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Contents:
- GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE
- HOME OFFICE EXPANDS SCHEME TO PARDON THOSE CRIMALISED FOR GAY ACTIVY
- CONSERVATIVE MISTER OBSTCTS PROGRSN OF GAY PARDON LAW
- NEW U.K. LAW THAT WOULD PARDON GAY MEN ONCE CONVICTED OF SEX CRIM FAILS PARLIAMENT
- BRA POSTHUMOLY PARDONS THOANDS OF GAY MEN ‘TURG LAW’
- COMPREHENSIVE GAY PARDON LAW FILIBTERED UK
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
GAY REPARATNS ARE PAST DUE
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It may seem surprisg to Amerin rears, but one of the most vibrant human rights movements around the world today is “gay reparatns, ” or polici tend to make amends for the legacy of systemic discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn and genr inty. In the last alone, Canada, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Spa, and the Uned Kgdom have embraced gay reparatns. Gay pri flag at half-staff.
A gay pri flag hangs at half-staff durg a memorial service for the victims of Florida’s Pulse nightclub shootg San Diego, California, on June 12, 2016.
The Case for Gay Reparatns book ver. This article is adapted om The Case for Gay Reparatns, Omar G. The polici hardly prise a homogeno experience, and they do not entail givg people money simply for beg gay, as some spect.
HOME OFFICE EXPANDS SCHEME TO PARDON THOSE CRIMALISED FOR GAY ACTIVY
Thoands of gay and bisexual men who were nvicted of now-abolished sexual offens Bra have been posthumoly pardoned unr a new policg law, the Jtice Mistry announced. * gay pardon law *
In most untri, gay reparatns are limed to a ernment apology to the LGBTQ muny for past wrongs and a promise to do better the future. In others, they have entailed memorializg the victims of state-sponsored reprsn of homosexual cizens.
CONSERVATIVE MISTER OBSTCTS PROGRSN OF GAY PARDON LAW
In 2008, the German ernment opened a monument to gay victims of the Holot, an unknown number whom perished Nazi ncentratn mps, many of them victims of gome medil experiments tend to eradite their homosexualy. In still other untri, gay reparatns have centered on a pardon to anyone nvicted unr laws that crimalized same-sex attractn, as the Uned Kgdom, which 2017 issued a posthumo pardon to those nvicted of “gross cency, ” cludg Alan Turg, the mathematician creded wh shorteng the end of World War II; or even fancial pensatn for wag or pensns lost due to havg spent time prison or a mental stutn bee of a homosexual offense, as Spa sce 2009 and Germany sce 2016. The clost the untry has e to embracg gay reparatns was 2019, when, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rts, the New York Police Department issued a belated apology for the raid that triggered the rebelln.
Surely, the absence of gay reparatns—or even a discsn of them— the Uned Stat is not out of a rosy history ee of systemic discrimatn toward the LGBTQ muny, although a valid argument n be ma that this history is not particularly well known, save, perhaps, for “don’t ask, don’t tell. ” That famo 1993 policy allowed gays, lbians, and bisexuals to serve the ary as long as they kept their sexual orientatn a secret.
Des before “don’t ask, don’t tell, ” om the 1920s through at least the 1960s, there was the policy of “entrapment, ” which volved unrver police officers sendg flirtat signals to other men they prumed to be homosexual the hop of ensnarlg them to illic activy. Acrdg to the historian Eric Cervi’s book The Deviant’s War, War, which is about gay rights pneer Frank Kameny, the 15 years after World War II, “homosexual arrts—cludg those for sodomy, dancg, kissg, or holdg hands—occurred at the rate of one every ten mut, ” for a grand total of 1 ln arrts.
NEW U.K. LAW THAT WOULD PARDON GAY MEN ONCE CONVICTED OF SEX CRIM FAILS PARLIAMENT
Entrapment was followed by the Lavenr Sre, the midcentury persecutn of feral workers spected of beg homosexual. Perhaps as many as 10, 000 people were fired or expelled om their feral jobs durg the 1950s and 1960s bee they were homosexual or spected of beg homosexual based on evince as flimsy as how they drsed, talked, or looked. C., where they were forced to unrgo such humanizg treatments as lobotomi, sul-duced as, and gay nversn therapy, wh the aim of changg their sexual orientatn.
Gay activists have pared the treatments offered at St.
-based anizatn champng gay reparatns—pecially a formal apology om Congrs. Members of San Francis’s gay muny prott the Supreme Court’s cisn upholdg a sodomy law Geia on July 17, 1986. Addg to such mistreatment have been a host of urt cisns that for s stigmatized homosexual people.
BRA POSTHUMOLY PARDONS THOANDS OF GAY MEN ‘TURG LAW’
Two lgs particular reveal the anim that Amerin jurispnce has the past shown toward gays, lbians, and bisexuals.
Supreme Court lg that upheld the state of Geia’s sodomy laws, the urt termed that the Constutn did not protect the rights of gays, lbians, and bisexuals to engage private, nsensual sexual relatns, bee, the jtic nclud, homosexual sex has no nnectn to fay, marriage, abortn, or procreatn. Burger quoted the 18th-century English jurist William Blackstone’s characterizatn of homosexual sex as an “famo crime agast nature, ” worse than rape, and “a crime not f to be named. ” Homosexualy remaed crimalized the Uned Stat until the Supreme Court overturned the Hardwick lg 2003.
COMPREHENSIVE GAY PARDON LAW FILIBTERED UK
Acts of state-sponsored anti-gay discrimatn sent an unambiguo msage to ordary Amerins that was acceptable to mean and monize LGBTQ people, and even to engage acts of vlence agast them. The famo and bloody history of societal attacks on the Amerin LGBTQ muny clus sger and spokperson Ana Bryant’s 1977 Save Our Children csa, which picted gay men as pedophil; Evangelist Jerry Falwell’s “claratn of war” on homosexualy, a rhetoril tactic employed durg the 1980s to raise funds for Falwell’s Moral Majory anizatn; and the 2016 attack on Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida. Prr to Pulse, there was the now largely fotten 1973 arson fire at Upstairs, a gay bar New Orleans’ French Quarter, which left 32 people ad.
The thick homophobia of the era preclud even an acknowledgement of the tragedy by the mayor of New Orleans or Louisiana’s ernor. Left: Sger and anti-gay activist Ana Bryant talks about her “Save Our Children” csa to nullify a gay rights ordance Miami Beach, Florida, on Feb. Given the terrible history of reprsn of LGBTQ people the Uned Stat, the absence of gay reparatns is puzzlg.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Canada, a untry wh a cidly ls troubled history when to homosexualy, issued an apology to the gay muny 2017. The apology me wh a multiln-dollar payout to pensate victims of the “gay purge, ” those fired om the ary bee of their sexual orientatn, and thorized a memorial to the victims of those persecuted for their sexual orientatn the pal cy of Ottawa.
An obv factor behd the layed arrival of gay reparatns the Uned Stat is that the subject of reparatns is particularly vexg Amerin society, stemmg om the still-unsettled legacy of slavery and om racism. Some crics of gay reparatns such as the nservative polil mentator Michael Medved have mataed that gay people are not servg of reparatns bee unlike Black Amerins, gay people are not victims of multigeneratnal damage, meang that whatever ills homophobia may have ed the past, the ills are not the same as those left behd by slavery, as they do not rry over om generatn to generatn.
Medved also pots to the enomic succs of some the Amerin LGBTQ muny (which has generated the mythil notn that LGBTQ Amerins are more affluent than the populatn at large) as a reason for why gay reparatns are rndant.