The inti the LGBTQIA acronym—lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual—are relatively recent ventns. This might at first suggt that people reprentg each of those tegori did not exist before the velopment of the terms themselv. But there have always been people Mnota, as the rt of the world, who have lived outsi perceived norms of genr and sexualy; the words ed to name them have jt changed over time.
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A SHORT HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS THE U.S. AND MNOTA
* gay rights history minnesota *
The inti the LGBTQIA acronym — lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual — are relatively recent ventns. Though they overlap some ways wh European Amerin terms like gay and transgenr, they are not equivalents of those words, and they exist on their own terms.
The morn ncepts of genr inty and sexual orientatn did not yet exist, so the genr of your romantic partners did not mark you as a “type” of person (straight or gay or bisexual). It happened as sexology filtered down to laypeople, who began g the words “homosexual, ” “heterosexual, ” and “lbian.
Gay liberatn and HIV/AIDS, 1969–1994. Historians of sexualy cred multiple events — among them the rt at Compton’s Cafeteria San Francis (1966), protts at the Black Cat Tavern Los Angel (1967), and uprisgs at New York Cy’s Stonewall Inn (1969) — wh herg an era of gay liberatn the Uned Stat. Many of them embraced the word “gay” and rejected the more clil-soundg “homosexual” as a relic of the past.