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.
Contents:
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
This say provis an overview of the transnatnal movement for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) rights om the mid-neteenth century to the * 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
* 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.