As Edgars Rkēvičs be the first openly gay print Latvia’s history, here’s a glimpse at other openly gay heads of state om around the world.
Contents:
- POLICI ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR & QUEER (LGBTQ) ISSU
- GAY RIGHTS
- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
- ANTI-GAY CURRICULUM LAWS
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
- SERBIA: FOR GAYS, A GHETTO MORN EUROPE
- BOY SUTS: WE'RE KEEPG POLICY BANNG GAYS
- STATE ANTIGAY ADOPTN POLICI NEED TO GO
- HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
POLICI ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR & QUEER (LGBTQ) ISSU
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * gay policies *
” As prevly highlighted by the Whe Hoe, Departments and Agenci are already makg progrs areas towards the goals outled the Printial Memorandum, cludg: strengthen existg efforts to bat the crimalizatn by foreign ernments of LGBTQ+ people and expand efforts to bat discrimatn, homophobia, transphobia, and tolerance on the basis of LGBTQ+ stat or nduct; protect vulnerable LGBTQ+ refuge and asylum seekers; help ensure the Feral Government has a swift and meangful rponse to ser cints that threaten the human rights of LGBTQ+ persons abroad; and build alns wh like-md natns to unter discrimatn agast LGBTQ+ people around the world. Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. ”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 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.
”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue.
GAY RIGHTS
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They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.
Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999) 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
People around the world face vlence and equaly—and sometim torture, even executn—bee of who they love, how they look, or who they are. Sexual orientatn and genr inty are tegral aspects of our selv and should never lead to discrimatn or abe. Human Rights Watch works for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr peopl' rights, and wh activists reprentg a multiplicy of inti and issu. We document and expose ab based on sexual orientatn and genr inty worldwi, cludg torture, killg and executns, arrts unr unjt laws, unequal treatment, censorship, medil ab, discrimatn health and jobs and hog, domtic vlence, ab agast children, and nial of fay rights and regnn. We advote for laws and polici that will protect everyone’s digny. We work for a world where all people n enjoy their rights fully. * gay policies *
”Xavier Bettel Prime Mister of Luxembourg (2013-prent)Luxembourg Prime Mister Xavier Bettel at a news nference Belgra, Serbia, on July Vojovic / APBettel was first elected prime mister of Luxembourg 2013, and 2018 he beme the first openly gay prime mister the world to be re-elected for a send marriage beme legal Luxembourg 2015, and the same year Bettel beme the first servg European Unn lear to marry a same-sex partner, the BBC recently cricized a Hungarian law that bans school tnal materials and TV shows for people unr 18 that are emed to promote LGBTQ ntent, Rters reported.
2% OF AMERICANS IDENTIFY AS LGBTQ:Gen Z is drivg force among adults intifyg as LGBTQ, poll showsTRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY:See terview wh MAP's Logan Casey here Here are the eight ways that MAP says LGBTQ people are beg targeted:Censorg discsns of LGBTQ people schoolsThe origal “don’t say gay/trans bills” surfaced the 1980s, MAP says, but stat began to repeal those laws the mid-2000s – until last year.
LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
McLennan County Jtice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsu after a state agency warned her about refg to marry gay upl. She hop a recent U.S. Supreme Court se about relig eedom helps her e. * gay policies *
As Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — go to effect Friday, some of the state’s public school districts have begun rollg out new polici to lim LGBTQ issu and inti om beg discsed the Tuday night, the Leon County School Board unanimoly approved s “LGBTQ Inclive School Gui, ” which clus a provisn to alert parents if a stunt who is “open about their genr inty” is their child’s physil tn class or wh them on an overnight school trip. They have also ntend that will not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse gay nightclub crics and legal experts have said the broad language of the law uld open school districts and teachers to lawsus om parents who believe any nversatn about LGBTQ people or issu is “not age appropriate.
Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Imag fileFive other stat — all of them the South — have enacted laws that lim stctn or discsns about LGBTQ people or issu school, and at least 32 others have proposed such measur this year, acrdg to acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ thk tank that has been trackg the strsed that the polici will have nsequenc for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer stunts, potg to the disproportnately high rat of suici attempts among the untry’s LGBTQ youths. In particular, this Part reviews and rejects four terts that state legislatur have historilly voked to jtify anti-gay curriculum laws: (1) promotg moral disapproval of homosexual nduct, (2) promotg children’s heterosexual velopment, (3) preventg sexually transmted fectns, and (4) regnizg that stat have broad thory to prcribe the curriculum of public schools. Named after Aled Ksey’s timate that ten percent of the populatn is “exclively homosexual, ” the program was nceived as “an -school unselg program providg emotnal support, rmatn, rourc, and referrals to young people who intified themselv as lbian, gay or bisexual” and an attempt “to heighten the school muny’s acceptance of and sensivy to gay, lbian, and bisexual issu.
