The level of hate directed at the LGBTQ community in the U.S. has reached a point where it poses a security threat to Canadians, says a former senior-ranking Canadian intelligence official.
People gather for a candlelight vigil at Denver's state capitol on Wednesday after a recent mass shooting at LGBTQ nightclub Club Q, in Colorado, left five dead and 25 others wounded.
"One of the kids asked me if the windows were bulletproof," Compton said. He has since installed security cameras, a digital key is needed to get into the centre and staff now carry panic buttons. The most prominent figures in the anti-LGBTQ movement were unmoved after the shooting, which left five people dead.
"Those messages from the United States, their volume, the fact that they're being amplified by hostile actors … [it] has the potential of affecting those communities here in Canada," said Artur Wilczynski, who until recently was the associate deputy chief of signals intelligence at the Communications Security Establishment, Canada's cryptologic agency.
These bills typically include proposals to bar trans students from playing on sports teams of their gender or to block them from receiving gender-affirming care.‘I needed to save my family’: Veteran who helped subdue Colorado shooterAn army veteran who helped subdue the shooter at a Colorado gay club on Saturday night is telling his story — including the quick thinking that pushed him to act as shots rang out. Five people died in the attack.
Among the most common is the misguided belief that children are being "groomed" at public schools and libraries to adopt different genders, rehashing an old trope that had once been directed at the gay and lesbian community.These concerns are often bundled up with complaints about pedagogical efforts to address systemic anti-Black racism.
Earlier this year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law the so-called 'Don't Say Gay' bill, which forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through Grade 3.
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