While none of the bills have been filed in New York, the city has seen a rise in visible signs of hate. From protests to pride flags getting burned, ripped down, and destroyed.
Activist Randy Wicker fought for more than 6 decades to help give people the right to display not just the pride flag proudly, but who they are as a person. He was the first to organize a gay rights demonstration in the country in the 1960s.
For everything he helped accomplish over the decades, he says many states are moving backward. More than 490 anti-LGBTQ+ laws have been filed in almost every state, except four. Many of the bills target the transgender community.Simpson says she recently helped someone move out of a state where new laws are getting passed.
While a majority of the bills have been defeated, some have passed. In Texas, gender transition treatments for kids have been banned. In Tennessee, lawmakers passed a strict limit on drag performances which a judge later deemed unconstitutional, and in Florida a variety of laws have been passed including a ban on instructing students about gender identity or sexual orientation.
Some of the backlash is being felt in the tri-state area. From a church welcome signed recently smashed in half in New Jersey just hours after pride flags were put up around it, to the pride display repeatedly vandalized at the Stonewall National Monument, to people protesting drag story hour in New York City.
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