Cautious Optimism That Hate Laws Have Peaked

LGBTQ Nation's Good News Feed suggests that advocates for LGBT+ equality, such as the Human Rights Campaign, are cautiously optimistic that the current frenzy in the States for homophobic and transphobic legislation may have peaked.  Vivian Yin, for the popular newswire, reports that "In Georgia, the battle over anti-LGBTQ+ legislation lasted until the final hours of this past legislative session. In the end, no such bills passed or even made it to a vote in the Georgia House, in spite of the Republican majorities in both chambers".  The Human Rights Campaign Bentley Hudgins remarked "MAGA politicians in Georgia tried it all in service to their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda ... including silencing debate and gutting unrelated, popular bills that had bipartisan support to ram through policies that would have put young LGBTQ+ Georgians in harm’s way. They failed.”  In Kentucky also, no bills targetting the community were passed.  “It’s clear that the anti-LGBTQ agenda is starting to fail, both in Kentucky and across the country—rightfully so,” said Trey Grayson, former two-term Republican Secretary of State of Kentucky and lobbyist for Kentucky Competes, a coalition of LGBTQ-supportive business.  And in Florida, twenty one out of twenty two bills targetting LGBTQIA+ people failed to make it to the statute books.  Equality Florida said that people had been working hard to explain to lawmakers how these bills would impact our community, and this seems to have paid off.