Some same-sex marriage supporters are urgg people to "ll gay" Wednday to show how much the untry reli on gays and lbians, but others qutn whether 's wise to enurage skippg work given the natn's enomic distrs.
Contents:
- THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
- DID PROTTG SWES REALLY CALL SICK 1979, CLAIMG THEY “FELT GAY”?
- CALLG 'GAY' TO WORK IS LATT FORM OF PROTT
- CALLG IN GAY TO WORK
- CALLG IN 'GAY' TO WORK IS LATT FORM OF PROTT
- CALLG ‘GAY’ TO WORK IS LATT FORM OF PROTT
THE TIME SWES CALLED GAY TO WORK 1979
Homosexualy was still classified as an illns Swen 1979. Swes protted by llg sick to work, claimg they felt gay. * calling in gay to work *
Homosexualy was nsired a mental illns many untri as late as the mid-20th century—if was not classified as an outright crime. Even Swen, that Sndavian bastn of openns and equaly, intified beg gay as a disorr as late as year, a group of Swes took advantage of the legal amework that ma beg gay an illns and lled sick to work, claimg their homosexualy as the reason.
DID PROTTG SWES REALLY CALL SICK 1979, CLAIMG THEY “FELT GAY”?
Listen to Callg Gay to Work, an episo of Queer Science!, easily on Podbay - the bt podst player on the web. * calling in gay to work *
One woman, om the southern provce of Smålanven, managed to get Social Secury benefs for llg gay.
Callg gay was part of a larger prott om the RFSL, the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights.
Swen crimalized homosexualy 1944, but acrdg to the Natnal Board of Health and Welfare, which velops health standards, was still a disease. As a b of ntext, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn announced that would no longer nsir homosexualy a mental disorr 1973, though ntued to e “sexual orientatn disturbance” to tegorize dividuals who felt distrsed by their sexual orientatn (among other odd disorrs) up wh the lack of tractn was gag through tradnal letter and phone mpaigns, RFSL planned to occupy the Natnal Board buildg as a monstratn agast pathologizg homosexualy.
CALLG 'GAY' TO WORK IS LATT FORM OF PROTT
* calling in gay to work *
On Augt 29, durg the middle of Stockholm’s “Homosexual Liberatn Week” (which later beme known as Stockholm Pri), RFSL protters gathered to block the stairs of the Natnal Board buildg, chantg and wavg banners. In late October of 1979, the Natnal Board classified homosexualy as a disease, makg Swen the first European untry to do so.
CALLG IN GAY TO WORK
That turned out to be the se for a tweet that has circulated om var acunts over the last year, which claims: “Homosexualy was still classified as an illns Swen 1979.
CALLG IN 'GAY' TO WORK IS LATT FORM OF PROTT
Swes protted by llg sick to work, claimg they felt gay. RFSL—the Swedish Feratn for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Rights—provid the five answer. Acrdg to the RFSL webse, although homosexualy was legalized Swen 1944, 1979 was still classified as a mental illns.
Most didn’t want to be known that they were gay, but a few did ed ll sick, claimg that they were unable to work bee they were homosexual. RFSL says that only a few people lled sick, of whom jt one managed to qualify for paid leave on the basis of her homosexualy. Our discsn topics clu Frd, the DSM, and a group of Swes who lled gay to work.
Frd and homosexualy. Swes who lled gay to work.
CALLG ‘GAY’ TO WORK IS LATT FORM OF PROTT
Our nversatn topics clu Frd, a massive diagnostic manual known as the DSM, and a group of Swes who lled gay to work.
However, what he also did was say that homosexualy and heterosexualy, there has to be a difference.
There has to be somethg unrlyg someone who intifi as queer, or homosexual – as he would say, vers someone who’s heterosexual and almost, you know, monizg homosexualy. And he me to a ncln at some pot where he said, well, if there has to be a reason for homosexualy, there has to be a reason for heterosexualy.