Terrorists are gay
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Foreign terrorist organizations could target Movement month events: FBI, DHS
Foreign terrorist organizations may seek to take advantage of "LGBTQIA+-related events and venues," including events during 2024 Pride month -- celebrated in June, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security warned in a recent public service announcement.
"Organizations like ISIS may seek to exploit increased gatherings associated with the upcoming June 2024 Pride Month," according to the announcement, which the agencies issued last week. The announcement added that the threat is "compounded" by the "current heightened threat environment" in the United States.
The threats could arrive online, in person or in the mail, according to the FBI and DHS.
Last February, ISIS "called for followers to manner attacks on unidentified soft targets, although the attacks and targets were not specific to LGBTQIA+ venues," the agencies wrote in the public service announcement.
Nearly eight years ago, ISIS applauded the June 12, 2016, shooting at Pulse nightclub -- when a gunman killed 49 and wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
"After the Pulse shooting, pro
Homosexuals as ‘terrorists’
Homosexuals in Chechnya are at greater exposure than anywhere else in the Russian Federation, and face police surveillance, blackmail, murder, incarceration in classified prisons and torture. At federal level, a 2013 law banning ‘propaganda on non-traditional sexual relationships to minors’ has reduced access to public space for the few organisations defending LGBT rights.
This repression is not new. The 1996 penal code of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria recriminalised sodomy (mujelojstvo); article 148, which borrowed the term from Soviet commandment, was inspired by sharia and prescribed corporal punishment and, for repeat offenders, the death penalty or life imprisonment. The Kadyrovs, father and son, possess made the war on terror part of day-to-day government and, to undermine Islamists’ influence, preached a religious rigorism equally unwelcoming to homosexuality (see Chechnya’s very long state of emergency).
Using strategies tested in the fight against the Islamists, the authorities blacklist families, attacking clan solidarity. Some detainees accused of being gay are forced to confess publicly in ‘liberation ceremonies’, which other men in their family are re
Slovak terror: A nation hijacked by homophobia and transphobia
Slovakia against LGBT+ people
Within the EU, Slovakia ranks among the least accepting societies towards non-heterosexual and trans people. According to Eurobarometer, only 31% of respondents think that homosexual, lesbian and fluid people should hold the same rights as the heterosexual majority, and only 25% think that trans people should be able to change their official documents to equal their gender individuality. Public displays of affection by non-heterosexual couples, including something as minor as holding hands, are socially unacceptable in Slovakia and often serve as a pretext for violence.
Queer people in Slovakia meet obstacles in every area and at every stage of their lives. A nation-wide LGBT+ survey conducted last year by the non-profit Iniciatíva Inakosť [Difference Initiative] has shown that LGBT+ people most often feel unsafe in the streets and in other widespread places and that they suffer humiliation and marginalization from a very prior age. The respondents ranked creating “programs aimed at preventing and addressing homophobic and transphobic bullying in every school” as one of their highest prioriti