2022 Quietly Set the Stage for a Massive Rollback of LGBTQ Rights

Anyone with even a passing interest in LGBTQ equality likely is familiar with the explicit legislative and judicial attacks on the community’s rights in 2022. After all, we saw widespread media coverage of the 36 states that introduced over 300 anti-LGBTQ laws or policies this year. Likely less obvious to both casual observers as well as those who closely follow LGBTQ civil rights issues are several non-LGBTQ cases handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022.

Scaffolding these legal setbacks is the equally troubling rise of anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in the public...