Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.
Contents:
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- THE WILX-GAY RERD: 1940 HOME RERDG
- WILCOX-GAY
- THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
- IS RYM FOR "THE GAYS"?
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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Ci celebrate Gay Pri Month.
The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement. LGBTQ is an acronym meang lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi.
New York’s gay muny, fed up after years of harassment by thori, broke out neighborhood rts that went on for three days.
THE WILX-GAY RERD: 1940 HOME RERDG
The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement. A year after the Stonewall rts, the natn’s first Gay Pri march were held. In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns.
Baker, a proment gay rights activist, gave a nod to the strip of the Amerin flag but drew spiratn om the rabow to reflect the many groups wh the gay muny. Gay rights movement, also lled gay liberatn movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons (i. E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life.
WILCOX-GAY
(Although the term gay is monly ed reference to homosexual mal, is also ed more generally to refer to homosexual mal together wh some or all other orientatns wh the LGBTQ muny. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy. The begng of the gay rights movement Before the end of the 19th century there were srcely any “movements” for gay rights.
THE 50 BT GAY SONGS TO CELEBRATE PRI ALL YEAR LONG
Ined, his poem “Two Lov” (1894), Lord Aled (“Bosie”) Douglas, Osr Wil’s lover, clared “I [homosexualy] am the love that dare not speak s name. ” Homosexual and bisexual men and women were given voice 1897 wh the foundg of the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee (Wissenschaftlich-humanär Komee; WhK) Berl.
Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. In many larger German ci, gay nightlife beme tolerated, and the number of gay publitns creased. Ined, acrdg to some historians, the number of gay bars and perdils Berl the 1920s exceed that New York Cy six s later.
Dpe the formatn of such groups, polil activy by homosexuals and bisexuals was generally not very visible. Ined, gays were often harassed by the police wherever they ngregated. The war brought many young people to ci and brought visibily to the gay muny.
IS RYM FOR "THE GAYS"?
In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.
However, there was also greater polil activy among gays, aimed large measure at crimalizg sodomy. The gay rights movement sce the mid-20th century Begng the mid-20th century, an creasg number of gay anizatns were formed. In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women.
In addn, the Uned Stat saw the publitn of a natnal gay perdil, One, which 1958 won a U.