How Anti-LGBTQ+ Is Newly Elected House Speaker Mike Johnson? Very.
Johnson has voted against major LGBTQ+ rights bills, led an anti-transgender hearing, and called LGBTQ+ people a "deviant group."
October 25, 2023
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