For Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer Pri Month, Dennis Zotigh, a cultural specialist at the Natnal Mm of the Amerin Indian, ved Native iends to tell how their tradnal culture saw s LGBTQ members. A Chirihua Apache iend replied, “Now, Dennis, this is a human qutn, not [jt] Native.” We agree. But we also appreciate hearg what Native Amerins have learned, renstcted, or been unable to renstct about this part of our shared history and experience.
Contents:
- A LIST OF NATIVE AMERIN TRIBAL LAWS BANNG GAY MARRIAGE
- CHEROKE' GAY-MARRIAGE LAW IS TRADNAL
- OKLAHOMA TRIBE APPROV GAY MARRIAGE AS NATIVE AMERIN GROUPS BATE ISSUE
- GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
- AMONG THE NAVAJOS, A RENEWED DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI
A LIST OF NATIVE AMERIN TRIBAL LAWS BANNG GAY MARRIAGE
* gay marriage tribes *
BPR looked to how wispread the bans are Native Amerin Tribal ernments across the Uned Stat:The digeno muny has been volved LGBTQ+ rights for s - even before the historic 1987 March on Washgton for Gay Rights.
CHEROKE' GAY-MARRIAGE LAW IS TRADNAL
While the Supreme Court lg legalized same-sex marriage all 50 stat, didn't affect Amerin Indian trib. The 566 trib the U.S. are sovereign, and only 10 have legalized gay marriage. * gay marriage tribes *
But s judgment reli part on evince of historil regnn of same-sex relatnships among Cheroke -- a basis for ntemporary gay rights that is different om, and some ways eper than, the equaly and digny ratnal that the Supreme Court history of how trib have been treated their teractn wh the U.
Unofficial rults of Monday’s special electn the Osage Natn northern Oklahoma showed 52 percent approved a referendum amendg the fn of marriage the tribe’s legal to clu same-sex upl, officials said this vote allows the tribe’s judicial branch to issue marriage licens to gay and lbian upl.
“I know that for a lot of people was a ntroversial issue, but for me, was not, ” said Osage legislator Alice Buffalohead, the measure’s opposn to the measure did not emerge, but some the tribe felt allowg gay marriage would unrme the tribe’s cultural Osage jo a handful of other proment trib that nduct or regnize same-sex marriag, cludg the Cherokee Natn and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Trib.
OKLAHOMA TRIBE APPROV GAY MARRIAGE AS NATIVE AMERIN GROUPS BATE ISSUE
Most of those trib adopted the measure around the time of the Supreme Court cisn or experts said gay marriage was also beg nsired by a number of other Osage vote was about two years the makg, wh the measure to make the change tribal law g a few months before the 2015 Supreme Court cisn and wdg s way through the tribal ernment before was put up for a referendum. Bure of Indian Affairs to provi the Gray, an Osage llege stunt behd the Osage Cizens for Marriage Equaly Facebook activist group, said the vote the Osage Natn this week would help lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people know that the tribe accepts them.
Scholars and the general public beme creasgly terted the issue durg the late 20th century, a perd when attus toward homosexualy and laws regulatg homosexual behavur were liberalized, particularly wtern Europe and the Uned issue of same-sex marriage equently sparked emotnal and polil clash between supporters and opponents.
Relig and secular expectatns of marriage and sexualy Over time the historil and tradnal cultur origally rerd by the lik of Bachofen and Man slowly succumbed to the homogenizatn imposed by lonialism.
GAY MARRIAGE TIMELE
In other s, the cultural homogeney supported by the domant relign did not rult the applitn of doctre to the civic realm but may nohels have fostered a smoother seri of discsns among the cizenry: Belgium and Spa had legalized same-sex marriage, for stance, spe official opposn om their predomant relig stutn, the Roman Catholic Church.
AMONG THE NAVAJOS, A RENEWED DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
Most of the world religns have at some pots their histori opposed same-sex marriage for one or more of the followg stated reasons: homosexual acts vlate natural law or dive tentns and are therefore immoral; passag sacred texts nmn homosexual acts; and relig tradn regniz only the marriage of one man and one woman as valid.
Adopted as part of the morn pan-Indian vobulary 1990 durg the third annual ter-tribal Native Amerin/First Natns Gay and Lbian Amerin Conference, Wnipeg, Manoba, refers to dividuals who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, queer, transgenr, transsexual, or genr-fluid.
GAY MARRIAGE COUNTRI
Reporters wrote about what Fortunato and Schwandt lled a holy unn, which was ntroversial not bee there was talk of legalizg gay marriage but bee the two men publicly ask for -- and were nied -- the blsg of the Epispal Church.
"The New York State Court of Appeals clar that a lbian or gay uple livg together for a least ten years n be nsired a fay for purpos of rent ntrol protectn, the first time a state's hight urt l that a gay uple n be lled a fay... The California Bar Associatn urg that lbian and gay marriage be legally regnized and Seattle, San Francis and other ci, 'partners' regulatns extendg certa protectns and rights to unmarried upl, straight and gay, are adopted.