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Contents:

• GAY MAN STABBED TO ATH AFTER NONTATN WH HOMOPHOB WHO SAID HE OFFEND THEIR RELIGN
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

GAY MAN STABBED TO ATH AFTER NONTATN WH HOMOPHOB WHO SAID HE OFFEND THEIR RELIGN

The Natnal LGBTQ Task Force is dited to achievg eedom and jtice for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer people, and their fai through proactive, targeted, change-ducg iativ. LifeGays Agast Groomers protted on the same si as Neo-Nazis.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

After they were lled out, the anti-trans gays claimed the neo-Nazis were actually feral agents disguis. The ACLU works to ensure that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, & queer people belong everywhere and n live openly and thentilly whout discrimatn, harassment, or vlence. The ACLU Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Project seeks to create a jt society for all LGBTQ people regardls of race or e.

LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer/Qutng) intifitn has doubled over the past , yet data on the overall LGBTQ+ populatn remas limed large, natnally reprentative surveys such as the Amerin Communy Survey. [1]: Acrdg to GLAAD, “sexual orientatn scrib a person’s endurg physil, romantic, and/or emotnal attractn to another person (for example: straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, [queer]).

Or even LGBTQIA+ History terms for the muny of people that enpass people who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, and asexual are as broad as that muny self: As society’s unrstandg, regnn, and cln of diverse sexual inti and genr exprsns has grown, so has s acronym. Over time, grew populary and was adopted by women who secretly, then proudly, loved other dawn of “homosexualy” and “bisexualy”Karl Herich Ulrichs, a 19th century German lawyer and wrer who may have intified as gay, was the first to try to label his own muny. In 1869, the Pssian ernment ntemplated addg language that forba male same-genr sexual activy to s rponse, Kertbeny wrote a passnate, anonymo open letter to the Pssian mister of jtice llg the proposed law “shockg nonsense” and g the word “homosexualy, ” which he had prevly ed a private letter to Ulrichs.

Early gay rights groups and practners of the growg field of psychology eventually adopted the Reclaimg a slurIn the late 1960s, activists reclaimed a s-old slur, “gay. Though s origs are murky, “gay” was eventually embraced by men who fied the stat quo wh open exprsns of same-genr love.

Activists also began g other terms like social variant, viant, and “homophile, ” which means “same love, ” an effort to sistep monly ed slurs, emphasize the lovg relatnships of same-genr relatnships, and prott discrimatory laws. The words were ed “as the means whereby dividuals uld make sense of their own experienc, their active-unrgog of beg homosexual a homophobic environment, ” wr soclogist J. Todd 1980, wrote sayist Edmund Whe, “gay” had overtaken the other terms for men who are attracted to men.

“Transgenr” be part of LGBTIn the 1990s, the longstandg bonds between lbian, gay, and bisexual people both daily life and liberatn activism led to the wispread adoptn of the LGB acronym (lbian, gay and bisexual) took longer to ga acceptance for another term that is now part of the morn acronym: “transgenr.

But “queer” was creasgly ed by people wh the gay rights movement begng the 1990s.

People who are lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) are members of every muny. The Substance Abe and Mental Health Servic Admistratn (SAMHSA) today released a new data report Lbian, Gay, and Bisexual Behavral Health: Rults om the 2021 and 2022 Natnal Surveys on Dg Use and Health (PDF | 2.