LGBT Rights Louisiana, Uned Stat: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more.
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
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Current statSce Sep 20, 2011Legal Don't Ask, Don't Tell is officially repealed throughout the Uned Stat, and gays and lbians may openly donatns by MSMs Louisiana?
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN NMNS LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE'S REVIVAL OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights anizatn, nmns the Louisiana Hoe for passg HB… * gay rights 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.
MOVG TO GAY LOUISIANA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As Republin-drafted legislatn that prohibs school employe om teachg sexual orientatn or genr inty the classroom mounts, Louisiana lawmakers advanced their own “Don’t Say Gay” bill Tuday. * gay rights louisiana *
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.
NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS
Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights anizatn, nmns Louisiana legislators for advancg three discrimatory… * gay rights louisiana *
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.
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.
While known for gay bars, gay-owned bs and ftivals like Southern Dence and Mardi Gras, New Orleans LGBTQ anizatns clu active nonprofs and polil groups. * gay rights louisiana *
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.