World-renowned LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transsexual) advote Dan Savage will liver an teractive prentatn on the importance of diversy and the impact of homophobic policy on the LGBT muny at the Penn State Universy Dickson School of Law on Wednday, November 10, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Contents:
- U.S. GAY ACTIVIST SAVAGE: 'KEEP CONTROVERSY ROARG' IN RSIA
- LILY SAVAGE’S LEADG ROLE THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
- ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
U.S. GAY ACTIVIST SAVAGE: 'KEEP CONTROVERSY ROARG' IN RSIA
Dan Savage, the Amerin gay-rights activist and one of the forc behd the Rsian vodka boytt, speaks to RFE/RL about what Rsia's LGBT activists n do to fight back agast vlence and reprsn. * lgbt activist savage *
Amerin thor, journalist, and sex-advice lumnist Dan Savage is one of the bt-known gay-rights activists the Uned Stat, and the creator of the global It Gets Better vio mpaign support of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) youth. RFE/RL: You and your partner, Terry Miller, lnched the It Gets Better mpaign 2010 rponse to the suici of a 15-year-old boy who had been bullied by schoolmat for beg gay. They're scribg gay-rights anizatns as foreign agents, so began to feel like any move we ma out here the Wt would play to the hands of the bigots and potentially make thgs worse.
But reached a pot wh the passage of those laws -- laws banng gay-pri paras for 100 years, and what's been gog on St. Wh everythg the Rsian ernment is sayg about banng monstratns, about arrtg people, gay or straight, if they vlate the heo laws? What really changed thgs for gay people the Uned Stat and the Wt was gay people g out, and the hearts and mds of their iends and fai and -workers and neighbors beg changed.
LILY SAVAGE’S LEADG ROLE THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
Read the latt news about Dan Savage, the gay edor, thor, and activist who -found the It Gets Better project along wh his partner Terry Miller. Dan Savage rose to natnal promence wh the synditn of his sex advice lumn, Savage Love, which rponds to var qutns by rears regardg health, sex, sexualy, relatnships, and love. It would later bee a rad show of the same name. Fd out recent events related to Savage, who also hosts the MTV advice show Savage U and has ma headl by clashg wh antigay nservativ like Rick Santom. * lgbt activist savage *
It's hard for someone to believe that gay people are monsters when they personally know a gay person and they see that we are not monsters. RFE/RL: Rsia has passed a law banng the adoptn of Rsian-born children by gay parents and parents livg untri that allow same-sex marriage. Read the latt news about Dan Savage, the gay edor, thor, and activist who -found the It Gets Better project along wh his partner Terry Miller.
Fd out recent events related to Savage, who also hosts the MTV advice show Savage U and has ma headl by clashg wh antigay nservativ like Rick Santom. Billed as the biggt ever gay variety show, raised money for Stonewall’s first natnal mpaign for an equal age of nsent – the begng of 10 years of major law reform for lbians and gay men. Tangible evince of cultural progrs — a giant beer maker partnerg wh a transgenr fluencer, for example — is now often met wh fire and brimstone om right-wg fact, new rearch found that the recent effort to roll back gas for gay and trans Amerins spiked durg Pri celebratns, cludg "blue" stat such as California, which was home to a full 1 5 of the anti-LGBTQ+ monstratns last month, acrdg to the Armed Conflict Lotn and Event Data Project.
Such actns were rerd 26 stat and the District of Columbia, but were ncentrated Texas, New York, and California, wh jt unr 20% of rerd anti-LGBTQ+ events takg place the Goln fdg after ACLED prevly reported a more than 300% crease anti-LGBTQ+ actns by far-right extremists 2022, pared to the year before, which said "strongly" rrelat wh ensug acts of vlence agast people who are perceived as gay or transgenr. Former Print Donald Tmp — who once boasted about a transgenr performer takg part his Miss Ameri ntt — has monstrated that many whe evangelils are willg to overlook personaly flaws and other disagreements, and vice versa, if means achievg polil power and victori the culture 's 2016 mpaign helped fe such alns, wh far-right groups themselv explog issu of sex and genr — topics ripe for magoguery — to rec new members and make roads wh more mastream negative reactn to the creased acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, ma pecially visible by rporatns such as Target celebratg Pri Month, self risks a backlash, however: Most Amerins support gay marriage, for example, and many are likely unfortable wh imag of armed vigilant cidg for themselv who n read books at a library. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.
ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
Lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people Sat Vcent and the Grenad face bias-motivated vlence and discrimatn their daily life, Human Rights Watch said a report released today. The legislature should repeal the untry’s lonial-era laws that crimalize nsensual same-sex nduct and pass prehensive civil legislatn prohibg discrimatn based on sexual orientatn and genr inty. The 58-page report, “‘They Can Harass Us Bee of the Laws’: Vlence and Discrimatn agast LGBT People Sat Vcent and the Grenad,” expos the physil and verbal asslts, fay vlence, homelsns, workplace harassment, bullyg, and sexual vlence that sexual and genr mori face unr the shadow of discrimatory laws. Those rponsible for mistreatment clu people close to LGBT people – fay members, neighbors, workers, classmat, and teachers – as well as strangers and police officers. * lgbt activist savage *
Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.