{"id":114841,"date":"2023-06-12T07:25:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/lgbtq-community-celebrates-pride-in-the-face-of-online-and-offline-attacks\/"},"modified":"2023-06-12T07:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:25:49","slug":"lgbtq-community-celebrates-pride-in-the-face-of-online-and-offline-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/lgbtq-community-celebrates-pride-in-the-face-of-online-and-offline-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBTQ community celebrates Pride in the face of online and offline attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114841\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nMillions of LGBTQ Americans are taking part in this year\u2019s Pride celebrations against a backdrop of increasing attacks, both online and offline. The rising demonstrations, legal efforts to restrict LGBTQ rights and political rhetoric inflaming national conversations around issues like drag shows and transgender healthcare may be fueling each other, two researchers told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Ulfelder, a political and data scientist at Harvard University, has been tracking anti-LGBTQ demonstrations since 2017. The data shows a clear increase in events beginning in 2022, about 30-fold compared to 2017. Right wing protests were almost four times as likely in the last year and half to include anti-LGBTQ narratives than when counting began. Jen Kuhn of Kaleidoscope, a queer youth organization in Columbus, Ohio, said it felt \u201csurreal\u201d when neo-Nazis showed up at an April fundraiser waving swastikas and a sign reading, \u201cthere will be blood.\u201d She said the subsequent support from the local community makes her even more committed to celebrating Pride, albeit with a heightened sense of caution and new security protocols.<\/p>\n<p>LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD has already recorded eight instances of 2023 Pride events that had to modify their plans due to threats of violence by June 1, said spokesperson Angela Dallara. Half of them are in Florida, where event organizers have increased security this year. At least three people were arrested on Tuesday when violence broke out outside a school district meeting discussing LGBTQ inclusivity in Glendale, California. Asked about the threat level during Pride month, an FBI spokesperson said the agency urged people to be aware of their surroundings and report suspicious activity.<\/p>\n<p>Legal moves to restrict LGBTQ rights are also on the rise. The ACLU has tracked 491 anti-LGBTQ bills in the 2023 state legislatures, a record high for the last century. There has been a Republican-led effort to limit drag in at least 15 states in recent months. And in Florida this year, education officials extended Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s 2022 initiative limiting LGBTQ discussion in school through the third grade, also known as the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill, to now cover all public school grades. The 2024 presidential candidate has put culture war issues front and center, exemplified by this bill.<\/p>\n<p>Proponents of the bill argue that only parents should decide when to discuss subjects like sexuality or gender identity with children, while critics say it will further marginalize, endanger and silence LGBTQ students. Online, slurs like \u201cgroomer\u201d \u2013 a trope that LGBTQ people are \u201cchild groomers\u201d or pedophiles \u2013 have traveled from the fringe into mainstream discourse.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and Human Rights Campaign last year found a 406% surge in \u201cgrooming\u201d tweets in the month after the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill passed in March 2022. CCDH data covering May 2021 to May 2023 seen by Reuters shows the narrative was rare prior to the bill\u2019s passage. Ilan Meyer, a UCLA scholar who is a leading expert on LGBTQ mental health stressors, said it\u2019s frightening to see a resurgence of old, false narratives, like gay people harming children. \u201cIf you tell people that a group is going to hurt your children, that gives them a license to be violent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proving causality between the online and offline attacks is difficult, cautioned Joel Day, research director at a Princeton University initiative that tracks political violence nationally, but the online and offline do mutually reinforce each other. \u201cAn event, like the \u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay bill,\u2019 can increase the online chatter. And the chatter can increase the likelihood of such bills.\u201d<br \/>\nThe harmful effects of online and offline assaults can\u2019t be disentangled, said Kimberly Balsam, a psychology professor and LGBTQ-focused researcher at Palo Alto University.<\/p>\n<p>Brigitte Bandit, a full-time drag performer in Austin, Texas, said she\u2019s never experienced as much online hostility toward drag as in the last year.Bandit says the clothing she uses at events for children is different to 21-and-over shows, but her social media feed is filled with accounts sharing risqu\u00e9 photos of her alongside claims that she\u2019s dangerous to children. \u201cThey\u2019re struggling to find anything on me, so they manipulate my image to post about this and make it seem like I\u2019m somebody I\u2019m not,\u201d said Bandit, who has tweeted photos of herself in age-appropriate clothing at family events in response to the posts targeting her.<\/p>\n<p>For Bandit, the current atmosphere feels like \u201cwe\u2019re getting down to \u2018Pride at its roots,\u201d noting that Pride began as a yearly commemoration of the Stonewall riots that broke out in New York City after police stormed a gay bar in June 1969. \u201cWe need to realize we make Pride for ourselves,\u201d Bandit said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/lgbtq-community-celebrates-pride-face-online-offline-attacks-2023-06-11\/\">Reuters<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/lgbtq-community-celebrates-pride-in-the-face-of-online-and-offline-attacks\/\">LGBTQ community celebrates Pride in the face of online and offline attacks<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[3726,10341,555,3132,10342,923,3313],"class_list":["post-114841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-america","tag-attacks","tag-csr-news-en","tag-lgbtq","tag-offline","tag-online","tag-pride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}