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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Peter Montgomery

Peter Montgomery is Research Director at People For the American Way and oversees its Right Wing Watch project. His work focuses on threats to democracy and democratic values posed by the Often used interchangeably with Christian Right, but also can describe broader conservative religious coalitions that are not limited to Christians. Can include right-wing Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, and members of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Learn more and its political allies.

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Religion Dispatches

The Brutality of Life for Syrian LGBTs; Saving the Anglican Church by Dissolving It; Backlash to Hindu Gay Wedding Ceremony in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

Syria: ISIS not the only source of brutality against LGBTs Dan McDougall’s feature story in the Sunday Times of London Magazine examines the situation in Syria, “where gay people are being persecuted…
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Challenge to 'un-Africanness' of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

In the Guardian, Bisi Alimi writes, “If you say being gay is not African, you don’t know your history.” His story notes, “The idea that homosexuality is ‘western’ is based on another western import –…
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Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

We reported last week on the UN Security Council briefing convened by American and Chilean diplomats to discuss the anti-LGBT brutality of ISIS. In an Advocate commentary last week, Jean Freedberg of…
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