“It could be voted on within a week or months,” said @Egaypt. “But either way its terrifying as it sets a new trend that could (and will) spread to other countries in the region that are socially homophobic, but have no anti-LGBTQ laws.”
Egypt: MP drafts homophobic law to jail LGBT people or ‘promoters’ in Egypt
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US: The troubling ascent of the LGBT right wing
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US: Christian Right tips to fight transgender rights: separate the T from the LGB
Last week, from Thursday, October 13 through Saturday, October 15 the anti-LGBT hate group Family Research Council put on its annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC., A prime networking event for the Christian right where anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim rhetoric is rife, this year’s summit welcomed its first sitting president as a speaker, Donald Trump.