According to an administration official familiar with the matter, the alert is connected to the recent announcement from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security that foreign terrorist organizations might seek to exploit “LGBTQIA±related events and venues,” including events during 2024 Pride month, which begins in June.
Makes sense “Be alert in June, jackasses are targeting the rainbow flags”
And how about inside the United States?
The FBI has already issued cautions for domestic events. The state department only warns about issues abroad. This is in response to chatter, not a statement about how much safer the US is for LGBTQ people.
Where’s the warning against red states and especially the south?
You are in FAR more danger inside the USA than almost anywhere else. Projection to idiots.
You are in FAR more danger inside the USA than almost anywhere else. Projection to idiots.
Fucking what
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Even if it is referring to right-wing assholes, the US is one of the safer places in the world for LGBT folk. That’s not high praise of the US so much as damnation for most of the rest of the world, but either way, one is definitely not in “FAR more danger” inside the USA than “almost anywhere else”.
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Depends where you are in the United States… as well as your race and gender. Trans Day of Remembrance is a thing for a reason.
Just a couple posts down from this one in my feed: trans teen killed by her friend
Trans Day of Remembrance is a thing for a reason.
Because the US at least has to appear to care about its problems, to some degree, not because the US is some exceptional murder-locale for trans folk.
Trans Day of Remembrance wasn’t invented by the US, it was invented by Black trans women. Black trans women in particular are murdered at alarming rates. Please stop talking about this, you clearly have never been involved with trans activism or know anything about TDoR if this is what you believe.
Trans Day of Remembrance wasn’t invented by the US, it was invented by Black trans women.
American Black trans women, in the US, where it was celebrated almost exclusively for a decade. Because society here in the US has to at least pretend to care about trans problems, unlike, say, Russia, or China.
Transgender Day of Remembrance was founded in 1999 by a small group, including Gwendolyn Ann Smith,[4] Nancy Nangeroni, and Jahaira DeAlto,[5] to memorialize the murders of Black transgender women Rita Hester in Allston, Massachusetts,[6] and Chanelle Pickett in Watertown, Massachusetts.[7][8] After Hester’s death in 1998, Smith was surprised to realize that none of her friends remembered Pickett or her murder three years prior, saying "It really surprised me that it had already, in a short period of time, been forgotten, and here we were with another murder at the same site.”[8][9] The first TDoR took place in November 1999 in Boston and San Francisco, as both Hester and Pickett’s deaths occurred in November.
But we all know that truth or the health of trans folk comes second to “US GREAT SATAN” in your worldview.
You’re too entrenched in the stink to even know.
The US ranks 129th in the GPI out of 163. That’s pretty awful. And when you actually live outside the US, you realize just how awful it is.
Just because most Americans are too brainwashed to notice it is not normal to be in perpetual fear, to have guns around you everywhere, to treat everyone like a threat, to have a constant surveillance of your property because of theft and vandalism, etc. These are not normal things in the world. These are American normals because the US is a shithole country.
I spend most of my time in a country where I don’t lock my front door. I leave my wallet, phone, laptop, etc just out and about and walk away for hours sometimes to have fun in a park, beach, or just walk around the city. Nobody touches it. My car keys are on my windshield, just like everybody else. Comes in handy when the fuel delivery and car detail service comes around. That is what can be. The US is nothing like it, and won’t ever be.
For anyone else who was unfamiliar, the GPI is the “Global Peace Index”, and it has literally nothing to do with this conversation - it’s just the first metric TechNerdWizard42 could pull out of their ass where the US is ranked low.
Peace and being at peace or “not in danger” don’t correlate at all to you? Must be an American when that stupidity.
USA is a shithole, enjoy. Don’t be shot
Peace.
Lord.
This warning is for LGBTQIA+ though. No way in fuck is it less safe in the US overall compared to a huge number of countries with that context.
Looks like a lot of “almost” there…
This map is out of date, Russia shouldn’t be green anymore
And this is just the legal status, as in, is it criminal to be in a homosexual relationship. Not do LGBT+ have rights, are there anti discrimination laws, are advocacy groups allowed. And certainly not how LGBT+ folks are treated in society.
Are you really saying it is safer to be queer in all of those African and Middle Eastern countries than it is in the U.S.? Really?
No. I’m pointing out that all the green countries aren’t equal. Like some allow gay marriage and some do not. Some allow legal discrimination against LGBT+ folks and some do not.
Mostly I was surprised to see Russia as green and had to look up why.
That map is out of date
