Movg To Gay Louisiana? Thg To Know Before Relotg Here As An LGBT Person.

Contents:

• LOUISIANA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS, ADVANC TO SENATE
• HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN NMNS LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE'S REVIVAL OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• MOVG TO GAY LOUISIANA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
• NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS

LOUISIANA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS, ADVANC TO SENATE

Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Louisiana? 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. Into the 1970s “gay polics” was often nsired a dangero phrase Louisiana society, where same-sex acts had been illegal sce 1805.

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN NMNS LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE'S REVIVAL OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

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. 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. Statewi efforts, however, would be largely stymied wh the exceptn of a hate-crim law protectg gays and lbians, which passed 1997.

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.

MOVG TO GAY LOUISIANA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.

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.

NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS

For example, 1958 a Mexin tour gui named Fernando Rs was lured om a Bourbon Street gay bar and then ambhed and beaten to ath.

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. The ordanc mandated the firg of “immoral workers, ” the arrt of patrons imbibg an immoral tablishment, the evictn of gay tenants, and the seizure of property.

For example, 1962, when the state’s first gay Mardi Gras anizatn, the Krewe of Yuga, held a clanste drag ball Metairie, Jefferson Parish police raid the ftivi and arrted 96 men for “disturbg the peace. Neher natnal homophile anizatns—part of an early homosexual-rights movement that emphasized sex g the Greek words homo and phile, meang “same love”— the 1950s and 1960s nor the Gay Liberatn movement, galvanized by the 1969 Stonewall Uprisg New York Cy, found eager recs among Louisiana’s gay aristocrats or s gay workg class, both of which feared exposure.

For example, a New Orleans ntgent of the Gay Liberatn Front (GLF), found 1970 by workg-class gays and lbians, picketed Cy Hall and negotiated a temporary halt to police stg operatns.