Contents:
- LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) are members of every muny. Or even LGBTQIA+ History terms for the muny of people that enpass people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual are as broad as that muny self: As society’s unrstandg, regnn, and cln of diverse sexual inti and genr exprsns has grown, so has s acronym.
Over time, grew populary and was adopted by women who secretly, then proudly, loved other dawn of “homosexualy” and “bisexualy”Karl Herich Ulrichs, a 19th century German lawyer and wrer who may have intified as gay, was the first to try to label his own muny. In 1869, the Pssian ernment ntemplated addg language that forba male same-genr sexual activy to s rponse, Kertbeny wrote a passnate, anonymo open letter to the Pssian mister of jtice llg the proposed law “shockg nonsense” and g the word “homosexualy, ” which he had prevly ed a private letter to Ulrichs. Early gay rights groups and practners of the growg field of psychology eventually adopted the Reclaimg a slurIn the late 1960s, activists reclaimed a s-old slur, “gay.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Though s origs are murky, “gay” was eventually embraced by men who fied the stat quo wh open exprsns of same-genr love. Activists also began g other terms like social variant, viant, and “homophile, ” which means “same love, ” an effort to sistep monly ed slurs, emphasize the lovg relatnships of same-genr relatnships, and prott discrimatory laws.
The words were ed “as the means whereby dividuals uld make sense of their own experienc, their active-unrgog of beg homosexual a homophobic environment, ” wr soclogist J. Todd 1980, wrote sayist Edmund Whe, “gay” had overtaken the other terms for men who are attracted to men.