Anti gay group
MassResistance
MassResistance is an anti-LGBTQ detest group that promotes discriminatory and harmful rhetoric against the LGBTQ community. The organization launched in 1995 as the Parents’ Rights Coalition. It was renamed the Article 8 Alliance in 2003, and took on its current mention in 2006. The organization’s director is Brian Camenker (pictured above), whose extremism in education dates advocate to at least 1995 as leader of so-called parents’ rights and taxpayer rights groups.
—Worked with legislators in Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Michigan and Montana to introduce nearly identical resolutions challenging the Supreme Court verdict in Obergefell v. Hodges, claiming that marriage equality opponents are finally “fighting back.” In fact, the expansive majority of Americans assist same-sex unions. Justice Clarence Thomas suggested the court reconsider Obergefell in an opinion accompanying the court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
—Designated as an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Regulation Center (SPLC).
—Published “The Health Hazards of Homosexuality,” a 600-page compendium which has been called a tour de force by the President of the American College of
Moms for Liberty (M4L) is one of the most prominent anti-LGBTQ extremist groups of its kind, but it isn’t working alone. Similar groups like Citizens Defending Freedom also propel for book bans and anti-LGBTQ school policies, all under the guise of asserting their so-called “parental rights” — a movement that doesn’t include LGBTQ and ally parents and children, families of shade , or any parent who wants their child to receive an accurate and inclusive education.
M4L leaders and members also regularly collaborate with other anti-LGBTQ groups, local and national, to advance their shared agendas. This sprawling network comes in handy in states where community-led pushback against M4L has created negative name-recognition for the trademark, offering opportunity for lesser-known but aligned groups.
Recent allegations of sexual assault lodged against Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler — husband of M4L co-founder Bridget Ziegler — are sowing division within M4L. (Bridget herself was not named in the complaint against her husband.) After the accusations came to not heavy, the Zieglers lost the support of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, their longtime ally. An early and vocal backer of M4L, DeSan
Gay in the AfD: 'We're not seeking equality'
"Gays and lesbians are just as important to Germany as any other loving person with a connection to family, home and nation," states the preamble to the guiding principles of the "Alternative Homosexuals."
The community, formerly known as "Homosexuals in the AfD," is a group for lgbtq+, lesbian, bisexual and trans person (LGBT) supporters of the populist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD).
But why are people in the LGBT community drawn to the AfD? Particularly when the party directly opposes male lover marriage, heavily advocates for the "classical family model," and opposes expanding laws to allow same-sex couples to adopt children?
Last year, the party even proposed a new sexual knowledge curriculum that would significantly reduce the amount of information students receive on homosexuality.
For Alexander Tassis, the AfD's stances on learning certainly aren't wrong, in fact, he also wants to stop what he calls "early sexualization" and "gender madness." He also denies that the party is moving towards the right.
"It's becoming more and more the party that I wanted," Tassis told DW.
'We're not seeking equality'
Tassis, the
U.S. Sends 'Anti-Gay Hate' Group to U.N., Fueling Fears Over LGBTQ Rights
The Merged States has sent a lobbying collective listed as a "hate group" by civil rights activists in its delegation to key Joined Nations meetings, advocates said on Wednesday, fueling fears over rolling back queer rights.
The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM) was named this week by the U.S. State Department to attend the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women, an annual put of high-level meetings on women's equality and empowerment.
C-FAM has been listed as an anti-LGBTQ loathe group by group civil rights team the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for at least five years, said Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project.
"The way you get on our anti-gay despise list is basically if you demonize the gay population," Beirich told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "That's how they ended up on the list.
"The maneuver comes as decisions by President Donald Trump's new administration raise fears of a rollback of LGBTQ rights.
"The way you get on our anti-gay detest list is basically if you demonize the gay population ... That's how they ended up on the list."
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The Russian ‘Anti-Gay Propaganda Law’ Going Online: Klimova and Others v. Russia as a Mixed Picture
by Dr. Betül Durmuş
Introduction
Over the summer, Bulgaria and Georgia adopted their own ‘anti-gay propaganda laws’ prohibiting dissemination of data concerning sexual orientation or gender persona, under the guise of protecting children. And, on 19 November 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union held a hearing on the infringement proceedings against Hungary’s anti-LGBTQI law.
It is in this heightened atmosphere that the Third Section of the European Court of Human Rights (‘Court’ or ‘ECtHR’) issued a new judgment concerning the Russian ‘anti-gay propaganda law’: Klimova and Others v. Russia (4 February 2025). The applicants of this case administered websites or social networking webpages providing information on LGBTQI-related issues or offering psychological and other forms of support to LGBTQI individuals. The Court found that the applicants’ convictions for the administrative offence of ‘promotion of non-traditional sexual relationships among minors’ and blocking of some of those websites or webpages breached Articles 8 and 10 of the European Convention