A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements

Contents:

• TOP 7 BT GAY BARS & CLUBS PORTUGAL
• LISBON GAY PRI: PORTUGAL’S BIGGT LGBTI EVENT
• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• “THE WORST PART WAS COMG BACK HOME AND FEELG LIKE CRYG”: EXPERIENC OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANS STUNTS PORTUGUE SCHOOLS

TOP 7 BT GAY BARS & CLUBS PORTUGAL

While the cy boasts fewer bars and activi for LGBT people than the pal, the muny has built a home for self wh inic plac such as the drag club Invict and the gay fe Pri Coffee. From luxury to affordable rtrants, amazg hotels and gay nightclubs, and the bt beach the untry, the Algarve is the perfect LGBT getaway, havg retreats and hotels tered to LGBT people and found by LGBT people.

Although there are no “official” signated gay beach, there are a few nudist beach Portugal that are particularly popular wh the whole of the LGBT+ muny, such as Praia do Me (Simbra) and Praia da Bela Vista (between Costa da Capari and Fonte da Telha).

Lisbon Pri is also known as Arraial Lisboa Pri and is anized by ILGA, the largt anizatn fightg for gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people Portugal, partnership wh the municipaly of Lisbon.

LISBON GAY PRI: PORTUGAL’S BIGGT LGBTI EVENT

For sea voyag, only men sailed the ravels, as homosexualy always existed, there was the possibily of gay men beg on trips on boats and, eventually, gettg volved wh other sailors. After several attempts, 2015, adoptn by homosexual upl was approved, although, some s, is poted out that prry is given to heterosexual upl durg the adoptn procs. 1923Lbian and gay books were seized and stroyed, cludg Dedência (Dey) by Judh Teixeira, Cançõ (Songs) by Antón Botto, and Sodoma Divizada (Deified Sodom) by Rl Teixeira, Antón Botto, and Rl Leal1933 Estado Novo began, one of the longt-survivg fascist regim of the 20th century.

This was an pecially difficult time for queer people: many gay men were sent to crimal asylums like the Albergue da Mra Lisbon; a new penal law agast LGBTQ+ people me to force 1954; and Júl Fogaça, lear of the Portugue Communist Party was tried for homosexualy and imprisoned for 18 years. In this year, the Manifto of the Revolutnary Homosexual Actn Movement was published the newspaper Diár Lisboa and a poster was seen claimg ‘Freedom for Homosexuals’ on Labour Day Porto. 1980The Revolutnary Homosexuals Collective (CHOR) held a meetg wh 300 people attendg — this was a massive number durg this time when homosexualy was still illegal.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

A Portugue urt whdraws parental thory om João Silva Mouta, a gay or bisexual father, and the European Court ems this discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn. 1997 ILGA–Portugal (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Interventn), anis the first march memory of those affected by HIV and AIDS, opens the first Gay and Lbian Communy Center, the first Lisbon Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, and celebrat the first Pri out on the streets Prcipe Real. But there are still legal rights to be won, such as legally regnisg non-bary people, permtg trans people the ary, and banng the terrors of nversn own unrstandg of Portugal is that homophobia isn’t always the open but n hi below the surface.

Followg a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York, the Stonewall rts marked the turng pot for the LGBTI muny to e together prott of s of opprsn, discrimatn and vlence. Lisbon certaly ticks all the right box – late night parti, nsistently great weather, gay-iendly nu beach, cheap alhol and of urse, the iendls of the Portugue people. Where homosexual activy or viance om tablished genr rol/drs was banned by law or tradnal ctom, such nmnatn might be munited through sensatnal public trials, exile, medil warngs, and language om the pulp.

“THE WORST PART WAS COMG BACK HOME AND FEELG LIKE CRYG”: EXPERIENC OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANS STUNTS PORTUGUE SCHOOLS

However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary. Whe, male, and Wtern activists whose groups and theori gaed leverage agast homophobia did not necsarily reprent the range of racial, class, and natnal inti plitg a broar LGBT agenda. Most historians agree that there is evince of homosexual activy and same-sex love, whether such relatnships were accepted or persecuted, every documented culture.

Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy.

The European powers enforced their own crimal s agast what was lled sodomy the New World: the first known se of homosexual activy receivg a ath sentence North Ameri occurred 1566, when the Spanish executed a Frenchman Florida.

Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men.

” In Wtern history, we fd ltle formal study of what was later lled homosexualy before the 19th century, beyond medil texts intifyg women wh large cloris as “tribas” and severe punishment s for male homosexual acts. Their wrgs were sympathetic to the ncept of a homosexual or bisexual orientatn occurrg naturally an intifiable segment of humankd, but the wrgs of Krafft-Ebg and Ellis also labeled a “third sex” generate and abnormal. Sigmund Frd, wrg the same era, did not nsir homosexualy an illns or a crime and believed bisexualy to be an nate aspect begng wh untermed genr velopment the womb.

” German rearcher Magn Hirschfeld went on to gather a broar range of rmatn by foundg Berl’s Instute for Sexual Science, Europe’s bt library archive of materials on gay cultural history. His efforts, and Germany’s more liberal laws and thrivg gay bar scene between the two World Wars, ntrasted wh the backlash, England, agast gay and lbian wrers such as Osr Wil and Radclyffe Hall. The blu mic of Ain-Amerin women showsed varieti of lbian sire, stggle, and humor; the performanc, along wh male and female drag stars, troduced a gay unrworld to straight patrons durg Prohibn’s fiance of race and sex s speakeasy clubs.