evidence: I’m paraphrasing here, but Carpenter basically said that our wins, including in the military, for more equal rights, and for marriage could all be aberrations, temporary, and taken away before our very eyes. Sinister forces, like those behind Project 2025, want nothing more than to take away our rights and make our sexual orientations, and our identities, illegal. As we explained in a story late last month, Project 2025, drafted by the far-right, seeks to make the U.S. an authoritarian nation. The plan replaces tens of thousands of federal workers with those who have allegiance to Donald Trump. It also does away with access to contraception, a possible national abortion ban, cuts federal health care programs, and quite obviously includes a plethora of anti-LGBTQ+ initiatives. Just as Carpenter predicted, Project 2025 is also coming after LGBTQ+ service members, as well as marriage equality, queer parents, and LGBTQ+ books — among many other exclusionary and harmful initiatives.