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:
- 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
- GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- GAY RIGHTS
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
- GAY THE AMERIS
17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
In Polics, The Advote prents the latt news about the polil world. From Supreme Court lgs to state and feral laws, The Advote reports on how polics shap the day-to-day reali faced by members of the gay muny. Read about LGBT lears like Barney Frank and Tammy Baldw and their work to advance the of the LGBT rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world. Fd out about legislatn related to same-sex marriage, adoptn, and other issu gay polics that will impact the liv of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins. * gay political *
The Victory Fund’s mpaign, “We Belong Together, ” is rollg out this week wh a two-pronged strategy: get allied anizatns to lobby mapmakers to keep gay areas tact, a procs that has already begun some stat, and start assemblg data showg exactly where LGBTQ muni are loted to speed the procs along.
GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The LGBTQ Victory Fund is urgg polil map-drawers to create districts that help large gay populatns ga reprentatn. * gay political *
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At least 843 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people currently serve elected offic across the U.S., acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute. * gay political *
At least 843 LGBTQ people currently serve elected offic across the Uned Stat, nstutg a 21 percent crease sce June 2019, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute’s “Out for Ameri 2020” cens of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer elected officials.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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“In a world where our civil rights are unr attack, and many are qutng their place the world, the affirmg power of such reprentatn nnot be overstated, ” said Mondaire Jon, who recently won the Democratic nomatn New York’s 17th Congrsnal District and, if elected November, uld be the first openly gay Black man elected to of this crease was driven by what Victory lled a “rabow wave” — a surge LGBTQ ws the 2018 and 2019 electns. Senate, three more LGBTQ elected officials would achieve equy (5 senators total) legislatur, on the other hand, lag behd: One-hundred-and-seventy-three LGBTQ people would need to be elected orr to achieve equy, acrdg to Victory’s majory of the 843 LGBTQ officials — 54 percent — are gay men, followed by 30 percent lbians, 6 percent bisexuals and 5 percent queer vast majory of all LGBTQ officials are cisgenr — 94 percent.
Ameri’s LGBTQ elected officials are mostly whe — 77 percent — followed by 10 percent Hispanic, 6 percent Black, 2 percent multiracial, 2 percent Asian or Pacific Islanr and ls than 1 percent each for digeno and Middle breakdown may soon change, as two Black gay men nng for Congrs move closer to victory, cludg Jon.
“One of the most energizg featur of this mpaign is the sheer volume of msag I have received om members of the LGBTQ muny, young and old, sayg that my ndidacy as an openly gay, Black person has spired them to accept their own inti and live thentic liv, ” Jon said a text msage to NBC News.
AFTER YEARS OF PROGRS ON GAY RIGHTS, HOW DID THE US BEE SO ANTI-LGBTQ+?
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 political *
“I’m so humbled to be a posn to provi reprentatn that I never had growg up, ” Jon other openly gay Black man nng for Congrs is Rchie Torr, currently the youngt member of the New York Cy Council, who has a strong lead vote returns for the Democratic nomatn New York’s 15th Congrsnal District, which is also overwhelmgly Democratic. )While both Jon and Torr would be the Hoe's first openly gay Black members, they apparently would not be the body’s first gay Black honor is thought to belong to Barbara Jordan of Texas, who 1972 beme the first Black woman to reprent the South Congrs, and 1976 beme the first Black woman to be a keynote speaker at a Democratic Natnal Conventn.
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. 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. 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.
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As was the se two years ago, Amerins intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr are signifintly more Democratic than other Amerins, and are signifintly more likely to approve of Barack Obama's job performance. * gay political *
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. 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.
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).