So much has changed. And so ltle has changed. LGBT people are still the victims of hate crim and is still illegal to be gay too many untri.
Contents:
- HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
- WHAT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY 1944 -- AND OTHER HISTORIC LSONS A USC ARCHIVE
- GAY RIGHTS
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
- BEG GAY THE 1940’S
- RYAN MURPHY’S (KDA) TE ‘HOLLYWOOD’ STORY: 1940S MEETS GAY STARS, INTERRACIAL ROMANCE AND (GASP!) A FEMALE STUD CHIEF
HOW GAY CULTURE BLOSSOMED DURG THE ROARG TWENTI
1940s timele of major events LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) rights history, cludg homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * gay 1940s *
Servg openly ary be homosexuals the policy is don't ask don't tell banned for transgenrsAugt 15LGBT employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn be hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn be illegal some for genr inty and hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn be hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn be discrimatn be illegal some for genr inty and hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr all discrimatn be employment discrimatn be for genr inty and hog discrimatn be for genr inty and discrimatn be illegal some genr inty and hog discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr discrimatn protectn pendg employment discrimatn be sexual orientatn and genr inty. Contrary to popular belief, homosexualy is technilly not agast the law North Korea, however, North Korea is a sexually nservative untry, and this appli to sexualy anywhere on the spectm. However, even though jure homosexualy is not prohibed, facto there were some s of punishment for LGBT peopleAugt 15LGBT discrimatn be illegal some are some LGBT anti-discrimatn protectns lol jurisdictns, but natnal law don't protect agast discrimatn based on sexual orientatn or genr marriage be not has been proposals to legalize gay marriage, but none have passed as of May 14Equal age of nsent be age of nsent Israel is 16 for male-male, female-female, and male-female sex.
WHAT WAS LIKE TO BE GAY 1944 -- AND OTHER HISTORIC LSONS A USC ARCHIVE
Durg Prohibn, gay nightlife and culture reached new heights—at least temporarily. * gay 1940s *
January 1Homosexual activy be Swiss Penal Co troduced 1942 allowed same sex acts between adults (above 20 years old), but punished homosexual terurse wh people between 16 and 20 years old (while allowg heterosexual acts)1941September 16Same-sex marriage be the Shah's le, the last monarch of the Pahlavi dynasty, homosexualy was crimalised, though was mostly tolerated even to the pot of allowg news verage of a mock same-sex weddg between two men. January 1Servg openly ary be Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn stat that homosexuals are not allowed to serve the Kenya Defence Forc, however, 's unclear if this is a wrten law and if so, when this law was passed.
1940December 7Equal age of nsent be of nsent = 14 years oldAugt 12Homosexual activy be Icelandic parliament crimaliz homosexualy, remov the provisn of the law that ma homosexualy 28Homosexual activy be illegal (ath penalty as punishment). Belgium was unr German occupatn durg World War II and th Paragraph 175 was 15Homosexual activy be illegal (imprisonment as punishment) the German occupatn of the Netherlands durg World War II homosexualy was crimalized by Paragraph 175.
The Begngs of a New Gay World“In the late 19th century, there was an creasgly visible prence of genr-non-nformg men who were engaged sexual relatnships wh other men major Amerin ci, ” says Chad Heap, a profsor of Amerin Studi at Gee Washgton Universy and the thor of Slummg: Sexual and Racial Enunters Amerin Nightlife, 1885-1940.
GAY RIGHTS
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. * gay 1940s *
By the 1920s, gay men had tablished a prence Harlem and the bohemian mec of Greenwich Village (as well as the seedier environs of Tim Square), and the cy’s first lbian enclav had appeared Harlem and the Village.
"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II. Most found new muni of people and thrived spe the opprsn. Disver the film Comg Out Unr Fire that shar their story. * gay 1940s *
Each gay enclave, wrote Gee Chncey his book Gay New York: Genr, Urban Culture, and the Makg of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, had a different class and ethnic character, cultural style and public reputatn. Gay Life the Jazz AgeAs the Uned Stat entered an era of unprecented enomic growth and prospery the years after World War I, cultural mor loosened and a new spir of sexual eedom reigned.
WHEN HOLLYWOOD STUDS MARRIED OFF GAY STARS TO KEEP THEIR SEXUALY A SECRET
The Eveng Crowd at Kirmser’s is a pellg memoir of the thor’s experienc as a young gay man durg the 1940s. In an engagg and open wrg style, an... * gay 1940s *
”At the same time, lbian and gay characters were beg featured a slew of popular “pulp” novels, songs and on Broadway stag (cludg the ntroversial 1926 play The Captive) and Hollywood—at least prr to 1934, when the motn picture dtry began enforcg censorship guil, known as the Hays Co. In the mid- to late ‘30s, Heap pots out, a wave of sensatnalized sex crim “provoked hysteria about sex crimals, who were often— the md of the public and the md of thori—equated wh gay men.
BEG GAY THE 1940’S
” By the post-World War II era, a larger cultural shift toward earlier marriage and suburban livg, the advent of TV and the anti-homosexualy csas champned by Joseph McCarthy would help ph the flowerg of gay culture reprented by the Pansy Craze firmly to the natn’s rear-view mirror. ”The ONE archive is believed to be the world’s largt llectn of LGBT artifacts, cludg personal ems om photo albums and letters to the LGBT rights movement has ma tremendo stris recent years, gay history is ltle known bee was kept out of the history books for so long, said Joseph Hawks, director of the archivists are workg wh the Los Angel Unified School District and the Los Angel LGBT Center to velop LGBT-clive history lsons that will be rporated to the curriculum the g months to ply wh the FAIR Edutn Act, a state law passed law, the first of s kd the natn, requir public schools to teach about the historic ntributns of LGBT people.
RYAN MURPHY’S (KDA) TE ‘HOLLYWOOD’ STORY: 1940S MEETS GAY STARS, INTERRACIAL ROMANCE AND (GASP!) A FEMALE STUD CHIEF
But wasn’t the first time he had heard the ath of Don Slater, a foundg edor of ONE magaze — a 1950s “magaze for homosexuals” that fought obsceny laws and FBI surveillance and went to the U. ”::Among the archive’s more than 2 ln ems hoed a former USC aterny hoe are matchbooks om gay bars, polil buttons, erotic patgs and discreetly labeled “addrs books” listg gay-iendly ’s a talog for an at-home electroshock therapy k ed to “rerce sex preference” by shockg the wearer if he or she reacted posively to imag of members of the same sex. RFD, a magaze for ral gay men, ran articl the 1970s about how to build your own b and letters om rears who loved the untry life but were terribly of the archiv’ newt llectns ntas the personal wrgs and letters of Lisa Ben (a psdonym for “lbian”), who 1947 created Vice Versa: Ameri’s Gayt Magaze for lbians.
In his own words, he felt “pafully isolated, strand between the sual homophobia of most ‘normal’ people and the flagrantly gay Hollywood subculture – where [he] was even ls fortable and ls accepted.