# Anti-LGBT Movement The Anti-LGBT Movement encompasses organized political, legal, and cultural opposition to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights in the United States and internationally. Rooted in the [[Religious Right]] and amplified by institutions such as the [[Heritage Foundation]], Alliance Defending Freedom, and the Family Research Council, the movement has shifted its primary targets over the decades from sodomy laws and marriage equality to contemporary battles over transgender rights, school curricula, and drag performance bans. The movement became a defining front in the broader [[Culture War]] during the 2020s, with the [[Republican Party]] adopting increasingly aggressive anti-trans legislative agendas at the state level. Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law, state-level bathroom bills, bans on gender-affirming care for minors, and restrictions on transgender athletes became signature policy positions. These efforts drew support from both traditional social conservatives and newer right-wing populist factions who framed opposition to LGBT rights as resistance to elite cultural imposition. Anti-LGBT politics also serves as a coalition-building mechanism within the right, uniting evangelical voters, Catholic traditionalists, and secular cultural conservatives around shared opposition. Organizations within the movement have deployed sophisticated legal strategies, model legislation distributed through networks like ALEC, and media campaigns designed to reframe anti-discrimination protections as threats to religious liberty and parental rights.