This say provis an overview of the transnatnal movement for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights om the mid-neteenth century to the
Contents:
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
* the international lgbt rights movement a history *
First, that this book primarily foc on the experienc of activists Europe and North Ameri (3); and send, that although the book aspir to highlight the stori of people embodyg all inti wh the LGBT spectm, most of the book centr on the activisms of gay men. This is a rather stunng oversight bee some scholars would argue that the very troductn of ‘queer’ as a polil tegory wh the LGBT movement was signifint bee tentnally stabilised heteronormative and cis-normative notns of sexual orientatn and genr inty, so much so that ‘queer’ also challenged sentialist inti like ‘gay’ and ‘lbian’. On the other hand, issu like the policisatn of LGBT rights and the unnny ntemporary mise of LGBT rights to fuel Islamophobia, nativism and homonatnalism are sufficiently highlighted (196-97).
GAY RIGHTS
Gay rights movement, civil rights movement that advot equal rights for LGBTQ persons—that is, for lbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons—and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. * the international lgbt rights movement a history *
From Chapter One (‘Origs’) to Chapter Six (‘Global Equaly, Global Backlash, 2001-20’), Belmonte tak her rears on an exhilaratg journey of love, loss, pa and joy by mappg out the twists and turns of the LGBT (primarily gay rights) movement. Some of the lumari clud Jeremy Bentham, the Brish philosopher who wrote support of sodomy 1785, a time when the terms ‘homosexual’ and ’heterosexual’ didn’t even exist.
Belmonte also discs the wrer Osr Wil, who was embroiled a highly publicised gay sex sndal that led to his arrt and eventually grad his mental, physil and emotnal health. Some of the bonds were lol, such as the mararie between Harry Hay, Rudi Gernreich, Bob Hull, Charl Rowland and Dale Jenngs, which led to the settg up the first homophile anisatn the US 1950, The Mattache Society. Others were transnatnal, such as the relatnships between lol and regnal gay-centric magaz wh their ternatnal ntributors and rears the Cold War and post-Cold War era.
Perhaps the most poignant example of this was displayed the first half of the twentieth century when homosexuals were not only vicly persecuted by the Nazis Germany, but also by fascists Italy, the munists the Soviet Unn, the nservativ Ameri and even the Allied forc the post-war perd.