GOP lawmaker calls LGBTQ+ community “a disease” & says it’s contagious

State Rep. Josh Calloway, (R-Irvington)

A Kentucky state representative says the “LGBTQI+ community is a disease.”

That spurious claim showed up on the YouTube channel for Republican state Rep. Josh Calloway, in the description for a video podcast about the recent controversy surrounding Target’s Pride collection.

Calloway was widely condemned, then doubled down on the declaration even as he laid blame on a staffer.

“The fact is that LGBTQIA+ and gender ideology is spreading on social media as a social contagion and targeting confused children,” Calloway posted to Twitter. “I am amazed at the hypocrisy of people who promote genital mutilation, chemical castration, and the murder of unborn babies, yet ‘clutch their pearls’ when they read a description posted on YouTube by my video producer.”

Target has been under attack since early May when far-right activists began complaining about…

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