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Party leaders then welcomed North Carolina Lt. Mark Robinson to the stage. By Matt Lavietes. Skip to Content. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. At least a dozen speakers have so far mentioned gender or sexuality negatively in their speeches, according to an NBC News analysis.

The Republican National Convention has come and gone, leaving in its wake reports of a Grindr outage, a blown kiss from Hulk Hogan to Donald Trump, and a truly staggering, beyond embarrassing amount of transphobia. Rob Smith, a gay and Black conservative who was heckled and called racist and homophobic slurs while attending a MAGA event last year, said he is leaving the Republican Party.

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Homophobic and transphobic remarks were unmistakably present throughout the first three days of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Get more news Live on. Profile My News Sign Out. Sign In Create your free profile. Thousands of anti-LGBTQ bills have been put forth in state legislatures across the country, and dozens have been enacted.

Search Search. Homophobic and transphobic remarks were unmistakably present throughout the first three days of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

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Latest Stories U. Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'Evil' came for Trump at his rally. These are commonsense issues. In the immediate aftermath of former President Donald Trump’s minute acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Democratic U.S.

Rep. Robert Garcia of California. For more from NBC Out, sign up for our weekly newsletter. The words have long been associated with mischaracterizing LGBTQ people, particularly gay men and trans women, as pedophiles. At the Republican convention inthere appeared to be less than a handful of speakers who used anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.

Calls for unity at the Republican National Convention are ringing hollow for the LGBTQ community. The platform, also for the first time, called for banning trans people from competing in sports that align with their gender identities, prohibiting using taxpayer dollars to fund transition-related surgery and undoing new Title IX protections for LGBTQ students.

Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. NBC News Logo. Over the course of the past week, Republicans from across the country gathered. Much of the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric at the convention singled out the transgender and nonbinary communities. Simultaneously, hostile language that had long been relegated to the margins resurfaced among conservative lawmakerspundits and right-wing sections of social media.

Sections U. Follow NBC News. The law — which at first prohibited the instruction of sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade before it was expanded to higher grade levels — prompted a wider debate about whether LGBTQ identities, history and people were age-appropriate for children.

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