By Chad Meyerhoefer, Bingjin Xue, Anna Poznańska & Nic Johnson Anti-LGBTQ bills are being introduced in extraordinary quantities in the United States and abroad.
According to the ACLU, as of Aug. 5 more than 525 bills seeking to curtail LGBTQ rights are currently under deliberation in 40+ states.
While some of these proposed policies are largely symbolic and may seem to lack substantive day-to-day implications, each one poses the threat of real harm to LGBTQ individuals.
Our data-driven assertion is based on the analysis of anti-LGBTQ legislation that took hold in Poland after the political rise of the far-right Law and Justice (PiS) party in the late 2010s.