Image: Sequeerity observing a Proud Boy anti-LGBT protest. From Tess Owen’s “The Far Right Has Made Security a Huge Issue For Pride.”

2023

ABC News: Threats against the LGBTQIA+ community intensifying: Department of Homeland Security.

Alejandra Caraballo: We are now at 134 anti-LGBTQ proposed state bills.

Jordan Fischer: Maryland man threatened to ‘slaughter’ LGBTQ+ people after Covenant School shooting, DOJ says.

Luke Fountain: Klan litters Charlottesville with anti-LGBT flyers.

Kimberly Kindy: Tennessee leads charge in passing laws targeting LGBTQ rights

Justine McDaniel: Shooter Who Wanted to Rid Town of LGBTQ People Gets 18 Years.

Tess Owen:

• Target Is Removing Pride Products Because the Far-Right Is Threatening Staff: The retail giant is latest U.S. corporation to face a transphobic backlash.
• The Far Right Has Made Security a Huge Issue For Pride: Faced with the threat of anti-LGTBQ violence, some Pride organizers have turned to queer-led private security to help with safety.

2022

Hannah Allam: Pride events targeted in surge of anti-LGBTQ threats, violence: Extremism trackers say political hate speech is fueling a rise in demonstrations and attacks against LGBTQ communities.

Kathleen Belew (Twitter thread): To those asking why Patriot Front would target Pride: to the white power movement and some of the militant right, a host of social issues (abortion, gay rights, interracial contact, immigration, secularism) are all a problem for the same reason.

Thomas Lecaque: Not Only is the Right Unapologetic For Violent Anti-LGBTQ+ Rhetoric — It’s Doubling Down.

Media Matters for America: After Twitter lifted Libs of TikTok’s suspension, the viral anti-LGBTQ account immediately returned to targeting educators and a children’s hospital.

NBC News: DHS warns of domestic terror threats to LGBTQ, Jewish and migrant communities: Americans motivated by violent ideologies pose a “persistent and lethal threat,” a senior DHS official said in a briefing about a new Terrorism Advisory System bulletin.

David Neiwert:

• Patriot Front discovers Coeur d’Alene not the best place to bring fascist violence to Pride events.
• Once again, a gay-hating evangelical threatens neighbors, Pride parade, bringing police response.

Tess Owen:

• Swastikas Fly at Disney as Neo-Nazis Appear to Join Anti-Grooming Protests: Disney has been at the center of a right-wing-led culture war for several months over its response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law.
• Marjorie Taylor Greene Has a New Intern: Far-Right Shitposter Milo Yiannopoulos. Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who’s waging a war on LGBTQ rights, has hired Milo Yiannopoulos, an “ex-gay,” far-right blogger.
• The GOP Paved the Way for the Far-Right to Terrorize Pride This Year: Pride Month events around the country are stepping up security alongside a wave of attacks and violent threats from the far-right.
• The Far-Right Is Using Monkeypox to Peddle Anti-LGBTQ ‘Grooming’ Conspiracies.
• Gay New York Councilman’s Home Targeted by Anti-LGTBQ Mob.

Casey Parks: Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric brought violence, shooting survivors tell House panel. Survivors of the Club Q and Pulse nightclub shootings testified for more than three hours Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

Thomas Peipert & Jesse Bedayn: Gunman kills 5 at gay club, is subdued by patrons.

Liam Stack: Druggings, Deaths and Robberies Put New York’s Gay Community on Edge.

Odette Yousef: 31 members of the white nationalist Patriot Front arrested near an Idaho Pride event.