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Senior Georgia Governor Aide Also Lobbies for State Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies

September 10, 2024

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s field director, Brad Hughes, sat in on lobbying meetings between the governor, his policy staff and two political groups that Hughes is affiliated with, emails from a public records request show. Frontline Policy Action, the lobbying arm of an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group that Hughes helps lead, endorsed and funded efforts to reelect Kemp in 2022, finance records show. Hatewatch previously reported that in 2024, the group also gave $350,000 to Kemp’s Georgians First Leadership Committee.

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Hate Group’s Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Reflects Anti-LGBTQ+ Conspiracy Theories

August 29, 2024
Hatewatch Staff

Between July 30 and Aug. 10, Jaimee Michell, the founder and current president of the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Gays Against Groomers, posted a series of comments on X, formerly Twitter, equating Islam with pedophilia, characterizing Muslim faith as “a cancer on this world” and sharing content from an account that claims Europe is being invaded by immigrants and Muslims.

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Debunking ADF’s ‘Debanking’ Conspiracy Theory

August 15, 2024

Anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is engaged in an ongoing crusade to force private businesses to adhere to conservative Christian theology, in part by spreading the false narrative that private sector banks have been dropping conservative religious clients since the Obama administration. The conspiratorial claim, which ADF calls “debanking,” has arisen out of an ongoing effort from ADF to ban or disrupt private sector investments in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and environmental sustainability.

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Pride Month: Public Libraries in the Crosshairs

June 18, 2024
Maya Henson Carey

Carley Stewart, former children’s librarian at Oconee County Library in Georgia, chose a book about entertainer RuPaul from the Little People, Big Dreams children’s book series to celebrate Pride month last year. Stewart said she chose the book because “it focused on celebrating your differences, how everyone's unique, and has something that makes them different. It told kids that you don’t have to sort of conform to this one specific idea.”

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ADF’s Favored Judges Vow To Boycott Columbia Students

May 29, 2024

Thirteen federal judges sent a letter on May 6 to Columbia University president Minouche Shafik boycotting law clerks from the school and calling on the university to identify student protesters who participate in “campus disruptions” so “future employers can avoid hiring them.”

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