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I wanna talk about LGBTQ rights. First, let’s go over what they mean. L stands for lesbian. Lesbians are women that love other women. G stands for gay. Gay people love the same gender they are. This also works for men. B stands for bisexual. Bisexual people love both genders. T stands for transgender. Trans people change their gender from one to the other. Q stands for queer. Queers get away from the usual stuff with sexuality and do something different. What was I doing? Oh yeah. LGBTQ rights are very important to talk about because people’s sexualities are just as important as any other rights. For transgender people, their gender is just as important (1). And by talking about it, we can make more and more people realize that. LGBTQ people can take their rights and remind all the homophobes that they have rights. That’s horrible for the homophobes but great for everyone else (fortunately). It’s always been very hard for the LGBTQ community, because people just can’t accept that other people can enjoy different sexualities with themselves. Just look at 2022 (3). There were more than 340 anti-LGBTQ rights bills filed in. For example, there was a bill in Florida that forbid schools there from saying the words gay from kindergarten to 3rd grade (4). We could all fight for LGBTQ equality so that gay people can do whatever they want with their bodies and everyone else’s without other people being disgusted by it. That’s exactly what the Biden administration decided to do (2). I don’t think that LGBTQ rights have been addressed enough. Why? Because people are still being homophobic to this very day with no signs of stopping anytime soon. You can’t control what people think. And that’s been evident for a long time. But that’s ok. As long as most people are fighting for LGBTQ rights, it’ll feel like no one’s fighting against it. We just need to get as many as possible so that we can call it a success.

2022 was probably the worst year for LGBTQ people In that year alone, 340 bills were filed There was a bill in Florida that prevented teachers in kindergarten to 3rd grade from saying gay or anything related to it Charles Beaumont made a story on playboy magazine about heterosexuals not being accepted in society to teach people not to do the same to homosexual people (5) Gay people were allowed to vote in 1965 after Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law for them to vote (6)

1. https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/discrimination/lgbti-rights/ 2. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/improving-lives-rights-lgbtq-people-america/ 3. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/2021-was-supposed-worst-year-lgbtq-rights-came-2022-rcna63334 4. https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/floridas-dont-say-gay-bill- actually-says-rcna19929 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ADgHOewJQ 5. https://www.justice.gov/opa/blog/civil-rights-division-marks-57th-anniversary-voting-rights-act#:~:text=On%20August%206%2C%201965%2C%20President,Act%20of%201965%20into%20law