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Contents:

• POLICI ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR & QUEER (LGBTQ) ISSU
• GAY RIGHTS
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• BIN ADMISTRATN SPEAKS OUT ON FERAL BLOOD DONATN POLICY IMPACTG GAY MEN AMID NATNAL BLOOD SHORTAGE
• ‘ENDURE UNTIL YOU DIE’: LDS CHURCH’S LGBTQ POLICI PUT GAY YOUTH AT RISK, ADVOT SAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• MAJOR EVANGELIL ADOPTN AGENCY WILL NOW SERVE GAY PARENTS NATNWI
• PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

POLICI ON LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR & QUEER (LGBTQ) ISSU

” 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. Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’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 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. 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 Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group.

”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. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver 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.

GAY RIGHTS

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 early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D. ”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. 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.

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. 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. In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn published a report about five prevly healthy homosexual men beg fected wh a rare type of 1984, rearchers had intified the e of AIDS—the human immunoficiency vis, or HIV—and the Food and Dg Admistratn licensed the first mercial blood tt for HIV 1985.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

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. In 1994, a new anti-hate-crime law allowed judg to impose harsher sentenc if a crime was motivated by a victim’s sexual Matthew Shepard ActCourty of the Matthew Shepard FoundatnMatthew Shepard, who was btally killed a hate crime 2003, gay rights proponents had another b of happy news: the U.

Gay rights proponents mt also ntent wh an creasg number of “relig liberty” state laws, which allow bs to ny service to LGBTQ dividuals due to relig beliefs, as well as “bathroom laws” that prevent transgenr dividuals om g public bathrooms that don’t rrpond to their sex at birth. LGBTQ Fay Law and Policy the Uned StatEr Mayo-AdamDepartment of Polil Science, Hunter CollegeLims and Advanc LGBTQ Fay Regnn and AcceptanceThe legal landspe for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) fai vari tremendoly across the Uned Stat bee, wh few exceptns, the thory to ci what nstut a fay li predomantly wh the realm of state and lol law. When differenc do exist they are largely attributable to stabily, as when, for example, a fay’s full legal regnn is qutn (Gat, 2015), the amount of social science rearch that supports the health and well-beg of children lbian and gay fai is astoundg.

RISHI SUNAK APOLOGIS TO LGBT VETERANS FOR PAST ARMED FORC GAY BAN

For example, Farr (2016) ed a longudal study that“pared out for children, parents, upl, and the overall fay system among adoptive fai wh LG [lbian or gay] and heterosexual parents at two time pots: Wave 1 (W1), when children were prchool-age, and Wave 2 (W2), approximately five years later, when children were middle childhood” (Farr, 2016, p. Acrdg to the studi, LGBTQ fay formatn and inty is impacted by nflictg and paradoxil experienc wh stutns and state stance, Gash and Raisk (2018) analyze terviews nducted wh 31 lbian and gay adults and 6 children Oregon orr to unrstand how legal stat ambiguy impacts lbian and gay parenthood.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Anrson (2016) argu that how same-sex upl unrstood and intified wh marriage differed pendg on whether upl lived a loly where legal regnn afford more protectn agast discrimatn or lived a loly where marriag were granted for purely polil reasons (Anrson, 2016; see also Goldberg, Downg, & Moyer, 2012, who exame gay men’s different motivatns for pursug parenthood) studi exame how attempts to ga legal regnn for LGBTQ parents are embedd problematic state marriage and fay regim. (2003), “upled wh other factors, such as the overreprentatn of Black children the foster re system, the greater prevalence of Black LGBT parents dit that anti-gay parentg polici may threaten the Black muny as a whole by signifintly rcg the potential pool of foster and adoptive parents” (Cahill et al., 2003, p. And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party.

By Megan Fisher, Lren Moss and Josh ParryBBC News19 July 2023Image source, Emma RileyImage ptn, Rad operator Emma Riley was discharged om the Navy for beg a lbian the 1990sRishi Sunak has apologised for the historil treatment of LGBT veterans who were sacked or forced out of the ary for beg PM lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 - wh thoands of veterans thought to be affected. It heard shockg acunts of homophobia, bullyg, blackmail, sexual asslts, "disgraceful" medil examatns, and nversn mak 49 remendatns to the ernment cludg:Affected veterans to be given an "appropriate fancial reward" pped at £50m overallThe rtoratn of medals that had to be hand back on dismissal or dischargeThe clarifitn of pensn rights The prentatn of a special veterans' badgeThe ernment said would rpond full after summer of the veterans affected watched the PM's public of them, Emma Riley, 51, was a Royal Navy rad operator for three years before she was arrted and discharged for beg a lbian after tellg a lleague her sexualy the early told BBC News she weled the report, and hoped would be put to place "swiftly. ""Havg our history, experienc and enormo pa acknowledged and apologised for, hearg that the armed servic and ernment that perpetuated stutnal bullyg will now be held acuntable to fally support LBGT+ veterans, is a relief, " she Man, who was dismissed after tellg her boss she was gay 1978, kept her sexualy secret for another 30 years and said she had been "robbed" of her life.

