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BONUS: Conservatives vs. Pride Month

If Books Could Kill

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The Media Component of Transphobia

Peter Bergen: Conservatives have kind of dropped gay marriage, anti-gay stuff as a fight. The minute the far right becomes emboldened to go after gay people, the center right capitulates and immediately starts laundering this into like, well, there's actually some concerns, he says. "It's never a real demand for civility. No. It's a demand for complacency," Bergen adds. 'They are in league with open right wing bigots'

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