How LGBTQ+ community dealing with laws or rules targeting them

Airdate: Thursday, June 15, 2023

June is Pride Month when the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer communities celebrate and commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York City that was considered a turning point for what was referred to as the Gay Liberation Movement.

Pride Month itself has drawn protests and condemnations from conservatives, but right now some state legislatures, local governments and school boards have proposed laws or rules limiting what school students can read about LGBTQ people, what bathrooms they can use, whether trans athletes can participate in sports, and on gender-affirming healthcare. That’s on top of the always present threat of physical harm to LGBTQ individuals.

Earlier this month, The Human Rights Campaign issued a state-of-emergency for the first time ever for LGBTQ+ Americans.

To discuss these issues on The Spark Thursday were Jason Landau Goodman, the Board Chair of the Pennsylvania Youth Congress and Corrine Goodwin, the Executive Director and founder of the Eastern Pennsylvania Trans Equity Project.