Contents:
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
- HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
She was black, queer, and trans — and fearlsly advoted for her rights and the rights of the LGBTQ muny at a time when dog so put her safety jeopardy.“As long as gay people don’t have their rights all across Ameri, there’s no reason for celebratn,” she once said.Johnson was a key figure of the 1960s gay rights movement the US and, as legend has , threw the brick that igned the famo Stonewall rts, which were the talyst for the movement and have spired many Pri march ever sce.In 1992, Johnson’s body was found the Hudson River. She was once arrted for attemptg to climb through a wdow ( a drs and heels) to a room where the New York Cy Council was batg a gay rights bill, NBC reported.“Sylvia’s role gay history was that she was one of the first people to highlight that our movement need to be more clive of people who did not f the mastream,” Carrie Davis, Chief Programs and Policy Officer at New York Cy’s LGBT Communy Center, told NBC News.3. 9, 1977.Image: AP PhotoHarvey Milk, the subject of the Osr-wng film Milk, was the first openly gay polician to be elected California.
HOW ACTIVISTS ORGANIZED THE FIRST GAY PRI PARAS
Alice NkomEmbed om Getty ImagAlice Nkom is a human rights lawyer and LGBTQ activist om Cameroon, where homosexualy is still crimalized. In a untry where police officer entrap members of the LGBTQ muny through text msag and beat those they perceive to be gay, Nkom bravely fights for rights on behalf of the LGBTQ muny.Though Nkom intifi as heterosexual, she has dited her work to fightg for Cameroon’s LGBTQ muny and found the Associatn for the Defence of Homosexualy 2003.
Arsham ParsiArsham Parsi is a gay man who first began secretly workg to support members of the LGBTQ muny his native Iran. But 2005, the queer activist was forced to flee his untry, where homosexual activy remas illegal.Today, Parsi liv exile Canada, where he has found the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refuge, which supports and provis guidance to LGBTQ asylum seekers om the Middle East.10. 3, 2014.Image: LM Otero/APMichael Sam beme the first openly gay football player to be drafted by an NFL team 2014.
About a year after he was first drafted, Sam retired om the NFL cg mental health reasons.His stggle highlighted the discrimatn and homophobia still rampant the sports world, but Sam has gone on to share his story and ntu to champn change.11-15.