fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks agoPoliticians in at least 51 countries used anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric during elections, NGO finds
As the visibility of LGBTQ+ people has risen in many countries in the last decade, so too has a backlash from conservative parts of societies, fuelled in many cases by far-right activists and politicians using gay and transgender people as scapegoats for other problems. There is a growing weaponisation of hate, said Alberto de Belaunde, a director at Outright International, an NGO that promotes LGBTQ+ rights globally.
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