This anomaly often prompts two skeptil but stctive qutns about the enforcement of anti-gay curriculum laws: (1) whether officials still have the legal thory to enforce the laws, even though they often refer to sodomy and marriage laws that have already been clared unnstutnal; and (2) whether officials still have the polil will to enforce the laws, even after the legalizatn of same-sex timacy and same-sex marriag. — To beg this analysis, this sectn surveys the available evince om the twenty stat that currently have anti-gay curriculum laws to terme whether: (1) the state’s tn regulatns clu anti-gay language; (2) the state’s curriculum guil clu anti-gay language; and (3) the state’s curriculum guil exclu or mean LGBT inti by failg to clu any nonrogatory referenc to sexual orientatn, genr inty, or same-sex relatnships. Lol NewsMIAMI – The diplomatic ti between the Uned Stat and Jamai uld soon be jeopardy.There are reports that Jamai is refg to accred the spoe of a gay Amerin diplomat.“Our culture is not really acceptg of ,” said Renae Stevens, who was visg the Jamain nsulate Miami Wednday.Attorney Wayne Goldg is an advisor to Jamai’s ernment.“The whole ia of legislatn to legalize same-sex marriag, I thk they still have a long way to go,” he said.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay. * gay policies *
Republins stat across Ameri are targetg LGBTQ rights through a wave of “tnal gag orrs”, a ee speech group has warned, as nservativ battle to censor discsn of race and sexual inti than 100 bills censorg teachers have been troduced state legislatur this year, acrdg to a report by PEN Ameri – a non-prof which works to protect eedom of exprsn the US – what the anizatn says is a “natnal asslt on our tn system” warng as nservativ have lnched efforts to ban books pertag to race and LGBTQ+ issu om classrooms var stat, while some legislatur are phg to troduce laws which would ban teachers om discsg homosexualy. Republin supporters say the new laws rtrict genr-affirmg re for kids and adults, require people to e bathrooms that align wh their sex assigned at birth, ban kids om attendg “adult live performanc, " block the e of preferred pronouns and expand Florida's Parents Right law, rid by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" advot, however, lled the bill-signgs a "slate of hate.
So Serbian LGBTs say they are not optimistic about the lite procs of diplomacy, and particularly the US State Department's 'posive' approach to enuragg an embrace of gay rights whout any clear nsequence when a untry fails to improve s members of Serbia's gay muny, like a 23-year-old man om Vojvoda who spoke wh GlobalPost, are sperate for man, who asked that we intify him only by his ials, I. Serbian gay anizatns pot the fger at policians and clerics of the Serbian Orthodox Church as the top of the Serbian homophobic Gay and Lbian Info Center (GLIC) blam Mister Dacic along wh Belgra Mayor Dragan Djilas and Jagoda Mayor Dragan Markovic Palma for open animosy toward Serbia’s domtic LGBT ncelg the para rather than protectg , the group believ, Dacic sent a msage that the gay muny uld not tst the police to shield om vlence.
AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
The German ernment has pledged to do more to uphold the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex (LGBTI) people abroad. The mment is clud s multifaceted strategy for foreign policy and velopment operatn, adopted on March 3, 2021. * gay policies *
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.
That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any kd.The early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr 1952.The followg year, Print Dwight D.
ANTI-GAY CURRICULUM LAWS
Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is one of many aimg ‘to lock LGBTQ+ topics on the wrong si of the schoolhoe gate’ * gay policies *
In fact, gay men and women New York Cy uld not be served alhol public due to liquor laws that nsired the gatherg of homosexuals to be “disorrly.”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om socializg.In 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor laws.The Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall Rts.The clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels youths.But the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn. After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village." This sign was wrten by the Mattache Society–an early anizatn dited to fightg for gay rights.In reportg the events, The New York Daily News rorted to homophobic slurs s tailed verage, nng the headle: “Homo Nt Raid, Queen Be Are Stgg Mad.” The amed newspaper article hangs near the entrance of Stonewall Inn to this day.An unintified group of young people celebrate outsi the board-up Stonewall Inn after the rts.
1 / 12: NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagChristopher Street Liberatn Day Shortly after the Stonewall uprisg, members of the Mattache Society spl off to form the Gay Liberatn Front, a radil group that lnched public monstratns, protts and nontatns wh polil officials.Siar groups followed, cludg the Gay Activists Alliance, Radilbians, and Street Transvt Actn Revolutnari (STAR).In 1970, at the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, New York Cy muny members marched through lol streets memoratn of the event. In 1977, for stance, the New York Supreme Court led that transgenr woman Renée Richards uld play at the Uned Stat Open tennis tournament as a woman.Addnally, several openly LGBTQ dividuals secured public office posns: Kathy Kozachenko won a seat to the Ann Harbor, Michigan, Cy Council 1974, beg the first out Amerin to be elected to public office.Harvey Milk, who mpaigned on a pro-gay rights platform, beme the San Francis cy supervisor 1978, beg the first openly gay man elected to a polil office California.Milk asked Gilbert Baker, an artist and gay rights activist, to create an emblem that reprents the movement and would be seen as a symbol of pri. But after failg to garner enough support for such an open policy, Print Clton 1993 passed the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) policy, which allowed gay men and women to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexualy a secret.Gay rights advot cried the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, as did ltle to stop people om beg discharged on the grounds of their sexualy.In 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12,000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was officially repealed on September 20, 2011.Gay Marriage and Beyond In 1992, the District of Columbia passed a law that allowed gay and lbian upl to register as domtic partners, grantg them some of the rights of marriage (the cy of San Francis passed a siar ordance three years prr and California would later extend those rights to the entire state 1999).In 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on gay marriage may go agast the state’s nstutn.
