Gay rights movement | Defn & History | Branni

Contents:

• GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS
• THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
• THE ARE THE RADIL ROOTS OF BRISH GAY PRI

GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power.

In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.

SUNAK APOLOGIZ FOR HISTORIC TREATMENT OF UK GAY VETERANS

In the 1970s and ’80s, gay polil anizatns proliferated, particularly the Uned Stat and Europe, and spread to other parts of the globe, though their relative size, strength, and succs—and toleratn by thori—varied signifintly. Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.

This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat.

At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment. In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006). Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage).

THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN

Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary. Hodg), and 2020 the Court termed that firg an employee for beg homosexual or transgenr was a vlatn of Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964), which prohibs discrimatn on the basis of sex (Bostock v.

”Brown (left) wh Peter Tatchell (right) at the end of Pri March Hy Park, nascent gay liberatn movement was trsilly tertwed wh the civil rights movement for racial jtice, Brown says. ’” Brown was ially stunned at his mother receivg the news wh nothg but love and ncern, but she told him about hearg the speech of the gay civil rights activist Bayard Rt, scribg the civil rights movement as a aln that advoted the liberatn of gays and women, long afterwards, on 22 November 1965, Brown’s mother died. He led the Black sectn of Galop, the Gay London Police Monorg Group, set up June 1982 to addrs homophobic policg, but left after a fur nontatn wh a whe gay man the anisatn who ed a racial slur and told a joke about how whe girls only went out wh Black boys “to get their handbags back”.

Brown went to work for Lewisham Actn on Policg, set up followg the New Cross fire January also found Black Lbians and Gays Agast Media Homophobia, and 1990 began a year-long stggle agast Black Brish tabloid the Voice, to force an apology for s homophobic verage of the footballer Jt Fashanu.

THE ARE THE RADIL ROOTS OF BRISH GAY PRI

On 29 October 1991 the paper published a full-page “right to reply” – an article by Brown entled: “Fightg racism and homophobia – a uned battle” group also mpaigned to remove “murr mic” by dancehall artists such as Buju Banton om BBC rad and other d outlets. Dpe this vlent backlash, Brown is adamant that Black muni are no more homophobic than whe on, potg to the “Brixton fairi” group that squatted on the Railton and Mayall roads Brixton the 70s.

He vividly remembers as a 12-year-old readg an article headled: “How to spot a possible homo”, but today “people who are homophobic are no longer the posn of beg able to get away wh unchallenged, which was the suatn which existed right up until 1969. ” Now his anger is foced on the hostile media environment for trans people, scribg as intil to the gradg and cel treatment of gay people his a vigil prottg about the ath of cyclists London 2015.

” He not how Pri London has rejected ncerns about Metropolan police volvement the para, somethg he believ ignor the history of police btaly and entrapment the gay muny has faced, and which he joed Galop to addrs. But what have varied enormoly are the ways which var societi have regard homosexualy, the meangs they have attached to , and how those who were engaged homosexual activy viewed themselv. This article will exame the ways which homosexualy has been perceived Great Bra, that is the ways people have been fed on the basis of their sexual inty as well as the limatns such fns have placed on one’s inty.

The article will foc on the perceptn of homosexualy Great Bra om the 19th century up to the ntemporary perd, makg referenc to other parts of the world as well as other perds of time. The works of Jefey Weeks (Comg Out: Homosexual Polics Bra om the Neteenth Century to the Prent, 1977), Sebastian Buckle (The Way Out: A History of Homosexualy Morn Bra, 2015) and Annamarie Jagose (Queer Theory: An Introductn, 1996) are our ma pots of reference and the article draws heavily on a talk given by Jefey Weeks at the LGBT centre on 3rd April, 2019 Lyon (()).