Anti-gay Vlence: Cs, Consequenc, and Rpons (From Bias Crime: The Law Enforcement Rponse, P 113-125, 1991, Nancy Taylor, ed. -- See NCJ-136058) | Office of Jtice Programs

Contents:

• LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS
• ANTI-GAY VLENCE: CS, CONSEQUENC, AND RPONS (FROM BIAS CRIME: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT RPONSE, P 113-125, 1991, NANCY TAYLOR, ED. -- SEE NCJ-136058)
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

LGBTQ REFUGE FLEEG UKRAE FACE DISCRIMATN UNTRI WH ANTI-GAY LAWS

And also clus the kd of policy nversatns we're hearg om lawmakers, cludg the anti-transgenr bills that have been happeng state legislatur and bills like the Don't Say Gay law Florida. Panda Dulce was jt about to beg her Drag Queen Story Hour on Saturday San Lorenzo, Calif., when a group of eight to 10 men marched to the library yellg homophobic and transphobic slurs. “That is what sr me the most—what happened [] San Lorenzo is merely the most recent lk of premedated homophobic and transphobic vlence, ” she said.

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men are at overall creased risk of vlence bee of homophobia, harassment, and vlent acts directed towards gay persons. A study of youth gras 7-12 found that lbian, gay, and bisexual youth were more than twice as likely to have attempted suici as their heterosexual peers.

The Trevor Project – A natnal anizatn foced on crisis and suici preventn among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng (LGBTQ) youth. 72 MB] has shown that around 40% of gay men experienced sexual vlence (other than rape) their lifetime and around 47% of bisexual men experienced sexual vlence (other than rape) their lifetime. Acrdg to data om the Youth Risk Behavr Survey (YRBS) nducted durg 2001-2009 seven stat and six large urban school districts, 14% to 31% of gay and lbian stunts across the s and 17% of 32% of bisexual stunts across the s had been forced to have sexual terurse at some pot their liv.

ANTI-GAY VLENCE: CS, CONSEQUENC, AND RPONS (FROM BIAS CRIME: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT RPONSE, P 113-125, 1991, NANCY TAYLOR, ED. -- SEE NCJ-136058)

Rints who would now intify as “queer” have existed Louisiana sce before s foundg, but the polil movement for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) rights emerged slowly throughout the late twentieth century, as pared to other Amerin stat wh sizable queer populatns. Natnal movements such as Gay Liberatn experienced early rejectn to the 1960s, but a grassroots polil awakeng did occur 1977, when anti-homosexual spokperson and sger Ana Bryant vised New Orleans and spired a massive gay prott.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

The 1980 foundg of the Louisiana Lbian and Gay Polil Actn Cc, popularly known as LAGPAC, gave the state s first staable gay polil group. Prr to World War II, “homosexualy, ” as flourished wh the state’s cultural herage, lacked a fg amework or even an agreed-upon language.

It wasn’t until World War II, when draft boards intified homosexualy as a disqualifyg “4-F” characteristic, that the medil term “homosexual” entered mon age. Likewise, Louisianans rejected the words “gay” and “lbian” to the 1970s, as their e of eher was nsired an act of advocy for then-crimal behavr. As secrecy erned same-sex behavr for several centuri, Louisiana’s earlit gay history mostly exists the form of crimal rerds for flagrant offens.

Heterosexual cizens who attacked or robbed sex “viat” (a mon midcentury term ed by police and public officials to scribe homosexuals) were rarely charged or nvicted, as such victims were nsired to be outsi the law’s protectn. Lol harassment ordanc to “drive out the viat” expand amid the anti-munist hysteria followg World War II, unterg a postwar populatn boom that occurred when a generatn of gay men who’d served foreign nflicts moved to ci like New Orleans.