California Legislative Lbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgenr and Queer Cc

Contents:

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

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

Is home to the untry’s first PRIDE anizatn (Personal Rights through Defense and Edutn, 1966), first gay para (by the ad hoc Los Angel Commtee to Fight Excln of Homosexuals om the Armed Forc), the earlit known lbian publitn (Vice Versa, 1947), the first documented Supreme Court lg favor of gay rights (One Inc v. Well, back 1978, the artist Gilbert Baker—an openly gay man and drag queen—cid to sign somethg he saw as the most powerful symbol of pri; a flag.

Harvey Milk—the first openly gay elected official the history of the Goln State—took his place on the San Francis Board of Supervisors on January 8th, 1978. Gay pri vios shown a Glendale third-gra classroom have add an tense lol chapter to a natnal bate over how and when lsons on genr inty and sexual orientatn should be broached public episo unfold wh the disclosure that a teacher at Jefferson Elementary had shown her stunts gay pri vios and had asked for the district’s help asssg which of four specific vios would be appropriate for classroom e. California law requir stunts learn and be provid stctnal materials that expla the “role and ntributns” of among others, “lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins.

”Remend rourc clu materials om the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn early are California stunts supposed to learn about issu related to genr exprsn and inty? But state guil note that send-grars, by studyg the stori of “a diverse llectn of fai, ” cludg those “wh lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr parents and their children... “Sexual orientatn scrib a person’s endurg physil, romantic, and/or emotnal attractn to another person (for example: straight, gay, lbian, bisexual).

The materials were veloped s ago — and have evolved over time — by the nonprof group to bat racism and whe Learng for Jtice materials ed Glendale do not clu the gay pri vios, but the entirety of the lsons offered by the anizatn are meant to promote diversy and cln, cludg empathy for stunts who don’t nform to genr norms. A new Florida law — which crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, sayg margaliz LGBTQ people — forbids classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty krgarten through third gra.

Among LGBT young adults, the vast majory (68%) scribe themselv as bisexual, 27% gay or lbian, and 14% as transgenr; 5% intify as transgenr but not as lbian, gay, or bisexual. Called California Pri: Mappg LGBTQ Histori, the onle, crowdsourced archive will feature, acrdg to anizers, the "memori, stori, and imag related to s throughout the Goln State associated wh lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer experience.

She is racg to plete the more than 600-page-long document by June 2016, months ahead of the printial electn that November, which uld marshal a ls gay-iendly admistratn early 2017. Gay former Hayward Cy Councilman Kev Dowlg, who also was at the meetg, said chroniclg LGBT history is particularly important as gay neighborhoods ci throughout California, and across the untry, are fadg away as longtime tablishments such as gay bars and bookstor close.

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. By the 20th century, a movement regnn of gays and lbians was unrway, abetted by the social climate of femism and new anthropologi of difference.

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. We know that homosexualy existed ancient Israel simply bee is prohibed the Bible, whereas flourished between both men and women Ancient Greece.

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.