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

Contents:

• A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

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

While gay characters were equently ed for lghs or not explicly stated to be queer the earlit mastream Hollywood films, a brief relaxatn Germany's film productn the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like "Different om the Others" and "Mädchen Uniform. Although one uld argue that such a gelg terview procs was exploative, Holliday's mgs about his life, dreams, and art the face of societal anti-Blackns and homophobia provi the kd of tersectnal look at LGBTQ+ inty that '60s media sorely lacked.

However, throughout 150 years of homosexual social movements (roughly om the 1870s to today), lears and anizers stggled to addrs the very different ncerns and inty issu of gay men, women intifyg as lbians, and others intifyg as genr variant or nonbary. Such eyewns acunts the era before other media were of urse riddled wh the bias of the (often) Wtern or Whe observer, and add to beliefs that homosexual practic were other, foreign, savage, a medil issue, or evince of a lower racial hierarchy. Biblil terpretatn ma illegal for a woman to wear pants or a man to adopt female drs, and sensatnalized public trials warned agast “viants” but also ma such martyrs and hero popular: Joan of Arc is one example, and the chillg origs of the word “faggot” clu a stick of wood ed public burngs of gay men.

RACG TO PRERVE THE HISTORY OF MAE’S 1ST GAY RIGHTS ANIZATN

This creasg awarens of an existg and vulnerable populatn, upled wh Senator Joseph McCarthy’s vtigatn of homosexuals holdg ernment jobs durg the early 1950s outraged wrers and feral employe whose own liv were shown to be send-class unr the law, cludg Frank Kameny, Barbara Gtgs, Allen Gsberg, and Harry Hay.

Fstrated wh the male learship of most gay liberatn groups, lbians fluenced by the femist movement of the 1970s formed their own llectiv, rerd labels, mic ftivals, newspapers, bookstor, and publishg ho, and lled for lbian rights mastream femist groups like the Natnal Organizatn for Women. The creasg expansn of a global LGBT rights movement suffered a setback durg the 1980s, as the gay male muny was cimated by the Aids epimic, mands for passn and medil fundg led to renewed alns between men and women as well as angry street theatre by groups like Aids Coaln to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and Queer Natn. Wh greater media attentn to gay and lbian civil rights the 1990s, trans and tersex voic began to ga space through works such as Kate Boernste’s “Genr Outlaw” (1994) and “My Genr Workbook” (1998), Ann Fsto-Sterlg’s “Myths of Genr” (1992) and Llie Feberg’s “Transgenr Warrrs” (1998), enhancg shifts women’s and genr studi to bee more clive of transgenr and nonbary inti.

The days we’re seeg more openly gay characters who aren’t jt a punchle or stereotyped (an example beg the flamboyant gay bt iend  every rom-), nor are their stori purely tragic, but stead are celebratory and as romantic and plex as any other character – TV shows like It’s a S, Brooklyn 99 and Sex Edutn are perfect illtratns of this. The tle translat to “Different From the Other, ” and follows a gay vlist who tak his life after beg blackmailed by someone who knew about his sexual orientatn a time where beg homosexual was still illegal  Germany, as well as much of the world. Hchck played wh this theme several more of his films, cludg Psycho (1960), which se Norman Bat cross-drsg as his mother, and Rope (1948), which follows the story of two men (who are portrayed as gay, although ’s never nfirmed the script) who murr someone for the fun of  – to name a few!

Not only was Rebel Whout a Cse a huge box office h, but also featur an obv, d gay subtext between the rebell Jim Stark (played by Jam Dean, who was also supposedly bisexual), and Plato, who was played by Sal Meo, one of the first big Hollywood actors to openly adm to beg gay. It was the first English-speakg film to e the term ‘homosexual’ and explor the stggl queer people would go through at the time and the lengths they were forced to go to nceal their sexualy, om payg off blackmailers to mtg suici rather than be outed.

It’s based at a birthday party New York attend by a close-kn group of gay men, but when a straight iend (who don’t know the host is gay) unexpectedly arriv, old tensns bubble to the surface of the group as the host tri to nceal his sexualy.

Tellg the story of a young Black gay man g to grips wh his inty om childhood to adulthood, this tenr g-of-age drama ma history as the first LGBTQ+ film and the first film wh an all-Black st to w Bt Picture 2017 for s stunng cematography, clivy and groundbreakg script. Along wh Portra of a Lady on Fire, 2019 was a huge year for LGBTQ+ cema wh many more clive films and more gay characters than ever before on screen – however, there is still work to be done to show more gay characters of lour as the majory was still whe queer characters, as well as transgenr characters.