"Olympian Dame Kelly Holm, who served the army and me out as gay last year, lled the publitn of the report a "historic moment", while Cathere Dixon, a former army officer who is now vice chair at Stonewall, said was "an important step towards jtice" for those whose ary reers were "ed" bee of their sexualy.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

Many still have a crimal rerd to this also tails how some veterans faced a plete loss of e, while others were emed eligible to claim their pensn bee of their report more than 20 years after four servicemen and women, who were sacked for beg gay, won a se the European Court of Human Rights and overturned the armed forc chary Royal Brish Legn lled on the ernment to accept the report's remendatns chary's director general Charl Byrne weled both the report and Mr Sunak's "landmark apology", sayg many people who had dited their liv to the untry were "forced or felt prsured to leave the armed forc, and this mistreatment stroyed or shortened their reer".

”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.

For the first time, the Bin admistratn is mentg on the Food and Dg Admistratn's long-time blood donatn guil, which are impactg the LGBTQ+ muny by preventg gay and bisexual men om beg eligible blood statement, ma by a Whe Hoe official exclively to ABC News, acknowledg the paful origs of the policy and on the heels of the Amerin Red Cross clarg their first-ever natnal blood crisis last week, as suppli at hospals and blood banks bee dangeroly low. In 1983, the FDA implemented a lifetime ban on blood donatns om all men who had sex wh men after FDA removed the lifetime ban and enacted a 12-month ferral perd 2015, meang gay or bisexual men had to absta om havg sex wh other men for at least 12 months before donatg blood. The adoptn of the LGBTI Incln Strategy is the rult of staed advocy om German civil society groups sce 2012, spearhead by the Lbian and Gay Feratn Germany (Der Lben- und Schwulenverband Dtschland, LSVD), the Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundatn, and the Yogyakarta-Alliance.

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

Stg among rabow flags and handma signs clarg such thgs as “God ma me gay” outsi the Seattle Pacific Universy print’s office last week, Jo Snlan scribed a moment om a psychoblogy of women urse at the private Christian profsor had explaed that sex and genr were not the same, said Snlan, 32, an had been no talk of beg transgenr or tersex, Snlan relled to the group of current LGBTQ+ stunts. The higher tn associatn Council for Christian Colleg & Universi clus more than 140 schools around the world that have agreed to support such polici as “timate sexual relatns … are tend for persons a marriage between one man and one woman” polici n exist thanks to relig exemptns unr Tle IX, the feral tn law barrg discrimatn based on sex, and Tle VII, the law prohibg employment discrimatn based on sex, among other thgs, explaed Evan Gerstmann, a polil science profsor at Loyola Marymount a third of US Christian lleg and universi have bans on such thgs as ‘homosexual acts’, acrdg to a 2019 study.

“By refg to remove this policy, is discrimatory and is homophobic, but also jt really puts our universy jeopardy, ” said Guillot, who is studyg Christian theology and social jtice and cultural Guillot, who is Christian and non-bary, said went beyond that. Beckett Jon me out twice to his Latter-day Sats fay as a teenager — first, at 13 years old, as a gay woman and then, at 18 years old, as a transgenr ’ self disvery, however, prompted a fah crisis as his fay sought to rencile their son’s inty wh a relig doctre that has long advoted for the supprsn of homosexualy s Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats has been cricized by some for s ntroversial polici and treatment of LGBTQ dividuals. ”Lol learship seeks answersSunny Ernst Smart, not yet out as gay even to her children, took a public stand for same sex cln last fall, when the cy of Meridian was holdg a vote for Add the Words, a new cy ordance protectg LGBTQ dividuals agast discrimatn.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Smart supprsed her feelgs for women om as early as 12, as a child growg up a “lovg” but “extremely nservative” LDS home — her mother a state director for the “Stop the Equal Rights Amendment” slowly started to share wh her hband of 20 years her 30s her attractn to women, beg bisexual and eventually g out to him as gay a few years ago. “And there are so many mixed feelgs where some people thk ’s OK and some people lerally thk this is what is gog to brg on Armageddon — gay people, ” A new normalAround Christmas time the nth gra, Beckett Jon was hospalized for two weeks for suicidaly. 2018 letter, sent om church learship to lol lears, released a new update to the church’s webse, addnal rourc for lear members to help prevent suici and unsel ward members impacted by letter highlights new suici preventn rmatn on the Mormon and Gay webse specific to LGBT dividuals “who may be at greater risk of suici.

