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\nTHE GAY LIBERATION NETWORK:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe worst thing we could do right now is compound a horrible act of anti-LGBT hate by promoting anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant hate. To use this tragedy to promote Trump-like behavior would be despicable. It is a race to the bottom<\/em>—outright bigotry—<\/em>branding all people in a group, regardless of character, as the enemy. <\/p>\nWe <\/em>LGBTs have recently won so many rights — with the aid of <\/em>so <\/em>many non-LGBTs of all faiths — <\/em>that<\/em> it would be unworthy of us to become haters towards any other group of people. We have in our LGBT community many Muslims and immigrants who catch it from both sides — racist Islamophobes on one side, anti-LGBT bigots on the other. We especially need to stand with them, and stand against scapegoating, period.<\/p>\nFlorida Senator Bill Nelson just a few moments ago said that we need to <\/em>refuse to<\/em> be “hyphenated Americans, but stand together as Americans.” Sorry Mr. Senator, but this was an apparent anti-gay attack. Disregarding that fact is to disregard the hate that has been promoted by anti-gay political and religious leaders of both parties, especially in the American South. <\/p>\nWith a presidential candidate making it his calling card <\/em>to attack Islam<\/em>, Islamophobia is also a huge threat. Until we stand together as human beings<\/em> of <\/em>every <\/em>race, nationality <\/em>and<\/em> religion<\/em>,<\/em> and<\/em> <\/em>not as parochial Americans<\/em>, to<\/em> confront what our own leaders are doing to perpetuate <\/em>outrages like<\/em> scapegoating groups <\/em>here<\/em> or serial bombings of other countries, the cycle of violence will <\/em>continue<\/em>.<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Originally published June 12, 2017 Vigil in Chicago tonight for Victims of Orlando Tragedy 7 PM – Halsted & Roscoe Streets STATEMENT ON THE TRAGEDY FROM THE GAY LIBERATION NETWORK: The Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,107,55,132,65],"tags":[142,41,143,144,67],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bigotry","category-intersectionality","category-lgbt-rights","category-militarism","category-war","tag-islamophobia","tag-lgbtq-rights","tag-orlando","tag-pulse-nightclub","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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