A brief history of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr social movements

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• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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Even out gay actor Jonny Bechamp, who played the genr-nonnformg character Ray/Ramona this year's Stonewall, echoed the sentiments an terview wh The Advote.

It is also a potent social mentary on race and sexualy, which has shown Hollywood how diversy both on-screen and behd the scen n create a profable Empire, the 55-year-old director has ma televisn history wh Jamal Lyon (out actor Jsie Smollett), a black gay character who nquers stigma -- om both his father, Luc, and the mic dtry -- to e out the public eye. In the past year, he ma wav when he discsed issu like the "ick factor" om tt dienc upon seeg a same-sex kiss, pl how he wanted Empire to "blow the lid" off of homophobia among Ain-Amerins and the rt of a recent panel, Daniels also took other shownners of hs like Hoe of Cards to task for a lack of diversy. " -- Lus GrdleyKrzysztof Charamsa: Oted Gay Prit Calls Out the Catholic ChurchMonsignor Krzysztof Charamsa, who held a high-rankg post at the Vatin before g out as gay and partnered, then immediately beg fired early October, has done much to publicize the suatn of gay prits the Roman Catholic Church, which he lls a homophobic stutn.

Charamsa was send secretary of the Internatnal Theologil Commissn and worked the Congregatn for the Doctre of the a letter to Pope Francis, Charamsa slammed the church as equently "vlently homophobic" and said mak LGBT Catholics' liv "a hell. " He also wrote that after a "long and tormented perd of discernment and prayer, " he cid to "publicly reject the vlence of the Church towards homosexual, lbian, bisexual, transsexual and tersexual people. "He thanked Pope Francis for some of his nciliatory remarks about LGBT people but said they will be meangful only if the church revers some of s attus and polici, such as the official barrg of gay men om the prithood.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Dpe this policy, there are gay prits, bishops, and rdals the church, Charamsa has poted out, although he would like to see them all "have the urage to abandon this sensive, unfair and btal Church, " he said his terviews, he has said there is no anized "gay lobby" wh the church, as even the pope has alleged. Transgenr people stand to suffer along wh lbians, gays, and bisexuals due to the admistratn's "relig eedom" guidance, s unrmg of an antidiscrimatn orr for feral ntractors, and s anti-LGBT appote.

His story prompted Spacey to e out -- a move that was slammed by GLAAD as well as proment members of the LGBT muny, who cricized as a dangero diversnary tactic that nflated gay inty wh Rapp also spired dozens of others, queer and straight, to speak out agast Spacey, wh allegatns of abe, rape, and misnduct that spanned s. The move monstrated that, for all the progrs the culture has ma wh the #MeToo movement, there is still much work to be done fosterg a more supportive society -- not to mentn the fight agast trolls and onle top of all of this, Rapp also ma history this year, by portrayg the first gay character on the Star Trek televisn anchise, Lt. Those were the days of stigma when only a few thoand prcriptns were documented, wh jt 3, 250 reported prcriptns the World Health Organizatn and the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn remend that gay and bisexual men who are sexually active take PrEP.

Often speakg about personal subjects like police btaly and unabashedly showg his playful si when hostg CNN's New Year's Eve broadst, Lemon is a unterpot to the work's other gay superstar, sued-up Anrson Cooper. Lemon put succctly as he accepted the Davidson/Valenti Award at the GLAAD San Francis gala September: "I've been a gay black man my whole life. The Fort Worth uncilman, who is openly gay, was moved by a strg of teen suicis across the natn, many as a rult of anti-gay bullyg.