Bully, Shame, Hate & Exclude
1955
1955-01-01 For context only, the anti-LGBTQ Westboro Baptist church was founded. They are known for their picketing, harassment, and slogan “God hates f-gs”.
2019
2019-02-01 Republicans launched a smear campaign against Pete Buttigieg in an anti-gay campaign.
https://kfoxtv.com/news/nation-world/student-says-trump-backers-recruited-him-for-buttigieg-smear
2021
2021-06-17 The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Catholic charity that wanted to exclude gay couples from the placement of foster children in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. Justice Samuel Alito felt the ruling did not go far enough, writing, “This decision might as well be written on dissolving paper sold in magic shops”.
2022
2022-06-01 Director Justin Folk produced titled “What is a Woman” starring conservative Matt Walsh. In Walsh’s speech, he accused schoolboards who allowed gender identity of child abuse, preying upon impressionable children and indoctrination.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_a_Woman%3F
2024
2024-10-03 A Pennsylvania middle school installed surveillance windows in gender-inclusive bathrooms.
2024-11-18 Nancy Mace pushed to ban transgender bathrooms.
2025 January
2025-01-20 During the inauguration Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde begged for mercy on behalf of immigrants and LGBTQ+ people. Both Fox News and Charlie Kirk condemned Bishop Budde, calling her a “disgrace” and an “embarrassment”. Trump demanded an apology from Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde.
Bishop Budde also received multiple hostile and trolling attacks on social media.
https://x.com/tompawnbadil/status/1882115502061068777
https://x.com/GrahamAllen/status/1881765320890962170
https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1881765967338131546
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOkwPbn-fng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dcp-fJhM6U
2025 March
2025-03-20 Trump suspended $175M in funding to the University of Pennsylvania for allowing a transgender athlete on the women’s swim team. In July, Trump released $175M in funding back to University of Pennsylvania only after they agreed to remove transgender Lia Thomas’ records and issue an apology.
2025 July
2025-07-01 (although uncertain of date - video was derived from YouTube as commentary) Video of Charlie Kirk getting schooled by a Cambridge student about same-sex marriage.
2025-07-17 The 988 suicide and crisis line specifically for LGBTQ+ was shut down permanently in effort to roll back DEI.
2025-07-21 In an effort to avoid “woke” ideology and the LGBTQ+ community, Derek Huffman of Texas moved his family to Russia. Once there, Russia sent him to the front lines of a combat zone.
https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2025/jul/31/texas-man-who-fled-to-russia-to-escape-woke/
2025 August
2025-08-12 There were boycotts because the Minnesota Vikings have male cheerleaders.
https://www.newsweek.com/minnesota-vikings-male-cheerleaders-backlash-maga-conservatives-2113363
2025-08-27 DeSantis ordered Florida communities to remove rainbow street art and threatened to withhold state transportation funding for noncompliance.
2025 October
2025-10-28 Now Texas judges who refuse to perform gay marriages will not face charges of judicial partiality.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/29/texas-judges-gay-marriages-rule-supreme-court/
2026 February
2026-02-11 The White House removed a rainbow Pride Flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City.
https://apnews.com/article/stonewall-monument-rainbow-flag-removed-e58b12c1c9482e4b2cf02fef55e0f775
2026-02-27 Pete Hegseth laid out a contingency plan that the US armed forces would continue to support Scouting America only if they complied with Executive Order 14173 and end DEI including the welcoming of trans kids, offering the Citizenship in Society merit badge, among other things. Hegseth wrote in X, “Boy scouts should to back to being the Boy Scouts and originally founded, a group that develops boys into men”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/scouting-america-transgender-ban-pentagon
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/02/27/hegseth-scouting-america/