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GAY RIGHTS
LGBT Foundatn is a natnal chary liverg advice, support and rmatn servic to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) muni. * lgbt foundation facts *
The briefg below foc on the impact of COVID-19 on lbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) muni and ntas rmatn for ont-le staff to support the wir healthre out of LGBT patients durg a perd of stra across the NHS.
REFERENCES, RECOMMENDATIONS, & FURTHER READING: Brish HIV Associatn – COVID-19 Guidance Public Health England- Clil Out for Trans people accsg HIV Care England Prepster – COVID19 Tips & Tricks NHS Advice on mental health issu if you're gay, lbian, bisexual or transi Public Health England (2018) ‘Progrs towards endg the HIV epimic the Uned Kgdom’, p.
”Numero imag circulatg on Facebook the past few weeks show a poster wh the acronym LGBTP, which imag claim stands for “lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and pedosexual. FCKH8 did not rpond to a requt for ment om USA Court grants feral job protectns to gay, lbian, transgenr workersRooted history of bigotryThe assertn that the LGBTQ muny ndon or supports pedophilia is not only false, but rooted a history of bigotry. “For s, people who are homophobic, biphobic and transphobic have attempted to nnect LGBT muni wh paedophilia an attempt to stir up fear, hatred and discrimatn, ” Nellist wrote.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * lgbt foundation facts *
”Same-sex marriage lg at 5::Acceptance, advancement, but opposn remasAn old claim, prevly bunkedClaims like this have surfaced onle 2017, Snop traced the posts back to an anti-gay misrmatn mpaign that started on 4chan 2016, the hope of which was to trick the LGBTQ muny to exprsg support for May, Rters bunked siar posts that had begun to recirculate has reported the posts and had them removed by Facebook the past, Ferraro wrote. Such claims also draw on a history of unserved stigma and stereotyp toward the LGBTQ fact-check sourc:Rich Ferraro, Chief Communitns Officer, GLAADNick Morrow, Interim Communitns Director, Human Rights CampaignJoe Nellist, Communitns Coordator, LGBT FoundatnLGBT Foundatn, "Pedosexual Statement"PubMed, Natnal Library of Medice, "Are children at risk for sexual abe by homosexuals? The Early Gay Rights Movement In 1924, Henry Gerber, a German immigrant, found Chigo the Society for Human Rights, the first documented gay rights anizatn the Uned Stat.
Army service World War I, Gerber was spired to create his anizatn by the Scientific-Humanarian Commtee, a “homosexual emancipatn” group ’s small group published a few issu of s newsletter “Friendship and Freedom, ” the untry’s first gay-tert newsletter.
Ernment signated Gerber’s Chigo hoe a Natnal Historic Pk TriangleCorbis/Getty ImagHomosexual prisoners at the ncentratn mp at Sachsenhsen, Germany, wearg pk triangl on their uniforms on December 19, gay rights movement stagnated for the next few s, though LGBT dividuals around the world did e to the spotlight a few example, English poet and thor Radclyffe Hall stirred up ntroversy 1928 when she published her lbian-themed novel, The Well of Lonels. Addnally, 1948, his book Sexual Behavr the Human Male, Aled Ksey proposed that male sexual orientatn li on a ntuum between exclively homosexual to exclively Homophile Years In 1950, Harry Hay found the Mattache Foundatn, one of the natn’s first gay rights group. ”Though started off small, the foundatn, which sought to improve the liv of gay men through discsn groups and related activi, expand after foundg member Dale Jenngs was arrted 1952 for solicatn and then later set ee due to a adlocked the end of the year, Jenngs formed another anizatn lled One, Inc., which weled women and published ONE, the untry’s first pro-gay magaze.