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[Norrrm]

1. Why are right wingers and the religious right so dead set against gays, trans, and others? --- Misdirection.

Why are right wingers and the religious right so dead set against gays, trans, and others? --- Misdirection.

Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers Pt. 52

https://www.dailykos.com/blogs/CajsaLilliehook

[Initech]

2. This is all a mutated form of Nixon's Southern Strategy.

It was born with Nixon and Reagan. Mutated with Limbaugh and Swaggart. Metastasized with Fox News, social media, and Alex Jones and Infowars.

[Alice Kramden]

3. Intimidating

Pure intimidation

[Demovictory9]

5. I that Gay bar raids stopped in the 80s.

[electric_blue68]

6. FFS, go catch some Real criminals! 😑👎

[GreatGazoo]

7. Police say it was because the bar was 100% over their fire code limit of 70 patrons

133 patrons + performers + staff.

>"Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey...said “I want to first acknowledge the ways in which bar raids were used historically to harass and commit violence against members of the LGBTQIA+ community,” he said in the statement. “[...] It is my intent that our actions as a city build upon, rather than undermine, that legitimate desire for safety.”

[The owners of the bar, P Town, said] “to my knowledge, no patrons were mistreated,”<

https://www.them.us/story/ptown-pittsburgh-lgbtq-bar-police-raid-amanda-lepore