{"id":2401938,"date":"2025-02-12T15:36:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/worcester-lgbt-activists-declare-a-sanctuary-city\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T20:36:41","slug":"worcester-lgbt-activists-declare-a-sanctuary-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/worcester-lgbt-activists-declare-a-sanctuary-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcester LGBT activists declare a sanctuary city"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworcester-lgbt-activists-declare-a-sanctuary-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2401938&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At a recent Worcester City Council\u2063 meeting,\u200b which was attended by around 200 LGBT activists, teh council voted 9-2 to declare Worcester a sanctuary city for\u2062 transgender and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-ripped-for-vaccine-guidance-for-pregnant-people-report\/\" title=\"CDC criticized for vaccine guidance for pregnant individuals: Report\">gender-diverse \u200bindividuals<\/a>. This decision comes \u2064atop\u200c Massachusetts&#8217; existing \u200dstatus as an LGBT sanctuary state. Activists expressed \u200curgent pleas\u200d for protection, highlighting \u200dfears \u200cthat federal policies under the Trump administration could jeopardize their rights. One \u2064activist pointedly questioned \u2063how many\u2062 lives must be\u2062 lost for action to be taken, while others warned against the consequences of not \u200bhonoring sanctuary status. The meeting lasted five hours and was marked by passionate arguments about the\u200c rights and safety of \u2063the LGBT community, with many invoking the potential dangers of political inaction \u200dand ancient comparisons to fascism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Worcester LGBT activists declare a sanctuary city in an already sanctuary state<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1990090\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Worcester City Council meeting in <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/massachusetts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Massachusetts<\/a> was standing room only due to a flood of <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lgbt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">LGBT<\/a> activists urging members to make the city a sanctuary for the group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Massachusetts has been an LGBT sanctuary state since 2023 and is among 11 other states with the status. Then there are the cases of sanctuary cities that precede their own sanctuary state status, like Kansas City and Columbia, Missouri. These cities are setting the respective precedents that West Hollywood, California, and New York City did in becoming sanctuaries before their states did.<\/p>\n<p>The Worcester City Council voted 9-2 Tuesday to add a sanctuary status over its already protected LGBT community. Roughly 200 self-proclaimed members of the LGBT community descended on the meeting, which dragged on for five hours, in support of the cause.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I need this city to protect me because the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-to-route-gec-funding-to-hub-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... Department to route GEC funding to &#039;hub&#039; - Washington Examiner\">federal government won&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t,&rdquo; one self<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">-proclaimed drag queen told<\/a> the council. &ldquo;If you say that you&rsquo;re afraid of Trump and that&rsquo;s why you don&rsquo;t want the city to be a safe space for trans people, you better be prepared for trans people to make this a very unsafe space.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last night, Worcester, Massachusetts voted to become a &ldquo;Sanctuary City for Transgender and Gender Diverse People&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The City Council Meeting before the vote was&hellip; Interesting: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ouun3BerqB\">pic.twitter.com\/Ouun3BerqB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ALX &#127482;&#127480; (@alx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alx\/status\/1889673202562957400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Can you look at me and tell me how many of my friends have to die before you do anything?&rdquo; another activist asked the council. &ldquo;Look at me! F***ing pathetic!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Others suggested that gay marriage, which has been legal in the state for over 20 years, could have their marriage rights stripped away. Many likened opposing the sanctuary status to fascism and Nazism.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The turnout was likely prompted by President Donald Trump&rsquo;s executive order that outlined that the United States &ldquo;will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called &lsquo;transition&rsquo; of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Worcester elected its first nonbinary council member, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3292764\/the-lefts-toxic-safetyism-trap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Thu Nguyen\">Thu Nguyen<\/a>, in 2022. Nguyen has been on a self-imposed hiatus from the council, citing transphobia. As a result, Nguyen has missed half of the meetings for the traffic and parking subcommittee and has not held a meeting for the public service and transportation subcommittee, for which Nguyen is chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1990090\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1990090\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worcester LGBT activists push for sanctuary city status<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2401939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/iStock-177351937-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5520,37398,50278],"class_list":["post-2401938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-lgbt","tag-sanctuary-city","tag-worcester"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/iStock-177351937-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2401938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2401942,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401938\/revisions\/2401942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2401938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2401938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2401938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}