Masha Gsen wr about Mart Duberman’s new book, “Has the Gay Movement Failed?”
Contents:
- MART DUBERMAN ON WHAT THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS LOST
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
- THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
- THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
- GAY RIGHTS
- HAS THE GAY MOVEMENT FAILED?
MART DUBERMAN ON WHAT THE GAY-RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS LOST
* failures of the gay liberation movement *
On both the history of the polil left and the gay-rights movement, Duberman ocsnally reach back to his own wrg om four or more s ago: he has been wrg about the thgs for so long that some of his own ias have bee his source material. Utopia, genr would be an outmod ncept, kship would be a functn of muny and iendship, sex and love would be parsed out, and love would be tly years later, the gay-rights movement me to be reprented by lobbyg anizatns, not activist on, and s top aims beme the right to get married and serve the ary.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
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. * failures of the gay liberation movement *
He not, evably, but no ls omoly, that German anti-Semism “was to no extent changed or dimished” when German Jews blend hchg the future of the movement to the vehicle of marriage, Duberman suggts, gay people paid a price that may be too high. “What has been most novative about the erotic patterns that have evolved over time the gay muny may partly be abandoned or wholly ncealed, or we will otherwise n the ser risk of beg rebrand as unreemable renegas pable of changg our ‘bizarre’ behavr, ” he wr.
Add to this the fact that more than half the stat, is still legal to fire someone for beg argue effectively for marriage rights, gay lobbyists had to ntuoly assert two posns: that gays are not sexual outlaws and that homosexualy is immutable.
PARTY AND PROTT: THE RADIL HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN, STONEWALL AND PRI
<strong>The long read</strong>: A police raid on a gay bar New York led to the birth of the Pri movement half a century ago – but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights go back much further than that * failures of the gay liberation movement *
By abandong a radil sex-liberatnist agenda a untry that is wagg a war on sex, he wr, the gay muny has abandoned some of s most vulnerable members, cludg teen-agers whose sex wh one another is crimalized many axm that homosexualy is immutable has shut the door on a nversatn about sexual fluidy, variatn, and possibily. Issu are almost entirely absent om the nversatn on the left; Duberman surmis that they seem bourgeois and trivial to straight leftist gays to attempt to fd their place on the left, the story might end wh rejectn and tragedy, Duberman wr.
E., for lbians, gays [homosexual mal], bisexuals, transgenr persons, and queer persons); seeks to elimate sodomy laws; and lls for an end to discrimatn agast LGBTQ persons employment, cred, hog, public acmodatns, and other areas of life. ) Gay rights prr to the 20th century Relig admonns agast sexual relatns between dividuals of the same sex (particularly men) long stigmatized such behavur, but most legal s Europe were silent on the subject of homosexualy and bisexualy.
THE GAY LIBERATN MOVEMENT
In her thoughtful review of Lda Hirshman's Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolutn (2012) E.J. Graff says that Hirshman prents a serviceable overview of the GLBT movement. However, she says that Hirshman's re argument for s remarkable succs slights the Civil Rights and femist movements that preced gay liberatn, and misunrstands the importance of the prev two movements to the victori of LGBT… * failures of the gay liberation movement *
Dpe Paragraph 175 and the failure of the WhK to w s repeal, homosexual and bisexual men and women experienced a certa amount of eedom Germany, particularly durg the Weimar perd, between the end of World War I and the Nazi seizure of power. In the Uned Stat this greater visibily brought some backlash, particularly om the ernment and the police: the ernment often fired gay civil servants, the ary attempted to purge s ranks of gay soldiers (a policy enacted durg World War II), and police vice squads equently raid gay bars and arrted their patrons.
THE HISTORY OF GAY LIBERATN
The gay rights movement the Uned Stat began the 1920s and saw huge progrs the 2000s, wh laws prohibg homosexual activy stck down and a Supreme Court lg legalizg same-sex marriage. * failures of the gay liberation movement *
In the Uned Stat the first major male anizatn, found 1950–51 by Harry Hay Los Angel, was the Mattache Society (s name reputedly rived om a medieval French society of masked players, the Société Mattache, to reprent the public “maskg” of homosexualy), while the Dghters of Bilis (named after the Sapphic love poems of Pierre Louÿs, Chansons Bilis), found 1955 by Phyllis Lyon and Del Mart San Francis, was a leadg group for women. In Bra 1957 a missn chaired by Sir John Wolfenn issued a groundbreakg report (see Wolfenn Report) remendg that private homosexual liaisons between nsentg adults be removed om the doma of crimal law; a later the remendatn was implemented by Parliament the Sexual Offenc Act.
Now headquartered Geneva and renamed the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn (ILGA World), plays a signifint role ordatg ternatnal efforts to promote human rights and fight discrimatn agast LGBTQ and tersex persons.
GAY RIGHTS
This support, along wh mpaigns by gay activists urgg gay men and women to “e out of the closet” (ed, the late 1980s, Natnal Comg Out Day was tablished, and is now celebrated on October 11 most untri), enuraged gay men and women to enter the polil arena as ndidat.
HAS THE GAY MOVEMENT FAILED?
At the lol and natnal levels, the number of openly gay policians creased dramatilly durg the 1990s and 2000s, and 2009 Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir beme prime mister of Iceland, which ma her the world’s first openly gay head of ernment. In Ai, Asia, and Lat Ameri, openly gay policians have had only limed succs wng office; notable electns to natnal legislatur clud Patria Jiménez Flor Mexi (1997), Mike Waters South Ai (1999), and Clodovil Hernans Brazil (2006).
Other issu of primary importance for the gay rights movement sce the 1970s clud batg the HIV/AIDS epimic and promotg disease preventn and fundg for rearch; lobbyg ernment for nondiscrimatory polici employment, hog, and other aspects of civil society; endg the ban on ary service for gay and lbian dividuals; expandg hate crim legislatn to clu protectns for gays, cludg transgenr dividuals; and securg marriage rights for same-sex upl (see same-sex marriage). Ary’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (1993–2011), which had permted gay and lbian dividuals to serve the ary if they did not disclose their sexual orientatn or engage homosexual activy; the repeal effectively end the ban on homosexuals the ary. Soon they were advotg nothg ls than “gay liberatn” nscns-raisg groups to fundraisg danc, protts outsi hostile newspapers to refug for homels trans and queer people, this surge LGBTQ+ anisg took many forms, and as the first anniversary of the rts me to view, some the muny began discsg how bt to mark what was beg regard as the “Bastille day” of gay rights.