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- EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
EXECUTIVE ORR ON ADVANCG EQUALY FOR LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND INTERSEX INDIVIDUALS
Issue guidance to clu a wi range of optns related to SOGI that go beyond gay, lbian, or bisexual, such as those who intify as queer, asexual, or two-spir. 2 ln people are livg wh HIV; gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men (MSM) make up the greatt share of new HIV diagnos; transgenr people have experienced marked creas HIV diagnos; and Black and Ain Amerin and Lato and Hispanic muni ntue to be disproportnately affected by HIV. 116 For example, lbian and bisexual women earn more than heterosexual women but ls than heterosexual men, who earn more than gay and bisexual men.
In regnn of the difficulti that LGBTQ stunts have fdg supportive and affirmg spac school, as well as the many rtrictive polici limg their abily to create and promote genr-sexualy allianc/gay-straight allianc (GSAs), the Edutn Department should issue new guidance affirmg stunts’ rights to create and mata GSAs. The fight for gay rights the Uned Stat has e a long way sce the Stonewall Uprisg of 1969, when gay and trans patrons of the Stonewall Inn New York Cy fought back agast police tryg to arrt night marked the begng of the gay rights movement the US, a s-long fight that jt a few years ago rulted the momento 2015 Supreme Court cisn legalizg gay marriage the lg on June 26, 2015, didn’t end the stggle for equaly and protectn.
Across the untry, LGBTQ Amerins still face legalized discrimatn unr the law when to hog, jobs, parentg, and even June, ’s important to celebrate how far the US has e regnizg gay rights — and to be proud of that fact — but only if we also remember how far we still have to go to ensure that the equal rights and digny of LGBTQ Amerins are regnized unr the are some of the battl for equaly that are still beg fought across the untry. ParentgOnly a handful of stat have enshred law the right of gay upl to parent together. Gay Conversn TherapyIn a vast majory of stat, kids n still be sent to so-lled “gay nversn therapy, ” a harmful practice that the Amerin Psychologil Associatn has nmned.