Anti-LGBTQ hate is flourishing on Spanish-language radio and online spaces

Much like their English-language counterparts, right-wing voices in Spanish-language media are fixated on attacking the LGBTQ community, seizing any opportunity to spread hateful rhetoric against them.

Right-wing commentators on Spanish-language radio and in online spaces have demonized Pride events and gay representation and claimed that being transgender is a “mental illness” pushed by “perverted” Democrats. Also, like recent anti-LGBTQ attacks from English right-wing media, many Spanish-language attacks on the LGBTQ community have revolved around children, with some commentators suggesting that parents who support their LGBTQ children should be charged with “child abuse.” ...