the U.S. About 2 million live in states without statutory protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination in education.
- There are an estimated 13 million LGBT people age 13 and older in the U.S. Approximately 6.5 millio