This Pri Month, celebrate the famo people who have played a major role the Gay Rights Movement over the years.
Contents:
- THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
THE REVOLUTNARY WAR HERO WHO WAS OPENLY GAY
Although historians pot out ad nseam the so-lled appropriatens of applyg morn nstcts such as "gay, " "bisexual, " "homosexual, " or "queer" to an ancient kg like Alexanr, no ser historian doubts that history's penultimate warrr-monarch was attracted to men. Hodg wr that Alan Turg was the "founr of puter science, mathematician, philosopher, breaker, strange visnary and a gay man before his time.
By enablg Brish telligence to Enigma msag, Alan Turg also enabled the Alli to feat the Adolf Hler World War, the Brish ernment "thanked" Turg for his wartime efforts by arrtg him 1952 for the "crime" of homosexualy.
Soon after beg chemilly strated by orr of a Brish urt as punishment for beg gay, Turg died by suici, gtg cyani, addn to ventg morn putg, Turg also nceptualizied and created a scientific tt for nfirmg artificial telligence. The Universy of Illois at Sprgfield's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, Qutng, and Allied Rource Office offers a tratg, however technilly accurate, asssment of the sexual ambiguy of the legendary sculptor and pater of the ceilg at the Siste Chapel Rome.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Pietro Areto’s suggtns of perasty), there is no clear evince of Michelangelo’s homosexualy or, at least, none ditg overt sexual activy, " reads an entry at the universy's webse. Gtgs is creded wh leadg the succsful movement to change the psychiatric and psychologil profsns' view of homosexualy as a mental pathology.
Beg one of the natn's first openly gay elected officials, Milk was the standard-bearer of what durg his time was lled the gay liberatn movement. Before he was assassated 1978, along wh San Francis Mayor Gee Masne, Milk helped stave off a nservative backlash agast LGBT equaly the form of the so-lled Briggs Iniative, which would have barred gay people om teachg California's public was elected to the San Francis Board of Supervisors 1977. Sce Milk's victory, hundreds of LGBT ndidat have been elected across the were a few out gay and lbian ndidat elected before Milk, cludg Elae Noble to the Massachetts Hoe of Reprentativ and Kathy Kozachenko to the Ann Arbor, Mich., Cy Council, both 1974.