Gay Rights - Movement, Marriage & Flag | HISTORY

Contents:

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

GAY RIGHTS

Historilly, people belongg to the lbian, gay or bisexual and transgenr (“LGBT”) social groups have experienced var human rights vlatns such as vlence, harassment, discrimatn, excln, stigmatizatn and right to privacy. One of the ma factors for passive reactns towards protectn and promotn of basic human rights of the LGBT group uld be ciphered om the diverse historil, cultural, and relig backgrounds of Stat, which lks moraly wh the bat of homosexualy and transsexualy.

In the absence of legal amework to crimalize homosexualy at the ternatnal level, two s before, the Commtee terpreted the provisns of the ICCPR (pecially Article 2 and 26) to affirm the basic human rights of the dividuals belongg to diverse sexual orientatn and genr inty. Briefly, the observatns uld be tegorized unr (i) anti-discrimatn measur; and (ii) crimalizatn of homosexualy and homosexual activy through repealg or amendg var legislatns. Sce 2009, the nomenclature ed for referrg to LGBT persons was ‘sexual orientatn’, however, there was a substantial change by g the term ‘LGBT’ for the first time one of the reviews of s Member Stat, expandg the nstct of sexual orientatn to acts of vlence agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) persons’, thereby emphasizg on sexual mory rights.

In this stance, has to be noted that is high time the Commtee engag self adoptg the language of crimalisatn of homosexualy, which uld be read as more practil to the anti-discrimatory practic and vlence agast sexual mori. The Indian judiciary had at length discsed on crimalizatn of homosexualy (Sectn 377 of the Indian Penal Co 1860) the recent past through three important judgments. In the Naz Foundatn v Government of NCT of Delhi se, the High Court of Delhi upheld crimalizatn of homosexualy (crimalized adult nsensual sexual acts private).

THE RIGHTS OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENR PEOPLE

The three important cisns alg wh the issue of crimalizg homosexualy and transsexualy had referred to the Yogyakarta Prcipl orr to reerate the basic human rights of the dividuals belongg to diverse sexual orientatn and genr inti. This is maniftly evint om the cid se laws of the Indian Supreme Court, where on the one hand, crimal law crimalizg homosexualy was clared valid and on the other hand, people belongg to the transgenr muny were given the stat of ‘third genr’. The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence.

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.

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

”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. Post Office, which 1954 clared the magaze “obscene” and refed to liver Mattache Society Mattache Foundatn members rtctured the anizatn to form the Mattache Society, which had lol chapters other parts of the untry and 1955 began publishg the untry’s send gay publitn, The Mattache Review. That same year, four lbian upl San Francis found an anizatn lled the Dghters of Bilis, which soon began publishg a newsletter lled The Ladr, the first lbian publitn of any early years of the movement also faced some notable setbacks: the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn listed homosexualy as a form of mental disorr followg year, Print Dwight D.

In 1961, Illois beme the first state to do away wh s anti-sodomy laws, effectively crimalizg homosexualy, and a lol TV statn California aired the first documentary about homosexualy, lled The 1965, Dr. ”In fear of beg shut down by thori, bartenrs would ny drks to patrons spected of beg gay or kick them out altogether; others would serve them drks but force them to s facg away om other ctomers to prevent them om 1966, members of the Mattache Society New York Cy staged a “sip-”—a twist on the “s-” protts of the 1960s— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. They were nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, rultg much publicy and the quick reversal of the anti-gay liquor Stonewall Inn A few years later, 1969, a now-famo event talyzed the gay rights movement: The Stonewall clanste gay club Stonewall Inn was an stutn Greenwich Village bee was large, cheap, allowed dancg and weled drag queens and homels the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York Cy police raid the Stonewall Inn.

As -founr of the Gay Liberatn Front, Rivera was known for participatg the Stonewall Rts and tablishg the polil anizatn STAR (Street Transvte Actn Revolutnari). After the Stonewall Rts, a msage was pated on the outsi of the board-up bar readg, "We homosexuals plead wh out people to please help mata peaceful and quiet nduct on the streets of the village.