Srabh Kirpal, a senr advote, may bee India's first openly gay judge. The Supreme Court Collegium has fally remend his appotment as a judge of the Delhi High Court after four ferments.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- UGANDA MAK A CRIME TO INTIFY AS LGBTQ: WHAT IS THIS BILL; WHAT’S THE STAT OF GAY RIGHTS ELSEWHERE
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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An array of new laws has been adopted, cludg laws banng discrimatn, penalizg homophobic and transphobic hate crim, grantg regnn of same-sex relatnships, and makg easier for transgenr dividuals to obta official documents that reflect their preferred genr. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group Germany.Gerber’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom,” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Landmark.The Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, 1938.The gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few tim.For example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels.
And durg World War II, the Nazis held homosexual men ncentratn mps, brandg them wh the famo pk triangle badge, which was also given to sexual predators.Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively heterosexual.The Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. The Los Angel anizatn ed the term “homophile,” which was nsired ls clil and foced on sexual activy than “homosexual.”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked jury.At the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.
UGANDA MAK A CRIME TO INTIFY AS LGBTQ: WHAT IS THIS BILL; WHAT’S THE STAT OF GAY RIGHTS ELSEWHERE
Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver .The Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review.