This Gay Week: Anti-LGBTQ Violence Rises as Trump Officials Joke About Our Lives
Anti-LGBTQ violence is rising in America—and while LGBTQ people are being attacked and killed, members of the Trump administration are making jokes. What is happening to LGBTQ safety in the United States, and how much are politics, religion and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric contributing to the climate we’re living in?
On this edition of This Gay Week, Karel and Scott Douglas Jacobsen examine disturbing stories affecting LGBTQ people in the United States and around the world.
Two gay men were shot and killed outside an Arizona bar. The accused gunman, reportedly raised in Gambia, allegedly had a list of potential targets in his pocket. What motivated the attack? Was religion involved? Politics? Something else entirely? And what do we actually know rather than merely suspect?
Meanwhile, another man was assaulted near Sacramento, adding to concerns about violence directed at LGBTQ people.
Karel and Scott look beyond individual headlines to the larger picture: hate crimes, anti-LGBTQ violence, political rhetoric, religious extremism and the growing divisions within the LGBTQ community itself.
What role has Donald Trump and his administration’s anti-LGBTQ agenda played in America’s political climate? How does religious rhetoric become justification for discrimination and hostility? And at a moment when LGBTQ rights face renewed challenges around the world, why is the community increasingly fighting among itself?
These aren’t abstract political debates. Real people are living with the consequences.
Join Karel and Scott for news, analysis and outspoken conversation about the stories shaping LGBTQ life this week.
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Karel is a history-making broadcaster, entertainer and commentator based in Las Vegas, joined by his little service dog, Ember.