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
Supporters and crics of the "Don't Say Gay" bill differ on whether would prevent the "stctn" or "discsn" of sexual orientatn or genr inty * gay policies *
The murr was thought to be driven by Shepard’s perceived homosexualy.In 2011, Print Obama fulfilled a mpaign promise to repeal DADT; by that time, more than 12,000 officers had been discharged om the ary unr DADT for refg to hi their sexualy.A uple of years later, the Supreme Court led agast Sectn 3 of DOMA, which allowed the ernment to ny feral benefs to married same-sex upl. When a vlatn of the standards occurs near graduatn, disciplary actns by the semary may clu layg or nyg nferrg of a gree and participatn a graduatn ethil standards are articulated, but not limed to, the followg statements: Sexual misnduct — cludg any form of extramaral sexual terurse, appropriate displays of affectn or attentn, lewd and cent language or nduct, and homosexual behavr. 2016-2017 - Amic Catalog stat that: "Therefore, KMBC retas the right to refe enrollment to or to spend any stunt who engag sexual immoraly, cludg any stunt who profs to be homosexual/bisexual or who is a practicg homosexual/bisexual, as well as any stunt who ndon, supports, or otherwise promot such practic (Levic 18:22; Romans 1:24-32; 1 Corthians 6:9-20; 1 Timothy 1:9-11).
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
Sex is a wonrful, God‐given gift explicly tend for the maral relatnship between a blogil male and female (1 Corthians 7:2-5) and genr follows blogy, ” that “Sexual immoraly, cludg fornitn, adultery, and homosexual behavr, is prohibed Scripture (Romans 1:26‐28; 1 Thsalonians 4:3-8; Matthew 5:28) bee our bodi are “a temple of the Holy Spir” (1 Corthians 6:13‐20), ” and that “PBA expects that their stunts, faculty, and staff will neher engage nor promote views of sexualy or genr exprsn that ntradicts biblil standards (Romans 1:21‐27; 1 Corthians 6:9‐10; Genis 2:24; Ephians 5:31). Usg the biblil guil of heterosexual marriage and sexualy (cludg the honorg of physil, emotnal and spirual timacy as a reflectn of God's venant of love for ) as a reference pot, appropriate sexual nduct (cludg, but not limed to; terurse, oral sex, transgenr behavr, homosexual exprsns of physil timacy, genal ntact and undrsg) is subject to disciple, which is admistered a rg and remptive manner.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
"We avoid the followg view of scriptural valu and prcipl ncerng livg liv of worship unto God, which clus all breaks and holidays and whether the stunt or employee is on or off mp: Any Scripturally prohibed sexual behavr cludg: adultery, fornitn, any physil ntact producg sexual stimulatn, homosexualy, lbianism, transgenrism, or romanticized same-sex relatnships, visg sexually oriented bs, sextg through email, text, cellphone, digal apps or any other form of munitn (see page 57). "SAGU do not support any Scripturally prohibed sexual behavr as scribed Exod 20:14; Proverbs 6:32; Matthew 5:27- 28; Matthew 15:19; Mark 7:21-23; Romans 13:9; I Timothy 1:8-11; and I Corthians 6:13, 6:18 cludg: adultery, fornitn (which by scriptural fn enpass terurse and oral sex), any physil ntact producg sexual stimulatn, homosexualy, lbianism, transgenrism, visg sexually oriented bs, sextg, (i.
The College do not ndone volvement or promotn of sexually immoral behavr such as premaral sex, habatn, adultery, homosexual behavr, transgenr exprsn as monstrated through a personal liftyle, and the e or display of pornographic, obscene, or suggtive materials of any kd (cludg materials found on the Inter), as we believe those behavrs are ntrast to our inty as children of God. 2021-2022 - Stunt Handbook stat that: "In mment to the hight Christian moral and ethil standards, TMU stunts agree to absta om the followg while enrolled at the universy, cludg all breaks and between semters whether on or off mp: Sexual misnduct – sexual behavr that is nflict wh Biblil standards cludg pre-maral sex, extra-maral sex, homosexual behavr, viewg pornography, provotive dancg and any other form of appropriate behavr.
"Based on the Universy’s relig beliefs and foundatns, sexual misnduct clus, but is not limed to, the promotn, advocy, practice, or acts of sexual abe; sexual asslt (see stunt re sectn of this handbook for more rmatn); sexual harassment; ct; adultery; rape; fornitn; the posssn of pornographic material; sex outsi of a heterosexual marriage; promotn, advocy or on-gog practice of a gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr liftyle; intifyg onelf as a genr other than the genr assigned by God at birth; same-sex datg behavrs; or public advocy of sex outsi of marriage.