Stanc on polygamy and civil rights have evolved over time, but some members aren’t sure the church will budge on LGBTQ church ntu to release vios pictg and enuragg mixed orientatn marriag — fai wh one openly gay parent who remas a heterosexual relatnship.

Ameri’s alli, cludg the Uned Kgdom, Canada, Israel, and Atralia, allow openly gay, lbian, and bisexual persons to serve the ary, and this has no adverse effect on ary reads or disciple (Belk, 2001, 2003; Belk & Bateman, 2003; Belk & Levt, 2001; Belk & McNichol, 2001). Consistent wh a long-standg body of social psychology rearch based on Allport’s (1954) ntact hypothis, scientists have repeatedly found evince for rced prejudice levels toward gay, lbian or bisexual people among heterosexuals who are acquated wh openly gay, lbian or bisexual members of society (e.

BIN ADMISTRATN SPEAKS OUT ON FERAL BLOOD DONATN POLICY IMPACTG GAY MEN AMID NATNAL BLOOD SHORTAGE

The thors of a prehensive recent meta-analysis of the last six s of rearch this area monstrate that the rrelatn of ntact between heterosexuals and gay and lbian persons wh lower levels of sexual prejudice is signifintly higher than prejudice rctn lked to ntact wh any other target group, e. The percentage of ary service members strongly opposed to allowg gay and lbian persons serve the ary has cled nsirably over the last , wh only 5% of personnel the ary a 2006 poll statg that they are “very unfortable” teractg wh gay and lbian persons the ary, ntrasted wh 73% who were somewhat or very fortable this regard (Zogby et al., 2006). 1 ln gift to the Marriage & Fay Foundatn, a group that promoted so-lled tradnal marriage and opposed both gay marriage and divorce; $480, 000 to the Fellowship of Christian Athlet, an athletic anizatn that requir applints to agree to a “sexual pury statement” that nmns LGBTQ people for livg “impure liftyle[s]”; and $1, 000 to Exod Internatnal, a group that promot anti-gay nversn therapy.

And when the anizatn changed s policy Michigan 2019, rponse to the state’s announcement that would no longer fund agenci that did not accept gay upl, a ver story World, an evangelil magaze, read “GIVING UP” wh an illtratn pictg a hand wavg a whe flag om behd a sk.

”At issue is whether BYU, as a private universy sponsored by the Church of J Christ, n mata s honor policy banng what terms same-sex romantic behavr, om holdg hands to 2020, the school removed a sectn tled homosexual behavr om s honor when a sgle standard for all church schools was created nsistent wh an update to the church’s General Handbook.

‘ENDURE UNTIL YOU DIE’: LDS CHURCH’S LGBTQ POLICI PUT GAY YOUTH AT RISK, ADVOT SAY

The lawsu and the OCR vtigatn are part of a larger picture regardg the church and s beliefs and the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny si and outsi of the church, which matas “that marriage between a man and a woman is ordaed of God and that the fay is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal sty of his children.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

Ms Macdonald said she had been ma to feel "shame" the 40 years Sunak ma the statement Parliament after a report to service personnel's treatment remend they be given a fancial reward and the PM should publicly lled the ban an "appallg failure" of the Brish was illegal to be gay the Brish ary until 2000 and Ms Macdonald was one of thoands of veterans thought to be ptn, Ms Macdonald joed at 19 and was a lance rporal the Women's Royal Army CorpsAfter hearg the statement, Ms Macdonald told BBC Rad Shropshire she had "lots of different emotns" and add: "It's such a historic day and 42 years on I never, ever dreamed that this would happen. The policy was further subverted by discrimatn sus that upheld the right of gays to serve the ary whout fear of the terms of the law, homosexuals servg the ary were not allowed to talk about their sexual orientatn or engage sexual activy, and mandg officers were not allowed to qutn service members about their sexual orientatn. Although Clton troduced “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as a liberalizatn of existg policy, sayg was a way for gays to serve the ary when they had prevly been exclud om dog so, many gay rights activists cricized the policy for forcg ary personnel to secrecy and bee had fallen far short of a policy of plete acceptance.

Durg the Iraq War, which began 2003, the policy me unr further scty, as many Arab lguists who were gay were discharged by the the 15-year anniversary of the law 2008, more than 12, 000 officers had been discharged om the ary for refg to hi their homosexualy.

The rmatn this booklet has been veloped by a aln of tn, health, mental health and relig anizatns that share a ncern for the health and tn of all stunts schools, cludg lbian, gay, and bisexual stunts, and believe that all stunts should have an opportuny to learn and velop a safe and supportive environment.

MAJOR EVANGELIL ADOPTN AGENCY WILL NOW SERVE GAY PARENTS NATNWI

PM'S APOLOGY FOR PAST GAY BAN WELED BY SHROPSHIRE VETERAN

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU