just to live. and yet, here we are. seeing the right of our community members diminish. their voices are silenced, they re very identities denied. our nation has made great strides with filling the fundamental promises of freedom and equality for lgbtq plus americans, but lately something has changed. the arc of progress is bending in ways we did not think possible just five years ago. unjust ways. so far this year, more than 520 anti lgbtq bills have been introduced in state legislatures. that is a record. more than 220 of those bills, specifically, targeted transgender and non-binary people. also a record. and an unprecedented 70 anti lgbtq laws have been enacted just this year. in the past, we have put together pride specials celebrating lgbtq+ individuals and their achievements, first in the white house and then on the stage and screen. achievements that deserve to be celebrated. but tonight, as that progress is threatened like never before, we are going to do something d
attack queer people, trans people, drag artists. i just got a death threat a week or two or go that listed my address and it, which was incredibly terrifying to get. and then we are seeing the online behavior has gone off line into real life. i think it was an oklahoma where a drag story our was supposed to happen and that molotov cocktail was thrown through the window. what happened at club q or people lost their lives and where people were targeted in colorado springs. and then the proud boys showing up at drag story hours and different pride events. that online rhetoric has now transferred to realize, so it is a really scary time. but hope is a form of resistance, so we have to hold on to hope, we have to keep advocating for queer liberation and for all people within our community, but in particular are trans people, our grand kids, and are black and brown trans women who are targeted at
and to be a drag artist invited was something that i never imagined could happen, it was a huge honor. but to get death threats, my family got death threats, i got to death threats. it shows just how dangerous these bills are because it is a dog whistle to their base to attack queer people, trans people, drag artists. i just got a death threat a week or two or go that listed my address and it, which was incredibly terrifying to get. and then we are seeing the online behavior has gone off line into real life. i think it was an oklahoma where a drag story our was supposed to happen and that molotov cocktail was thrown through the window. what happened at club q or people lost their lives and where people were targeted in colorado springs. and then the proud boys showing up at drag story hours and different pride events. that online rhetoric has now transferred to realize, so it is a really scary time. but hope is a form of resistance, so we have to hold on to hope, we have to keep advoca